Chapter 4

Question 1

Defining Activities

Answer 1

• List of activities required to complete the project.

Question 2

Activity list

Answer 2

• Should include every activity needed to complete the work of the project.

Question 3

Activity Sequencing

Answer 3

• Process of identifying dependency relationships b/t project activities & sequencing them in proper order.

Question 4

Dependencies

Answer 4

• Relationships b/t activities

Question 5

Mandatory dependencies

Answer 5

• Type of work being performed

- one activity is dependent on another activity

Question 6

Discretionary dependencies

Answer 6

• Process or procedure-driven

- may include best-practice technics

Question 7

External dependencies

Answer 7

• Relationship b/t a project task & some factor outside the project that drives the scheduling of that task.

Question 8

Predecessor

Answer 8

• Activity is one that comes before another activity.

Question 9

Successor

Answer 9

• Activity is one that comes after the activity in question.

Question 10

Critical Path Method (CPM)

Answer 10

• longest full path on the project

Question 11

Forward Pass

Answer 11

• determining your critical path

- early start/early finish

Question 12

Backward Pass

Answer 12

• Start at the finish of your network diagram & work back through each path until you reach the start.
• late start/late finish

Question 13

Duration Compression

Answer 13

• used during planning to shorten the planned duration of the project or during project execution to help resolve schedule slippage.

Question 14

Crashing

Answer 14

• This is a schedule compression technique that adds resources to the project to reduce the time it takes to complete the project.

Question 15

Fast Tracking

Answer 15

• Performing two tasks in parallel that were previously scheduled to start sequentially.