5. Project Scheduling

The first step in the development of a schedule is a:

• Listing of the activities

• Determination of dependencies

• Calculation of effort

• Calculation of durations

Which of the following generally cannot be validated using a work breakdown structure?

• Schedule control

• Cost control

• Quality control

• Risk management

Optimistic, pessimistic, and most likely activity times are associated with:

• PERT

• GERT

• PDM

• ADM

Which of the following is (are) the benefit(s) of developing a WBS to low levels?

• Better estimation of costs

• Better control

• Less likely that something will “fall through the cracks”

• All other answers are correct

The major disadvantage of using bar charts to manage a project is that bar charts:

• Do not show dependencies between activities

• Are ineffective for projects under one year in length

• Are ineffective for projects under $1 million in size

• Do not identify start and end dates of a schedule

The most common “constraint” or relationship in a precedence network is:

• Start-to-start

• Start-to-finish

• Finish-to-start

• Finish-to-finish

The work breakdown structure “control points” for the management of a project are the:

• Milestones

• Work packages

• Activities

• Constraints

The change control board approves a significant scope change. The first document that the project manager should update would be the:

• Scope baseline

• Schedule

• WBS

• Budget

The shortest time necessary to complete all of the activities in a network is called the:

• Activity duration length

• Critical path

• Maximum slack path

• Compression path

You are a Project Manager on a software project. You’ve created the schedule, and you need to figure out which activities absolutely cannot slip. You’ve done critical path analysis, identifying the critical path and calculating the early start and early finish for each activity. Which activities cannot slip without making the project late?

• • The activity with the most lag

• The activities on the critical path

• The ones with the biggest difference between early start and late finish

• • The last activity in the project, because it has no float