One of your team members is always late completing his deliverables. In order to help him out with proper planning for his activities, you'd like to explore different options with him. You asked the team member to send you information about the total float and free float for all of his activities if there is any. How does free float differ from total float?

Which one of the following takes the progressive elaboration approach and plans the work in the near term in detail and future work in a higher level?

One of your team members working on the project informed you that a work package will most likely require ten weeks to complete. In the best-case scenario, if everything goes well and there are no surprises, it will take eight weeks. Since he is involved in more than two projects and has several pending deliverables, this specific work package may take eighteen weeks to complete. Based on this information, what would be the correct estimated time to complete the work package?

Your project sponsor is extremely disappointed with the project as it is over budget by $20,000 and also behind schedule by several weeks. The sponsor has asked you to take care of the situation immediately. While exploring different options to shorten the project duration, you decide, with management’s approval, to perform several activities in parallel rather than in sequential order as originally planned. You know your option will possibly result in rework, increase risks, and require more communication, but you decide to go for it anyway. This is an example of which of the following?

A project manager is in the Sequence Activities process of identifying and documenting relationships among defined activities and arranging them in the order they must be performed. While in this process, the project manager decided to utilize a software tool to create a Precedence Diagramming Method (PDM) network diagram. This network diagram creates a schematic display of the sequential and logical relationships, dependencies, and the order in which activities in a project must be performed. The project manager also added the duration of each activity in the network diagram to calculate the critical path. Which one of the following is FALSE about the critical path?

You just completed developing the schedule for your project and got the approval from stakeholders and the sponsor. One of the team members assigned to work on a critical component informs you that she needs additional time to complete her activities as several relevant pieces were missed during planning. Her updated estimate would have no impact on the critical path; thus, the project duration would be the same. The best approach the project manager may take in this situation will be:

Your IT project has ten team members, and recently you have hired three more database developers. You are using a time-phased graphical display of activity start dates, end dates, and durations for tracking progress and reporting to the team. Which chart are you using?

Your team just finished the design activities for a software development project. You have ordered a server and a couple of PCs to set up the development environment and are waiting for the vendor to deliver to you so that the team can start the development work. The vendor informs you that it will take twelve days for the equipment delivery, setup, and configuration. The twelve days waiting time can be defined as:

You recently took over a project from another project manager. While reviewing the network diagram, you find that there are four critical paths and three near-critical paths. What can you conclude about the project?

Steve has just been assigned as a project manager for a newly approved software development project. The sponsor is interested in knowing a high-level estimation on the total duration of the project and asks Steve to send him the information by the end of the day. What kind of estimates should Steve use in this kind of situation?

Which one of the following estimating techniques uses mathematical models based on historical records from other projects and can sometimes produce higher levels of accuracy?

You are in the Control Schedule process of monitoring the status of the project by comparing the result to the plan, updating project progress, and managing changes to the project schedule baseline. You are mainly focused on the current status and changes to the project schedule, influential factors that create schedule changes, and management of actual changes as they occur. Which of the following is NOT a tool or technique in this time management process?

While reviewing your project resource histogram, you notice several peaks and valleys, as resources are not evenly distributed in your project. In order to evenly utilize resources as much as possible, you decide to move some activities from the week when you are using a lot of resources to the week when you are hardly using any. Which technique are you using in this case?

While working with your team members on activity sequencing, a team member identifies that even though a series of activities are planned to be completed in a specific sequence, they can be performed in parallel. What type of activity sequencing method may be utilized in this situation?

Your IT project is progressing well and is on schedule when a vendor sends you an e-mail stating that the equipment delivery will be delayed by a week due to severe snowstorm on the East Coast. Which of the documents would best capture the impact of the delay on the project schedule?

Your team has been working with the WBS for a while and has completed the decomposition of the work packages. After a week, the team finalized the estimates of all activities and completed the network diagram. Which of the following activities will be the next to concentrate on for the project manager?

Steve is the project manager for a construction project to convert an old nursing home into a new multistory office complex. The architectural design and site surveys are completed, and Steve is now waiting for the clearance and permit from the city to start the construction. This is an example of which kind of dependency?

Which of the following is FALSE about analogous estimating?

You are overseeing a data center project for one of your clients. The team members have finished creating the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and work breakdown structure dictionary. The team members also submitted their activity duration estimates to you. What should you focus on NEXT?

You have recently been assigned as a program manager to implement an ERP solution in your organization. Initially, the team will only work on five key modules in the first phase of the project. The second phase of the project has not been approved yet. You have estimated that three of the modules will take ten days each, and the remaining two will be completed in fifteen days each. It is not possible to work on these modules in parallel. What would be the approximate duration for the first phase of your project?

You are overseeing a project to implement a web-based traffic monitoring system. You have requested three programmers, three database developers, and two testers; senior management only approved five team members for your project. Which one of the following may you use to produce a resource-limited schedule by letting the schedules slip and cost increase in order to deal with a limited amount of resources, resource availability, and other resource constraints?

Your project sponsor is extremely disappointed with the project as it is over budget by $15,000 and also behind schedule by several weeks. The sponsor has asked you to take care of the situation immediately and do whatever it takes. While exploring different options to shorten the project duration, you decide to put some of the non-critical activities on hold so that some of the resources working on these activities can be assigned to the activities with the most schedule risk. You also asked for a couple of additional external resources to be added to the project. The sponsor agrees to pay the additional costs since time is now a critical factor. This is an example of which of the following?