CIS 517 QUIZ 4
Q Your projects primary constraint is quality. To make certain the project team members don't feel too pressed for time and to avoid schedule risk, you decide to use which of the following activity estimating tools?
Parametric estimating
Three-point estimates
Analogous estimating
Reserve analysis
Q: Feeding buffers and the project buffer are part of which of the following Develop Schedule tool and technique?
Applying leads and lags
Schedule network analysis
Critical path method
Critical chain method
Q: You have been hired as a contract project manager for Grapevine Vineyards. Grapevine wants you to design an Internet wine club for its customers. One of the activities for this project is the installation and testing of several new servers. You know from past experience it takes about 16 hours per server to accomplish this task. Since you're installing 10 new servers, you estimate this activity to take 160 hours. Which of the estimating techniques have you used?
Analogous estimating
Parametric estimating
Reserve analysis
Bottom-up estimating
Q: All of the following statements describe the activity list except which one?
The activity list is an output of the Define Activities process.
The activity list includes all activities of the project.
The activity list is an extension of and a component of the WBS.
The activity list includes an identifier and description of the activity.
Q: Which of the following indicates a delay in the successor activity?
Scope fault
Scope creep
Lag
Gold plating
Q: You are a project manager for Picture Shades, Inc. Your company manufactures window shades that have replicas of Renaissance-era paintings for hotel chains. Picture Shades is taking its product to the home market, and you're managing the new project. It will offer its products at retail stores as well as on its website. You're developing the project schedule for this undertaking and have determined the critical path. Which of the following statements is true?
You calculated the most likely start date and most likely finish dates, float time, and weighted average estimates.
You calculated the activity dependency and the optimistic and pessimistic activity duration estimates.
You calculated the early and late start dates, the early and late finish dates, and float times for all activities.
You calculated the optimistic, pessimistic, and most likely duration times, and the float times for all activities.
Q: Which logical relationship does the PDM use most often?
Start-to-start
Finish-to-finish
Finish-to-start
Start-to-finish
Q: You are working on a project that requires resources with expertise in the areas of hospitality management and entertainment. You are preparing your project schedule network diagram and know that you will use only finish-to-start dependencies. Which of the following diagramming methods does this describe?
Network template
PDM
ADM
AON
Q: Which of the following terms is used for a schedule compression technique where two activities that were previously scheduled to start sequentially start at the same time?
Crashing
Compressing
Fast tracking
Float
Q: Which of the following types of charts is a visual diagram of what resources will be utilized in the project deliverables?
Work breakdown structure
RACI chart
Resource breakdown structure
Roles and responsibility matrix
Q: Which of the following terms is used to describe a major deliverable used to measure project progress?
Milestone
Project life cycle
Phase
Achievement
Q: You have been hired as a contract project manager for Grapevine Vineyards. Grapevine wants you to design an Internet wine club for its customers. Customers must register before being allowed to order wine over the Internet so that legal age can be established. You know that the module to verify registration must be written and tested using data from Grapevine's existing database. This new module cannot be tested until the data from the existing system is loaded. This is an example of which of the following?
Discretionary dependency
Soft logic
Preferential logic
Hard logic
Q: If your expected value is 110 and the standard deviation is 12, which of the following is true?
There is approximately a 99 percent chance of completing this activity in 86 to 134 days.
There is approximately a 68 percent chance of completing this activity in 98 to 122 days.
There is approximately a 95 percent chance of completing this activity in 98 to 122 days.
There is approximately a 75 percent chance of completing this activity in 86 to 134 days.
Q: Adding members to the team to squeeze the schedule of the project is known as ____.
Fast tracking
Compressing
Squeezing
Crashing
Q: 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 your project and don't have a lot of details yet. Which of the following techniques should you use?
Monte Carlo analysis, because this is a modeling technique that uses simulation to determine estimates
Parametric modeling, because this is a form of simulation used to determine estimates
Analogous estimating techniques, because this is a form of expert judgment that uses historical information from similar projects
Bottom-up estimating techniques, because this is a form of expert judgment that uses historical information from similar projects
Q: You are the project manager for Changing Tides video games. You have gathered the inputs for the Estimate Activity Durations process. Which of the following tools and techniques will you employ to produce the outputs for this process?
Expert judgment, analogous estimating, parametric estimating, three-point estimating, group decision-making techniques, and reserve analysis
Expert judgment, alternatives analysis, analogous estimating, parametric estimating, three-point estimating, and group decision-making techniques
Activity list, expert judgment, alternatives analysis, analogous estimating, parametric estimating, three-point estimating, and reserve analysis
Activity list, expert judgment, analogous estimating, parametric estimating, group decision-making techniques, and three-point estimating
Q: These types of dependencies can create arbitrary total float values and limit your scheduling options.
Mandatory
Hard logic
Discretionary
External
Q: What is one of the problems with project management software?
The project manager manages the software instead of the project.
It's expensive and difficult to use.
You cannot override the project management software decisions regarding schedules.
Project duration calculations are sometimes approximate.
Q: You are a project manager for Picture Shades, Inc. Your company manufactures window shades that have replicas of Renaissance-era paintings for hotel chains. Picture Shades is taking its product to the home market, and you're managing the new project. It will offer its products at retail stores as well as on its website. You're developing the project schedule for this undertaking. Looking at the following graph, which path is the critical path?
A-F-G-H
A-F-G-E-H
A-B-C-E-H
A-D-E-H
Q: Which of the following processes is NOT a part of Project Time Management knowledge area?
Define Activities
Sequence Activities
Develop Schedule
Control Communications
Estimate Activity Duration
Lesson: Creating the Project Schedule
Q: You 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 to meet the federal grant application date. This is an example of ___________________.
fast tracking
resource leveling
adjusting the resource calendar
crashing
Q: When are milestones typically created?
At the end of each planning phase
At the end of each project execution phase
At the end of each project phase
At the end of the kick-off meeting
Q: Which of the following statements is true regarding the critical path?
The critical path technique is the same as PERT.
It allows for looping and branching.
It should not be compressed.
It's the duration of all tasks with zero or negative float.
Q: You are the project manager for Design Your Web Site, Inc. Your company is designing the website for a national grocery store chain. You have your activity list in hand and are ready to diagram the activity dependencies using the PDM technique. Which of the following statements is true?
PDM is also the AON diagramming method and it uses one time estimate.
PDM is also the GERT method, which allows for conditions, branches, and loops.
PDM is also the ADM diagramming method and its most common logical relationship is finish-to-start.
PDM is also the AOA diagramming method and uses logical relationships.
Q: You 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?
22
20
2
4
Q: Use the following graphic to answer this question. If the duration of activity B was changed to 10 days and the duration of activity G was changed to 9 days, which path is the critical path?
A-F-G-E-H
A-F-G-H
A-D-E-H
A-B-C-E-H
Q: 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 statements is true?
You are using inputs of the Estimate Costs process.
You are using tools and techniques of the Estimate Activity Durations process.
You are using tools and techniques of the Estimate Cost process.
You are using inputs from the Estimate Activity Duration process.
Q: If you know the expected value is 500 and the standard deviation is 12, you can say with approximately a 95 percent confidence rating which of the following?
The activity will take from 494 to 506 days.
The activity will take from 476 to 524 days.
The activity will take from 488 to 512 days.
The activity will take from 464 to 536 days.
Q: You are the project manager for Changing Tides video games. You have produced a project schedule network diagram and have updated the activity list. Which process have you just finished?
The Sequence Activities process, which identifies all the activity dependencies
The Define Activities process, which identifies all the specific activities of the project
The Estimate Activity Durations process, which estimates activity durations
The Develop Schedule process, which diagrams project network time estimates
Q: Which of the following compression techniques increases risk?
Fast tracking
Resource leveling
Crashing
Lead and lag
Q: Which of the following charts displays the amount of time that a resource is scheduled to work on over a predetermined and specific time period?
RACI chart
Pareto chart
Organization chart
Resource histogram chart
Q: Which of the following statements regarding the ADM method is not true?
The ADM method uses one time estimate to determine durations.
The ADM method is also called AOA.
The ADM method is rarely used today.
The ADM method is a tool and technique of Sequence Activities.
Q: Which of the following estimations is described in the statement below?
"It uses a statistical relationship between historical data and other variables to calculate an estimate for activity parameters, such as cost, budget, and duration."
Reserve analysis
Parametric
Bottom-up
Three-point
Q: You 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. Your stakeholders understand this is a large undertaking and that you might experience some schedule slippage. Jason, the database analyst working on this project, is overallocated. He is critical to the success of the project and you don't want to burn him out by overscheduling him. Which of the following actions should you take?
You should use resource smoothing to smooth out resource assignments.
You should use resource leveling to balance out resource assignments.
You should use crashing to resource level the critical path tasks.
You should use fast tracking to smooth out resource overallocation.
Q: The longest path through the project that is made up of activities with zero float is known as ____.
Longest path
Critical path
Threshold
War path
Q: You 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 weighted average or expected value?
66
60
30
54
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