DECA practice test / Revised Questions and Answers / Sure A+

A collaborative work environment contributes to an employee's growth because s/he - Learns from coworkers. When employees regularly share ideas and techniques, they learn from each other and gain new knowledge and skills. Earning more income, viewing his/her work environment positively, and working from home are all great benefits an employee can gain, but they do not necessarily help an employee grow. A project manager has determined that the team completed the software-development phase of the project four days ahead of schedule. What control activity is the project manager performing? - Tracking a milestone. Tracking milestones is a control activity that project managers perform. Milestones are the major points or phases in a project's life cycle that have been reached. In the situation described, the software-development phase is a milestone because it was completed, which means the project can proceed to the next stage of the project. Because this phase of the project was running ahead of schedule, the project manager is not evaluating a time constraint or assessing a setback. There is no information provided to determine if the project manager has decided to change a process. A purpose of effective communication in marketing is to - persuade consumers to buy. ABC Builders is two months behind schedule on the mall it is building. Management has decided to "crash" the project. Which of the following is an example of "crashing" a project: - Hire 10 additional construction workers. Adding more resources to a project to shorten its duration is called "crashing." Stopping the project would not shorten its duration; rather, it would cause the project to be incomplete. Rescheduling tasks that were originally scheduled to run one after the other so that they run at the same time (in this example, installing the lights and painting at the same time) is called "fast tracking" a project. Extending the completion date is a major change to the project that requires many people to approve it. It is not an example of crashing, which is a means of adding resources to get the project done on time