ITS PM - Ch.4
Using the values noted within the following table, calculate the early start of activity D:
3
Examine the figure given below: Which path is considered the critical path?
ACGIJ
Which of the following are not a part of the project schedule?
Cost estimates
You are the project manager of PPY project. You decide to add more people to reduce the duration of the project. What is this technique called?
Crashing
Which of the following processes is defined in the statement given below? "It is the process of approximating the number of work periods needed to complete individual activities with estimated resources."
Estimate Activity Durations
Which of the following statements about the Gantt chart are true? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose two.
It shows the dependency (i.e., precedence network) relationships between activities. It is a type of bar chart that illustrates the project schedule.
Martha is in the process of identifying actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables. What are the outputs of this process? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
Milestone list Activity attributes Activity list
You are the project manager for the NHQ project for your organization. You're using rolling wave planning in this technical project to account for the changing nature of technology and the desire for fast, usable implementations. When are milestones typically created?
Milestones are created at the end of each project phase.
What is the maximum amount of float that can usually be assigned to the critical path?
Zero
You are the project manager of the HJJ Project and you're working with the project team to predict the likely duration of the project activities. Your company requires that all project managers utilize the formula for beta distribution of activity duration estimating. What is this formula?
(O+4M+P)/6 tE = (tO + 4tM + tP) / 6
Using the values noted within the following table, calculate the late finish of activity F:
13
Using the values noted within the following table, calculate the total float of activity C:
5
You are working with your project team to determine the duration of project activities. One particular activity has been determined that the optimistic estimate for the duration is 45 hours, the most likely estimate is 65 hours, and the pessimistic estimate is 85 hours. If you are using the triangular distribution for duration estimating what is the predicted duration of the task?
65 hours
Using the estimates provided, calculate the triangular distribution: Most likely estimate (ML) = 72, optimistic estimate (O) = 55, pessimistic estimate (P) = 85. Round to one decimal point.
70.7 A triangular distribution (tE) calculation involves taking an average of the optimistic, most likely, and pessimistic estimates. The formula is as follows: tE = (ML + O + P) ÷ 3 Plugging in the values will result in the following: (72 + 55 + 85) ÷ 3 = 70.7.
Question 8 :Using the estimates provided, calculate the beta distribution: Most likely estimate (ML) = 72, optimistic estimate (O) = 55, pessimistic estimate (P) = 85. Round to one decimal point.
71.3 tE = (4×ML + O + P) ÷ 6 Plugging in the values will result in the following: (4×72 + 55 + 85) ÷ 6 = 71.3.
You are the project manager of the HNN Project for your company and you're working with several stakeholders to communicate the milestone list. In this kickoff meeting, some of the stakeholders are confused about milestones. What is a milestone?
A significant point in the project
Using the values noted within the following table, identify the critical path:
A-B-E-F-G
You have been assigned as the Project Manager for a new project that involves deployment of a new software application to all your organization's users. You have engaged a third-party vendor to help you with this project who has agreed to supply you the resources; he will charge based on time spent on the project activities. Which of the following are most likely to have a direct and closer impact on the accuracy of your cost estimates?
Activity Resources and Activity Durations
You are the project manager of the NHY Project. A change request has been approved that will increase the costs of the project by $27,500 but the project end date must remain the same. The change will require approximately 400 hours of additional labor. What must be updated in the project plan considering these elements of the approved scope change?
Activity attributes
Fred is the project manager of a hotel restoration project. The hotel has 456 rooms. All rooms need to be primed and painted. Before each room can be painted, the primer must cure for twenty-four hours. Fred has arranged these tasks with a finish-to-start relationship between the priming and the painting. What else should Fred do to account for the twenty-four hours of cure time?
Add twenty-four hours of lag time to the painting activity for each of the 456 rooms to account for the primer's curing time.
You manage a project which will install 45,900 emergency exit signs throughout a university campus. You have a crew of 45 project team members to install the signs and they are making good progress on the installation, but it looks like they'll miss the promised end date. Your project requires all of the signs to be installed one week before classes are scheduled to begin. You elect to crash the project in an effort to shorten the installation duration activity. What does it mean to crash the project?
Adding more workers
You are a seasoned Project Manager that has been entrusted with a software development project recently. You have completed the Scope Management Activities and have started building the project schedule. Which of the following would you not use as a tool/technique to sequence your activities?
Affinity Diagram
According to the PMBOK ® Guide, which of the following statements is true for each activity on the network diagram?
All activities except the first and the last should be connected to a successor and predecessor.
You have been assigned as the Project Manager for a new project that involves deployment of a new software application to all your organization's users. You have begun estimating the activity durations. The Program Manager has provided you the data related to a very similar project that was done in the past and asked you to use that data to come up with your estimates. Which estimating technique your Program Manager is asking you to use?
Analogous
Which of the following terms is defined in the statement given below? "It uses the values of a parameter from a previous, similar project as the basis for estimating the same parameter or measure for a current project. It is a gross value estimating approach, sometimes adjusted for known differences in project complexity."
Analogous estimating
You're the project manager for Xylophone Phonics. It produces children's software programs that teach basic reading and math skills. You're performing cost estimates for your project and don't have a lot of details yet. Which of the following techniques should you use?
Analogous estimating
You are the project manager for Xylophone Phonics. It produces children's software programs that teach basic reading and math skills. You're performing cost estimates for the project and don't have a lot of details yet. Which of the following techniques should you use?
Analogous estimating techniques
Gary is a project manager for his organization. His current project is the construction of a new warehouse in Tampa, Florida. Marsha is the project sponsor for this project and she has asked Gary to create a milestone schedule for the project. At what point of this construction project will Gary reach the milestone?
At the end of each phase of the project lifecycle
A project manager is working with the project team to estimate durations for the identified project activities. The team is looking to achieve the most accurate estimate possible. What estimating technique can they use to generate the desired result?
Bottom-up estimating
Using the earned value analysis technique, a project manager calculates a schedule performance index of 0.75 and a cost performance index of 1.25. To bring the schedule back on track, the project manager decides to allocate additional resources to critical activities to complete them faster. What technique is he using to control the schedule?
Crashing
You are the project manager of the GHY Project. This project is to construct a new warehouse for a client. The client has offered a bonus for each day that the project finishes ahead of the given deadline. You and the project team examine the work and look for opportunities to complete the work faster. After your analysis, you recommend that the project team be expanded to include a second shift. By adding the additional labor your company can complete the work much faster and earn a bonus that is more than the cost of the labor. Which schedule compression technique are you recommending?
Crashing
You are a new Project Manager that has been entrusted with a software development project. You have completed the Scope management activities and started building a project schedule model. You have used the critical path method to identify the activities and their sequence which will affect the overall project duration. However, when you started assigning the resources to the activities, the critical path changed. What is this resource-constrained critical path called?
Critical Chain
You are a new Project Manager that has been entrusted with a software development project recently. You have completed the Scope Management Activities and have begun building the project schedule. Your Program Manager has asked you to provide him a list of all the activities, which if delayed, will cause the entire project to be delayed. Which of the following would you provide the Program Manager with?
Critical Path
Feeding buffers and the project buffer are part of which of the following Develop Schedule tools and techniques?
Critical chain method
You are the project manager for the TTK project. You are in the Plan Schedule Management process. Which of the following tools or techniques will you use in this process? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
Data analysis, Meetings, Expert judgment
You have been assigned as the Project Manager for a new project that involves deployment of a new software application to all your organization's users. You have completed identifying the scope and related scope management activities. You plan to develop a schedule that your project team can follow. What would be your next logical step?
Define Activities
You are in the midst of performing the Sequence Activities process. You are currently identifying the preferred and mandatory sequencing of activities. What is this technique called?
Dependency determination and integration
Ruthanna is the project manager of the HGB Project for her organization. This project is a remodeling of a client's dentist office. Ruthanna and the project team have identified several tasks which can happen in any order. For example, the team could install the new light fixtures before or after the carpet is installed. What term is given to activities that have this type of dependency?
Discretionary
Which dependency type creates arbitrary total float values that limit the options when scheduling activities?
Discretionary
Which of the following project management processes involves determining the type and quantity of material, equipment, and supplies needed to perform the project work?
Estimate Activity Resources
Sue is in the process of monitoring the progress of the project, which kicked off six months prior. Based on the latest work performance reports, she knows that the schedule performance index is 0.85 and the cost performance index is at 0.70. To compress the schedule, what option can Sue consider?
Fast track critical activities
Your project team is executing the project plan and things are going well. Your team has reached its first milestone and is now in the second phase of the project. The project stakeholders have requested that you find a method to reduce the duration of the project. They will reward you and your project team with a 25 percent bonus of the project costs if you can finish the project thirty days earlier than what was already planned. The stakeholders, however, will not approve any additional labor costs as part of the agreement. Which approach could you use to shorten the duration of the project?
Fast track the project.
Martha is the project manager for her organization. She and the project team are operating under a tight constraint for the schedule. Martha elects to allow some of the phases of the project lifecycle to overlap with schedule compression. What is this process called?
Fast tracking
Which of the following allows activities to be done in parallel that would normally be done in sequence?
Fast tracking
Which of the following compression techniques increases project risk?
Fast tracking
Which of the following schedule compression techniques increases risk?
Fast tracking
You are a new Project Manager that has been entrusted with a software development project. You have developed a project schedule after considering all details like resource over-allocation and so on. However, when you presented the planned finish date to the steering committee, they rejected the date and asked you to compress the project schedule. Which of the following techniques would you use assuming that your project does not have activities whose duration can be reduced by adding more resources?
Fast tracking
You are the project manager of a construction project. You adjust the schedule and find that two activities previously scheduled to start sequentially can be started at the same time. This is an example of which of the following techniques?
Fast tracking
You are the project manager of a large high priority project. There are several negative risks that may affect the project's ability to complete on time. If the project will be delayed, your organization will face fines of $100,000 per day. However, if your project gets completed early, your organization will receive $100,000 per day of early completion. Based on this information, you'd like to create a plan that analyzes the utilization of project resources. You would like to compress the project schedule so that some of the phases may overlap. What is this duration compression technique called?
Fast tracking
All of the following statements about the arrow diagramming method (ADM) are true except for which one?
It allows for multiple types of dependencies, including finish-to-start, start-to-finish, start-to-start, and finish-to-finish.
Martha, a project manager of a software project, decides to implement fast tracking for the project after reviewing the project performance. What can be the outcome of her decision? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.
It may increase rework. It may increase risk.
James is the project manager of a large construction project. After reviewing the performance of the project, he decides to crash the project. What will be the outcome of his decision?
It will increase the cost.
You are the project manager of NHG. The following figure represents your project network diagram: Management has asked that you add some features to the project scope. Through the change control system, these changes are approved and they'll affect Activity I. The duration of Activity I, which is on the critical path, will decrease by three days. What effect does this have on the critical path?
It will now take 23 days.
You are the project manager of the HBH project. The project is to install new servers in your organization for file and printer services. The new server room, which is a part of your project, has been primed and painted, but the painters advise not installing the new equipment for 36 hours to allow the paint to completely dry and air out the room. This waiting time is also known as what?
Lag time
You are the project manager of the GHY Project. In this project, the project team has identified a series of tasks that must be completed in a particular order: erecting the studs for the walls, then installing the electrical wiring, and performing the drywalling. This series of relationship describes what type of dependency?
Mandatory
You are a new Project Manager who has been entrusted with a project. Over the last few weeks, you have worked to collect the requirements, define the scope, and identify the deliverables. You have begun defining the activities needed to complete the work packages as defined in your WBS. You would like to identify the completion of User Testing as a significant point of your schedule. Which of the following would you use to identify this event?
Milestone
You are the project manager for a large construction project. You are estimating a time schedule for installation of 1000 meter of cabling. You know that the assigned resources have the ability to install 25 meters of cables per hour. You estimate that it will take 40 hours for the installation of the cables. Which type of estimating technique is this?
Parametric
You are a new Project Manager entrusted with managing a new project. However, as you review the project requirements, you discover that the timeline required of the project is quite short, and you need to plan the phases of a project to allow for fast tracking of the project. Which of the following techniques would you use to solve this scenario?
Plan Overlapping relationship between phases
You are the project manager of the TTY project. At some point of time, you decide to crash the project. What does that mean?
Reducing project time
Martha is the project manager of a ship construction project. She needs information on all the welders and welding equipment being used in different areas of the ship. Which of the following charts will she use to get the required information?
Resource breakdown structure
Your project's key stakeholders want you to create a visual diagram of resources that will be utilized in the project deliverables. What type of a chart are you being asked to create?
Resource breakdown structure
You are the project manager for your organization. The resources that you'll be using on your project are part of a union. The union representatives inform you that you may only utilize union labor on your project for a maximum of 25 hours per week. What approach will you need to follow to reveal overutilization of the union resources?
Resource leveling
Which of the following provides a method to track project progress during project execution against what was planned?
Schedule baseline
Judy works for the You Name It! gaming company, which specializes in games for young adults. As part of her latest project, Judy is working with her team to develop a game using virtual reality technology. Judy and the team are now in the process of breaking down deliverables into smaller components of work. What valid input will Judy use to help her, and the team get started?
Scope baseline
James works as the project manager of a software project. He with his team is preparing a project schedule network diagram. On which of the following processes are they working?
Sequence Activities
You are the project manager of the TTH project. You and your team are arranging activities and adding lead or lag time between activities to support a realistic and achievable project schedule. On which of the following processes are you working?
Sequence Activities
You are a new Project Manager that has been entrusted with a software development project. You have started building the list of activities and are sequencing them for your project schedule model. As part of the activities, you have identified that your project team will need to start resolving the defects that come out of the user testing, 5 days after the testing starts. Which of the following would be the correct way to represent this logical relationship between the activities?
Start to Start Dependency with 5 days lag
All of the following are true statements regarding Project Schedule Management, except for which one?
Start-to-finish is the most commonly used logical relationship between activities.
Which of the following statements regarding the ADM method is not true?
The ADM method uses one time estimate to determine durations.
You work as a project manager in an organization for a project. You're working in the Define Activities process and have just completed the WBS. Which of the following statements explains the task WBS performed?
The WBS breaks the project deliverables down to the work package level, where cost and time estimates can be easily determined.
You are analyzing the project network diagram for a project and are coaching Mary on the concept of float. What is a free float?
The amount of time for which a task can be delayed without delaying the start of the next activity.
Mary is the project manager of the H1QZ Project. This project is a subproject of the HQZ Project and the project schedule is fixed and cannot vary. Stephen, a project team member, reports that he's having trouble completing his project assignment and will likely be at least two days late. Examine the figure given below: If Stephen's assignment is Activity B, what impact will his two days of lateness have on the project end date?
The project will complete on time.
You have been assigned as the Project Manager for a new project that involves developing a design for a new construction. You have begun estimating the activity durations and have obtained a feedback from the project team. However, your project team members have expressed some uncertainty about their estimates due to the nature of the project. In addition, your company has not done a similar project before. In this scenario, what is the most likely technique that you could use to ensure you improve the estimation accuracy?
Three-point
You are the project manager for Heartthrobs by the Numbers Dating Services. You're working on an updated Internet site that will display pictures as well as short bios of prospective heartbreakers. You have your activity list and resource requirements in hand and are planning to use parametric estimates and reserve analysis to determine activity durations. Which of the following are you using?
Tools and techniques of the Estimate Activity Durations process