SP 10 soal Part 5

You are the project manager for your organization. Management has asked you to document the holidays, weekends, and other corporate working hours, which will supersede the project timings for your schedule. Which calendar will communicate to the project stakeholders, when the project work will take place within the organization?

• • Project calendar

• • Resource calendar

• • Organizational calendar

• • Company calendar

Management is concerned about your project. They want to know how the project is performing specifically the schedule performance index. What formula do you use to find the schedule performance index?

• • PV/EV

• • EV-AC

• • EV-PV

• • EV/PV

You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You want to increase the overall duration of the project. If the management elects to use resource leveling, then what will happen to the project duration?

• • The duration will increase, but the labor will stay the same.

• • The duration will decrease as new team members are brought onto the project.

• • Nothing, new resources will be incorporated into the project team.

• • The duration will increase, but the labor will decrease.

You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. Your project is falling behind though the project team reports that the actual durations of their work is what they estimated. You investigate the cause and determine that the project team is not starting their assignments early enough to finish their work on time. While the duration of the assignments may be in synchronization with the duration estimates, the completion time is causing the project schedule to slip from the baseline.
What can you do to rectify this problem?

• • Increase the duration estimates for each activity.

• • Discipline the project team.

• • Add management reserve.

• • Corrective actions.

Tom is the project manager of the GHQ Project for his organization. He is working on recovering the project schedule. As Tom examines his schedule he is especially aware of project activities with soft logic. What is soft logic?

• • Soft logic describes activities that do not have particular resources assigned to them.

• • Soft logic describes activities that can be completed in any order.

• • Soft logic describes activities that can have lead time added to them.

• • Soft logic describes activities that can be crashed because they are effort-driven.

Which of the following components of the change control system includes the documentation, tracking systems, and defined approval levels necessary for authorizing and controlling changes?

• • Scope Verification

• • Configuration Management System

• • Project Management Information System

• • Integrated Change Control

You are the project manager for your organization. You are meeting with your customers to discuss the project performance. In this meeting, you will have eight project customers, the project sponsor, and ten members of your project team. What type of communication method are you using in this instance?

• • Interactive communication

• • Active communication

• • Pull technique

• • Pull technique

Holly is the project manager of the NDS project and she is 85 percent complete with her project though she should be 95 percent complete. Her project has a BAC of $9,850,400 and she has spent $8,011,221 to date. What is Holly's schedule performance index for this project?

• • 1.07

• • 0.98

• • 0.89

• • Ten percent

You are the project manager of the JKM Project for your organization. Your project is supposed to be 60 percent complete but you are only 45 percent complete.
The project has an assigned budget of $765,000 but you have already spent $365,000 to reach this point in the project due to some errors and rework.
Management is pressing you on when you'll complete the project and how much the project will likely cost based on the current performance. You need to tell management what the project's current cost performance index (CPI) is. What value should you report to management based on your project's performance?

• • $306,000

• • .94

• • $344,250

• • 75

You are the project manager for the NHQ Project. Management has asked you to create a time estimate for this project although you have only just received the project charter. They would like some idea of how long the project will take based on the information in the project charter. While you are uncomfortable giving any type of estimate at this point, you work with your assigned project to create a quick time estimate. What type of estimate have you created for management?

• • Analogous estimate

• • Broad estimate

• • Rough order of magnitude

• • Expert judgment