Chapter 6 Project Manager: Time Management

A backward pass through the network diagram determines the early start and early finish dates for each activity.

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A disadvantage of using Gantt charts is that they do not provide a standard format for displaying planned project schedule information.

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A drawback of the precedence diagramming method is that it cannot be used unless dummy activities are employed.

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In a critical path analysis, the shortest path is what drives the completion date for the project.

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In project time management, one should control the schedule before estimating the duration for each activity.

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In project time management, the next step after sequencing activities is to define these activities.

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One of PERT's main disadvantages is that it does not address the risk associated with duration estimates.

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Start-to-finish relationships are the most frequently used dependencies between activities.

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The final process in project time management is developing the schedule.

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Which of the following types of dependencies are inherent in the nature of work being performed on a project?

Mandatory

_____ states that work expands to fill the time allowed.

Parkinson's Law

Which of the following documents is most likely to include planned project start and end dates which serve as the starting points for a detailed schedule?

Project charter

Which of the following is one of the main outputs of estimating activity resources process?

Project documents update

The _____ for an activity is the latest possible time an activity might begin without delaying the project finish date.

late start date

A(n) _____ on a project is a significant event that normally has no duration.

milestone

A draft schedule for a project is most likely to be found in a _____.

project charter

In project time management, a(n) _____ is an output of controlling the schedule

project management plan update

Which of the following is a difference between an activity list and an activity attribute?

An activity attribute provides more schedule-related information about each activity than an activity list.

Which of the following is a network diagramming technique used primarily to predict total project duration?

Critical path analysis

In project time management, which of the following processes generate the main outputs of an activity list, activity attributes, and a milestone list?

Defining activities

Which of the following processes in project time management involves identifying the specific tasks that the project team members and stakeholders must perform to produce the project deliverables?

Defining activities

In project time management, which of the following processes involve analyzing activity sequences, activity resource estimates, and activity duration estimates to create the project schedule?

Developing the schedule

_____ dependencies are sometimes referred to as soft logic and should be used with care because they may limit later scheduling options.

Discretionary

_____ provide(s) a standard format for displaying project schedule information by listing project activities and their corresponding start and finish dates in a calendar format.

Gantt charts

Which of the following is true of a finsih-to-finish dependency?

It is a dependency in which the "from" activity must be finished before the "to" activity can be finished.

In project procurement management, which of the following is an output of the executing process?

Resource calendars

In project time management, which of the following processes primarily involve identifying and documenting the relationships between project activities?

Sequencing activities

Which of the following is a relationship in which the "from" activity cannot start until the "to" activity is started?

Start-to-start

A Tracking Gantt chart is based on the percentage of work completed for project tasks or the actual start and finish dates.

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Which of the following is true of dummy activities?

They show logical relationships between activities.

_____ is the amount of time an activity can be delayed from its early start without delaying the planned project finish date.

Total slack

In project time management, the process of_____ primarily involves checking and managing changes to the project schedule.

controlling the schedule

In project time management, the main goal of _____ is to ensure that the project team has complete understanding of all the work they must do as part of the project scope so they can start scheduling the work.

defining activities

In project time management, the next step after defining project activities is:

determining their dependencies.

After working with key stakeholders to define activities and calculate their resources, the next process in project time management is to:

estimate the duration of activities.