Schedule Flashcards
A project manager is informed Midway through project planning that she was given an accurate data regarding new regulations affecting the required end date of a project. She may need to make a few adjustments, but she thinks she can still manage the project to complete it before the regulations take affect. She confirms this by analyzing the sequence of activities with the least amount of scheduling flexibility. What technique is she using?
Critical Path Method
A design engineer us helping to endure that the dependencies within her area of expertise are properly defined on the project. The design of several deliverables must be complete before manufacturing cab begin. This is an example of ehat tupe of dependency?
Mandatory dependency
Your sponsor and stakeholders have made it clear they wish to be kept informed on the project status. There are many aspects of the project on which you will report, and you want to choose the most appropriate tool to use in each case. Which of the following are generally illustrated better by bar charts than network diagram?
- Logical relationships
- Critical paths
- Resource trade-offs
- Progress and status
Progress or status
A heuristic is best described as:
- Control tool
- Scheduling nethod
- Planning tool
- Generally accepted rule
Generally accepted rule. Examples are cost per line of code and cost per square foot of floor space
Lag means
- The amount of time and activity can be delayed without delaying the project finish date
- The amount of time and activity can be delayed Without delaying the early start date of its successor.
- Waiting time
- The product of a forward and backward pass
Waiting time
A project manager is new to the company but has 10 years of project management experience. She is giving 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 baseline. She needs report on the longest time the project will take. Which of the following is the best project management tool to use to determine?
- Work breakdown structure
- Network diagram
- Bar chart
- Project charter
Network diagram
Which of the following is correct?
- The critical path helps prove how long the project will take
- There can be only one critical path
- The network diagram will change every time the end date changes
- A project can never have negative float
The critical path helps prove how long the project will take
The edge of project team you are managing is responsible for developing one of the five different components of a complex enterprise solution. Your PMO representative tells you she’s concerned because your team is using a larger story points unit than the other four teams. What should you do?
- Tell the PMO that this is the story point your team has chosen, and it doesn’t matter how large it is relative to other teams
- Ask your team lead to coordinate that story point metric with the other teams to ensure that the different components interface smoothly
- Explain to the PMO that the size of each team story point doesn’t matter since this is just a theoretical concepts, not a real word metric
- Show the PMO Why your story point has to be larger, since you’re part of the solution has more complex requirements than the others
Tell the PMO that this is a story point your team has chosen, and it doesn’t matter how large it is relative to the other teams.
A new project managers walking you through the schedule she has created for her project. She asks you about the duration of a particular mile stone, so she knows how to properly schedule it. What will you tell her about a milestones duration?
- It is shorter than the duration of the longest activity
- It is shorter than the activity it represents
- It has no duration
- It is the same length as the activity it represents
It has no duration
Which of the following best describes the relationship between standard deviation and risk?
- There is no relationship
2. Standard deviation tells you if the estimate is accurate - Standard deviation tells you how uncertain the estimate is
- Standard deviation tells you if the estimate includes a pad
Standard deviation tells you how uncertain the estimate is
You have identified a diverse group of stakeholders, and you will need to report information in a variety of ways to meet their different communication needs. When will you use a milestone chart instead of a bar chart?
- Project planning
- Reporting to team members
- Reporting to management
- Risk analysis
Reporting to management
To help them determine the schedule baseline, the team has drafted a network diagram. The project manager add the time estimates for each activity to establish the critical path for the project. They discovered the project has three critical paths. Which of the following best describes how this discovery will affect the project?
- It makes it easier to manage
- It increases the project risk
- It requires more people
- It makes it more expensive
It increases the project risk
The team is working on a project to develop or procure A customized software package that will be used by delivery drivers for a new chain of pizza restaurant. There are multiple stakeholders on this project. Because of other ongoing projects to design, build and equip brick and mortar restaurant locations, you are informed that there is no rush to complete the software development work. If project time and cost are not as important as the number of resources used each month, which of the following is the best thing to do?
- Perform a Monte Carlo analysis
- Fast track the project
- Perform resource optimization
- Analyze the lifecycle costs
Perform resource optimization
The organization is committed to rolling out a new smart phone accessory at an industry trade show in six months. The sponsor has made it clear that this product, to be created by your project team, must meet a long list of requirements, adhere to high quality standards, and most importantly, be ready in time for the tradeshow. The sponsor has promised to commit as many resources as necessary for you to complete the project within these constraints. Your project manager plan results and her project schedule that is too long. If the project network diagram cannot change but you have extra personnel resources, what is the best thing to do?
- Fast track the project
- Level the resources
- Crash the project
- Perform Monte Carlo analysis
Crash the project
A project managers in the middle of executing a large construction project when he discovers the time needed to complete the project is longer than the time available. What is the best thing to do?
- Cut product scope
- Meet with management, and tell them the required it cannot be met
- Work overtime
- Determine options for schedule compression, and present management with the recommended options
Determine options for schedule compression, and present management with the recommended options
Your team worked hard throughout project planning, thoroughly defining and estimating each activity required to complete the work. The resulting network diagram supported the end date that was approved by the team, management and the stakeholders. As work has progressed, most milestones have been met. On two occasions, workarounds were needed to deal with the occurrence of unidentified risk events. With continued attention to detail, you have been successful in keeping the project on schedule and within budget. No, an opportunity is identified that can only be realized if the project is completed two days ahead of schedule. Which of the following is the best thing to do when asked to complete a project two days earlier than planned?
A. Tell senior management that the projects critical path does not allow the project to be finished earlier
B. Tell your manager
C. Meet with the team to look at options for crashing or fast tracking the critical path
D. Work hard and see what the project status is next month
Meet with the team to look at options for crashing or fast tracking the critical path
Although the customer agreed to the original project schedule, they are now asking for an earlier project finish. They are being pressured by their own customers. The project managers sponsor thinks finishing early is not only a viable option but also a good idea for your organization Because it will enable you to start another project sooner. In attempting to complete the project faster, the project manager looks at the cost associated with crashing Each activity. The best approach to crashing would also include looking at the:
A. Risk impact off crashing each activity.
B. Customers opinion of which activities to crash.
C. Sponsors opinion of which activities to crash and in what order.
D. Project lifecycle phase in which the activity is due to occur

Risk impact of crashing each activity
During project planning, you estimate the time needed for each activity and then total the estimate to create the project estimate. You commit to completing the project by this date. What is wrong with the scenario?
A. The team did not create the estimate, and estimating takes too long using that method.
B. The team did not create the estimate, and a net diagram was not used.
C. The estimate is too long and should be created by management.
D. The project estimate should be the same as the customers required completion date
The team did not create the estimate, and a network diagram was not used
Your new project is faced with challenging deadlines and an anxious customer. After consulting with the team, you have a short the customer that the best way to develop the required features on time will be to follow an agile approach. The customer agrees to this somewhat reluctantly, since he is not familiar with agile. However, the next week he hears that your team has spent “two whole days“ doing T-shirt sizing of the product features, and yet they still haven’t produced a viable scheduled model. He calls you into his office to explain how this is justified, given the limited time available. What do you say?
A. Agile developers don’t plan when the work will be finished, they just start the work and get as much done as they can before the deadline.
B. Agile teams need to develop quick, coarse grained estimates to do just enough planning to get the work started.
C. The agile approach means doing as little planning as possible so the team can focus on what they do best, delivering value.
D. There is still too much uncertainty about the product features to develop a schedule model yet; the team will do that later
Agile team needs to develop a quick, course grained estimates to do just enough planning to get the work started
You are a project manager on a $5 million 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 diagraming matter
B. Arrow diagram in method
C. Critical path method
D. Operational diagraming method
Precedence diagraming method
You are a project manager on a $5 million software development project. While working with your project team to develop a network diagram, your data architect suggest that quality could be improved if the data model is approved by senior management before moving on to other design elements. They support the suggestion with an article from a leading software development journal. Which of the following best describes this type of input?
A. Mandatory external dependency
B. Discretionary external dependency.
C. External regulatory dependency
D. Heuristic
Discretionary external dependency
Your Ezra project team is updating a mobile alert aggregator for social media updates and trending news items. The team that tells you that this week they plan to hold the planning poker session for the user stories in the upcoming release. What does this tell you?
A.they are trying to find out how long it will take to complete the first iteration.
B. They are determining when this release will be ready to deploy.
C. They are estimating how long it will take to develop and test this release.
D. They are evaluating the relative size in story points of the stories for this release
They are evaluating the relative size in story points of the stories for this release
A project manager has received activity duration estimates from his team. Which of the following does he need an order to complete their develop schedule process?
A. Earned value analysis.
B. Schedule change control system
C. Trend analysis
D. Reserves
Reserves
As part of the Estimate Activity Duration process, —— are created to cover identified and unknown schedule risks. All the other items are parts of Control Schedule and occur after the Develop Schedule process.
Reserves