Chapter Schedule Flashcards
After much negotiation with stakeholders, you have drafted a project scope statement. Your subject matter experts have identified
risks as they outlined deliverables and the needed work to complete them. Your next major deliverable is a project schedule. Because
of the strict time constraints imposed on the project by the sponsor, you want to consider all relevant information when creating the
schedule. All of the following are inputs to the Develop Schedule process except:
A. Network diagrams, organizational process assets, agreements
B. Schedule baseline, scope statement, risk register
C. Resource requirements, schedule management plan, lessons learned
D. Organizational process assets, activity attributes, resource calendars
The correct answer is B.
Which of the following best describes the primary use of project management software?
A. Creating a complete project management plan
B. Creating and controlling a schedule
C. Managing a project
D. Creating a worK breakdown structure
The correct answer is B.
A project manager holds a meeting with his manager to explain that an activity has been delayed. The work is proving more complex
than anticipated. The activity will take four days longer than scheduled, and the project manager will need additional resources to
complete the project. The manager stops the meeting because the project manager has forgotten something. What might it have
been?
A. To try to compress the project schedule before asKing for additional resources
B. To investigate undoing previous fast-tracKing activities
C. To look for options with the customer before meeting with management
D. To eliminate float in the near-critical path
The correct answer is A.
Which of the following is generally the most correct use of a project network diagram?
A. Documenting activity interdependencies
B. Showing the project schedule
C. Defining project resources D. Defining the project costs
The correct answer is A.
The project manager has a project that is three months behind but is, surprisingly, markedly under budget. She has decided to try to
make up time but needs to minimize the project risk. What is the best thing to do?
A. Resource level
B. Redefine the scope
C. Fast track
D. Crash
The correct answer is D.
A project has seven activities: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Activities A, B, and D can start anytime. Activity A takes 3 weeks, Activity B
takes 5 weeks, and Activity D takes 11 weeks. Activities A and B must be completed before Activity C can start. Activity C requires 6
weeks to complete. Activities B, C, and D must be completed before Activity E can start. Activity E requires 2 weeks. Activity F takes
4 weeks and can start as soon as Activity C is completed. Activity E must be completed before Activity G starts. Activity G requires 3
weeks. Activities F and G must be completed for the project to be completed. What is the critical path?
A. Start, B, e, E, G, End
B. Start, A, e, F, End
C. Both Start, B, e, E, G, End and Start, O, E, G, End
D. Start, O, E, G, End
The correct answer is C.
After analyzing the status of your project, you determine it is two weeks behind schedule. You want to recover the original schedule if
possible, and there is plenty of remaining budget in the current plan. What is the best option?
A. Compress the testing and quality management portion of the project.
B. Crash the schedule.
C. Inform the team that overtime will be required for a short time to recover the schedule.
D. Reduce the project scope with a change request.
The correct answer is B.
Although you tried to plan the project to accommodate all major contingencies, you are now asked for the fifth time to decrease the
length of time the project will take to complete. The person completing activity C is no longer speaking to you because of the added
work she needed to do to accommodate previous decreases in time. She has already told you she cannot shorten her activity any
more. The person doing activity D has been replaced by a new and less tested resource. The risk of crashing activity F is small.
Based on this information and the chart, what is the best thing to do?
A. Evaluate the risk added to the project with the change of resources on activity D.
B. Invite the person doing activity e to lunch to talk about her concerns.
C. Determine why there have been so many decreases to the project length.
D. Make changes to the project to decrease the time the project will take.
The correct answer is A.
An activity has an early start (ES) of day 3, a late start (LS) of day 13, an early finish
(EF) of day 9 and a late finish (LF) of day 19. What is the duration of this activity ?
A. 3
B. 6
C. 7
D. 10
The correct answer is C.
A project team is helping the project manager. They are subdividing project work packages into smaller, more manageable
components. This is a medium-sized project in terms of budget and timeline, but there are not many interim deliverables before the
team will assemble and test the final product. What are they currently doing?
A. Activity sequencing
B. Decomposing
C. Creating a WBS
D. Network diagramming
The correct answer is B.
A team member is going to leave the project temporarily to work on another project. The project manager is concerned about getting
the team member back when she needs him, but she understands this is a good use of the team member because he is not
currently working on an activity. He is responsible for only two activities on her project, and there is a waiting time between them. What
is another name for the waiting time between two activities on a project?
A. Free float
B. Lag
C. CPM
D. Total float
The correct answer is B.
A team member comes to you to tell you there is a problem on her activity. lt cannot be started on the day it is scheduled to start. A
manager overhears this conversation and reports that the project will be late. Later the project manager completes his own report
saying, ‘‘The project is still scheduled to be completed on time.” Which of the following could be the reason the project manager
made such a statement?
A.The activity has a mandatory dependency, allowing the project manager to place it in the project schedule at any location that he wants it to be done.
B. The activity is on the critical path but is to be done after another activity that does have float.
C. The activity is on a near-critical path with less float than the length of the delay.
D. The activity has free float and can be rescheduled later in its early-start to late-finish window.
The correct answer is D.
You are a project manager on a US $5,000,000 software development project. While working with your project team to develop a
network diagram, you notice a series of activities that can be worked in parallel but must finish in a specific sequence. What type of
activity sequencing method is required for these activities?
A. Precedence diagramming method
B. Operational diagramming method
C. Critical path method
D. Arrowdiagramming method
The correct answer is A.
During the Define Activities process, a team member begins talking about activities the project manager has never heard discussed.
What should the project manager do?
A. Ask the team member to explain why such an activity would be needed to complete the work
package.
B. Make sure he has a good understanding of the activities and include the activities in the activity
list.
C. Make sure the entire team agrees that the activities should be done.
D. Evaluate the impact of the change.
The correct answer is A.
A project manager is new to the company but has 1 O years of project management experience. She is given a medium-sized project
and is asked to plan so it is finished as quickly as possible because the company has a large list of projects to complete in the
coming year. She will be given another project to manage as soon as she has this one baselined. She needs to report on the longest
time the project will take. Which of the following is the best project management tool to use to determine this?
A. Project charter
B. NetworK diagram
C. WorK breaKdown structure
D. Bar chart
The correct answer is B.
