PM In Prectice Schedule Msp Week 7
- 1.The most important element for project control is:
- A.
Clear requirements
- B.
Upper management commitment
- C.
Sufficient management reserve
- D.
Responsibility over resources
- 2.Which term describes a modification of a logical relationship that delays a successor task?
- A.
Lag
- B.
Lead
- C.
Float
- D.
Slack
- 3.Milestones are not:
- A.
Activities of zero duration
- B.
Significant events in the project lifecycle
- C.
Measures of acheivement for expenditures of money or time
- D.
Best utilized when denoting start and finish of all activities.
- 4.The practice of overlapping project activities is known as:
- A.
Concurrent Engineering
- B.
Fast - tracking
- C.
Leveling
- D.
Crashing
- 5." I cannot test the software until I code the software" This expression describes which of the following dependencies?
- A.
Discretionary
- B.
Soft
- C.
Preferential
- D.
Mandatory
- 6.Which of the following should NOT be considered when developing activity duration estimates?
- A.
Resource Capabilities
- B.
The number of resources assigned to a task
- C.
Historical data if available
- D.
Overhead rates
- 7.Which of the following is NOT an input to schedule control?
- A.
The schedule change control system
- B.
Change requests
- C.
The schedule management plan
- D.
Performance reports
- 8.Unlike bar charts, milestone charts show:
- A.
Scheduled start or completion of major deliverables and key events
- B.
Activity start and end dates
- C.
Expected durations
- D.
Dependencies
- 9.To assess the implications of crashing a project, a project manager should first compute:
- A.
The cost and time slope for each critical activity that can be expedited
- B.
The cost of additional resources to be added to the projects critical path
- C.
The time that will be saved in the overall schedule when tasks are expedited on the critical path
- D.
Three probabilistic time estimates of PERT for each critical path activity.
- 10.The basis for measuring and reporting schedule performance is the:
- A.
Schedule baseline
- B.
Number of change requests
- C.
Difference between planned and actual events and activities
- D.
Technical baseline
- 11.The tool that provides a basis to identify the work that must be scheduled is the:
- A.
Master schedule
- B.
Budget
- C.
WBS
- D.
Gantt Chart
- 12.Projects compete with each other for resources in two different ways.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 13.Duration and work mean the same thing when building a Gantt chart.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 14.When task durations are estimated, an assumption is made that task resources are set at "normal" levels. This is considered standard practice.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 15.Resource loading is defined as:
- A.
A team of resources that are all considered subject matter experts.
- B.
The amounts of specific resources that are scheduled for use on specific activities.
- C.
Assiging excessive resources to a project in order to increse costs
- D.
Assigning multiple resources to a task in order to expedite that task
- 16.In MS Project the standard work week is 5 days a week.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 17.In MS Project all holidays are already identified at start up by the software.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 18.It is possible to schedule more than one resource to a task in MS Project.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 19.When you double click on the task name box in MS Project a window pops up with tabs. The following tab is not included in this window:
- A.
General
- B.
Predecessor
- C.
Procurement
- D.
Resources
- 20.When adding a WBS column in a MS Project Gantt Chart you need to use the _________ heading on the top tool bar.
- A.
File
- B.
Edit
- C.
View
- D.
Insert
- 21.Out of the box the default for every task inserted into a project schedule is:
- A.
2 days
- B.
4 days
- C.
1 days
- D.
1 hour
- 22.Out of the box, the "WBS" column is found immediately to the left of the "task name" column.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 23.It is not common to have more than one dependency allocated to a single task.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 24.The project manager is responsible to estimate the entire project.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 25.A dependency is graphically shown by a blue line with an arrowhead from the preceding task to the dependent task on a Gantt Chart.
- A.
True
- B.
False
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