Creating the Project Schedule

Final Exam

1. Which of the following benefits of creating a project schedule will provide constant feedback to
verify that the project is progressing as planned?

a. Improves communication
b. Provides project goals
c. Keeps the project on track
d. Can reduce project time

2. Which of the following is NOT a planning process used to create the project schedule?

a. Define activities
b. Sequence activities
c. Estimate activity durations
d. Control schedule

3. What is the purpose of the project time management knowledge area?

a. This knowledge area concerned with making sure that every part of the project is
coordinated from starting to finish for the project or project phase.
b. This knowledge area concerned with identifying the tasks that are required to be to be
performed for the project, deciding the best and most logical order or sequence for the
project tasks and creating estimates for each individual task.
c. This knowledge area concerned with making sure that the processes required to
estimate costs, create a budget for the project and manage costs.
d. This knowledge area concerned with making sure that the processes required to
establishing quality policies, quality goals and objectives, and defining who will be
responsible for achieving the defined quality standards.

4. What is the process of creating a plan to manage the project schedule?

a. Plan schedule management

b. Define activities
c. Sequence activities
d. Estimate activity resources

5. What is the single output for the plan schedule management process?

a. Activity list
b. Activity attributes
c. Milestone list
d. Schedule management plan
6. What is the process of subdividing project deliverables into activities, which are required to
produce the work package deliverables?

a. Decomposition
b. Rolling wave planning
c. Alternative analysis
d. Dependency determination

7. What tool and technique involves planning current activities in greater detail than activities to
be performed in the future?

a. Decomposition
b. Dependency determination
c. Rolling wave planning
d. Create WBS

8. ___________ will identify and document the relationships of all activities in the project, so
predecessor and successor relationships can be determined

a. Define activities
b. Sequence activities
c. Estimate activity resources
d. Estimate activity durations

9. ______________ is a technique used by most project management software packages to

sequence project activities.

a. Precedence diagramming method (PDM)

b. Dependency determination
c. Leads and lags
d. Alternative analysis

10. Which of the following is NOT one of the four logical relationships defined by the precedence
diagramming method?

a. Finish to start
b. Finish to finish
c. Start to finish
d. Approve to start

11. What is the process of estimating the proper amount of resources that are required to complete
each project task?

a. Define activities
b. Sequence activities
c. Estimate activity resources
d. Estimate activity durations
12. What technique for the estimate activity recourses process examines the various methods for
performing the project activities?

a. Expert judgment
b. Alternative analysis
c. Published estimating data
d. Bottom-up estimating

13. Which of the following is an estimating technique where activities are broken down and the
resources for each work segment are estimated, and then all of the individual estimates are
aggregated to create the overall resource estimate for the project activities?

a. Bottom-up estimating
b. Parametric estimating
c. Three-point estimates
d. Resource summary estimates

14. _________ is a comprehensive list of project resources organized by resource type.

a. Resource breakdown structure

b. Activity sequence matrix
c. RACI matrix
d. RAM matrix

15. What is the process of estimating the amount of work needed to complete all project activities
defined in the project scope baseline?

a. Define activities
b. Sequence activities
c. Estimate activity resources
d. Estimate activity durations

16. Which of the following is an estimating technique that relies on similar past projects to help
create activity duration estimates for the current project?

a. Analogous estimating
b. Parametric estimating
c. Three-point estimating
d. Resource summary estimates

17. Which formula is used to create three-point estimates?

a. Most likely estimate + optimistic estimate + pessimistic estimate divided by 3

b. 2 times most likely estimate + optimistic estimate + pessimistic estimate divided by 4
c. 3 times most likely estimate + optimistic estimate + pessimistic estimate divided by 5
d. 4 times most likely estimate + optimistic estimate + pessimistic estimate divided by 6
18. Which is the process of analyzing project tasks, estimated task durations, estimated resource
requirements for project tasks, and all identified schedule constraints in order to create the
project schedule?

a. Plan schedule management

b. Define activities
c. Estimate activity durations
d. Develop schedule

19. Crashing and fast tracking are forms of what tool and technique?

a. Schedule compression
b. Critical path method
c. Critical chain method
d. Resource leveling

20. The __________ is the approved version of the project schedule by the project stakeholders
that can only be changed through a formal change control procedure.

a. Schedule estimates
b. Schedule baseline
c. Schedule data
d. Project calendar