Quiz Submissions - Quiz 3 - Chapter 6

Question 1 1 / 1 point

Which of the following are NOT outputs of the Activity Duration Estimation process?

Question options:
1. Activity Duration Estimates

2. Schedule baseline

3. Updates to activity attribute

4. None of the choices are correct

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2

Planning components are tools/ techniques of the Activity Definition Process. Which of the
following are planning components?

Question options:
1. Rolling wave planning, decomposition

2. Control account, planning package

3. Milestone list, schedule network templates

4. Control package, planning account

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3

Crashing describes a technique to speed up a project by…

Question options:
1. …reallocating existing resources or assigning additional resources to the
project.

2. …overlapping activities which were originally planned to be done in sequence.

3. …reducing the number of features of the product in order to reduce

 development work.

4. …reducing the duration estimates for activities to increase the pressure applied
to the staff.

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4

You are in the process to create a project schedule for repainting your house, you first need to
scrap off the existing paint, and then add a layer of primer. The primer provides the paint a better
bonding surface so it sticks to the base material much better. Without priming, drywall surfaces
will soak up more finish paint in some areas than in others, producing a splotchy effect.

You decided to speed up the process by starting priming before all the scraping is finished. To
correctly sequence these activities, which of the following should you do?

Question options:
1. Add float time between the priming and painting tasks

2. Fast track the priming and painting tasks

3. Add lag time to the priming task

4. Add lead time to the priming task

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5

You are the project manager at a software company developing the next-gen OODBMS (Object
Oriented Data Base Management System). You are in the process of developing project schedule
using CPM (Critical Path Method). One of the disadvantages of CPM is that it does NOT
consider resource availability. In fact, you’ve quickly identified that one of your key engineers,
Michael, is over allocated. Which of the following statements are true?

Question options:
1. You should use crashing in order to resource level the critical path tasks

2. You should use three point estimates in order to reassign the resource
appropriately

3. You should use resource leveling heuristics to reassign the resource

appropriately

4. You should fast track the process in order to resource level the critical path
 tasks.

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6

You’ve been hired as manager to design and construct a new casino in Las Vegas, over the next
18 months. Given the size of the project and the abbreviated time frame, you are attempting to
identify ways to reduce the timeframes for many of various tasks. You’ve developed the WBS
and created a Gantt chart using specialized scheduling software.

After analyzing the data, you’ve discovered several opportunities where tasks and phases may be
overlapped in order to save time. This is an example of:

Question options:
1. Progressive elaboration

2. Resource elaboration

3. Fast tracking

4. Crashing and schedule

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7

Which is not a point used for three-point estimation?

Question options:
1. Optimistic estimate

2. Most likely estimate

3. Budget estimate

4. Pessimistic estimate

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(10 points) Complete the following PDM diagram and answer to the 16 items in the table.

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Question 9 1 / 1 point

Which is typically not specified in a document referred to as activity attributes?

Question options:
1. The person executing the work in a schedule activity

2. Schedule activity identifiers, codes and descriptions

3. Schedule activity predecessors and successors

4. The cost baseline assigned to the schedule activity

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10

While planning a project, you are defining activities. Which of the following is not a result of
that process?

Question options:
1. Activity list

2. Work breakdown structure

 3. Activity attributes

4. Milestone list

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11

You are in the process to create project schedule for repainting your house, you first need to
scrap off the existing paint, and then add a layer of primer. The primer provides the paint a better
bonding surface so it sticks to the base material much better. Without priming, drywall surfaces
will soak up more finish paint in some areas than in others, producing a splotchy effect.

Unfortunately, you have to wait once the primer is applied you must wait until the primer dries
before adding on the actual paint. You estimate that it will take 8 hours for the primary to dry. To
correctly sequence these activities, which of the following should you do?

Question options:
1. Add a lag time 8 hours to the priming task

2. Add a lead time of 8 hours to the priming task

3. Add float time between the priming and painting tasks

4. Fast track the priming and painting tasks