Exam 6: Project Time Management

Activity information is not a required input to the other time management processes.

On a network diagram,all arrowheads should face toward the ____.

______________________________ involves estimating how many people,equipment,and materials a project team should use to perform project activities.

There are ____ main processes involved in project time management.

In the activity definition process,the project team should review the ____________________ and activity attributes with project stakeholders before moving on to the next step in project time management.

The ____ provide(s)schedule-related information about each activity,such as predecessors,successors,logical relationships,leads and lags,resource requirements,constraints,imposed dates,and assumptions related to the activity.

Many projects,especially in information technology,have very unrealistic schedule expectations.

____ is a method of scheduling that considers limited resources when creating a project schedule and includes buffers to protect the project completion date.

The activity list,activity attributes,activity resource requirements,resource calendars,project scope statement,enterprise environmental factors,and organizational process assets all include information that affect ____.

What is a network diagram? What formats exist for creating network diagrams?

____________________ have no duration and no resources but are occasionally needed on AOA network diagrams to show logical relationships between activities.

Start-to-finish relationships are the most common type of relationships.

Outputs of ______________________________ include activity duration estimates and project document updates.

The outputs to schedule development include activity duration estimates and project document updates.

____________________ states that if something can go wrong,it will.

____ is a technique for making cost and schedule trade-offs to obtain the greatest amount of schedule compression for the least incremental cost.

____________________ is the number of workdays or work hours required to complete a task.

Managers often cite cost issues during the end phase of a project as one of their biggest challenges and the main cause of conflict.

____ involves doing activities in parallel that you would normally do in sequence.

Critical chain scheduling protects tasks on the critical chain from being delayed by using ____,which consist of additional time added before tasks on the critical chain that are preceded by non-critical-path tasks.