ISQS 4350 (Burns) Exam 2 Questions And Answers Latest Updates
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Almost all knowledge areas have a ________ process and a ________ process.
a. plan | estimate
b. plan | schedule
c. estimate | control
d. estimate | schedule
e. plan | control - ️️e. plan | control
Which of the following statements is false?
a. A three-point estimate in PERT includes an ...
Almost all knowledge areas have a ________ process and a ________ process.
a. plan | estimate
b. plan | schedule
c. estimate | control
d. estimate | schedule
e. plan | control - ✔️✔️e. plan | control
Which of the following statements is false?
a. A three-point estimate in PERT includes an optimistic, a most likely, and a pessimistic
estimate.
b. A resource breakdown structure is a hierarchical structure that identifies the project's
resources by category and type.
c. Duration and effort are synonymous terms.
d. A Gantt chart is a common tool for displaying project schedule information on a
timeline.
e. Both c. and d. are false statements. - ✔️✔️c. Duration and effort are synonymous
terms.
As the project manager for a software development project, you are helping to develop
the project schedule. You decide that writing code for a system should not start until
users sign off on the analysis work. Further, you decide that testing of a module (an
object, class) will not commence until the entire module has been coded and compiled.
What type of dependency is this?
a. There is no dependency.
b. External
c. Mandatory
d. Discretionary
e. Internal - ✔️✔️c. Mandatory
The district magistrate of Arkham City has decided to rebuild the busiest road in the city.
She plans to close the street for the duration of the work, causing immense
inconvenience to the people who typically use the road. The project has 3 parallel paths
defined as the following:
Path A-B-C-H will take 14 days.
Path A-F-G-H will take 28 days.
Path A-D-E-H will take 20 days.
Given the information on hand, which of the following statements is true?
,a. Path A-D-E-H is the critical path.
b. Path A-B-C-H is the critical path.
c. Path A-F-G-H has the largest slack time.
d. Path A-F-G-H is the critical path.
e. Path A-D-E-H has the largest slack time. - ✔️✔️d. Path A-F-G-H is the critical path.
The ________ calculates the critical path and determines how long an activity can be
delayed without delaying the project.
a. concurrent pass
b. forward pass
c. backward pass
d. parallel pass - ✔️✔️c. backward pass
Which of the following is not one seven processes that make up the PMBOK knowledge
area known as time (schedule) management?
a. Sequence activities
b. Define activities
c. Control activities
d. Plan schedule management
e. Monitor activities - ✔️✔️e. Monitor activities
Which PMBOK activity is responsible for determining activity resource requirements,
and for determining a resource breakdown structure?
a. Estimate activity durations
b. Develop schedule
c. Plan schedule management
d. Estimate activity resources
e. Define activities - ✔️✔️d. Estimate activity resources
Rose leads the advertising of an innovative product, Teckos, just launched by her
company. She has determined the advertising for Teckos is an individual project
consisting of 7 activities. Information pertinent to these activities is included in the table
that follows. Using a Gantt chart, determine the earliest completion time for the project.
a. 10 weeks
b. 13 weeks
c. 11 weeks
d. 12 weeks - ✔️✔️d. 12 weeks
For any activity that has one or more predecessors, the ________ time is always the
largest early finish of any of its predecessors. If the early finish times of an activity's
,predecessors were 55, 40 and 35, then this time would be the largest of these three
early finish times or 55.
a. late finish
b. early start
c. early finish
d. late start - ✔️✔️b. early start
In project time management, which of the following processes involve calculating the
number of work periods that are needed to complete individual tasks?
a. Defining activities
b. Estimating activity durations
c. Controlling schedule
d. Planning schedule management
e. Sequencing activities - ✔️✔️b. Estimating activity durations
According to PMBOK, the first process involved in project time management is
________.
a. developing schedule
b. planning schedule management
c. defining activities
d. estimating activity durations
e. sequencing activities - ✔️✔️b. planning schedule management
Which of the following processes in project time management involves identifying the
specific tasks that the project team members and stakeholders must perform to produce
the project deliverables?
a. Developing the schedule
b. Sequencing activities
c. Controlling schedule
d. Estimating activity durations
e. Defining activities - ✔️✔️e. Defining activities
Which of the following are discrete tasks which require resources and time, within the
context of projects?
a. Schedules
b. Activities
c. Processes
d. Value chains
e. Milestones - ✔️✔️b. Activities
, Select the most accurate statement with regards to the Critical Path Method (CPM).
a. It accounts for the interruptions that may affect an activity between the start and the
finish times.
b. It assumes that activities are independent of one another, with clearly defined start
and finish dates.
c. It uses the variance in the critical path activities to evaluate the risks associated with
project completion times.
d. It allows us to investigate the effects of uncertainty of activity times on project
completion times. - ✔️✔️b. It assumes that activities are independent of one another,
with clearly defined start and finish dates.
Which of the following is a way to improve quality on the front-end of the development
lifecycle?
a. Walkthroughs
b. Regression testing
c. User acceptance testing
d. Unit testing
e. Integration testing - ✔️✔️a. Walkthroughs
The total effort for a project is calculated to be 24 person-months. Three capable
persons are assigned to the project. There is no mandatory or other sequencing
required in the project. What is its total duration likely to be?
a. 12 months
b. 3 months
c. 24 months
d. 8 months
e. 6 months - ✔️✔️d. 8 months
Consider the following table of activities A through G in which A is the start node and G
is the stop node. Draw the network above to determine the following. What is the
duration of the critical path? What is the late start time for activity E (how late can
activity E start)?
a. 29 | 14
b. 28 | 12
c. 29 | 15
d. 28 | 14
e. 29 | 12 - ✔️✔️c. 29 | 15
If the time units are months, duration is measured in ________ whereas effort is
measured in _______.
a. months, man-months
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