Project Management Quiz

A(n) ___________ normally does not have any cost or duration.

• milestone
• activity

• critical task

• timebox

What is the most common type of dependency between activities?

• finish-to-start

• start-to-finish

• start-to-start

• finish-to-finish

The ____________ method is a network diagramming technique used to predict total project duration.

• PERT

• MoSCoW

• critical path

• crashing

___________ is a technique for making cost and schedule trade-offs to obtain the greatest amount of schedule compression for the least incremental cost.

• Crashing

• Fast tracking

• Critical chain scheduling

• Parametric modeling

Using a(n) _________ approach to developing cost estimates requires a good deal of expert judgment and is generally less costly than others are, but it can also be less accurate.

• bottom-up

• parametric

• expert judgment

• analogous

The ___________ must be the basis for a project cost estimate if you plan to create a cost baseline and use earned value management as part of monitoring and controlling costs.

• project schedule

• cost model

• Gantt chart

• WBS

Instead of creating a detailed schedule for all of the activities required to complete an entire project, agile teams focus on the most valuable work they can complete within each iteration using an approach called ____________.

• timeboxing

• release planning

• kanban

• Scrum of Scrums

Which of the following statements is true?

• Agile projects include a detailed schedule for the entire project.

• Agile projects must still consider dependencies between activities.

• Agile projects do not require cost planning.

• Agile projects never use Gantt charts.

Instead of discrete numbers or a range of numbers for estimates, agile projects use ___________ estimates.

• timeboxing

• top-down

• analogous

• relative

Which of the following is not an agile estimating method?

• Planning poker

• Affinity estimating

• Parametric estimating

• Bucket system