| 1. | The ________ is the document that starts the entire Project Time Management process. 
| A. | Charter |
| B. | SOW |
| C. | RFP |
| D. | Scope Statement |
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| 2. | Decomposition of the Scope Statement results in the ________.
| A. | Project plan |
| B. | WBS |
| C. | SOW |
| D. | Schedule |
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| 3. | You break down the WBS into smaller ________ to get detail so that you can construct a schedule.
| A. | Work packages |
| B. | Time components |
| C. | Sections |
| D. | Issues |
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| 4. | When using decomposition in activity definition, the final output is:
| A. | Deliverables |
| B. | Work packages |
| C. | Activities or action steps |
| D. | Schedule |
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| 5. | Updates to the WBS during activity definition are often called:
| A. | Supporting detail |
| B. | Refinements |
| C. | Updates |
| D. | Activities |
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| 6. | A form of progressive planning is called:
| A. | Scheduling |
| B. | Charting |
| C. | Expanded trial |
| D. | Rolling wave |
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| 7. | The major output from activity definition is:
| A. | The schedule |
| B. | The activity list |
| C. | WBS |
| D. | SOW |
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| 8. | Other outputs from activity definition are:
| A. | Activity attributes, Milestone lists |
| B. | WBS, SOW |
| C. | Technical requirements, and the WBS |
| D. | Activity costs, schedule costs |
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| 9. | Milestones are:
| A. | Activities with durations |
| B. | Significant events in the project life cycle |
| C. | Cost measurements |
| D. | Denote start and finish of all activities |
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| 10. | Three types of dependencies are mandatory, discretionary, and ________.
| A. | Easy |
| B. | Planned |
| C. | Internal |
| D. | External |
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| 11. | How long is the duration for a milestone?
| A. | 0 days |
| B. | 3 days |
| C. | It depends |
| D. | 5 days |
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| 12. | The type of dependency that is used by Microsoft Project is a ________ dependency.
| A. | Start-to-finish |
| B. | End-to-end |
| C. | Finish-to-start |
| D. | Start-to-end |
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| 13. | Starting a new computer system before turning the old one off is an example of a(n) ________ dependency.
| A. | Start-to-finish |
| B. | End-to-end |
| C. | Finish-to-start |
| D. | Natural |
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| 14. | Which Network Diagramming Method uses dummy activities?
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| 15. | PDM is also known as what?
| A. | Activities on nodes |
| B. | Activities dependencies |
| C. | Activities on arrows |
| D. | Activities sequencing |
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| 16. | PDM stands for:
| A. | Positive Daily Mechanisms |
| B. | Process Diagramming Method |
| C. | Precedence Daily Management |
| D. | Precedence Diagramming Method |
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| 17. | Conditional branches can be found in:
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| 18. | A schematic display of the project's activities and the logical relationships among them is a(n) ________.
| A. | Technically difficult process |
| B. | Working Schedule |
| C. | Project network diagram |
| D. | Schedule diagram |
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| 19. | ________ are a high-level compilation of the tasks below them.
| A. | WBS |
| B. | Summary tasks |
| C. | Schedules |
| D. | PDM |
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| 20. | The project plan is developed by:
| A. | The manager of project managers |
| B. | Executive management |
| C. | The project team and manager |
| D. | Sponsors |
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| 21. | The project schedule is developed in the ________ phase.
| A. | Execution |
| B. | Initiation |
| C. | Planning |
| D. | Conceptual |
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| 22. | Estimating databases and other historical data are examples of ________ that might be helpful in estimating durations.
| A. | Records |
| B. | Organizational assets |
| C. | Written data |
| D. | Electronic information |
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| 23. | Top-down estimating is also known as ________ estimating.
| A. | Organizational |
| B. | Simple |
| C. | Analogous |
| D. | Primary |
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| 24. | Which technique below is the most common simulation technique?
| A. | GERT |
| B. | Monte Carlo |
| C. | Linear Analysis |
| D. | Decompression |
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| 25. | Rules of thumb are known as ________.
| A. | Leveling Heuristics |
| B. | Common sense |
| C. | Problem solvers |
| D. | Monte Carlo analysis |
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| 26. | Monte Carlo simulation is done using ________ scenarios.
| A. | Simple |
| B. | Technical |
| C. | Common |
| D. | Multiple |
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| 27. | What tasks would you Fast Track to shorten the project duration in the Critical Path in Figure 10-9?
| A. | E & G |
| B. | B, D, & E |
| C. | C & F |
| D. | C & G |
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| 28. | Doing more activities in parallel is called ________.
| A. | Fast Tracking |
| B. | Schedule clearing |
| C. | Compressed work |
| D. | Planning compression |
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| 29. | Bar charts do not show ________.
| A. | Time constraints |
| B. | Dependencies |
| C. | Partial tasks |
| D. | All of the above |
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| 30. | The approved project schedule is called the:
| A. | Sponsored schedule |
| B. | Performance schedule |
| C. | Baseline schedule |
| D. | Approved schedule |
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| 31. | Anything done to bring expected future schedule performance in line with the project plan is known as ________.
| A. | Replanning |
| B. | Schedule arrangement |
| C. | Corrective actions |
| D. | Rebaselining |
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| 32. | If you update the schedule, the updates must be approved by the ________.
| A. | Project manager |
| B. | Project Team |
| C. | Line management |
| D. | Sponsor |
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| 33. | Revisions are a special type of schedule updates that make changes to:
| A. | Costs |
| B. | Resources |
| C. | Same as Fast Tracking |
| D. | Start/Finish Dates |
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| 34. | Rebaselining should occur only if the current baselines ________.
| A. | Are off by 10% |
| B. | Are off by 20% |
| C. | Make no sense |
| D. | Are bad |
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