Exam 6: Project Schedule Management

 In project schedule management, the process of _____ involves deciding how many people, equipment, and materials a project team should use to perform project activities.

 Which dependencies involve relationships between project and non-project activities?

 An activity is an element of work that has an expected duration, cost, and resource requirements.

 What term is used for the amount of time an activity can be delayed from its early start without delaying the planned project finish date?

 The _____ is based on the fact that any complex system at any point in time often has only one aspect or constraint that limits its ability to achieve more of its goal.

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

 The main outputs of _____ include work performance information, schedule forecasts, change requests, project management plan updates, and project documents updates.

 What is the first process involved in project schedule management?

 How does critical chain scheduling protect tasks on the critical chain from being delayed?

 A(n) _____ Gantt chart compares planned and actual project schedule information.

 Describe critical path analysis. How is the critical path calculated?

 In project schedule management, which is an output of controlling the schedule?

 Which technique involves doing activities in parallel that one would normally do in sequence?

 A backward pass through the network diagram determines the early start and early finish dates for each activity.

 _____ occurs when a resource works on more than one task at a time.

 In project schedule management, which process involves analyzing activity sequences, activity resource estimates, and activity duration estimates to create the project schedule?

 The main disadvantage of crashing is that it lengthens the time needed to finish a project.

 In a Gantt chart, thick black bars represent milestones achieved in a project.

 In project schedule management, which process involves estimating the number of work periods that are needed to complete individual activities?

 In an AOA network diagram, what occurs when two or more activities follow a single node?