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The first process involved in project time management is _____ .

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planning schedule management

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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?

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Defining activities

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In project time management, which of the following processes generate the main outputs of an activity list, activity attributes, and a milestone list?

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Defining activities

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In project time management, which of the following processes primarily involve identifying and documenting the relationships between project activities?

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Sequencing activities

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In project time management, which of the following processes involve calculating the number of work periods that are needed to complete individual activities?

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Estimating activity durations

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In project time management, which of the following processes involve analyzing activity sequences, activity resource estimates, and activity duration estimates to create the project schedule?

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Developing the schedule

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In project time management, the process of_____ primarily involves checking and managing changes to the project schedule.

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controlling the schedule

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In project time management, a(n) _____ is an output of controlling the schedule

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project management plan update

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Which of the following documents is most likely to include planned project start and end dates which serve as the starting points for a detailed schedule?

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Project charter

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Which of the following is a difference between an activity list and an activity attribute?

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An activity attribute provides more schedule-related information about each activity than an activity list.

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A(n) _____ on a project is a significant event that normally has no duration.

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milestone

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In project time management, the main goal of _____ is to ensure that the project team has complete understanding of all the work they must do as part of the project scope so they can start scheduling the work.

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defining activities

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In project time management, the next step after defining project activities is:

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determining their dependencies.

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Which of the following types of dependencies are inherent in the nature of work being performed on a project?

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Mandatory

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_____ dependencies are sometimes referred to as soft logic and should be used with care because they may limit later scheduling options.

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Discretionary

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Which of the following dependencies involve relationships between project and non-project activities?

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External

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In an AOA network diagram, _____ occur when two or more activities follow a single node.

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bursts

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A network diagramming technique in which boxes represent activities is known as a(n) _____.

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PDM

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AOA network diagrams use only _____ dependencies.

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finish-to-start

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Which of the following is a relationship in which the "from" activity cannot start until the "to" activity is started?

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Start-to-start

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Which of the following is true of a finsih-to-finish dependency?

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It is a dependency in which the "from" activity must be finished before the "to" activity can be finished.

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Which of the following is true of dummy activities?

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They show logical relationships between activities.

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Which of the following is one of the main outputs of estimating activity resources process?

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Project documents update

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After working with key stakeholders to define activities and calculate their resources, the next process in project time management is to:

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estimate the duration of activities.

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In project time management, the ultimate goal of _____ is to provide a basis for monitoring project progress for the time dimension of the project.

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developing a schedule

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_____ provide(s) a standard format for displaying project schedule information by listing project activities and their corresponding start and finish dates in a calendar format.

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Gantt charts

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Which of the following is a network diagramming technique used primarily to predict total project duration?

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Critical path analysis

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The critical path is the _____ path through a network diagram, and it represents the _____ amount of slack or float.

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longest; shortest

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The amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying the early start date of any immediately following activities is known as a _____.

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free slack

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_____ is the amount of time an activity can be delayed from its early start without delaying the planned project finish date.

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Total slack

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The _____ for an activity is the latest possible time an activity might begin without delaying the project finish date.

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late start date

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The technique for making cost and schedule trade-offs to obtain the greatest amount of schedule compression for the least incremental cost is known as _____.

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crashing

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Which of the following techniques involve doing activities in parallel that one would normally do in sequence?

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Fast tracking

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A similarity between the crashing technique and the fast tracking technique is that:

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both can shorten the time needed to finish a project.

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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.

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feeding buffers

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_____ states that work expands to fill the time allowed.

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Parkinson's Law

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A difference between the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) and critical path method (CPM) is that:

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PERT uses different duration estimates whereas CPM uses one specific duration estimate.

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Which of the following is a similarity between scope control and schedule control?

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Both are portions of the integrated change control process under project integration management.

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Which of the following is an output of schedule control?

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Lessons-learned reports

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A draft schedule for a project is most likely to be found in a _____.

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project charter

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