Exam 7: Scheduling Activities

Prioritizing projects and carefully authorizing the start of non-critical activities can serve as remedies for multi-tasking.

Which of the following responses identifies a common type of logical dependency used to sequence project activities?

Projects are often completed late. Describe the techniques you would use as a project manager to improve the accuracy and reliability of your project schedule.

Creating a realistic schedule is often an iterative process because several factors can limit how fast a project can be completed. All of the following factors can limit how fast a project can be scheduled and completed EXCEPT:

Figure 7-3 System Integration Project -Consider the System Integration Project depicted in Figure 7-3. Based on the information provided,which activities constitute the critical path for this project?

Figure 7-4 Lab Experiment Project -Consider the Lab Experiment Project depicted in Figure 7-4. Based on the information provided,how many days can you delay the calibration of the instrumentation (Activity B),without impacting the expected project completion date?

The most common type of logical dependency to determine the sequence of project activities is "finish-to-finish".

If a project manager delays the start of an activity on the critical path,then the expected completion date of the project will occur at a later date than originally planned.

The total amount of time a schedule activity may be delayed from its early start date without delaying the project finish date is known as:

There is often terrific pressure to complete a project as quickly as possible. To confront this pressure,a project manager should quickly promise to meet the deadlines requested by the sponsor and then assemble a team to create the corresponding schedule.

GANTT refers to the Generalized Activity Network Tracking Technique which was developed to better understand how variability in the duration of individual activities impacts the expected project duration.

Figure 7-2 Research Project -Consider the Research Project depicted in Figure 7-2. Based on the information provided,which activity can you delay by one day without impacting the expected completion date for the project?

Estimating the number of work periods that will be needed to complete individual schedule activities characterizes which of the following time management processes?

Which of the following statements correctly describes the critical path?

Figure 7-2 Research Project -Consider the Research Project depicted in Figure 7-2. Based on the information provided,what is the late start date for activity A - "Plan Research"?

Figure 7-6 Network Scheduling Data -Consider the network scheduling data provided in Figure 7-6. Which activities constitute the critical path for this project network?

In order for activities to be useful as schedule building blocks,they should have tangible output that can be verified.

A successor activity follows a predecessor activity based on their logical relationship.

Figure 7-5 Duration Estimates -Consider the activity duration estimates presented in Figure 7-5. Based on the information provided and adopting the PERT conventions to calculate expected activity durations,what is the expected duration of Activity D - "Package Item"?

When developing a project schedule,float (or slack)refers to the time between the start and the finish of a planned activity.