CVS CVS Value Engineering Techniques Questions and Answers 4 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: In a FAST diagram, a function that appears directly to the right of the basic function on the critical path answers which question about it?
- How is the function accomplished? (Correct answer)
- Why is the function performed?
- When does the function occur?
- What does the function cost?
Correct answer: How is the function accomplished?
Moving right on the critical path of a FAST diagram answers 'how' the function to its left is accomplished.
Question 2: A VE team analyzing a hospital HVAC system finds that the function 'filter air' consumes 30% of cost but contributes only 10% of worth. This cost-to-worth comparison is primarily used to:
- Identify functions with the greatest potential for value improvement (Correct answer)
- Eliminate the function from the design entirely
- Assign blame to the original designer
- Determine the project's contingency budget
Correct answer: Identify functions with the greatest potential for value improvement
A high cost-to-worth ratio flags functions as prime targets for value improvement, not automatic elimination.
Question 3: During the Creativity Phase of a VE job plan, a facilitator stops a team member who says 'that idea would never pass code review.' The facilitator is enforcing which brainstorming principle?
- Deferred judgment (Correct answer)
- Forced ranking
- Weighted evaluation
- Life-cycle costing
Correct answer: Deferred judgment
Deferred judgment prohibits evaluating or criticizing ideas during idea generation to maximize quantity of ideas.
Question 4: When defining functions using the two-word verb-noun method, which of the following is the BEST expression of a function for an electrical conduit?
- Protect wiring (Correct answer)
- Provides a durable metallic enclosure
- Conduit protection system
- Ensure long-term reliability of installation
Correct answer: Protect wiring
Function definitions must use a single active verb and a single measurable noun, such as 'protect wiring.'
Question 5: A VE team uses a paired-comparison (numerical evaluation) technique during the Evaluation Phase primarily to:
- Rank criteria or ideas by relative importance through one-to-one comparisons (Correct answer)
- Generate as many alternatives as possible
- Calculate the internal rate of return of each idea
- Diagram the logical relationship between functions
Correct answer: Rank criteria or ideas by relative importance through one-to-one comparisons
Paired comparison ranks items by comparing them two at a time and scoring relative preference.
Question 6: In FAST diagramming, functions that happen 'all the time' and are shown above the critical path scope line are classified as:
- All-the-time functions (supporting functions occurring continuously) (Correct answer)
- Basic functions
- Lower-order functions
- Causative functions
Correct answer: All-the-time functions (supporting functions occurring continuously)
Continuous supporting functions are placed above the critical path and labeled all-the-time functions.
Question 7: A VE study of a bridge project reveals a secondary function 'resist corrosion' that exists only because steel was selected. If the team substitutes a material that does not corrode, this secondary function:
- Can be eliminated along with its associated cost (Correct answer)
- Must be retained to satisfy the basic function
- Becomes the new basic function
- Must be transferred to the owner's scope
Correct answer: Can be eliminated along with its associated cost
Secondary functions created by a specific design choice disappear when that design choice changes, eliminating their cost.
CVS CVS Value Engineering Techniques Questions and Answers 4
In a FAST diagram, a function that appears directly to the right of the basic function on the critical path answers which question about it?