Assessment 9

In ______, nodes represent activities, and arrows show precedence relationships.

AON

Which of the following statements about project teams is FALSE?

Assignment to the team is usually permanent

It is never acceptable to crash a party nor to crash a project

False

The latest time an activity can start without delaying critical path time is:

LS

A team structure with members from functional areas is known as which kind of structure?

Matrix

Which of the following was not identified as an integral part of Project Control by our authors?

Place Management

The delay of any _____________ activities would delay a project's completion by an equal amount of time.

Critical path

Earliest finish times is denoted:

EF

Earned Value Analysis is a standard procedure for numerically measuring a project's progress, forecasting its completion date and cost and measuring schedule and budget variation.

True

Probabilistic activity time estimates reflect uncertainty of activity times.

True

The forward pass is one half of the computing algorithm and starts at the beginning of the CPM/PERT network to determine the earliest activity times.

True

The latest time an activity can be completed and still maintain the project critical path time is called the Latest Finish time.

True

The overall project budget for all resource requirements and procedures for budgetary control is called the Resource element of a project plan.

True

The _________ pass determines latest activities times by starting at the end of the PERT/CPM network and working backward.

backward

Activity times in a PERT network are commonly based on the _____________ probability distribution.

beta

Reducing project time by expending additional resources is known as:

crashing

_______________ is a standard procedure for measuring a project's progress, forecasting the completion date and final cost, and measuring schedule and budget variation.

earned value analysis

The decision maker can shorten a project:

if she can reallocate resources to critical path activities

If the start of any activity on the critical path is delayed than the overall project time will:

increase

Work Breakdown Structure (WBS):

is hierarchical composed of different levels of work

Activity-on-Node

refers to Microsoft Project's convention for developing networks.

The term Program Management:

refers to the management and control of a portfolio of projects.

A discussion of how to approach the Project, reporting and performance responsibilities, including a detailed list of staff, suppliers, and a preliminary schedule is called:

scope

PERT is best suited for:

special, one-time projects