Chapter 5

The _________ rule is that all work required for a deliverable is included in its sub-deliverables when defining activities.

WBS 100%

Slack or ____ is the amount of time an activity may be delayed without delaying a succeeding activity or the project finish date.

float

What activity was on the critical path for building Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park?

growing grass

In an AOA network diagram, a(n) ____ occurs when two or more nodes precede a single node.

merge

Project teams often create a ____________ to ensure that all major activities are accounted for.

milestone list

A(n) ___________ normally does not have any cost or duration.

milestones

What is the PERT weighted average based on an optimistic estimate of six days, a most likely estimate of eight days, and a pessimistic time of sixteen days?

nine

The project team begins to develop a ____ by first clearly defining all the activities it needs to perform.

schedule

A project schedule network diagram is an output of the ___________ time management planning process.

sequence activities

There are ____ basic reasons for creating dependencies among project activities.

three

Activity sequencing involves reviewing the activity list and attributes, project scope statement, and milestone list to determine the relationships or dependencies between activities.

true

Most project management software shows the precedence diagramming method.

true

There is usually no cost or duration associated with a milestone.

true

It is poor practice to use more than one approach for creating a cost estimate.

false

What is the formula for determining a PERT weighted average?

(optimistic time + 4 x most likely time + pessimistic time)/6

If you have only two paths through a project network diagram where path 1 has a length of 20 weeks and path 2 has a length of 30 weeks, what is the estimated duration of the project?

30 weeks

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

Bursts

____ dependencies are inherent in the nature of the work being performed on a project.

Mandatory

____ development uses the results of all the preceding project time management processes to determine the start and end dates of project activities and of the entire project.

Schedule

Activity ____ provide schedule-related information about each activity, such as predecessors, successors, logical relationships, leads and lags, resource requirements, constraints, imposed dates, and assumptions related to the activity.

attributes

Cost ____ involves allocating the overall cost estimate to individual tasks over time to establish a baseline for measuring performance.

budgeting

___________ is a technique for making cost and schedule trade-offs to obtain the greatest amount of schedule compression for the least incremental cost.

crashing

A(n) ____ path for a project is the series of activities that determine the earliest time by which the project can be completed.

critical

Duration estimates are provided as a ____ number, such as four weeks; as a range, such as three to five weeks; or as a three-point estimate.

discrete

____ includes the actual amount of time spent working on an activity plus elapsed time.

duration