13/12_chap6

A project manager is informed midway through project planning that she was given inaccurate data regarding new regulations affecting the required end date of her project. She may need to make a few adjustments, but she thinks she can still manage the project to complete it before the regulations take effect. She confirms this by analyzing the sequence of activities with the least amount of scheduling flexibility. What technique is she using?

• Critical path method

• Flowchart

• Precedence diagramming

• Work breakdown structure

A design engineer is helping to ensure that the dependencies within her area of expertise are properly defined on the project. The design of several deliverables must be complete before manufacturing can begin. This is an example of what type of dependency?

• Discretionary dependency

• External dependency

• Mandatory dependency

• Scope dependency

Your sponsor and stakeholders have made it clear they wish to be kept informed on the project status. There are many aspects of the project on which you will report, and you want to choose the most appropriate tool to use in each case. Which of the following are generally illustrated better by bar charts than network diagrams?

• Logical relationships

• Critical paths

• Resource trade-offs

• Progress or status

A heuristic is best described as a:

• Control tool

• Scheduling method

• Planning tool

• Generally accepted rule

Lag means:

• The amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying the project finish date

• The amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of its successor

• Waiting time

• The product of a forward and backward pass

A project manager is new to the company but has 10 years of project management experience. She is given a medium-sized project and is asked to plan so it is finished as quickly as possible because the company has a large list of projects to complete in the coming year. She will be given another project to manage as soon as she has this one baselined. She needs to report on the longest time the project will take. Which of the following is the best project management tool to use to determine this?

• Work breakdown structure

• Network diagram

• Bar chart

• Project charter

Which of the following is correct?

• The critical path helps prove how long the project will take.

• There can be only one critical path.

• The network diagram will change every time the end date changes.

• A project can never have negative float.

The agile project team you are managing is responsible for developing one of the five different components of a complex enterprise solution. Your PMO representative tells you she's concerned because your team is using a larger story point unit than the other four teams. What should you do?

• Tell the PMO that this is the story point your team has chosen, and it doesn't matter how large it is relative to the other teams.

• Ask your team lead to coordinate their story point metric with the other teams to ensure that the different components interface smoothly.

• Explain to the PMO that the size of each team's story point doesn't matter since this is just a theoretical concept, not a real-world metric.

• Show the PMO why your story point has to be larger, since your part of the solution has more complex requirements than the others.

A new project manager is walking you through the schedule she has created for her project. She asks you about the duration of a particular milestone, so she knows how to properly schedule it. What will you tell her about a milestone's duration?

• It is shorter than the duration of the longest activity.

• It is shorter than the activity it represents.

• It has no duration.

• It is the same length as the activity it represents.

Which of the following best describes the relationship between standard deviation and risk?

• There is no relationship.

• Standard deviation tells you if the estimate is accurate.

• Standard deviation tells you how uncertain the estimate is.

• Standard deviation tells you if the estimate includes a pad.