The document contains questions and answers related to project scheduling processes. It covers topics like developing a network diagram, estimating activity durations and resources, defining activity sequences, developing a schedule, schedule compression techniques, and controlling the project schedule. Key processes discussed include define activities, sequence activities, estimate activity resources, estimate activity durations, develop schedule, and control schedule.
The document contains questions and answers related to project scheduling processes. It covers topics like developing a network diagram, estimating activity durations and resources, defining activity sequences, developing a schedule, schedule compression techniques, and controlling the project schedule. Key processes discussed include define activities, sequence activities, estimate activity resources, estimate activity durations, develop schedule, and control schedule.
The document contains questions and answers related to project scheduling processes. It covers topics like developing a network diagram, estimating activity durations and resources, defining activity sequences, developing a schedule, schedule compression techniques, and controlling the project schedule. Key processes discussed include define activities, sequence activities, estimate activity resources, estimate activity durations, develop schedule, and control schedule.
The document contains questions and answers related to project scheduling processes. It covers topics like developing a network diagram, estimating activity durations and resources, defining activity sequences, developing a schedule, schedule compression techniques, and controlling the project schedule. Key processes discussed include define activities, sequence activities, estimate activity resources, estimate activity durations, develop schedule, and control schedule.
1. What needs to be done first to justify project time estimate?
Build a Network Diagram
2. What tools and techniques project manager uses to define activities? All choices are right 3. What can be used to support realistic schedule? Lead and lags time between activities can be used to support realistic schedule 4. What process include time management project knowledge? All choices are right 5. What method is used to avoid linear(up and down) use of resources? Resource lending 6. What needs to be done if the project has a negative slack Compress schedule 7. What information to be updated at the end of estimate activity resource? Activity resource requirement and resource breakdown structure 8. What process is planning the scheduling methodology applied to the project? Develop project management plan 9. What needs to be done after a schedule baseline of the project is developed? Approved by a project management team 10. What criteria to be used in the decision of which activity or activities to crash for the purpose of schedule compression? Lower cost 11. What information is needed to perform control schedule process? Finalized and approved schedule, which is used as baseline 12. What tools and techniques to be used by project manager while estimating activity resource? All choices are right 13. what is the most common method of network diagramming used these days? Precedence diagramming mothed (PDM) on Activity-on-Not 14. what information from similar previous projects usually used with analogous estimating method? Duration, budget, size, weight and complexity 15. who should participate in estimating process to assure accuracy? the person who will be executing the work 16. what is the role of project manager in estimation process? Al choices are right 17. what part of organizational process aspect assets can help in improving estimates? Historical Information 18. what documents to be delivered by define activities process? Activity list, activity attributes, and milestone list 19. what project scheduling methodology defines? Rules and approaches for scheduling process 20. what negative float indicates?. Project behinds 21. what range of the estimate for an activity with expected duration at least 10days, the worse 18 days, but more likely 15 days to complete? 14.67+/-1.33 22. what type of dependency is called hard logic? Mandatory dependency 23. What information is required to develop project schedule? Outputs form processes to define and sequence activities, estimate activity resources and estimate activity duration 24. Which of the following method refers to progressive elaboration planning? Rolling wave 25. When control schedule is used? As the project activities are being performed 26. What information is documented in project schedule management plans? Project management processes, tools and techniques 27. What tools and techniques project manager uses to control schedule? All choices are right 28. What type of dependency is called soft logic? All choices are right 29. What criteria needs to be met for successful crashing selected activities of a project for the purpose of schedule compression? Resource and budget 30. What is the relation between create work breakdown structure and define activities processes? Work breakdown structure identifies the deliverables at their lowest level which is called packages while define activities process decomposes work packages into smaller components identified as activities to deliver those packages 31. What tools and techniques to be used for effective activity duration? Expert judgement, analogous, parametric, three point estimate and reserve analysis 32. What rules are uses in heuristic techniques? Rule of thumb 33. What are the objective of schedule compression? Optimize schedule to meet project or milestone deadline without changing project scope 34. What information the activity attributes provides? Activity attributes provides more details for each of multiple components associated with each activity 35. What process approves or rejects changes? Integrated change control 36. What can be used to show the interdependency between activities through the whole project? Network diagram 37. Which graphical form of schedule preferably use during presentation to senior management? Milestone chart 38. What techniques can be used for schedule network analysis? All choices are right 39. What information is missing while activity list, activity attribute and resource calendar is provided for estimating activity resource project? Enterprise environmental factors and organizational process assets 40. What does critical path determine? The longest path in network as well as the earlies and latest start and finish dates for project activities. 41. What is the primary task of a project manager before project execution? Create a realistic project plan 42. What tools and techniques to be used by project manager while defining sequence activities? All choices are right 43. What effect you need to expect when selected method of schedule compression is cut time? Reduced quality 44. What method is used to avoid not linear/up and down use of resources? Resource levelling 45. What information the network diagram adds for develop schedule process? The sequence of work will be processed 46. What information to be updated at the end of estimate activity resources? Activity resource requirements and resource breakdown structure 47. What results of the develop schedule should be updated when process is complete? Project schedule, schedule baseline, schedule date 48. What tools and techniques project manager should use to develop schedule effectively? All choices are right 49. What you should focus on while re-estimating activities for the purpose of schedule compression? Risks 50. What does duration critical path identify? Longest duration path defines shortest time to complete project 51. What type of diagram is created as a result of regression analysis in parametric estimation? Scatter diagram 52. What needs to be done if it is hard to estimate work package? Decompose to activities 53. What of the following should be used as base for accurate estimation? Work breakdown structure 54. What three point estimate analyses and produces? Analyses risks and produces optimistic most likely and pessimistic estimate 55. What type of dependency called external dependency? Depending outside of the project 56. What information needs to be updated that resulted by control schedule process? All choices are right 57. What you should concern about when applying for track-------for the purpose of schedule compression? All choices are right 58. What you should concern about when an earlier planned activity has been discarded for the purpose of schedule compression? Scope 59. What a project manager should check regarding schedule when analyses change request? If the change imparts critical path 60. What type of process use schedule compression? Planning and integrated change control 61. What technique applies with three point estimation? Program evaluation and review technique 62. What sequence activities is? Process of identifying and documenting logical relationship between the project activities 63. What techniques applies with three point estimation? Program evaluation and review technique 64. Project manager starts to develop schedule. What documents needs to be completed for this work? All choices are right 65. Baselines for scope, cost and time should not be changed unless? Approved change 66. A project manager estimates activity duration. What information is needed to make this process effectively? All choices are right 67. By completion of estimate duration activity project manager has to update project document with? Activity duration estimate 68. A project manager estimates duration of an activity with team member. After discussion, they found that-------performed on previous project------what method was used? Analogous estimating 69. Sequencing of activities can be performed using---- Project software management 70. Project team supports project manager with information to sequence activities. What information is needed to complete the work All choices are right 71. A project manager has finalized scope baseline and started to define activities using company’s templates and procedures. What is missing to complete the work? Enterprise environmental factors 72. To estimate duration of work package, after discussion with team------what method the product manager used? Parametric estimating 73. After coordinating of the activities list, a project manager estimates activity resources, what he needs to complete the work? Activity attributes 74. Using PERT you have identified 30% of standard----- will you outsource this work with fix contact? No, the scope of work is not clear 75. A project team agreed with project schedule network diagram after---? Project document was updated 76. A project manager performs control schedule referring to project management plan, project schedule, work performances data and----? Project calendar, schedule data and organizational process assets 77. Activity on the node is the method of---- Constructing a visual project schedule network diagram that was nodes to indicate logically related activities. In other words, this is called procedure diagramming method 78. From which process output the define activities process receives scope baseline? Work breakdown structure 79. A project manager performs define activity process. What information this process delivers? Identified specific actions and their details to produce project deliverables 80. Project manager should periodically ----- to make sure that adequate time and funds available to complete the project Recalculate estimate to complete 81. Precedence diagramming method is used for---- Constructing visual project schedule network diagram that uses node to indicate logically related activities 82. Baseline for scope, cost and time should not be changes unless ----? Approved change 83. A new project manager just point a company and wonders-----what is the best place to find this information? Enterprise environmental factors 84. How graphical evaluation and review techniques(GERT) is different from other diagramming methods? Allows using loops between nodes 85. How does the finish to start (FS) relation works> The activity must finish before the next activity can start 86. How the output od estimate activity duration forms? Activity duration can be identified as a firm qualitative period, as well as a period with added profitability. 87. How management process interact with other project process? Can be used with different process and overlaps each other 88. How does start to start relations works? The start of successor depends on start of predecessor 89. How often time management process can be used during the course of project? At least once on project and project phase, if the project is divided to phases 90. How much float critical paths usually has? Zero 91. How the contingency plan is different form management reserve? Contingency reserve is calculating to compensate schedule uncertainty for overall project and can determine the schedule tolerance 92. How many critical path a project may land? Many 93. How near critical path effect the project? ……….project has more risk 94. How does finish to finish(FF) relations work? Completion of successor depends on completion of predecessor 95. How to calculate float? Late start- earlier starter- late finish- early finish 96. How activities and their properties are used on project? Provide input to estimating, scheduling executing and monitoring and controlling of project work