Ch 6: Project Schedule Management

Which of the following processes involves determining the policies, procedures, and documentation that will be used for planning, executing, and controlling the project schedule?

Planning schedule management

Defining activities

Estimating activity resources

Activity sequencing

Predecessors, successors, logical relationships, leads and lags, resource requirements, constraints, imposed dates, and assumptions are all examples of _______.

Items in an activity list

Items on a Gantt chart

Milestone attributes

Activity attributes

As the project manager for a software development project, you are helping to develop the project schedule. You decide that writing code for a system should not start until users sign off on the analysis work. What type of dependency is this?

Technical

Mandatory

Discretionary

External

You cannot start editing a technical report until someone else completes the first draft. What type of dependency does this represent?

Finish-to-start

Start-to-start

Finish-to-finish

Start-to-finish

Which of the following statements is false?

A resource breakdown structure is a hierarchical structure that identifies the project’s resources by category and type.

Duration and effort are synonymous terms.

A three-point estimate includes an optimistic, most likely, and pessimistic estimate.

A Gantt chart is a common tool for displaying project schedule information.

What symbol on a Gantt chart represents a slipped milestone?

A black arrow

A white arrow

A black diamond

A white diamond

What type of diagram shows planned and actual project schedule information?

A network diagram

A Gantt chart

A Tracking Gantt chart

A milestone chart

________ is a network diagramming technique used to predict total project duration.

PERT

A Gantt chart

Critical path method

Crashing

Which of the following statements is false?

Growing grass was on the critical path for a large theme park project.

The critical path is the series of activities that determine the earliest time by which a project can be completed.

A forward pass through a project network diagram determines the early start and early finish dates for each activity. The

Fast tracking is a technique for making cost and schedule trade-offs to obtain the greatest amount of schedule compression for the least incremental cost.

_______ is a method of scheduling that considers limited resources when creating a project schedule and includes buffers to protect the project completion date.

Parkinson’s Law

Scrum

Critical path analysis

Critical chain scheduling

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