Question 1

Which of these statements about this network is BEST?

Group of answer choices

Activities A and C are serial activities.

Activities B and C are serial activities.

Activities A and B are serial activities.

Activity D is a merge activity.

Question 2 1pts

A project manager of a project that was contracted on a time and materials basis finds that some of the tasks have been taking less time than planned. On average, each team member needed only 30 hours per week to accomplish work that had been planned for 40 hours. The project manager should:

Group of answer choices

Avoid mentioning these kinds of savings on status reports.

Report on the status report that each team member was busy for 40 hours, and use the time saved for other activities not related to the project.

Report the accurate status to your manager and send a separate report stating that each team member was busy for 40 hours.

Report this accurately on the status report and ensure that activities are re-planned as necessary, to keep the team completely occupied.

Question 3 1pts

An activity has an optimistic time estimate of 17 days, a most likely estimate of 22 days, and a pessimistic estimate of 32 days. What is the expected duration of the activity?

Group of answer choices

24.33 days

23.67 days

25.17 days

22.83 days

Question 4 1pts

Ray's shipment of materials hit every red light and traffic jam on the way to the site. Upon arrival, half of the material was judged defective, necessitating a trip back to the supplier, and then the same arduous journey back to the site once the new materials were loaded. Traffic was a little better on the second round but the flat tire and subsequent repair caused as much if not more delay than the first trip. In the final analysis:

Group of answer choices

The project activity of Material Delivery was pretty close to the pessimistic estimate.

The project activity of Material Delivery was pretty close to the optimistic estimate.

The project activity of Material Delivery had a much higher variance than anticipated.

The project activity of Material Delivery was pretty close to the most likely estimate.

Question 5 1pts

An activity has an expected duration and an expected cost. Another name for an activity is a(n):

Group of answer choices

Event.

Work package.

Node.

Critical path.

Question 6 1pts

A project manager is estimating the project duration and finds that the only information available to him is a previous project that was quite different from the current one. However, some portions of the previous project were similar to the current one. Which of the following tools is the project manager likely to use?

Group of answer choices

Three point estimates

PERT

Parametric estimates

Analogous estimating

Question 7 1pts

Which of the following is a benefit of an analogous project estimate?

Group of answer choices

It helps the project manager determine if the project will meet the schedule.

It will be closer to what the work will actually require.

It is based on a detailed understanding of what the work requires.

It gives the project team an understanding of management's expectations.

Question 8 1pts

You are the project manager of a project. As part of the planning process, you utilize a planning technique to subdivide the project scope and deliverables into smaller, more manageable components. What is the tecnique called?

Group of answer choices

Decomposition

Rolling wave planning

Arrow diagramming method

Unit task analysis

Question 9 1pts

A project manager is using weighted average duration estimates to perform schedule network analysis. Which type of mathematical analysis is being used?

Group of answer choices

Critical path method

Beta distribution

Monte Carlo

Resource leveling

Question 10 1pts

During project executing, a large number of changes are made to the project. The project manager should:

Group of answer choices

Talk to management before any changes are made.

Make the approved changes as needed, but retain the schedule baseline

Wait until all changes are known and print out a new schedule

Make only the changes approved by management

Question 11 1pts

You are managing a project to design microprocessor control systems. The design work was estimated to complete in 3.5 months with seven milestones. The sixth milestone is the prototype to be transferred to manufacturing. All milestones before prototyping have been completed ahead of schedule, with the 6th one being delayed for 4 months as the protype has been sent back several times due to conflicts between departments. You are now planning to hold a meeting to review the design specifications and handle conflicts between design and manufacturing. Who is at fault?

Group of answer choices

The scheduler

The design engineer

The manufacturer

The project manager

Question 12 1pts

What is the best method of estimating time for an activity that has never been done by your company before?

Group of answer choices

Parametric analysis

Three point estimating

Monte Carlo analysis

Analogous estimating

Question 13 1pts

One of the defining points of a network, a junction point joined to some or all of the others by dependency lines, is called a(n):

Group of answer choices

Node.

Burst.

Path.

Event.

Question 14 1pts

The length of time expected to complete an activity assuming that its development proceeds normally is called the:

Group of answer choices

Normal duration.

Most likely duration.

Optimistic duration.

Pessimistic duration.

Question 15 1pts

Using the average labor hours per installation from past projects to predict the future is an example of which of the following?

Group of answer choices

Analogous estimating

Parametric estimating

Three point estimating

Monte Carlo Analysis

Question 16 1pts

When a project is executed under contract, the contractual provisions will generally be considered as ____________ for the project.

Group of answer choices

Deliverables

Provisions

Exclusions

Constraints

Question 17 1pts

After receiving some news about a delay on one of your project tasks, you review the schedule to determine how it will affect the project. While there is a substantial delay on this task, it is not a critical path item and will not impact delivery of any of the milestones. Another project manager advises you to just present the milestone chart during your meeting with the project stakeholders and tell them the project is progressing as planned. What do you do?

Group of answer choices

Present the project as a milestone chart and advise that the progress is happening according to plan

Present the schedule as a bar chart and advise that the project is tracking according to plan

Present the schedule in a milestone chart and disclose full details of the delay

Present the schedule in a network diagram and advise that the project is tracking according to plan

Question 18 1pts

You are in charge of constructing the Ferris wheel in each town visited by a carnival. However, this is something you have never done before, and you are getting different opinions from others on how long it takes. Joe is new and has given you what you believe to be an optimistic estimate of 3 hours; Bill says it will take 10 hours, which seems too long to you and quite pessimistic. Lastly, Margie, who is the most experienced at this task, is telling you it will take 8 hours.You are sure whom to believe, so you decide to do a PERT estimation. Based on this, how many hours will take you to assemble the Ferris wheel?

Group of answer choices

8 hours

7 hours

7.5 hours

21 hours

Question 19 1pts

Identifying and documenting specific activities that must be performed to produce work package is called:

Group of answer choices

Define activities

Sequence activities

Decomposition

Define scope

Question 20 1pts

These can be located by doing a backward pass through a network.

Group of answer choices

Critical paths

Burst activities

Merge activities

Successors

Question 21 1pts

A sequence of activities defined by the project network logic is a(n):

Group of answer choices

Event.

Node.

Path.

Route.

Question 22 1pts

Your company has just completed an unexpected round of layoff. Morale is low, and resources are tighter than ever. Your project is now behind schedule because of loss of resources. Overtime work will be required of everyone for the next several weeks in order to close the gap. One of the critical resources on your project has an upcoming vacation, which was approved and scheduled months ago. However, without this resource you will be unable to get back on schedule. What do you do?

Group of answer choices

Cancel all vacations.

Compress the schedule further

Notify the project stakeholders of the situation immediately.

Find another resource

Question 23 1pts

Network logic suggests that:

Group of answer choices

Activity A must be complete before Activity B can be done.

Activity D can start any time.

Activities A, B and C must be complete before Activity D can be done.

Activity C must begin before Activity B begins.

Question 24 1pts

To define the logical relationship among dependencies accurately, a project manager is determining which ones require a lead or a lag. Which of the following correctly describes leads or lags?

Group of answer choices

A lead allows an acceleration of the successor activity.

A lag directs a delay in the predecessor activity.

A lag allows an acceleration of the successor activity.

A lead allows a successor activity to be delayed.

Question 25 1pts

During a workbreakdown structure meeting, you have deomposed the deliverables into work packages and created your WBS dictionary. However, you now want to decompose the work packages to assist you in estimating, executing, and controlling the project. These decomposed work packages are called:

Group of answer choices

Milestones.

Work packages can't be decomposed into smaller units.

Activities.

Control accounts.

Question 26 1pts

An activity has an optimistic time estimate of 25 days, a most likely estimate of 29 days, and a pessimistic estimate of 34 days. What is the expected duration of the activity?

Group of answer choices

Less than 31 days but greater than or equal to 29 days

Less than 29 days but greater than or equal to 27 days

Less than 27 days but greater than or equal to 25 days

Less than 25 days

Question 27 1pts

While planning the schedule for your project, you frequently refer to the project calendar. The project calendar is:

Group of answer choices

A calendar containing the days on which various meetings are scheduled within the project team.

A calendar of working days or shifts that establishes those dates on which schedule activities are worked.

A calendar that establishes the dates on which project deliverables are sent to customer.

A calendar containing the list of days on which the members will be leave or take an "off".

Question 28 1pts

During project planning, you estimate the time needed for each activity and then add up the estimates to create project estimate. You commit to completing the project by this date. What is wrong with this scenario?

Group of answer choices

The estimate is too long and should be created by management.

The team did not create the estimate, and a network diagram was not used.

The team did not create the estimate, and estimating takes too long using that method.

The project estimate should be the same as the customer's required completion date.

Question 29 1pts

Activity Z has estimates a=5, b=12, m=7; activity X has estimates a=5, b=11, m=6; and activity Y has estimates a=3, b=11, m=8. Which of the following statements is BEST? Here a refers to the optimistic time, b the pessimistic time and m the most likely time.

Group of answer choices

Activity Z is shorter than Activity Y.

Activity Y has a smaller variance than Activity Z.

Activity X has a higher standard deviation than Activity Z.

Activity X is longer than Activity Y.

Question 30 1pts

Which of these processes is not a project time management process?

Group of answer choices

Define activities

Sequence activities

Develop schedule

Create WBS

Question 31 1pts

Concurrent activities are:

Group of answer choices

Activities that use labor from the same group of workers.

Activities that can be performed at the same time.

Activities that must be done one after the other.

Activities that use resources from the same resource pool.

Question 32 1pts

A merge activity has two or more immediate predecessors.

Group of answer choices

True

False

Question 33 1pts

The accurancy of activity duration estimates can be improved by considering the amount of risk in the original estimate. The three types of estimates on which three-point estimates are based on are:

Group of answer choices

Most likely, likely, unlikely

Most likely, optimistic, and pessimistic

Best case scenario, expected scenario, current scenario

Budgetary, ballpark, and order of magnitude

Question 34 1pts

You must know the mean of an activity in order to determine its standard deviation.

Group of answer choices

True

False

Question 35 1pts

As you are creating the activity list, which technique is recommended for subdividing the project into smaller components called activities?

Group of answer choices

Expert judgment

Deconstruction

Rolling wave planning

Decomposition

Question 36 1pts

After one year of construction, an office building is scheduled to be completed on 30 January. The landscaping work needs to start 15 days prior to the completion of the building. Which of the following relationships most likely represents the relationships of the start of landscaping work to the completion of the office building?

Group of answer choices

Finish to start with a 15 day lead

Start to finish with a 15 day lead

Finish to start with a 15 day lag

Start to finish with a 15 day lag

Question 37 1pts

You have just been assigned a project with an unrealistic deadline. What do you do?

Group of answer choices

Insist that the deadlines for the project be changed.

Ask for a larger budget.

Ask for more resources.

Do the best you can to deliver the project on time.

Question 38 1pts

Bill, a project manager colleague of yours, is currently working under contract on a short-term project. He has expressed some concerns about finding work after the project ends. The project he is working on is currently ahead of schedule, and he expects they will finish a month sooner than initially expected. What advice would be appropriate to provide him?

Group of answer choices

Continue the work within the project's scope and possibly finish ahead of schedule.

Exaaggerate his experience to the sponsor to try to get a project manager position for him on other upcoming projects.

Inform the client the project is behind schedule and it will have to be extended.

Slow down work on the project to have it finish on schedule.

Question 39 1pts

Which of the Project Time management processes involves identifying and documenting dependencies among schedule activities?

Group of answer choices

Define activities

Control schedule

Sequence activities

Develop schedule

Question 40 1pts

A research project needed to be undertaken in large undefined, uncertain and rapidly changing environmental conditions. If this project is carried out as a multi-phase project, which of the following phase-to-phase relationships best suits it?

Group of answer choices

Iterative relationship

Sequential relationship

Boxed relationship

Overlapping relationship

Question 41. 1pts

An activity has an optimistic time estimate of 12 days, a most likely estimate of 16 days, and a pessimistic estimate of 22 days. What is the expected standard deviation of the activity?

Group of answer choices

Between 2 and 3 days

Between 1 and 2 days

Between 3 and 4 days

Between 4 and 5 days

Question 42 1pts

An activity has a pessimistic time that is four times as long as its most likely time and six times as long as its optimistic time. If the activity variance is 12, what is the expected time?

Group of answer choices

About 10 days

About 9 days

About 8 days

About 11 days

Question 43 1pts

A technique that iterates the project schedule many times to calculate a distribution of possible project completion dates is called:

Group of answer choices

Pareto cost analysis

Deming analysis

Monte carlo analysis

Monteford analysis

Question 44 1pts

Which of the following is an output of the Define Activity process?

Group of answer choices

Resources calendar

Activity duration estimates

Milestone list

Project schedule

Question 45 1pts

A technical team can begin editing a large document 15 days after they begin writing it. What kind of dependency would this be represented as?

Group of answer choices

Finish to Finish with a 15 day lead

Start to start with a 15 day lag

Finish to start with a 15 day lag

Start to start with a 15 day lead

Question 46 1pts

A project manager for a small construction compant has a project that was budgeted for US $130,000 over a six week period. According to her schedule, the project should have cost US $60,000 to date. However, it has cost US$90,000 to date. The project is also behind schedule, because the original estimates were not accurate. Who has the primary responsibility to solve this problem?

Group of answer choices

Senior management

Manager of Project Management Office

Project manager

Project sponsor

Question 47 1pts

Which of the following is a benefit of an analogous project estimate?

Group of answer choices

It helps the project manager determine if the project will meet the schedule.

It will be closer to what the work will actually require.

It is based on a detailed understanding of what the work requires.

It gives the project team an understanding of management's expectations.

Question 48 1pts

An activity has an optimistic time estimate of 17 days, a most likely estimate of 22 days, and a pessimistic estimate of 32 days. What is the expected duration of the activity?

Group of answer choices

24.33 days

23.67 days

25.17 days

22.83 days