Exam 12: Project Management

Adding on unnecessary deliverables to a project is known as ________.

The latest starting time for a task is equal to the latest finish time minus the task time.

Following are the three time estimates for a task in a project: optimistic completion time = 2 weeks Most likely completion time = 4 weeks Pessimistic completion time = 7 weeks Compute the expected time for the task.

A tool for prioritizing potential projects where an estimate is made of the difficulty of completing the project in a reasonable amount of time with available resources is known as ________.

Specialists that are assigned full-time to a project that needs to be completed quickly are known as ________ team(s).

A graph that conceptually shows how cumulative costs are incurred during a project over time is known as the ________.

The shortest time for completing a project task is known as ________.

________ is a term applied to the process of managing changes to the project charter and plan.

The best estimate for the time required to complete a project task is known as ________.

Task C is directly preceded by two tasks-task A and task B.Task A has an expected task completion time of five weeks and an ES time of week 6.Task B has an expected task completion time of seven weeks and an ES time of week 7.Task C has an expected task completion time of 10 weeks.The ES for activity C is week

A sequence of activities that leads from the starting node to the finishing node is called a

Scheduling production on a weekly basis is an example of a project.

The act of determining which tasks precede and follow other tasks is known as ________.

The phase of the project in which the rate of spending typically increases is the planning phase.

Given the portion of the network diagram shown below,where numbers in boxes show the task times,what is the earliest finish time for task C,if the earliest start time for task A is 10,and the earliest start time for task B is 13?

Key phases in a project time line are often referred to as milestones.

A tool for monitoring who is assigned to multiple projects is known as ________.

The project charter is most likely to include the project goals,scope and deliverables.

Reporting to see that the project plan is being followed is a key activity during which phase of a project?

The project team stage of development when a mutually supportive,steady state is achieved is