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PMI PMI-SP - PMI Scheduling Professional

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Total 323 questions

Which of the following documents captures and defines the work activities, deliverables, and a timeline that a vendor will execute against in performance of work for a customer?

A.

Project charter

B.

Scope of statement

C.

SOW

D.

WBS

You are the project manager for your organization. You are working with your project team to create activity duration estimates using the PERT method. What is the formula for PERT?

A.

(O+ML+P)

B.

(O+(6M)+P)6

C.

(O+ML+P)/3

D.

(O+(4M)+P)/6

Which of the following are the inputs to the Develop Project Charter process? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

A.

Procurement document

B.

Contract

C.

Business case

D.

Project statement of work

Nancy is the project manager of the JJJ Project. This project has recently been approved by the project customer as complete so Nancy must now finalize the administrative closure. Nancy needs to create the final project report to report the successes and failures in the project. Who should Nancy deliver this final project report to if she is participating in a projectized structure?

A.

Functional Management

B.

Project sponsor

C.

Whomever the communications management plan directs her to

D.

Project customer

Examine the figure given below:

If Activity B takes eight days to complete instead of five days as schedule, how long can you now delay Activity H?

A.

Three days

B.

One day

C.

Four days

D.

Zero days

Holly is the project manager for her organization. In her project, she has worked with the project team to define when the project team will be utilized in the project, the duration of the project activities, and the sequence in which the project work must be completed. During several phases of her project, the project team will need to work more than fifty hours per week. The project team members have agreed this is necessary and they're willing to do the work to complete the project. Management, however, has not approved Holly's schedule based on the overtime the scheduling will require. They have set a limit on the project schedule of 45 hours per week. What is this limit technically called? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose all that apply.

A.

Constraint

B.

Assumption

C.

Execution variance analysis

D.

Resource leveling heuristic

Jim is the project manager for his project. He and his project team are creating their duration estimates for the work packages in the WBS. For each activity, Jim is adding a few hours to the duration estimate in case something goes wrong during the completion of the work activity. Sarah, the project sponsor, does not approve of this and warns Jim of Parkinson's Law. What is Parkinson's Law?

A.

People will behave based on what their behavior brings them.

B.

As employees do repetitive tasks, duration should decrease.

C.

Work expands to fill the amount of time allotted to it.

D.

An exponential increase labor does not correlate to an exponential decrease in duration.

You work as a project manager for ABC Inc. You are currently overseeing a project on a high-rise building site. Your prime concern is to ensure that cranes are used effectively for moving materials. You also have to ensure that delivery trucks do not have to wait in a queue and that workers on the upper floors are able to get their deliveries on time. Which type of scheduling would be required in such a scenario?

A.

Critical path scheduling

B.

Time-oriented scheduling

C.

Resource-oriented scheduling

D.

Network scheduling

Tom works as the project manager for BlueWell Inc. He is working with his project to ensure timely and appropriate generation, retrieval, distribution, collection, storage, and ultimate disposition of project information. What is the process in which Tom is working?

A.

Work performance measurement

B.

Stakeholder expectation management

C.

Project communication management

D.

Stakeholder analysis

Which of the following documents is a narrative description of products or services to be supplied by the project and has detailed requirements and pricing specified on it?

A.

Scope of statement

B.

Project charter

C.

Statement of work (SOW)

D.

WBS