3.3 Given a scenario, analyze quality and performance charts to inform project decisions

Question 1

A technician is tasked as project lead for an upcoming project and wants to identify available performance charts to ensure the technician meets all milestones. What are the benefits of the technician using a run chart? (Select all that apply.)

• It is simple to create and understand and can be used to review trends without statistical analysis.
• It is a time-based line graph also known as a time-series plot.
• It reviews historical performance and sets goals for upcoming events.
• It measures how many story points are completed in an iteration.

Answer 1

• It is a time-based line graph also known as a time-series plot
• It is simple to create and understand and can be used to review trends without statistical analysis

Question 2

A project manager wants to use charts to help them make project decisions. What does the project manager gain from using a burnup/burndown chart?

Answer 2

It plots two values: target work and actual work.

Question 3

A consultant reviews a team’s new project to assist in decision-making. The project wants to capture the number of occurrences, by failure type, the team has seen in the past year. What can the consultant implement to provide a line and column chart that focuses on total percentages and counts in descending order?

Answer 3

Pareto chart

Question 4

A software technician reviews charts that are aimed to support project decisions. What is also known as a “time series plot” or time-based line graph and it’s simple to create and understand without statistical analysis?

Answer 4

Run chart

Question 5

Project managers often use __________ for resource management and quality management

Answer 5

histograms

Question 6

Column chart used in statistical analysis

Answer 6

Histogram

Question 7

What measures how many story points are completed per iteration?

Answer 7

Velocity chart

Question 8

What represents a single decision that could have many outcomes?

Answer 8

Decision tree

Question 9

Contains three parts: choice, option, and outcome

Answer 9

Decision tree

Question 10

Requires an EMV calculation for each possible decision outcome

Answer 10

Decision tree

Question 11

It can identify multiple potential causes for a single problem

Answer 11

Fishbone diagram

Question 12

Known as “cause and effect diagram”

Answer 12

Fishbone diagram

Question 13

• It contains a center line, which serves as the mean, a UCL, and an LCL.
• It uses mathematical rules to decide if the fluctuations observed are unusual or just the typical variation in a process.
• It uses a process’s standard deviation to calculate limits to determine if it is three standard deviations away from the mean.

Answer 13

Control chart

Question 14

A support specialist assists a cyber team with their current project. The specialist would like to show the team a graph of columns that the team can use for statistical analysis. The graph shows a fixed series of continuous data along the x-axis and the varying frequency that each value on the x-axis occurs along the y-axis. What graph is the specialist showing the team?

Answer 14

Histogram

Question 15

Measures how much work is remaining each day

Answer 15

Burndown chart

Question 16

Measures all the completed work

Answer 16

Burnup chart

Question 17

A cyber engineer is working on a team project and wants to incorporate a chart that visualizes how various factors impact a single outcome. What chart would meet the engineer’s needs in obtaining this data?

Answer 17

Fishbone diagram

Question 18

Work well with large data sets and create an easy-to-read diagram

Answer 18

Scatter diagram

Question 19

A project manager reviews a factsheet on the value of velocity charts when making project decisions. What is unique to a velocity chart?

Answer 19

• Reviews historical performance and sets goals for upcoming events
• It measures how many story points are completed in an iteration