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12.____________________ is the number of workdays or work hours required to complete a task..
Effort
3.____________________ involves estimating how many people, equipment, and materials a project team should use to perform project activities.
Estimating activity resources
8.Most managers are unfamiliar with any forms of scheduling..
F
1.Factors such as user involvement, clear business objectives, a minimized or clearly defined scope, and firm basic requirements, are elements of ____________________..
project scope management
5.The main outputs of scope definition are the ____________________ and project document updates..
project scope statement
2.The main outputs of ____________________ are the project scope statement and updates to project documents..
scope definition
21.In a Gantt chart created in Microsoft Project, a black diamond symbol represents a milestone..
T
10.In a(n) ____________________ relationship, the "from" activity must start before the "to" activity can be finished..
start-to-finish
14.A work package represents the level of work that the project manager monitors and controls..
T
15.The arrows in a network diagram represent the activity sequencing or relationships between tasks..
T
19.If you want some time-based flow for the work, you can create a WBS using the project management process groups of initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing as Level 2 in the WBS..
T
19.It is important that the people who help determine what resources are necessary include people who have experience and expertise in similar projects and with the organization performing the project..
T
21.Many organizations provide guidelines and templates for developing WBSs..
T
22.A Tracking Gantt chart is based on the percentage of work completed for project tasks or the actual start and finish dates..
T
22.Mind mapping allows people to write and even draw pictures of ideas in a nonlinear format..
T
19.The ____________________ is based on the fact that, like a chain with its weakest link, any complex system at any point in time often has only one aspect or constraint that limits its ability to achieve more of its goal..
TOC - Theory of Constraints - Theory of Constraints (TOC)
6.A(n) ____________________ on a project is a significant event that normally has no duration..
milestone
16.A white diamond on the Tracking Gantt chart represents a(n) ____________________..
slipped milestone
6.The project scope statement should reference ____________________, such as product specifications that will affect what products are produced or purchased, or corporate policies, which might affect how products or services are produced..
supporting documents
9.PMI uses the term "___________________" to describe each level of work in the WBS..
task
25.Many project management software programs come with ____________________ or sample files..
templates
13.Duration estimates are often provided as a discrete number, such as four weeks, or as a range, such as three to five weeks, or as a(n) ____________________..
three-point estimate
7.A(n) ____________________ project scope statement is an important document for developing and confirming a common understanding of the project scope..
up-to-date - up to date -
20.____________________ is the difference between planned and actual performance..
Variance
3.Creating the ____________________ involves subdividing the major project deliverables into smaller, more manageable components..
WBS - work breakdown structure - work breakdown structure (WBS)
8.Some project management experts believe that work should not be done on a project if it is not included in the ____________________..
WBS - work breakdown structure - work breakdown structure (WBS)
17.A(n) ____________________ for a project is the series of activities that determine the earliest time by which the project can be completed..
critical path
4.Outputs of ____________________ include activity duration estimates and project documentation updates..
estimating activity durations
22.The main outputs of ____________________ include work performance measurements, organizational process assets updates, such as lessons-learned reports related to schedule control, change requests, project management plan updates, and project document updates..
schedule control
16.The approved project scope statement and its associated WBS and WBS dictionary form the ____________________..
scope baseline
13.____________________ is a technique that uses branches radiating out from a core idea to structure thoughts and ideas..
Mind mapping
14.____________________ can be used for developing WBSs using the top-down or bottom-up approach..
Mind mapping
20.____________________ occurs when a resource works on more than one task at a time..
Multitasking
21.____________________ states that if something can go wrong, it will..
Murphy's Law
2.____________________ involves the processes required to ensure timely completion of a project..
Project time management
14.To make milestones meaningful, some people use the ____________________ criteria to help define them..
SMART
19.____________________ involves controlling changes to the project scope..
Scope control
17.____________________ is the tendency for project scope to keep getting bigger and bigger..
Scope creep
18.The main tool for performing scope verification is ____________________..
inspection
24.Managers like to see progress made on projects approximately each ____________________..
month
8.A(n) ____________________ is a schematic display of the logical relationships among, or sequencing of, project activities..
network diagram
9.In a network diagram, a(n) ____________________ is simply the starting and ending point of an activity..
node
10.A(n) ____________________ is a task at the lowest level of the WBS..
work package
27.By using the PERT weighted average for each activity duration estimate, the total project duration estimate does not account for the risk or uncertainty in the individual activity estimates..
F
30.Project management software does not have the capacity to automatically generate network diagrams and calculate the critical path(s) for the project..
F
5.When justifying investments in new information systems and technology, the focus should only be on revenues or expenses..
F
6.Organizations have a history of spending too much money in the early phases of information technology projects..
F
6.The outputs to schedule development include activity duration estimates and project document updates..
F
7.The main outputs of estimating activity resources includes the activity list and attributes, project scope statement, milestone list, and organizational process assets..
F
8.Direct costs cannot be directly attributed to a certain project..
F
11.____________________ have no duration and no resources but are occasionally needed on AOA network diagrams to show logical relationships between activities..
Dummy activities
1.Although information technology projects have a poor track record in meeting project goals, they have a good track record in meeting budget goals..
F
10.Learning curve theory does not apply to the amount of time it takes to complete some tasks..
F
11.Activity information is not a required input to the other time management processes..
F
12.A WBS is often depicted as a task-oriented pie chart..
F
13.A project team always organizes the WBS around project products..
F
14.Network diagrams are the preferred technique for showing activity discretionary dependencies..
F
15.A work package should always represent less than 80 hours of work..
F
16.It is not necessary to complete all of the activities on the network diagram in order for the project to finish..
F
17.Every item on the WBS needs to be on the network diagram..
F
17.It is easy to create a good WBS..
F
18.Start-to-finish relationships are the most common type of relationships..
F
2.Managers often cite cost issues during the end phase of a project as one of their biggest challenges and the main cause of conflict..
F
2.Preparing cost estimates is a job for accountants..
F
20.Duration only includes the actual amount of time worked on an activity..
F
20.The executing tasks of the WBS remain constant from project to project..
F
23.Most projects have one path through a network diagram..
F
23.The format of the WBS dictionary should be the same from project to project..
F
24.The critical path always includes the most critical activities..
F
9.When deciding what projects to invest in or continue, you should include sunk costs..
F
1.Many information technology projects are failures in terms of meeting scope, time, and cost projections..
T
11.If a project manager gets sick for two weeks or an important supplier goes out of business, management reserve could be set aside to cover the resulting costs..
T
12.After defining project activities, the next step in project time management is sequencing them or determining their dependencies..
T
13.Even though the delivery of new hardware may not be in the scope of a project, you should add an external dependency to it..
T
18.The tasks in a WBS do not have to be developed as a sequential list of steps..
T
15.A(n) ____________________ is a document that describes detailed information about each WBS item..
WBS dictionary
12.In the ____________________ approach, team members first identify as many specific tasks related to the project as possible..
bottom-up
4.Key inputs for preparing the project scope statement include the ____________________, requirements documentation, and organizational process assets such as policies and procedures related to scope statements as well as project files and lessons learned from previous, similar projects..
project charter
11.If ____________________ for developing a WBS exist, it is very important to follow them..
guidelines
24.A unit of work should appear at only one place in the WBS..
T
25.A fast and easy way to determine early and late start and finish dates and free and total slack amounts for activities is by using project management software..
T
25.Lack of user input leads to problems with managing scope creep and controlling change..
T
26.Fast tracking can end up lengthening the project schedule..
T
28.One of PERT's main disadvantages is that it involves more work than CPM..
T
29.Many projects, especially in information technology, have very unrealistic schedule expectations..
T
3.Any new technology or business process is untested and has inherent risks..
T
3.Schedule performance can be estimated by subtracting the original time estimate from how long it really took to complete the project..
T
4.Individual work styles and cultural differences may cause schedule conflicts..
T
4.Many projects that are started never finish because of cost management problems..
T
5.Different cultures may have different perceptions of work ethic..
T
7.Project managers must conduct cash flow analysis to determine net present value..
T
9.Project schedules grow out of the basic documents that initiate a project..
T
10.It only takes one activity to complete a milestone..
F
16.You can only enter duration estimates for work packages..
T
18.A(n) ____________________ determines the early start and early finish dates for each activity..
forward pass
1.____________________ is the one variable in project scheduling that has the least amount of flexibility..
Time
15.A(n) ____________________ Gantt chart compares planned and actual project schedule information..
Tracking
5.The ____________________ is a tabulation of activities to be included on a project schedule..
activity list
7.In the activity definition process, the project team should review the ____________________ and activity attributes with project stakeholders before moving on to the next step in project time management..
activity list
23.One of the first reality checks on scheduling that a project manager should make is to review the ____________________ usually included in the project charter..
draft schedule
