Engineering Management

Engr. Marc Leo S. Malong

What do you call the term for
intense loyalty to the
project?
a. Project Charter
b. Projectitis
c. Potestative
d. Projective
Ans. b. Projectitis
It is the rational way to ensure
that our limited time is always
used effectively.
a. Time Management
b. Effective Time
c. Time Frame
d. Time Method
Ans. a. Time Management
What is a chain of command where
commands are forwarded from the
top authority to lower subordinates?
a. Dynamic chain
b. Scalar chain
c. Vibrant chain
d. Pulsating chain
Ans. b. Scalar chain
It is the process of attracting
potential employees to the company
so that the selection process can be
carried out.
a. Selection
b. Controlling
c. Recruitment
d. Assortment
Ans. c. Recruitment
What refers to a strategic statement
that identifies why an organization
exists, its philosophy of management,
and its purpose as distinguished from
other similar organizations in terms of
product services and markets?
a. Corporate Apparition
b. Corporate Idea
c. Corporate Vision
d. Corporate Mission
Ans. d. Corporate Mission
What describes how to determine
the number of service units that
will minimize both customers’s
waiting time and cost of service?
a. Sampling Theory
b. Queuing Theory
c. Decision Theory
d. Assessment Theory
Ans. b. Queuing Theory
What is the most widely used chart
in management of scheduling and
control projects?
a. Gantt chart
b. Snellen chart
c. Venn chart
d. Herzberg chart
Ans. a. Gantt chart
The CPM was developed by Rand and
Walker in what year?

a. 1955
b. 1957
c. 1956
d. 1958
Ans. b. 1957
What refers to the process and
procedure for identifying,
characterizing, quantifying and
evaluating risks and its significance?
a. Risk management
b. Risk sharing
c. Risk mitigation
d. Risk assessment
Ans. d. Risk assessment
What management function involves
orienting personnel in the most
effective way and channelling
resources?
a. Staffing
b. Controlling
c. Directing
d. Planning
Ans. c. Directing
Gantt chart uses?
a. Bar graph
b. Pie chart
c. Line graph
d. Surface chart
Ans. a. Bar graph
What technique is best suited for
projects that contain many
repetition of some standard
activities?
a. Job Production
b. Buffer
c. Benchmark Job Technique
d. Project Charter
Ans. c. Benchmark Job Technique
It involves a voluntary association of
people, called members, who operate
an enterprise collectively and the aim
of this organization is not to make
profit but to give support to their
members.
a. Cooperation
b. Partnership
c. Sole Proprietorship
d. Cooperatives
Ans. d. Cooperatives
It is a rational way to conceptualize,
analyze, and solve problems in
situations involving limited or partial
information about the decision
environment.
a. Sampling Theory
b. Decision Theory
c. Queuing Theory
d. XY Theory
Ans. b. Decision Theory
What do you call the
forecasting in an organization
done by an outsider?
a. Benchmarking Technique
b. Critical Technique
c. Consummation Technique
d. Delphi Technique
Ans. d. Delphi Technique
Project charter paper should
be signed by?
a. General Manager
b. Project Manager
c. Functional Manager
d. Matrix Manager
Ans. c. Functional Manager
Matrix organization has weak
communication, what must
be done to improve it?
a. Group Directory
b. Group Meeting
c. Group Assembly
d. Group Congress
Ans. a. Group Directory
Workers would work harder if
the management is
concerned of their welfare,
what do you this effect?
a. Herzberg Effect
b. Hawthorne Effect
c. McClelland Effect
d. Bosanquet Effect
Ans. b. Hawthorne Effect
It is used when product are made
singly or in small batches. It happens
when a small number of products are
processed at each storage before
going on to the next stage.
a. Job production
b. Batch production
c. Benchmark production
d. Joint production
Ans. a. Job production
What management level
applies motivating people?
a. Higher Management level
b. Intermediate Management level
c. Lower Management level
d. None of the Above
Ans. c. Lower Management
level
What refers to the collection of tolls
and techniques that are used on a
predefined set of inputs to produce a
predefined set of output?
a. Engineering Management
b. Materials Management
c. Operations Management
d. Project Management
Ans. d. Project Management
Defined as the process of planning,
organizing and controlling operations
to reach objective efficiently and
effectively.
a. Materials Management
b. Operations Management
c. Project Management
d. Engineering Management
Ans. b. Operations
Management
Which one is an advantage of
a matrix organization?
a. Rapid reaction time possible
b. Efficient use of technical
personnel
c. Weak customer interface
d. It has uncertain technical
direction
Ans. a. Rapid reaction time
possible
In what type of organization where a
project manager is held responsible
for completion of the project and is
often assigned a budget?
a. Functional Organization
b. Matrix Organization
c. Projectized Organization
d. None of the Above
Ans. b. Matrix Organization
Which one is a disadvantage
of a projectized organization?
a. Weak customer interface
b. Inefficient use of specialist
c. Slower work flow
d. Rapid reaction time possible
Ans. c. Slower work flow
What is an important tool for
the design and implementation
of the project’s work content?
a. Gantt Chart
b. Critical Path Method
c. Program Evaluation Review
Technique
d. Linear Responsibility Chart
Ans. d. Linear
Responsibility Chart
What network model enables engineer
managers to schedule, monitor, and
control large and complex projects by
using only one time factor per
activity?
a. Linear Responsibility Chart
b. Gantt Chart
c. Critical Path Method
d. Program Evaluation Review
Technique
Ans. c. Critical Path Method
What network model enables engineer
manager to schedule, monitor and
control large and complex projects by
employing three time estimate for
each activity?
a. Program Evaluation Review Technique
b. Linear Responsibility Chart
c. Gantt Chart
d. Critical Path Method
Ans. a. Program Evaluation
Review Technique
In what year was PERT
developed?
a. 1957
b. 1956
c. 1958
d. 1955
Ans. c. 1958
In Morris life cycle model, a
project is divided into how
many stages to be performed
in sequence?
a. 6
b. 4
c. 5
d. 3
Ans. b. 4
Buying insurance is a form of?

a. Risk sharing
b. Risk mitigation
c. Risk management
d. Risk assessment
Ans. a. Risk sharing
What technique is used in
project management
probability?
a. Herzberg
b. Hawthorne
c. McClelland
d. Monte Carlo

Ans. d. Monte Carlo

It is the method of managing all the
activities that affect the quality of
goods and services in order to prevent
faults.

a. Quality assurance
b. Quality order
c. Quality assessment
d. Quality control
Ans. a. Quality assurance
It is the name given to any activity
undertaken by the organization with
the express purpose of gaining
information about potential
customer.
a. Information analysis
b. Market research
c. Customer research
d. Benchmarking
Ans. b. Market research
What does V means in PIEV?

a. Validity
b. Velocity
c. Volition
d. Voidable
Ans. c. Volition
To determine a qualified applicant,
the engineer manager will subject
the applicant to a test that is used
to measure a person’s current
knowledge of a subject?
a. Performance Test
b. IQ Test
c. Personality Test
d. Aptitude Test
Ans. d. Aptitude Test
What is the heart of
Engineering Management?

a. Planning
b. Executing
c. Decision Making
d. Close-out
Ans. c. Decision Making
In project management O and
M stands for?
a. Operation and Management
b. Organization and Maintenance
c. Operation and Maintenance
d. Organization and Management
Ans. c. Operation and
Maintenance
Refers to the management function
which is to encourage others to
follow example set for them with
great commitment and conviction?
a. Leading
b. Organizing
c. Planning
d. Directing
Ans. a. Leading
It is the process of
partitioning an organization
into subunits to improve
efficiency.
a. Division of Labor
b. Departmentalization
c. Separation of Organization
d. Disjointing
Ans. b. Departmentalization
What refers to the pay off granted to
the employee by a company such as
money, benefit, promotion,
recognition, status and praise?
a. Intrinsic rewards
b. Extrinsic rewards
c. Inherent rewards
d. Essential rewards
Ans. b. Extrinsic rewards
What type of leadership is characterized
by having a leader that observes the
group and allows the group to go on with
the job as they see it, but acts as the
adviser and make themselves available
when needed?
a. Laissez-faire Leadership
b. Free-rein Leadership
c. Bureaucratic Leadership
d. None of the Above
Ans. a. Laissez-faire Leadership
A type of training in which the trainee
is provided with notes, messages,
telephone calls, reports and the
trainee is expected to handle the
situation at a given period of time.
a. Vestibule School
b. Apprenticeship Program
c. In-basket
d. On the Job Training
Ans. c. In-basket
What refers to a principal function of
lower management which is to install
in the work force a commitment and
enthusiasm for pursuing the goals of
the organization?
a. Leading
b. Controlling
c. Directing
d. Motivating
Ans. d. Motivating
In project management, what
provides a simple yet effective
means of monitoring and
controlling a project at each stage
of its development?
a. Life Cycle Model
b. Morris Model
c. Waterfall Model
d. Cascade Model
Ans. a. Life Cycle Model
What is a quantitative technique
where samples of populations are
statistically determined to be used for
a number of processes such as quality
control and marketing research?
a. Queuing Theory
b. Sampling Theory
c. Decision theory
d. XY Theory
Ans. b. Sampling Theory
What type of organization structure in
which each project is assigned to a
single organizational unit and the
various functions are performed by
personnel within the unit?
a. Product Organization
b. Matrix Organization
c. Functional Organization
d. Projectized Organization
Ans. d. Projectized Organization
Used to analyze precedence
relations and their effects on
the schedule of projects.
a. PERT
b. CPM
c. Gantt Chart
d. All of the Above
Ans. d. All of the Above
What type of committee
companies or corporation
created for a short term
purpose only?
a. Standing committee
b. Ad Hoc committee
c. Functional committee
d. Efficient committee
Ans. b. Ad Hoc committee
When a consultant or
specialist gives advice to his
superior, he is using what
type of authority?
a. Top authority
b. Line authority
c. Staff authority
d. Functional authority
Ans. c. Staff authority