MGS425 Chapter 6

An activity is an element of work that has an expected duration, cost, and resource requirements. (True/False)

True

Project schedules grow out of basic documents such as the project charter. (T/F)

True

To define activities, the project team should start with reviewing the schedule management plan, scope baseline, enterprise environmental factors, and organizational processes. (T/F)

True

In project schedule management, the primary output of defining activities is a schedule management plan. (T/F)

False

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

discretionary

Which dependencies do AOA network diagrams use?

Finish-to-Start

Which of the following task dependencies would be MOST common on a technology project?

Finish-to-start

Which ONE of the following statements is false about milestones.

It has a long duration

An activity on the critical path takes 5 more days to complete than planned. If the project manager does not take steps to address this delay, what will the resulting impact be to the overall project?

The project schedule will be pushed out by 5 days.

In project schedule management, which process generates the main outputs of an activity list, activity attributes, and a milestone list?

defining activities

Which process in project schedule management involves identifying the specific tasks that the project team members and stakeholders must perform to produce the project deliverables?

defining activities

Which dependencies involve relationships between project and non-project activities?

inherent

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

mandatory

What is the first process involved in project schedule management?

planning schedule management

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

project charter

In project schedule management, the next step after sequencing activities is to define these activities. (T/F)

False

In an AOA network diagram, what occurs when two or more activities follow a single node.

bursts

Which term is used for a significant event on a project that normally has no duration?

milestone