RCDDv14 Exam Dumps - BICSI Registered Communications Distribution Designer (RCDD)

Question # 4

A program in a matrix organization includes subprojects for specific required technologies. The program manager assembles a team of project managers to lead each of the component projects. Each component protect requires unique technical skills and expertise. To ensure that there are no budget overruns, the program manager leverages the existing time reporting process.

What is a critical component of the Program Schedule Management Process?

A list of all the projects that team members are working on

Activity or component start and finish dates, as well as intermediate milestones

Time management training programs for all team members, as well as the project managers

Skill levels of the various project team members, as well as the project managers

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Question # 5

Exhibit:

A pay telephone using coins needs to be installed in a public area. In the specifications, it is required that the telephone shall meet the ADA (American with Disabilities Act) requirement for front reach using a wheelchair. What will be the maximum reachable height or the value of "X"?

760 mm (30 in)

864 mm (34 in)

1170 mm (46 in)

1220 mm (48 in)

1370 mm (54 in)

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Question # 6

What is the MAXIMUM number of work areas served by a single Multiuser Telecommunications Outlet Assembly (MUTOA)?

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Question # 7

A program manager needs to establish direction and identity the essential aspects of a program. In addition, they must ensure that the context and framework of the program are properly defined assessed and documented

Which document will be created to support this activity?

Program resource management plan

Program management plan

Program master schedule

Program scope statement

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Question # 8

A program manager evaluates conflicting stakeholder demands associated with cost, schedule, and intended benefits. The implementation team has a strong interest in cost and schedule, and a limited interest in the benefits being produced. The client is only focused on benefits.

Which of the following actions should the program manager take?

Focus on the internal stakeholders to ensure cost and) schedule objectives are achieved

Balance stakeholder needs through the use of trade-offs among the stakeholder groups

Focus on the external stakeholders to ensure the intended benefits are achieved

Conduct a stakeholder meeting to allow everyone to state their priorities

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Question # 9

A program manager is assigned to a large cross-functional program trial includes five different technologies and multiple workstreams.

Some potential stakeholders have conflicting program expectations

What should the program manager do next/?

Conduct interviews with key stakeholders, and document the results in the program management plan

Update the stakeholder register to document stakeholders' positions relative to the program

Document stakeholder expectations in the program's risk register to determine their influence

Send out satisfaction surveys and document the results in the program's stakeholder engagement plan.

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Question # 10

A program manager is responsible for constructing a USS50 million building Management suggests it will take three years to complete The program manager can select a design-build option to optimize the construction schedule to 1 5 years However heavy demand for steel is causing price increases and delivery delays. II this trend continues, it could take as long as 4.5 years to complete construction. You learn that a new technology can yield a definitive delivery schedule of 1 25 years

What is the expected time of delivery?

1.25 years

1 50 years

175 years

1 00 years

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Question # 11

What's the MINIMUM depth of a trench from top of the cable/conduit to final grade? (Select two options.)

305 mm(12 in)

610 mm (24 in)

914 mm (36 in)

1270 mm (50 in)

Below the area's 50-year frost line

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Question # 12

When designing cable tray pathways under an access floor, what is the MINIMUM free space that should exist between the top of the cable tray side rails and the underside of the stringers?

25 mm (1 in)

51 mm (2 in)

71 mm (3 in)

101.60 mm (4 in)

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Question # 13

What is the OPTIMAL lime in the construction process for ICT submittals to be reviewed by the ICT distribution designer?

After the contract is awarded and before project close out

As part of the contract bid process to prevent project delays

Before the contract is awarded

At the beginning of the close out process

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Question # 14

What actions are taken in the process of developing and maintaining a program risk register?

Assign ownership of risks with appropriate responsibilities, document agreed-upon response strategies and provide the foundation for the risk management plan

Assign ownership of risks with appropriate responsibilities, document agreed-upon response strategies and identify the root cause of potential risks

Assign ownership of risks with appropriate responsibilities, document agreed-upon response strategies, and proactively manage program issues

Assign ownership of risks with appropriate responsibilities, document agreed-upon response strategies, and identify residual risks.

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Question # 15

An IT-related program has a critical team in a region experiencing a crisis. Due to uncertainty about the region's changing environment a company's senior leadership asks the program manager to decrease dependencies on the critical team that should the program manager do to mitigate the Impacts of this request?

Update the procurement management plan, and begin the request for proposal (RFP) process to replace the critical team

by staff augmentation

Meet with the steering committee to request assistance and influence in obtaining additional resources

Level resources, and empower the critical team to complete its work before regional instability impacts its efforts

Revisit the program management plan to clearly identify how decreasing critical team dependencies will impact component projects

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Question # 16

When sizing an underground entrance facility, what is the MINIMUM amount of 103 metric designator conduits (4 trade size) that should be specified by the ICT distribution design?

2 Conduits

3 Conduits

4 Conduits

6 Conduits

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Question # 17

Which of the following is a common application for exothermic welding of earthing (grounding) and bonding conductors?

Bonding to structural steel

Locations requiring monthly maintenance

Connections made to the TBB

Cable to cable connections

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Question # 18

You are designing distribution for a seven unit townhouse with in slab conduits. What is the MINIMUM number of 27 mm (1 in) rigid PVC Type 2 or metallic conduit that is required to satisfy distribution to each unit?

Three

Four

Five

Seven

Fourteen

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Question # 19

Which of the following options BEST describes Request for Quote (RFQ)?

Usually provides more detail involved with selecting the material, equipment, and components required during implementation (e.g. make, model, performance specifications)

Can be submitted by the contractor in response to a field order or as an uninitiated request for a change in scope

Used to obtain a formal response to the contract documents

An invitation for the design professionals (e g, architect, engineer, consultant) or contractors to submit a proposal for services

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Question # 20

A company initiates a program to reorganize its sales and production departments. Three production departments are located at the three production plants next to the company's headquarters Five regional sales departments are located at different locations around the world.

At this stage of the program, what is the first step?

Develop a program work breakdown structure

Identify and quantify business benefits of the program

Determine and prioritize the various components of the program

Prepare a program organization chart covering both sales and production

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Question # 21

The program manager wants to increase the team's commitment to the program objectives. The program manager should do which of the following?

Work with the sponsor lo identify the organization's best practices

Work with the program stakeholders and program management office to identify the organization's best practices

Work with the program management office to identify the organization's best practices

Work with the sponsor, program stakeholders, and the program management office to identify the organization's best practices

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Question # 22

Which of the following two items are examples of items associated with a submittal? (Select two options.)

Request tor permits

As-built

Shop Drawings

Product Data

Punch List

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Question # 23

Component project managers create project management plans for all component projects in a program. The program manager notices that some project managers prefer one status report template while others prefer another

How should the program manager decide which template is appropriate?

Review the issue with the program management office (PMO) to determine which template to use

Review the issue with the project managers and come to mutual agreement on which template to use

Meet with the program governance board to select an appropriate template

Allow the component project managers to use their preferred templates

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Question # 24

The program manager has a global program with live component projects. The program sponsor wants the management plans, processes/procedures and technology to be uniform across the program. The requirements will create issues and result in increased costs. The program sponsor is new and has imposed these new requirements six months into a three-year program.

What should the program manager do next?

Accept what the program sponsor requires and implement the changes

Discuss the proposed changes with the stakeholders and project managers, and give the program sponsor Die best option

Respond to the program sponsor if the program sponsor asks about It a second time

Present the risks and benefits of the changes to the program sponsor

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Question # 25

A newly appointed country manager suggests that the regional program manager use a social media platform to expedite communications and address questions. The new country manager used this social media platform at a previous job.

What should the regional program manager do to address the country manager's request?

Suggest that the country manager use the existing communication channels while the team becomes familiar with the new social media platform

Ask the country manager to champion the social media platform, as they may have more influence than the regional program manager

Review existing in-house social media capabilities to determine if they will meet the needs of the country manager's request and update the stakeholder register

Ask the technology, security, and project teams to assess the country manager's request.

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Question # 26

A software company's program manager is conducting closing procedures for a program. At the last steering committee meeting, realized benefits were presented to the program governance board.

What should the program manager do next?

Begin transitioning program resources, and update the resource and program management plans to reflect the change in the program's status

initiate knowledge transfer with the receiving organization, and establish the program integration management plan

Update the financial stakeholder, and contract management plans and archive them in the program information repository

Obtain sponsoring organization approval to begin closeout procedures to transition benefits sustainment to the supporting organization

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Question # 27

Company A acquires company B. which leads to a two-year program lo integrate the processes and systems Company B uses a different project management process, and the company's staff is unhappy about the acquisition As a result company B's project team fails to provide status and cost data in a format that conforms to the program standards.

What should the program manager do first?

Inform the stakeholders of this Issue as soon as possible

Change the program standards, aligning them with the project standards

Work with the reports provided to extract the required information

Remind the project manager of the relevant program standards

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Question # 28

A program is developing a next-gene ration product line, and one component has been delivered. However, due to a change request, expectations for another component are unmet

What activity should the program manager perform next?

Program delivery management

Resource Interdependency management

Program performance monitoring and controlling

Benefits sustainment and program transition

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Question # 29

Which type of protection for electrical power stations provide isolation against a rise in potential of station ground and also provide drainage protection against longitudinally-induced voltages?

Isolating transformers

Neutralizing transformers

Mutual drainage reactors

Unit-type neutralizing transformers

2-winding neutralizing transformers

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Question # 30

Conducted coupling may affect electronic devices primarily through which two of the following means'? (Select two options.)

inductive coupling (by magnetic fields)

Input signal lines

Output signal lines

Optical signal lines

Capacitive coupling (by electric fields)

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Question # 31

A global enterprise resource planning (ERP) program's scope includes designing and building a global template. Plans include a pilot implementation project to validate the template, to be followed by several rollout projects. During the build of the global template, a new government regulation mandates implementation of a goods and services tax (GST).

What should the program manager update?

Program communications management plan

Benefits management plan

Stakeholder engagement plan

Benefits transition plan

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Question # 32

The ICT distribution designer is hired to design a Telecommunications Room on the third floor of a building. The size of the floor is 20 m by 26 m (92 x 85 It). What is to be the MINIMUM size of the TR?

Shallow Room, no minimum room size

=3 m (10 ft) by = 2.40 m (8 ft)

=3 m (10 ft) by =2.74 m (9 ft)

=3 m (10 ft) by =3.40 m (11 ft)

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Question # 33

Which two of the following items MUST be included in a detailed SoW? (Select two options.)

What type of work needs to be performed

A general description of work to be performed

Who must approve the Scope of work

How the contract performance will be evaluated/judged

When the work will start

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Question # 34

A program manager at a pharmaceutical company plans a new drug development effort. The development is slated to yield three drug variants. The program manager articulates the program scope boundaries.

Which of the following deliverables captures these items?

Program scope management plan

Program governance plan

Program scope statement

Program work breakdown structure

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Question # 35

Exhibit:

A pay telephone using coins needs to be installed in a public area. In the specifications, it is required that the telephone shall meet the ADA (Americans with Disability Act) requirement for side reach using a wheelchair. What will be the maximum reachable height or the value of "X"?

760 mm (30 in)

864 mm (34 in)

1170 mm (46 in)

1220 mm (48 in)

1370 mm (54 in)

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Question # 36

A new program component provides an opportunity to enhance program outcomes. What does the program manager use to document and monitor the opportunity'?

Program risk register

Program scope management plan

Program risk management plan

Component project risk registers

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Question # 37

Near the completion of a transformation program, the operations manager is concerned that their department failed lo be notified in advance of the new service being transitioned into operations. They claim that their department did not approve this service and is now unprepared and untrained to support the transformation.

What should the program manager have done first to prevent this?

Added the operations manager as a key stakeholder

Created a transition plan during the planning phase for the impacted operational area

Ensured there was a communications management plan that included the transition to operations

Drafted a training plan with assistance from the program management office (PMO) or human resource department before transitioning it to operations

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Question # 38

A program is midway through the program delivery phase when a key stakeholder asks if the program is meeting its defined objectives.

How should the program manager demonstrate the program's progress"?

Define the key performance indicators (KPIs) for the program's outcome

Invite the key stakeholder to review the program charter and the program objectives

Provide additional program performance reports to the key stakeholder

Maintain the benefits register and provide it to the key stakeholder

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Question # 39

The program sponsor returns from a board of directors meeting alter identifying a significant risk to the program schedule. This may Impact the program's benefits realization

What should the program manager do next?

Update the program benefits management plan and risk register

Implement the mitigation plan for the identified risk

Adjust the program scope to avoid the risk

Document the risk and create a mitigation plan

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Question # 40

When designing an underground conduit system, a single bend should be NO MORE THAN ________ degrees.

120

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Question # 41

An unforeseen geopolitical risk impacts a program to establish a company's operations abroad. Stakeholders now want to establish a risk response team to define a mitigation plan. Ultimately what appeared to be a significant risk resulted in a negligible risk.

What should the program manager recommend to stakeholders for future similar situations?

Accept the risk

Seek an expert opinion

Establish an on-call risk response team

Review the risk severity matrix

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Question # 42

A program manager for the construction of an international event venue that will impact the local community needs to determine the best approach for communications. One of the conditions of the program is that after the event takes place a park will be built for the community's use.

What should the program manager do to ensure community support?

Review the scope with the program sponsor and community representatives

Organize an advocacy group and facilitate community engagement

Negotiate the program scope with community representatives

Ensure community representatives are part of the steering committee

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Question # 43

The project managers for component projects A and B schedule the same resource to perform tasks during the same timeframe, resulting in an over-allocation. The program manager reviews the program resource management plan determine that project. A can wait until the resource becomes available, and assigns the resource to project B.

This is an example of which of the following?

Program resource management planning

Program risk mitigation

Resource interdependency management

Project resource planning

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