Schedule Management 20Q Test

This is a randomized 20-question test on Schedule Management KA of PMBoK

Question 1 of 20

Barry is a project manager in Stoc Advisaries Inc. He is currently involved in a major upgrade to their customer facing application stock-advise. He is working on the schedule and has just finished the RBS for the project. What process is he likely to have completed

1. Estimate costs

2. Plan Risk management

3. Estimate resources

4. Estimate Durations

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Question 2 of 20

Backward pass is a method

1. To determine the late start and late finish of only the tasks in the critical path

2. To determine the float of each task in the critical path

3. To determine the late start and late finish of each task in the network diagram

4. To determine the early start and early finish of all the tasks in the network diagram

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Question 3 of 20

In a circus, there is a stunt involving swinging. There are many swingers whose legs are anchored to the swing and their hands are free for stunts. There are free swingers who perform many stunts and swing between these Anchored swingers. One unit of activity of an anchored swinger starts by holding the free swinger, continues with performing the stunts and then finishes with the anchored swinger leaving the contact of free swinger. There is a dependency in this scenario that an anchored swinger can start his stunt by holding the hand of the free swinger only after the previous anchored swinger has left the hands of the free swinger. This dependency between the activities of anchored swingers is of type

1. SF

2. FS

3. FF

4. SS

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Question 4 of 20

In a circus, there is a stunt involving swinging. There are many swingers whose legs are anchored to the swing and their hands are free for stunts. There are free swingers who perform many stunts and swing between these Anchored swingers. One unit of activity of an anchored swinger starts by holding the free swinger, continues with performing the stunts and then finishes with the anchored swinger leaving the contact of free swinger. There is a dependency in this scenario that one anchored swinger can leave the contact of the free swinger only after another anchored swinger holds the free swinger. This dependency between the activities of anchored swingers is of type

1. FS

2. FF

3. SF

4. SS

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Question 5 of 20

Which of the statements is true about fast tracking?

1. Additional resources are allocated to tasks in the critical path so that the duration of the tasks and hence the whole project is fast tracked

2. In a fast tracking method, the float of each task is leveraged to fast track the project.

3. In a fast tracking method, employees are motivated to work harder and faster so that the project completion is fast tracked.

4. In a fast tracking method, the discretionary dependencies are re-examined to exploit inherent parallelism among activities

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Question 6 of 20

The outcome of sequence activities is

1. Project activity diagram

2. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

3. Activity list

4. Project network diagram

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Question 7 of 20

A project manager has just defined the activity list for a project. What is the possible process that he should execute next?

1. Estimate resources

2. Estimate cost

3. Estimate durations

4. Sequence activities

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Question 8 of 20

Barry is a project manager in Stoc Advisaries Inc. He is currently involved in a major upgrade to their customer facing application stock-advise. While estimating the resources, he is identifying the resources for activities at the leaf nodes of the activity breakdown structure and then aggregating the resources at summary activities and then at the project level. What estimation method is Barry likely to be using:

1. Bottom up estimation

2. Top down estimation

3. Analogous estimation

4. Parametric estimation

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Question 9 of 20

Tom is leading a project which is in the planning phase. And based on statistical samplings, he has determined that for a specific case, the optimistic duration estimate is 4 days, most likely estimate is 7 days and the pessimistic estimate is 9 days. What would be the 3-point estimate according to PERT distribution?

1. 7 days

2. 7.5 days

3. 6.83 days

4. 6.7 days

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Question 10 of 20

10.

Which of the following statement is TRUE with respect to the relationship between scope and activity definition

1. Defining activities is a pre-requisite to base lining scope

2. Activity definition and scope base line have no relationship at all

3. Scope base line is an input to defining activities

4. WBS is part of scope base line and activities are part of WBS base line.

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Question 11 of 20

11.

The outcome of defining activities is

1. Task breakdown structure

2. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

3. Project activity diagram

4. Activity list

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Question 12 of 20

12.

Please refer to the network diagram above. In this network diagram, the length of the critical path is –

1. 13 days

2. 21 days

3. 19 days

4. 18 days

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Question 13 of 20

13.

The number of days by which a task can be delayed without delaying any of its successor tasks is called

1. Free Float

2. Float

3. Slack

4. Total Float

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Question 14 of 20

14.

lease refer to the network diagram above. In this network diagram, the Late Start and Late Finish for task B are –

1. 6, 11

2. 11,16

3. 5, 10

4. 3, 8

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Question 15 of 20

15.

1. It is an incomplete network diagram

2. What is the closest description of the network diagram above?

3. It is a network diagram depicting a critical chain.

4. It is a network diagram depicting a critical path

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Question 16 of 20

16.

Please refer to the network diagram above. In this network diagram, the critical path is –

1. A-D-G-H

2. A-E-F-G-H

3. A-E-F-H

4. A-B-C-H

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Question 17 of 20

17.

Please refer to the network diagram above. In this network diagram, the free float for task D is

1. 4 days

2. 6 days

3. 2 days

4. 8 days

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Question 18 of 20

18.

An estimation method uses the following formula

Estimate = (O + M + P) / 3

Where

O = Optimistic Estimate

M = Most likely estimate

P = Pessimistic estimate

This method is of the following type among estimation methodologies:

1. Statistical estimation because is uses likelihoods

2. Parametric estimation because it uses a formula

3. 3 point estimate with triangular distribution

4. 3 point estimate with PERT distribution

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Question 19 of 20

19.

The PERT estimate of duration for a task is 12 days which has an optimistic estimate of 6 days and a most likely estimate of 10 days. What is the pessimistic estimate?

1. 18 days

2. 26 days

3. 14 days

4. 16 days

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Question 20 of 20

20.

Which of the following statement is TRUE with respect to defining activities?

1. All activities are defined as part of WBS in the scope baseline

2. Some activities can be defined initially and activities for mile stones occurring later on can be defined when the project is closer to the milestone

3. It is fine if no activities are defined initially

4. All activities must be defined while developing a schedule

Question 20 of 20