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Planning Flashcards

1
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What should be expected to occur with the project plan?

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It should change over time

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2
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Any structured approach used to tailor the organization’s processes to the project’s needs is:

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Organizational Process Asset

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3
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Defining and coordinating project execution is the purpose of:

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The project plan

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A project management information system is

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An integrated tool used to gather, integrate and disseminate disseminate the outputs of the project management processes

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5
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An example of an organizational management policy that may need to be considered during project plan development is:

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Personnel administration

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6
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A predefined budget is an example of:

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A constraint

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7
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The tool to identify and document the needs of the stakeholders is:

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Requirements document

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8
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The performance measurement baseline is used for:

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Earned value measurements.

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9
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The schedule should be distributed:

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According to your communications management plan

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10
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What are the five project management processes groups?

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Monitoring & controlling, planning, executing, closing, initiating

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11
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The beginning and end of the project is defined by:

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The project life cycle

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12
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Project life cycles generally define:

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What technical work should be done in each phase

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13
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A series of interrelated actions to bring about a result is:

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A process

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14
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The proper term for an organizational approach to grouping projects to manage them more effectively is:

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Project portfolio management

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15
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Who addresses every process to determine the level of implementation required?

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The project manager and the project team

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16
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PMI defines a project as having two distinctive characteristics. They are:

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Temporary and unique

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17
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Project management involves meeting project requirements. This is done by:

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The application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities

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18
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Which of the five processes in the PMBOK® Guide 3d Ed. Guide is represented by all nine knowledge areas:

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Planning

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19
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When must planning be done?

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Throughout the life of the project

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20
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What must be managed in a coordinated way that obtains benefits not available from managing them individually?

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Programs

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21
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A subdivision of a project into more manageable components is?

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Subprojects

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22
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The basic framework for managing the project is defined as:

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The project life cycle

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23
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The scope of work is completed on a project. The customer has asked for a change to provide service to the project product for 90 days. What should be done?

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Begin closure on the contract and sign a new one for the additional work

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24
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Your customer has stated in the RFP that their need is for an assembly line that produces 18,000 triggers per hour. After the bid has been received and the contract awarded to your company, members of the project team design an assembly line plan that could deliver 24,000 triggers per hour capacity. What is the BEST thing to do?

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Meet with the customer to determine if more capacity is warranted

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25
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Your new project has a short delivery window. You are about to begin the planning phase. The manager of the engineering department has sent you an object for the new project that will boost his departmental performance. The software director has asked that you use a new tracking method for his team and measure their performance accordingly. What is the BEST course of action?

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Add the manager and director to the team for scope planning activity

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26
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In general, differences between or among stakeholders should be resolved in favor of the:

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Customer

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27
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When project management work is done under contract, changes and disputes are bound to occur. For this reason, it is important to:

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Create a process for contract change and disputes while negotiating the contract

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28
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Which type of organization is BEST for managing cross-disciplinary efforts?

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Matrix

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29
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Crashing:

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Is an analytical method to determine how to obtain the greatest schedule compression for the least cost.

30
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Fast tracking:

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Is a scheduling technique that involves doing activities in parallel

31
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The critical path method is a scheduling technique that:

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Calculates a single, deterministic early and late start and finish date

32
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Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT):

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Calculates an expected activity duration using a weighted average of three estimates

33
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Using the optimistic estimate and adding it to four times the most likely estimate and adding this to the pessimistic estimate and dividing the sum by six is used in:

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PERT

34
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Mary reports that on a productive week she can develop the system requirements in 4 days, but during a normal week it should take around 8 days. During the time frame that Mary will be working on the requirements, things will be very hectic and this could cause the requirements to take as much as 12 days. What is the expected time for gathering system requirements using PERT?

A

8

35
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Mary reports that on a productive week she can develop the system requirements in 4 days, but during a normal week it should take around 8 days. During the time frame that Mary will be working on the requirements, things will be very hectic and this could cause the requirements to take as much as 12 days. What is the first standard deviation range for gathering system requirements using PERT?

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6.7 – 9.3

36
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Mary reports that on a productive week she can develop the system requirements in 4 days, but during a normal week it should take around 8 days. During the time frame that Mary will be working on the requirements, things will be very hectic and this could cause the requirements to take as much as 12 days. What is the 95.46% deviation range for gathering system requirements using PERT?

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5.4 – 10.6

37
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Mary reports that on a productive week she can develop the system requirements in 4 days, but during a normal week it should take around 8 days. During the time frame that Mary will be working on the requirements, things will be very hectic and this could cause the requirements to take as much as 12 days. What is the third sigma range for gathering system requirements using PERT?

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4.1 – 11.9

38
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A reporting tool that is used to show activity start and end dates, as well as expected durations is:

A

A Gantt chart

39
Q

A reporting tool that only shows activity start and end dates, as well as expected durations is:

A

A bar (or Gantt) chart

40
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The mathematical analysis technique that uses weighted average duration estimates to calculate activity durations is called:

A

PERT

41
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The mathematical analysis technique that calculates a single deterministic early and late start date is:

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CPM

42
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A Gantt chart is used to show:

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Activity start and end dates

43
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An easy-to-read and frequently used tool in management presentations is called:

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A Gantt chart

44
Q

Fast tracking in project duration compression involves:

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Executing tasks in parallel rather than in sequence

45
Q

Your project is the design and installation of a local area network. You authorize work to begin on the cable before the server is installed. This is an example of:

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Fast tracking

46
Q

The forward pass calculates:

A

Early schedule

47
Q

If float or slack is zero or otherwise at a minimum, this shows the project manager that:

A

The activities are on the critical path

48
Q

A ___ ___ may not effectively display dependencies among activities.

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Gantt chart

49
Q

An activity with zero duration is:

A

A milestone

50
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You install servers regularly. You identified that it normally takes 6 days. If everything goes right, this can be done in 4 days, but during the time frame you know that it could take as much as 9 days because of all that is going on. You should:

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Use PERT because it uses the three time estimates of duration

51
Q

Your customer has stated that you cannot start until June 1st. This is an example of a(n):

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Date constraint

52
Q

On your project, landscaping cannot start until 3 days after painting the exterior ends. This is an example of:

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Lag time

53
Q

The main focus of using the critical path method is that you can calculate:

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Float to determine which activities have the least scheduling flexibility

54
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You need to know the demands that the predecessor task will place on the successor task in terms of the schedule because resources are limited for specific task assignments. Therefore, you are interested in:

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Free float

55
Q

On your project, you decide to use PERT as a way to estimate duration. Your three time estimates are as follows: Optimistic = 10 hours, Most likely = 14 hours, and Pessimistic = 19 hours. As a result, your estimated time to do this task and your standard deviation respectively are:

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14.16 hours and 1.5 hours

56
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A range of +10/-5% is used with which type of estimate?

A

Definitive estimate

57
Q

A range of +25/-10% is used with which type of estimate?

A

Budget

58
Q

A range of +75/-25% is used with which type of estimate?

A

Rough order of magnitude

59
Q

When first developing a project estimate there is little information available. You decide to utilize a parametric model to develop your estimate. What accuracy would you expect?

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+75/-25%

60
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When developing a project estimate you are seeking information that is available. You decide to utilize an analogy model to develop your estimate. What accuracy would you expect?

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+25/-10%

61
Q

You are developing a project estimate and you have completed the WBS. What accuracy would you expect?

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+10/-5%

62
Q

Organizational process assets can be grouped into two categories. One is the organization’s process and procedures for conducting work, and the other is:

A

Corporate knowledge base

63
Q

A risk management methodology is defined as:

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The approaches, tools, and data sources that may be used to perform risk management on the project

64
Q

The project management office in your organization requires you to use the critical path technique to build your project schedule. This requirement is part of:

A

The project scheduling methodology

65
Q

What is the purpose of three-point estimates?

A

Clarify the range of uncertainty in a duration estimate

66
Q

A schedule that only shows start and end dates of major deliverables is:

A

A milestone chart

67
Q

The lowest level of the WBS is known as:

A

Work package

68
Q

Project quality management must address both the management of the project and:

A

Product of the project

69
Q

As a project manager, what document would you use as input to your quality planning efforts?

A

Scope baseline

70
Q

Changing schedule dates based upon the possibility of a work strike is a technique known as:

A

What-if Scenario Analysis

71
Q

Regarding the critical path method, which is the least common type of relationship between activities?

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