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Project Management Essentials Quiz

Test your knowledge of project management concepts with our comprehensive 34-question quiz! This quiz covers various aspects of project time management, including activity definition, sequencing, and critical path analysis.

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An activity or task is an element of work, normally found on the WBS, that has no fixed duration, no cost, and resource requirements:

True

False

Activity duration estimating involves estimating the number of work periods that are needed to complete individual activities:

True

False

Activity definition usually results in the project team developing a more detailed WBS and supporting explanations:

True

False

In activity sequencing, external dependencies involve relationships between project and non project activities:

True

False

The precedence diagramming method (PDM) is a network diagramming technique in which nodes represent activities:

True

False

The project schedule is not used to determine:

The starting and finishing dates of the activities

Occasional changes to the activity listing

The total float of activities

The project’s budget

Project time management involves the following main processes:

Activity definition, duration estimating, and schedule development

Activity definition, sequencing, duration estimating, schedule development, and control

Activity identification, sequencing, duration estimating, schedule development, and control

Activity definition, sequencing, and schedule control

The overall duration of the project schedule is not influenced by:

Using mandatory dependencies as constraints

Using discretionary dependencies as constraints

The capabilities of the resources which are assigned to perform the work

Using the arrow diagramming method instead of the precedence diagramming method (PDM) of scheduling

The purpose of a dummy activity in activity-on-arrow diagramming is to:

Show tasks that are not necessary

Show a dependency relationship

Show tasks that are alternatives to planned tasks

Show tasks that are milestones

Network diagrams are good for depicting:

Slack time

Schedule start and finish dates

Plan versus actual schedule

Task dependencies

The Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) method of scheduling differs from the Critical Path Method (CPM) because the PERT method:

Uses “free float” instead of “total float” in the schedule calculations

Uses bar charts instead of logic diagrams to portray the schedule

Uses weighted averages of activity durations to calculate project duration

They do not differ – the two terms are synonymous

Which technique shows external dependencies best?

Activity on arrow diagramming

Activity on node diagramming

PERT diagramming

None of the above

Which of the following are considered to be milestones?

Project completion date

Contract date

Key event completion date

All of the above

A Gantt chart is useful in determining:

The level of effort of a task

When a task starts and stops

How tasks are related to each other

Who is assigned to do a task

The critical path is calculated by establishing the following dates:

Start to start, start to finish, finish to finish, finish to start

Early start, early finish, late start, late finish

Predecessor to successor, predecessor to predecessor, successor to successor

Contract date and project end date

A(n) ____________________ is an element of work, normally found on the WBS, that has an expected duration, a cost, and resource requirements.

Activity

Activity ____________________ involves identifying and documenting the relationships between project activities.

Sequence

Activity ____________________ estimation involves estimating the number of work periods that are needed to complete individual activities.

Duration

____________________ dependencies involve relationships between project and non-project activities.

External external

____________________ dependencies are inherent in the nature of the work being done on a project.

Mandatory mandatory

____________________ activities have no duration and no resources but are needed to show logical relationships between activities.

Dummy dummy

What is the critical path on a project?

The critical path is the series of activities in a project network diagram that determines the earliest completion date of the project

What is PERT?

PERT is a network analysis technique used to estimate project duration when there is a high degree of uncertainty about the individual activity duration estimates. The PERT weighted averages formula is on pg. 141.

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