Project Management Ch 5 review
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.
- Assess your understanding of key terms and techniques.
- Identify your strengths and areas for improvement in project management.
- Get instant feedback on your answers and explanations.
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, hard logic refers to discretionary dependencies:
True
False
In activity sequencing, soft logic refers to mandatory dependencies:
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
Most project management software uses the PDM method:
True
False
Critical chain scheduling is a technique that accounts for resource constraints:
True
False
In Gantt charts, a milestone is a significant event on a project with a fixed duration:
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
Schedule ____________________ involves controlling and managing changes to the project schedule.
Control
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 defined by the project team.
Discretionary discretionary
____________________ dependencies are inherent in the nature of the work being done on a project.
Mandatory mandatory
A ____________________ occurs when two or more nodes precede a single node.
Merge
A ____________________ occurs when a single node is followed by two or more activities.
Burst bursts
____________________ activities have no duration and no resources but are needed to show logical relationships between activities.
Dummy dummy
What is the most common type of task dependency?
Finish-to-start
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.
What is the first step in project time management?
Activity definition
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