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Schedule Management Flashcards

1
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What are the 6 processes associated with the Schedule Management process group?

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Plan Schedule Management
Define Activities
Sequence Activities
Estimate Activity Durations
Develop Schedule
Control Schedule
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Which of the 18 components of the Project Management Plan is created in the Plan Schedule Management process?

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Schedule Management Plan

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3
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What are the inputs to the Define Activities process?

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Schedule Management Plan

Scope Baseline

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4
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What are the inputs to the process?

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Activity List
Activity Attributes
Milestone List

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What are the inputs to the Estimate Activity Durations process?

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Activity List
Resource Requirements
Resource Calendars

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What are the inputs to the Develop Schedule process?

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Activity List
Duration Estimates
Project Schedule Network Diagram

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7
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What are the tools associated with the Control Schedule process?

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Iteration Burndown Chart

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What are the tools associated with the Develop Schedule process?

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Critical Path Method
Resource Optimization
Leads and Lags
Schedule Compression
Agile Release Planning
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9
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What are the tools associated with the Estimate Activity Duration process?

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Analogous (top-down) Estimating
Parametric Estimating
3 Point Estimating
Bottom Up Estimating

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What are the tools associated with the Sequence Activities process?

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Precedence Diagram Method
Dependency Determination
Leads and Lags

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What are the tools associated with the Define Activities process?

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Decomposition

Rolling Wave Planning

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What are the outputs from the Plan Schedule Management process?

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Schedule Management Plan

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What are the outputs from the Define Activities process?

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Activity List
Activity Attributes
Milestone List

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What are the outputs from the Sequence Activities process?

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Project Schedule Network Diagram

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What are the outputs from the Estimate Activity Durations process?

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Duration Estimates

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16
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What are the outputs from the Develop Schedule process?

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Project Schedule

Schedule Baseline

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17
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What are the outputs from the Control Schedule process?

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Work Performance Information
Schedule Forecasts
Change Requests

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18
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Which process group does the process Plan Schedule Management belong to?

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Planning

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19
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Which process group does the process Define Activities belong to?

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Planning

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Which process group does the process Sequence Activities belong to?

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Planning

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Which process group does the process Estimate Activity Durations belong to?

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Planning

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22
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Which process group does the process Develop Schedule belong to?

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Planning

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23
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Which process group does the process Control Schedule belong to?

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Monitoring and Controlling

24
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What are the four main types of activity dependencies?

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Mandatory
Discretionary
External
Internal

25
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A dependency that cannot be broken is a ___________ dependency.

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Mandatory

26
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A dependency that is not required but follows a best practice is a _________ dependency.

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Discretionary

27
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A dependency that the project team can control is a ___________ dependency.

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Internal

28
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A dependency that is outside of the project’s control and scope is a ________ dependency.

A

External

29
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If an activity is allowed to start before its dependent activity is completed then it has a ______.

A

Lead

30
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The gap between 2 dependent activities is called a ______.

A

Lag

31
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An estimation method for an activity that is based on a previous project is called _________ ___________?

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Analogous Estimating

32
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An estimation technique for an activity that is based on linear extrapolation is called ________ ___________.

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Parametric Estimating

33
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What does PERT stand for?

A

Program Evaluation and Review Technique

34
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What is the formula for a beta distribution 3 point estimate?

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(O+4R+P)/6

35
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What is the formula for a triangular distribution 3 point estimate?

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(O+R+P)/3

36
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What is the formula for the standard deviation of a 3 point distribution?

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(P-O)/6

37
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What is the critical path?

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The combination of activities that cannot be delayed without delaying the project completion date.

38
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Who invented the Critical Chain Method?

A

Eli Goldratt

39
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Estimating each activity aggressively and adding a lump-sum buffer is called the ________ __________ Method.

A

Critical Chain

40
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Name 2 types of resource optimization.

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Resource Leveling

Resource Smoothing

41
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Which type of resource optimization is more disruptive, resource leveling or resource smoothing?

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Resource Leveling

42
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Which resource optimization technique does not change the critical path and the project end date?

A

Resource Smoothing

43
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Which schedule compression technique increases cost?

A

Crashing

44
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Which schedule compression technique increases risk?

A

Fast tracking

45
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Which schedule compression technique involves adding more resources to an activity?

A

Crashing

46
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Which schedule compression technique involves adjusting the schedule so that some of the activities overlap?

A

Fast tracking

47
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Which type of graphical representation of the schedule is best suited for brief, high level presentations?

A

Milestone chart

48
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Which type of graphical representation of the project schedule shows project activities as bars on a calendar?

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Gantt Chart

49
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What is the most detailed graphical representation of a project schedule?

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Project Schedule Network Diagram

50
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What tool is used by Agile teams to show the team’s progress on completing the work on the backlog?

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Iteration Burndown Chart

51
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Schedule Performance Index and Schedule Variance are both types of what?

A

Work Performance Information

52
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What is Float or Slack?

A

The amount of time an activity can slip before it changes the critical path.

53
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How much float does an activity on the critical path have?

A

Zero

54
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What is Free Float or Free Slack?

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The amount of time an activity can slip before affecting the early start of dependent activities.

55
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What is the Delphi Technique?

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A way to gather expert judgement where each participant does not know who the other participants are.

56
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What is an heuristic?

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A rule of thumb.

57
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What is Lag?

A

The delay between an activity and the subsequent one.

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