Exam 3 Deck Flashcards
(25 cards)
The longest time necessary to complete all of the activities in the network is called
Activity duration length
Critical path
Maximum slack path
None
Scope Creep is generally the result
poorly defined SOW
Which of the following is not a benefit having a highly detailed work breakdown structure
Lower status reporting costs
If the customer’s SOW contains words such as nearly or approximately
The customer uses his discretion in determining the meaning
Which of the following documents is not defined in the text as one of the four critical documents for preliminary planning
Network Diagrams
Project managers often rewrite the customer’s SOW into a document that they project team can easily understand
The scope statement
Which of the following is normally not addressed in a change control board meeting to approve a scope change
which functional unit will preform the change
Which of the following is usually not validated by using the WBS
The quality of deliverables
A project manager desires a work breakdown structure that goes through 6 levels of detail. Level 3 through level 6 would most likely be prepared by the
Subject matter experts
Plans such as the cost plan, schedule plan and quality plan are referred to as
Subsidiary plans
Which of the following scheduling techniques is most appropriate today for managing a project
Precedence Charts
Which of the following scheduling techniques is most appropriate today for reporting project status to a customer during an interchange meeting
BAR charts
The major disadvantage of using a bar chart on large projects is that bar charts
Do not show dependencies between activites
Which of the following activity on arrow network disgramming methods does not require three estimates for duration
ADM
Which of the following network diagramming methods do not use dummy activities
PDM
Which of the following network diagramming methods allows for branching and looping
GERT
Which of the following is an activity on-node network diagraming method
PDM
Which of the following cannot be determined after preforming a forward pass and a backward pass on a network diagram
The effort in each activity
Negative slack is the results of
The forward pass going beyond the customer’s end date and the backward pass is measured from the customer’s end date
If the optimistic time for an activity is 6 weeks, the pessimistic time is 24 weeks and the most likely is 12 weeks then the expected duration is
13 weeks
In which of the following schedule compression techniques is the cost of rework usually the greatest?
Performing series work in parallel
Smoothing out project resources from period to period is called
Resource leveling
Laying out a network diagram when you know before- hand the size of the available resource pool is called
Resource allocation or resource limited planning
The activity in a network has the following characteristics ES= 5 EF=9 LF=12 LS=
8
