Chapter 6 - PM

Question 1

A table that lists activities and the dates on which you plan to start and end them

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Activities report

Question 2

Work required to move from one event to the next in a project

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Activity

Question 3

A type of network diaram; also referred to as activity-in-the-node or precedence diagramming

Answer 3

Activity-in-the-box

Question 4

When on calendar a resource will be available

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Availability

Question 5

Schedule process of starting the end of a proj & working back twd the beginning, identifying activities as you go & estimating durations that eventually will add up to the amount of time the project has been given

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Backing in

Question 6

Finish-to-start analysis by a proj mgr to determine critical paths and earliest start and finish dates

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Backward pass

Question 7

Productivity per unit time period

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Capacity

Question 8

A sequence of activities in a project that takes the longest time to complete

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Critical path

Question 9

A network diagram that uses deterministic, certain estimates but includes both time and cost estimates to allow time/cost-in-the-box format

Answer 9

Critical path method (CPM) charts

Question 10

Another term for a network diagram in either activity-on-the-arrow or activity-in-the-box format

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Dependency diagram

Question 11

Relationships the proj mgr or project team chooses to est. btwn activities

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Discretionary relationships

Question 12

Activity with 0 span time that’s used to represent a required dependency btwn event

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Dummy activity

Question 13

How long each indiv activity will take in a project

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Duration

Question 14

The earliest date that someone can possibly finish an activity

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Earliest finish date

Question 15

The earliest date that someone can possibly start an activity

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Earliest start date

Question 16

A significant occurrence in the life of the project also called a milestone or a delvierable. Events take no time and consume no resources, they occur instantaneously

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Event

Question 17

Schedule process in which you perform two or more activities at the same time to reduce the overall time to complete a project

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Fast tracking

Question 18

Start-to-finish analysis by a proj mgr at the beg of the proj to see how fast the activities can be completed

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Forward pass

Question 19

An amount of time project managers add to an estimate of span time just to be safe

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Fudge factor

Question 20

A graph illustrating on a time line when each activity will start, be performed, and end

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Gantt chart

Question 21

A network diagram technique that combines structures such as flowgrapsh, probabilistic networks, and decision tress, creating a complex schedule

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Graphical evaluation and review technique (GERT)

Question 22

Term given to an activity that upon completion, can allow someone to start on the following activity

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Immediate predecessor

Question 23

A table that lists events and the dates on which you plan to reach them

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Key-events report

Question 24

the latest date someone can finish an activity and still finish the proj in the shortest possible time

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Latest finish date

Question 25

The latest date that someon can start an activity and still finish the project in the shortest possible time

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Latest start date

Question 26

Federal, state, and local laws or regualtions that require certain project activities to be done before others

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Legal requirements

Question 27

Choosing to do certain activities before others because it seems to make the most sense

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Logical relationships

Question 28

Arbitrary decisions to work on certain activities beofre others

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Managerial choices

Question 29

A flowchart that illustrates the order in whcih activities need to be performed in a project

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Network diagram

Question 30

A sequence of activities that can be delayed some amount while still allowing the overall project to finish in the shortest possible time

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Noncritical path

Question 31

States that work will expand to fill the amount of time allowed

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Parkinson's Law

Question 32

Another term for a network diagram in the activity-in-the-box format

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Precedence diagram

Question 33

An activity that must be completed before someone can work on another activity

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Predecessor

Question 34

Compnay policies and procedures that require certain project activities to be done before others

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Procedural requirements

Question 35

A network diagram in the activity-on-the-arrow format that allows project managers to assign optimistic, pessimistic, and most likely estimates for an activity's span time

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Program evaluation and review technique (PERT) chart

Question 36

Relationships btwn project activites that must be observed if project work is to be successfully completed

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Required relationship

Question 37

The order in which the activities will be performed in a project

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Sequence

Question 38

One that represents the completion of a single activity

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Simple event

Question 39

The maximum amount of time that someone can delay an activity and still finish the project in the shortest possible time

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Slack time

Question 40

The actual calendar time required to complete an activity; also called duration or elapsed time

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Span time

Question 41

A project manager's best sense of how log it'll actually take to perform an activity

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Span time estimate

Question 42

T or F: A project managers must know an activities duration and importance in order to include the activity in a network diagram.

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False

Question 43

In a network diagram, a milestone or an event is the same as

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Deliverable

Question 44

What are the three main elements of network diagrams?

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Events, activities, and span times

Question 45

Adiagramthatutilizesonlytwosymbolsandallowsprojectmanagerstodrawthediagramwithoutdefining events is what kind of diagram?

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Activity-in-the-box diagram

Question 46

(a) proceed to another activity on the diagram if you finish the activity. (b) proceed to another activity on the diagram if you complete all the activities entering that activity. (c) proceed to another activity that is that linked by arrow to completed activity.

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On a network diagram, you can only

Question 47

T or F: The earliest finish date determines a project critical path

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False

Question 48

3. You exceed the slack time on a noncritical path. The noncritical path can now be described as what?

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The critical path

Question 49

On the critical path, the earliest finish date equals the

Answer 49

Latest finish date.

Question 50

Which of the following is not a required relationship to consider when sequencing activities for a project?

Answer 50

Your manager wants to you to do a trial run of any presentation for him prior to the actual presentation.

Question 51

AgoodnameforEventC,theendofActivity2(“Getmoney”)would be

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“Money obtained”

Question 52

One benefit of including a simple event in an activity-on-the-arrow diagram is

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you can have multiple preceding activities all tie together in a single event.

Question 53

T or F: While backing in a schedule has some risks, it’s often the only way to determine whether all the required activities can occur in the given time.

Answer 53

False

Question 54

While fast tracking offers the possibility of reducing the overall time to complete the project, it also introduces

Answer 54

the risk the work will have to be redone.

Question 55

Holly needs to reduce the required time for her project. Which strategies might be useful for her to consider.

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Subdividing activities or performing activities at the same time.

Question 56

The length of an activity is impacted by

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The time required for natural or chemical processes.

Question 57

T or F: One way project manager Zoe can avoid including a fudge factor in her team’s activity duration estimates is to review other project manger’s data to see how long specific activities took on past projects.

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False

Question 58

Which of the following statements is not true of Gantt charts?

Answer 58

Gantt charts highlight specific start and finish dates effectively.

Question 59

On a construction project, the delivery of shingles should drive the schedule, rather than the beginning of the activity “shingling a roof”. In terms of precedence diagramming, what type of linkage does this scenario indicate?

Answer 59

Start-to-finish linkages