To hyphenate or not to hyphenate

Which is correct?
A ________ Scrum should almost automatically eliminate people who don’t deliver.
a. well designed
b. well-designed

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Passive voice vs. active voice

Which sentence is better?
a. The developers adopted a scrum model to speed up the process.
b. A scrum model was adopted to speed up the development process.

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Personal affects or personal effects?

Which is correct?
Among the items you should never leave on your desk are _____________ with sensitive information, such as credit card statements.
a. personal affects
b. personal effects

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How do you pronounce ‘SQL?’

Which is correct?
___ SQL injection attack takes advantage of poor website coding practices.
a. A
b. An

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Wherever or where ever?

Which is correct?
_________ a virtual server runs, its storage volumes should be accessible.
a. Wherever
b. Where ever

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Founder or flounder? (Neither is good but one is worse than the other.)

Which is correct?
Apple ________ for some time after Jobs left.
a. foundered
b. floundered

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Sarah Palin and her elk? What a lovely eggcorn!

Which is correct?
The ever-increasing emphasis on good corporate governance is partially a response to the malfeasance of Bernie Madoff and his ____.
a. ilk
b. elk
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Administrate or administer?

Which is correct?
When time is an issue, a disk cloning product that is fast and easy to _________ is important.
a. administrate
b. administer

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Is that six month’s, six months’ or six months worth?

Which is correct?
The CFO suggested that the most practical solution might be to outsource the outstanding ____________ worth of backlog.
a. six month’s
b. six months’
c. six months

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Do you meet a limit or reach it?

Which is correct?
You should explore data archiving long before there’s a risk that your storage limit will be _____.
a. met
b. reached

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