Exam 4: Planning Projects, part I Project Integration, scope, time, and Cost Management

____ estimates involve estimating individual activities and summing them to get a project total.

Activity ____________________ involves reviewing the activity list and attributes,project scope statement,and milestone list to determine the relationships or dependencies between activities.

The ____________________ is a network diagramming technique in which boxes represent activities.

The project ____________________ is additional time added before the project's due date to account for unexpected factors.

A key output of the resource estimating process is documentation of activity resource requirements.

Cost ____ involves allocating the overall cost estimate to individual tasks over time to establish a baseline for measuring performance.

The approved project scope statement and its associated WBS and WBS dictionary form the scope ____________________.

Most project teams use the most pessimistic time to estimate activity durations.

The project charter,preliminary scope statement,and current project management plan are key inputs to the scope management plan.

Provide a description of project time management,including the main planning tasks and associated documents.

Project ____________________ management involves defining and controlling what work is or is not included in a project.

____________________ charts provide a standard format for displaying project schedule information by listing project activities and their corresponding start and finish dates in a calendar format.

In the context of a network diagram,a ____ is simply the starting and ending point of an activity.

____ dependencies are inherent in the nature of the work being performed on a project.

____ development uses the results of all the preceding project time management processes to determine the start and end dates of project activities and of the entire project.

A(n)____________________ is a deliverable-oriented grouping of the work involved in a project that defines the total scope of the project.

The term "____" is used to describe each level of work in the WBS.

You need a detailed project schedule before you can develop a cost baseline.

A cost baseline is a(n)____ budget that project managers use to measure and monitor cost performance.

The main purpose of project planning is to guide project ____.