Project Schedule Management Dr. Ginger Levin, PMP, PgMP

1. What is the duration of the critical path in this network?

• a. 10

• b. 12

• c. 14

• d. 15

2. What is the float for Activity G?

• a. –2

• b. 0

• c. 1

• d. 4

3. If a project planner imposes a finish time of 14 on the project with no change in the start date or activity durations, what is the total float of Activity E?

• a. –1

• b. 0

• c. 2

• d. Cannot be determined

4. If the imposed finish time in question 3 above is removed and reset to 16 and the duration of Activity H is changed to 3, what is the late finish for Activity G?

• a. –11

• b. 11

• c. –13

• d. 13

5. Your company, which operates one of the region’s largest chemical processing plants, has been convicted of illegally dumping toxic substances into the local river. The court has mandated that the required cleanup activities be completed by February 15. This date is an example of—

• a. A key event

• b. A milestone

• c. A discretionary dependency

• d. An external dependency

6. You are managing a construction project for a new city water system. The contract requires you to use special titanium piping equipment that is guaranteed not to corrode. The titanium pipe must be resting in the ground a total of 10 days before connectors can be installed. In this example, the 10-day period is defined as—

• a. Lag

• b. Lead

• c. Float

• d. Slack

7. You are working to control your schedule. You have a number of tools and techniques you can use and may need to use several of them for effectiveness. You decide you want to track work remaining to be done so you will use—

• a. Iteration burndown charts

• b. Milestone charts

• c. Applied schedule reserves

• d. Calculation of multiple work package durations

8. You are planning to conduct the team-building portion of your new project management training curriculum out-of-doors in the local park. You are limited to scheduling the course at certain times of the year, and the best time for the course to begin is mid-July. You are using the precedence diagramming method for your schedule. In it, you can show relationships between tasks in four ways, and the most common is—

• a. Finish-to-start

• b. Finish-to-finish

• c. Start-to-start

• d. Start-to-finish

9. Project schedule development is an iterative process. If the start and finish dates are not realistic, the project probably will not finish as planned. You are working with your team to define how to monitor any schedule changes. You documented your decisions in which of the following?

• a. Schedule change control procedures

• b. Schedule management plan

• c. Schedule risk plan

• d. Service-level agreement

10. If, when developing your project schedule, you want to define a distribution of probable results for each schedule activity and use that distribution to calculate another distribution of probable results for the total project, the most common technique to use is—

• a. What-if scenario analysis

• b. Monte Carlo analysis

• c. Linear programming

• d. Concurrent engineering