Question 1

Holly is the project manager for her organization. Her current project is running late and her project customer has asked Holly to find a method to apply corrective actions to the project schedule. Holly is exploring the concept of crashing the project. Which of the following statements is true about crashing the activities in Holly's project?

Options :

A : The activities to be crashed must have additional quality control metrics associated with them

B : The activities to be crashed cannot be of fixed duration

C : The activities to be crashed cannot have risks associated with them greater than 0.80.

D : The activities cannot be on the critical path in order to be crashed.

Answer: B

Question 2

Beth is the project manager for the NHQ project. This project deals with fiber optic cabling in her organizational campus. Tim is the electrical engineer for her company and is the only internal resource that can complete several of the project activities that deal with the fiber optic cables. Because Tim is a highly-skilled resource, he is already scheduled on several projects within the organization and is not available when Beth needs him to complete some of the project activities. This is an example of which term?

Options :

A : Resource calendar conflict

B : Matrix network

C : Organizational process assets

D : Activity resource requirements

Answer: D

Question 3

You are the project manager for your organization. Maagement has asked you for this current project. You use the critical chain method to create the project network diagram rather than the more traditional critical path method. What is the critical chain method?

Options :

A : It examines only the non-critical path activities that are considered near critical, if the float is one day or less

B : It examines only the critical path activities to determine when the project completion date may be.

C : It examines the availability of needed project resources to determine when activities may actually happen.

D : It generates a Gantt chart that reflects the availability of project resources and considers working and non-working days for the project.

Answer: C

Question 4

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?

Options :

A : Adding leads to the project work

B : Fast tracking

C : Crashing

D : Using the critical chain method

Answer: C

Question 5

John works as a project manager of the NHQ Project. He has created the project network diagram as shown in the figure:

Based on the project network diagram, how much float is available for Activity H if Activity B is delayed by four days and Activity E is delayed by two days?

Options :

A : Zero

B : One

C : Four

D : Five

Answer: A

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