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Which of the following processes is not a part of the Project Scope Management process?
A) Create WBS
B) Control Quality
C) Control Scope
D) Collect Requirements
B) Control Quality
Uncontrolled project scope changes are often referred to as ______________.
A) Scope creep
B) Scope verification
C) Value Added Scope
D) Scope control
A) Scope Creep
The Project Scope Management Knowledge Area is primarily concerned with:
A) Defining the scope of work that is included in the project.
B) Defining and controlling what is and what is not included in the project.
C) The scope of work that is required during the initiation phase.
D) Defining the specifications and functionality of the work product
B) Defining and controlling what is and what is not included in the project.
You are the project manager for your organization and part of your role requires that you coach the project team on the project management processes. At this point in your project, you're estimating the activity durations with the project team and need to review the tools and techniques that are appropriate for usage with this process. Which one of the following is not a tool and technique for the estimate activity duration process??
a) Risk identification
b) Analogous estimating
c) Reserve analysis
d) Three-point estimating
a) Risk identification
You are the project manager for a construction project. Your foreman informs you that, due to the humidity, the concrete will need to cure for an additional 24 hours before the framing can begin. To accommodate the requirement, you add _______________ time to the framing activity.
a) Lead
b) Lag
c) Delay
d) Slack
b) Lag
As a Project Manager, under what process group do you work on defining the project scope?
a) Integration Management
b) Planning
c) Initiating
d) Scope Management
b) Planning
While managing a project, you have included the product acceptance criteria in the Quality Management Plan. While reviewing your plan, a senior manager asks you to reconsider this. You then realize that what you have done is incorrect. Where should you place the product acceptance criteria?
A) Project Charter
B) Change control process
C) Project Scope Statement
D) Scope Verification Plan
C) Project Scope Statement
You are the project manager for the MNB Project. You and your project team are about to enter the activity duration estimating process. Which of the following will not be helpful in your meeting?
a) Constraints
b) Assumptions
c) The project charter
d) Identified risks
c) The project charter
When decomposing the work in the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), which of the following is NOT true?
a) Decompose until the WBS element cannot be logically decomposed further
b) Decompose until the WBS element can be estimated accurately
c) Decompose until the WBS element can be accomplished by a single project team member
d) Decompose until the WBS element has a meaningful conclusion
c) Decompose until the WBS element can be accomplished by a single project team member
The various tools and techniques used during the process of Collect Requirements include all but
a) Prototypes
b) Variance Analysis
c) Benchmarking
d) Document Analysis
b) Variance Analysis
Beth is a project manager for her organization. Management has asked Beth to use the CPM approach in her network diagram. She is not familiar with this approach and she's asked you to help her complete this portion of her project work. Which of the following is a correct attribute of the critical path?
a) It determines the earliest completion date.
b) It has the largest amount of float.
c) It has the most activities in the PND.
d) It is the path with the most expensive project activities.
a) It determines the earliest completion date.
Bertha is the project manager for the HAR Project. The project is behind schedule, and Bertha has elected, with management's approval, to crash the critical path. This process adds more what? (Choose the best answer.)
a) Cost
b) Time
c) Risk
d) Documentation
a) Cost
Management has informed you that you must flatten your project through resource- leveling heuristics. What is likely to happen to your project schedule if your project team members are allowed to contribute only 30 hours per week?
a) The project schedule will increase.
b) The project schedule will decrease.
c) The project critical path will change.
d) The project manager will need to use the critical chain method.
a) The project schedule will increase.
Decomposition is an important tool used to
a) Control Scope
b) Define Scope
c) Validate Scope
d) Create WBS
d) Create WBS
PERT is used in the preparation of:
A) Budgeting
B) Scheduling
C) Evaluating
D) Finalizing
B) Scheduling
A) Small projects only
B) Large projects only
C) Both Small and Large projects
D) Neither Small or Large Projects
B) Large projects only
The critical path is the longest path (in time) from Start to Finish; it indicates the minimum time necessary to complete the entire project. The Critical Path is ideal and mostly used in large projects with numerous activities occurring simultaneously.
Mark the wrong statement:
A. A project is a set of activities that can be performed in a certain logical sequence.
B. A network is a graphic portrayal of the independency relationship among the activities of a project.
C. An arrow representing an activity can have any length and shape.
D. An activity cannot be represented by more than one arrow, but an arrow can represent one or more activities.
D. An activity cannot be represented by more than one arrow, but an arrow can represent one or more activities.
The correct answer is "An activity cannot be represented by more than one arrow, but an arrow can represent one or more activities." This statement is incorrect because an activity can be represented by more than one arrow in a project network diagram. This can occur when an activity has multiple predecessors or multiple successors. However, an arrow can indeed represent one or more activities, as it can depict the logical flow between different activities in a project.
Tim’s mother-in-law just called. He hopes he can get off the phone in 4 minutes, but he knows she usually talks 20 minutes. If her arthritis is bothering her, the call could be 45 minutes. How many minutes should he plan on being on the phone, using the PERT formula?
a. 21.5
b. 23
c. 21
d. 23.5
a. 21.5
Ginger is racing her horse against her neighbor’s horse. She hopes her horse will run a fourth of a mile in 30 seconds. Usually her horse runs that distance in 32 seconds, but when he’s grouchy it takes him 37 seconds. How many seconds can she guess her horse will run a fourth of a mile, using the PERT formula?
a. 33
b. 32.5
c. 33.5
d. 35
b. 32.5
Using the PERT formula, Geraldine estimates that it will take her 6 hours to clean her house. Her optimistic guess was 3 hours and her most likely guess was 5 hours. What was her pessimistic guess?
a. 7
b. 4
c. 12
d. 13
d. 13
The shortest possible time in which an activity can be achieved under ideal circumstances is known as ________
a) Pessimistic time estimate
b) Optimistic time estimate
c) Expected time estimate
d) The most likely time estimate
b) Optimistic time estimate
You are the project manager for the 987 Project. Should this project run over schedule, it will cost your organization $35,000 per day in lost sales. With four months to completion, you realize the project is running late. You decide, with management's approval, to add more project team members to the plan to complete the work on time. This is an example of which of the following?
a) Crashing
b) Fast-tracking
c) Expert judgment
d) Cost-benefit analysis
a) Crashing
Mark the wrong statement:
A. All activities on a critical path are critical activities.
B. A project network may have none, one, or more critical paths.
C. A delay in critical activity surely delays the completion of the project.
D. Each critical activity has identical earliest and the latest start times.
B. A project network may have none, one, or more critical paths.
The statement "A project network may have none, one, or more critical paths" is incorrect. A project network can have only one critical path, which is the longest path in the network and determines the minimum time required to complete the project. All activities on the critical path are critical activities, and a delay in any of these activities will delay the completion of the project. Each critical activity has identical earliest and latest start times, as they cannot be delayed without delaying the project.
Anne hopes that it takes just 10 hours to make preparations for an important meeting. It will probably take 12 however, and if some key things go wrong, it will take 20 hours. How many hours should be scheduled for the meeting preparations using the PERT formula?
a. 14
b. 15
c. 11
d. 13
d. 13
Using the PERT formula, George estimated that a certain report will take 10 days to write. His optimistic guess was 7 days and his pessimistic guess was 13 days. What was his guess for the time it would most likely take to write the report?
a. 10
b. 9
c. 11
d. 20
a. 10