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The project schedule is used to determine all of the following except: A. Cost estimates B. Activity start dates C. Float times D. Activity end dates
1630You are a project manager for Picture Shades, Inc. They manufacture window shades for hotel chains that have replicas of Renaissance-era paintings on the inside of the shades. Picture Shades is taking their product to the home market, and you're managing the new project. They will offer their products at retail stores as well as on their website. You're developing the project schedule for this undertaking and have determined the critical path. Which of the following is true? A. You calculated the most likely start date and most likely finish dates, float time, and weighted average estimates. B. You calculated the activity dependency, and the optimistic and pessimistic activity duration estimates. C. You calculated the early and late start dates, early and late finish dates, and float times for all activities. D. You calculated the optimistic, pessimistic, and most likely duration times and the float times for all activities.
1496Which of the following is true regarding the critical path? A. It should never be compressed. B. It allows for looping and branching. C. The critical path technique is the same as PERT. D. It's the duration of all tasks with zero float.
1044All of the following are tools and techniques of the Schedule Development process except? A. CPM B. RAM C. GERT D. PERT
992You are a project manager for a new software development project. You have a few activities that require specialized testing. The testing might need to be repeated more than once. Which of the following do you choose? A. The Graphical Evaluation and Review Technique because it allows for conditional branching and looping for the testing activity B. The Critical Path Method because it allows for float time to be calculated for the testing activity C. The Program Evaluation and Review Technique because it allows for conditional branching and looping for the testing activity D. The Program Evaluation and Review Technique because it allows for a weighted average distribution, which will even out the time needed for the testing activity
800You are a project manager for Move It Now trucking company. Your company specializes in moving household goods across the city or across the country. Your project involves upgrading the nationwide computer network for the company. Your lead engineer has given you the following estimates for a critical path activity: 60 days most likely, 72 days pessimistic, 48 days optimistic. What is the expected value, or weighted average? A. 54 B. 66 C. 60 D. 30
1126You are a project manager for Move It Now trucking company. Your company specializes in moving household goods across the city or across the country. Your project involves upgrading the nationwide computer network for the company. Your lead engineer has given you the following estimates for a critical path activity: 60 days most likely, 72 days pessimistic, 48 days optimistic. What is the standard deviation? A. 22 B. 20 C. 2 D. 4
1158If you know expected value is 500 and the standard deviation is 12, you can say with approximately a 95 percent confidence rating which of the following? A. The activity will take between 488 and 512 days. B. The activity will take between 464 and 536 days. C. The activity will take between 494 and 506 days. D. The activity will take between 476 and 524 days.
861If your expected value is ll0 and the standard deviation is l2, which of the following is true? A. There is approximately a 99 percent chance of completing this activity between 86 and 134 days. B. There is approximately a 68 percent chance of completing this activity between 98 and 122 days. C. There is approximately a 95 percent chance of completing this activity between 98 and 122 days. D. There is approximately a 75 percent chance of completing this activity between 86 and 134 days.
924You are the project manager working on a research project for a new drug treatment. Your preliminary project schedule runs past the due date for a federal grant application. The manager of the R&D department has agreed to release two resources to work on your project in order to meet the federal grant application date. This is an example of: A. Crashing B. Fast trucking C. Resource leveling D. Adjusting the resource calendar
1089You are the project manager working on a research project for a new drug treatment. Your preliminary project schedule runs past the due date for a federal grant application. 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: A. Crashing B. Fast tracking C. Resource leveling D. Adjusting the resource calendar
1150You are the project manager for Rivera Gourmet Adventure Vacations. Rivera combines the wonderful tastes of great gourmet food with outdoor adventure activities. Your project involves installing a new human resources software system. Jason, the database analyst working on this project, is over allocated. Which of the following is true? A. You should use resource requirements updates to determine availability and smooth out resource over allocation. B. You should use crashing to resource level the critical path tasks. C. You should use resource leveling heuristics to smooth out resource assignments. D. You should use fast tracking to resource level the critical path tasks.
1 2550What is one of the problems with project management software? A. The project manager manages the software instead of the project B. Project duration calculations are sometimes approximate. C. You cannot override the project management software decisions regarding schedules. D. It’s expensive and difficult to use.
984Obtaining formal project plan approval and sign-off is important for all of the following reasons except: A. Stakeholders are able to recommend a project Planning methodology to follow throughout the remaining process groups. B. Stakeholders are aware of the project details, which make them more likely to participate in future project decisions. C. Stakeholders will be more likely to cooperate. D. Stakeholders are aware of the specific details regarding project schedules, budgets, and risks.
1425Which of the following are the tools and techniques of the Cost Budgeting process? A. Project management information system, analogous estimating, bottom-up estimating, mathematical analysis B. Analogous estimating, bottom-up estimating, mathematical analysis, computerized tools C. Project management software, analogous estimating, bottom-up estimating, parametric modeling D. Analogous estimating, bottom-up estimating, parametric modeling, computerized tools
895Post New Project Management Questions
Halloween is approaching fast. Your market research shows that the little yellow chicks and pink bunny marshmallow candies are the best-selling candy at Easter time, outselling all other types of candies. This prompts the company to introduce a new version of marshmallow candies with Halloween themes this season. Which of the following is true? A. This project came about due to customer request, and the primary constraint is time B. This project came about due to market demand, and the primary constraint is time. C. This project came about due to market demand, and the primary constraint is quality. D. This project came about due to customer request, and the primary constraint is quality.
Your company, Kick That Ball Sports, has appointed you project manager for their new Cricket product line introduction. This is a national effort, and all the retail stores across the country need to have the new products on the shelves before the media advertising blitz begins. The product line involves three new products, some with multiple deliverables. You are ready to create the WBS. Which of the following is true? A. The WBS should include the three new products and the advertising campaign as level two deliverables. B. The WBS should include the three new products as level two deliverables. C. The WBS should include the three new products as level two deliverables and the advertising campaign as a level three deliverable. D. The WBS should include the three new products and the advertising campaign as level three deliverables.
Explain the Principals of Management
As a project manager, you know that the most important activity to ensure customer and stakeholder satisfaction is which of the following: A. Documenting the requirements B. Documenting the performance measurements C. Reporting changes and updating the project plan and other project documents where appropriate D. Reporting project status timely and regularly
Deliverables can be described as: A. The purpose for undertaking the project B. The verifiable results of products or services that must be produced to consider the project complete C. The specifications regarding the goals of the project that must be produced to consider the project complete D. The measurable outcomes of the project goals
During the opening rounds of contract negotiation, the other party uses a fait accompli lactic. Which of the following is true? A. One party agrees to accept the offer of the other party but secretly knows they will bring the issue hack up at a later time. B. One party claims the issue under discussion was documented and accepted as part of Scope Verification. C. One party claims the issue under discussion has already been decided and can't be changed. D. One party claims to accept the offer of the other party provided a contract change request is submitted describing the offer in detail.
You are a project manager for Dutch Harbor Consulting. Your latest project involved the upgrade of an organization's operating system on 236 servers. You performed this project under contract. You are in the Contract Closeout process and have reviewed the contracting process to identify lessons learned. What is the name of the tool and technique of Contract Closeout you used to perform this function? A. Procurement audits B. Performance reviews C. Performance audits D. Procurement reviews
What is one of the advantages of a functional structure? A. All employees report to one manager and have a clear chain of command. B. All employees report to two or more managers, but project team members show loyalty to functional managers. C. The organization is focused on projects and project work. D. Teams are collocated.
These diagrams rank order factors for corrective action by frequency of occurrence. They are also a type of histogram: A. Control charts B. Process flowcharts C. Scatter diagrams D. Pareto diagrams
You are a project manager working for Mail House King. Your company processes orders for several mail-order catalog companies. Your project is to install new mail-sorting equipment and software. You’ve had some problems and experienced some variances so far during the project. Your project sponsor has asked for an EAC. You know the following information: PV = 800, BAC = 700, EV = 675, AC = 750, and ETC = 30. Which of the following is the correct EAC given the circumstances? A. 778 B. 780 C. 861 D. 833
Your organization regularly uses a tool and technique of the Contract Closeout process to identify lessons learned, including the successes and failures, which will benefit future activity on this project and on future projects. Which tool and technique arc they using? A. Product documentation inspection B. Contract process review C. Performance measurement review D. Procurement audit
Ruby is an administrative assistant with another department. Her manager has agreed to loan Ruby's services to you on a part-time basis during your current project. Ruby is putting together the cost projections you've gathered so far. You want to include these costs in the project charter. Ruby is formatting this information for you into a spreadsheet package and is printing copies. Which of the following is true? A. All of the costs, including Ruby's time, are charged to the project. B. All of the costs, Ruby is typing into the spreadsheet are project costs. Ruby's time is not directly related to the project and should not be included. C. The project costs, including Ruby's time, should be included in the project charter. D. The project costs, excluding Ruby's time, should be considered project constraints.
Your project selection committee used a weighted scoring model and found that Project B, with a score of 54, should be chosen over the other competing projects. Which of the following is true? A. Weighted scoring models are a benefit measurement method, which is a tool and technique in the Initiation process. B. Weighted scoring models are a constrained optimization method, which is an output of the Initiation process. C. Weighted scoring models are a constrained optimization method, which is a tool and technique in the Initiation process. D. Weighted scoring models are a benefit measurement method, which is an output of the Initiation process.
How will you measure software quality?
Which of the following are the tools and techniques of the Cost Budgeting process? A. Project management information system, analogous estimating, bottom-up estimating, mathematical analysis B. Analogous estimating, bottom-up estimating, mathematical analysis, computerized tools C. Project management software, analogous estimating, bottom-up estimating, parametric modeling D. Analogous estimating, bottom-up estimating, parametric modeling, computerized tools
