Chapter 6 Project Schedule Management

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Project Schedule Management Questions

Questions : 25
Time: 30 min
1 Based on the following, if you need to shorten the duration of the project, which activity would you
try to shorten?

Activity Preceding Duration

activity (in weeks)
Start None 0
A Start 1
B Start 2
C Start 6
D A 10
E B, C 1
F C 2
G D 3
H E 9
I F 1
End G, H, I 0

A. Activity B

B. Activity D

C. Activity H

D. Activity C

2 Activity definition results in:

A. Milestone list

B. Requested changes

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

3 This helps in performing activity definition:

A. Rolling wave planning

B. PDM

C. Project management software

D. Activity list

4 A project has three critical paths. Which of the following BEST describes how this affects the
project?

A. It makes it easier to manage

B. It increases the project risk

C. It requires more people

D. It makes it more expensive

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5 You have just observed an error in the implementation plan that will hinder meeting a deadline. The
BEST thing to do would be to:

A. Develop options to meet the milestone date

B. Change the milestone date

C. Remove any discussion about due dates in the project status report

D. Educate the team about the need to meet milestone dates

6 You have been recently assigned to provide an accurate project schedule for a large construction
project. You are evaluating the network diagram for the construction project.
Your lead engineer has given you the following estimates for several critical path activities. Your
stakeholders want you to commit to a completion date for these critical path activities.

Which of the following dates can you commit with approx. 95 percent (2 Sigma) confidence level?

A. Project will take between 57 and 85 days

B. Project will take between 64 and 78 days

C. Project will take between 50 and 92 days

D. Project will take between 60 and 80 days

7 When is a milestone chart used instead of a bar chart?

A. Project Planning

B. Reporting to team members

C. Reporting to management

D. Risk analysis

8 Activity A has a start-to-start relationship with a 3-day lag with Activity B. Activity A has a duration
of 10 days. Activity B has a duration of 9 days. If Activity A starts on Day 5 of the project, at the end
of which day of the project is the activity B completed?

A. Day 15

B. Day 14

C. Day 16

D. Day 26

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9 Which of the following is the BEST project management tool to use to determine the longest time
the project will take?

A. WBS

B. Network diagram

C. Bar chart

D. Project charter

10 Activity 1 has a duration of 20 days, Activity 2 of 10 days, Activity 3 of 5 days and Activity 4 of 6
days. What is that minimum total duration between the Milestones A and B?

A. 36 days

B. 37 days

C. 39 days

D. 42 days

11 A dependency requiring that design be completed before manufacturing is an example of a

A. Discretionary dependency

B. External dependency

C. Mandatory dependency

D. Scope dependency

12 Rearranging resources so that resource limitations are not overshot although project duration
could be influenced is called:

A. Floating

B. Leveling

C. Smoothing

D. Crashing

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13 All of the following are characteristics of parametric estimating except:

A. Historical information

B. Quantifiable

C. Scalable

D. Activity lists

14 Activity duration estimate inputs include all the following except:

A. Resource requirements

B. Basis of estimates

C. Activity lists

D. Constraints

15 What kind of relationship is implied when completion of a successor is dependent on initiation of

its predecessor?

A. Finish to Start

B. Finish to Finish

C. Start to Start

D. Start to Finish

16 The following three tasks form the critical path of the project network. The three estimates of each
of these tasks are tabulated below. How long would the project take to complete, expressed with an
accuracy of one standard deviation?

Task Optimistic Most Likely Pessimistic

A 15 25 47
B 12 22 35
C 16 27 32

A. 75.5

B. 75.5 +/- 7.08

C. 75.5+/- 8.5

D. 75.5+/- 2.83

17 In which phase of the project would you estimate activity duration?

A. Initiating

B. Executing

C. Planning

D. Controlling

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18 You are planning to use Three-Point Estimating for planning of your project. A task has pessimistic
estimate of 24 days, most likely estimate of 15 days and optimistic estimate of 12 days. What is the
mean using the Beta Distribution (PERT) technique?

A. 18 days

B. 25.5 days

C. 15 days

D. 16 days

19 Which of the following is not true about analogous estimating?

A. Estimate is based on past projects

B. It is not very accurate

C. It uses bottom-up approach

D. It is a form of an expert judgment

20 You have been asked to make an estimate for a project. The project involves manufacturing 1000
toys. You expect that as the team manufactures some toys, the time to make them will reduce.
Which estimation technique are you trying to use?

A. Analogous Estimation

B. Regression Analysis

C. Bottom up Estimating

D. Learning Curve

21 You are required to estimate the time to paint a large wall. You know it takes two hours to paint one
square foot of wall. The wall has an area of 30 square foot. So you estimate that it will take 60 hours
to paint the wall. Which estimation model are you using?

A. Bottom-up

B. Parametric modeling

C. Analogous

D. Expert judgment

22 You are the project manager responsible for building a new web site. The project is running late. To
bring the project on schedule, you decide to add additional resources to the critical path. This is an
example of

A. Fast-tracking

B. Resource planning

C. Crashing

D. Schedule Management

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23 What must be available before the definition of activities?

A. Project Calendars

B. Scheduling software

C. Schedule Management Plan

D. Milestone Plan

24 Which of the following best describes the relationship between Standard Deviation and risk?

A. Nothing

B. Standard Deviation tells you if the estimate is accurate

C. Standard Deviation tells you how unsure the estimate is

D. Standard Deviation tells you if the estimate includes a pad

25 In an attempt to compress the project schedule, the project manager looks at the costs associated
with crashing of each activity. The BEST approach to crashing would also include looking at the:

A. Risk Impact of crashing each activity

B. Customer’s opinion of which activities to crash

C. Boss’ opinion of which activities to crash

D. Project lifecycle phase in which the activity is due to occur

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