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PMI PMI-SP - PMI Scheduling Professional

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Holly is the project manager of the NDS project and she is 85 percent complete with her project though she should be 95 percent complete. Her project has a BAC of $9,850,400 and she has spent $8,011,221 to date. What is Holly's schedule performance index for this project?

A.

1.07

B.

0.98

C.

0.89

D.

Ten percent

Samuel works as a project manager in Bluewell Inc. He is performing constructability analysis in one of the initial planning phases. Which of these does constructability take into account during analysis? Each correct answer represents a complete solution. Choose three.

A.

Quality inspections and compliance

B.

Location, logistics, and resource availability analysis

C.

Labor productivity studies from previous similar projects in the area

D.

The average price of general labor in the area

Fill in the blank with an appropriate phrase. The_____ allows the project team to look at the performance of the project to date, and use that data to make more accurate projections about the future.

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

John works as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. He is working on a high-profile project with 80 stakeholders and he needs to express to his project team and to the management the importance of communication in the project. He would like to show the number of stakeholder communication channels in the project. Based on this information how many communication channels exist within this project?

A.

3000

B.

79

C.

80

D.

3160

Your project has a BAC of $750,000 and is 75 percent complete. According to your plan, however, your project should actually be 80 percent complete. You have spent $575,000 of your project budget to reach this point and you are worried about the project not being able to complete based on your current project budget. What is the to-complete performance index for this project?

A.

0.98

B.

-$16,677

C.

1.07

D.

0.94

You are the project manager of the NHQ Project. You have created the project network diagram as shown in the figure:

You are concerned about a risk on Activity G that if it happens will delay the project by four days. You would like to utilize float for Activity G. How much float is available for Activity G to help offset the risk event?

A.

Five days

B.

Four days

C.

Eleven days

D.

Zero

You are the project manager of the AHQ project. This project is scheduled to last for six months and will require $345,000 to complete. If the project completes earlier than scheduled, your organization will receive a bonus of $5,000 per day of early completion. Management has asked you to develop an aggressive schedule to realize as much of the bonus as possible, but management does not want you to increase the costs of the project beyond $1,000 per day of the bonus realization. Which of the following approaches will likely add costs to the project?

A.

Adding leads to the project work

B.

Fast tracking

C.

Crashing

D.

Using the critical chain method

Harry works as the project manager for his organization. He is creating the activity list and would like to tag those activities that are comprised of apportioned effort. Which of the following is the best example of apportioned effort?

A.

Adding features to the project's product that is not included in the project scope.

B.

Managing the day-to-day events of a project.

C.

Creating software as defined in the project scope.

D.

Completing project activities as start-to-start events.

John is the project manager for his organization. He has created a status dashboard for his stakeholders. What is a status dashboard?

A.

It is a report that details the current status of risks and issues.

B.

It is a software application that allows stakeholders to view the project manager's performance.

C.

It is a web-based tool to inspect the project deliverables for performance.

D.

It is a report that reflects the overall performance of scope, schedule, quality, cost, or other project performance metrics.