1、Question 113: You are helping a colleague study for the PMP exam, and as part of his study plan he is using the PMBOK Guide as one of his reference books. He is having difficulty understanding the Time Management knowledge area processes, particularly how inputs from one process are often outputs fr
2、om other processes and as such there is an order in which the processes are generally performed. You offer some advice and describe the generally correct order of schedule development activities in the Time Management knowledge area in the PMBOK Guide. What is your answer?A A: Define Activities, Seq
3、uence Activities, Estimate Activity Resources, Estimate Activity Durations, Develop Schedule B: Sequence Activities, Develop Schedule, Estimate Activity Resources, Estimate Activity Durations, Define Activities C: Define Activities, Estimate Activity Resources, Estimate Activity Durations, Sequence
4、Activities, Develop Schedule D: Sequence Activities, Define Activities, Estimate Activity Resources, Estimate Activity Durations, Develop Schedule Question 114: You are using the work packages from your WBS to assist with creating your project schedule. You begin breaking the work packages down into
5、 the actual work necessary to complete the work package. What are you in the process of defining?C A: WBS dictionary items B: Project tasks C: Activities D: Work package assignments Question 115: You are the project manager on a project that is currently in the planning stage. You are working on you
6、r project schedule and beginning the process of defining your activity list. Involving your team members in this process would result in what outcome?A A: Better and more accurate results B: Project inefficiencies due to delays experienced in building consensus C: Bad team morale due to disagreement
7、s between experts D: Extra cost to the project Question 116: You have your activity list completed and are explaining to your team members what it contains. Which of the following is not contained on the activity list?A A: Milestone list B: Scope of work description C: All schedule activities requir
8、ed on the project D: Activity identifier Question 117: You and your project management team are conducting the activity sequencing for a new project. The team has determined that Task A takes 3 days. Task B is dependent on Task A finishing and has a duration of 1 day. Task C takes 4 days. Task D is
9、dependent on Task C starting and has a duration of 7 days. Task E is dependent on both Task C and Task D finishing and has a duration of 2 days. Task F is dependent on both Task E and Task B finishing and has a duration of 4 days. What is the duration of the project?B A: 10 days B: 13 days C: 17 day
10、s D: 8 days Question 118: You are leading your team in the preparation of your project schedule and are currently sequencing the activities and determining which type of precedence relationship exists between them. Which of the following is the most commonly used type of precedence relationship that
11、 you will use?D A: Start-to-start B: Start-to-finish C: Finish-to-finish D: Finish-to-start Question 119: You are using the precedence diagramming method to construct your project schedule network diagram. What other name is sometimes used to describe the precedence diagramming method?A A: Activity-
12、on-node diagram B: Activity-on-arrow diagram C: Critical chain methodology D: Critical path methodology Question 120: After talking with your team and the people responsible for completing the activity, you schedule two activities in your project so that the successor activity is able to start a wee
13、k before the predecessor activity. What is this is an example of?B A: Lag B: Lead C: Slack D: Float a. 滞后 b. 提前时间 c. 时差 d. 浮动时间 Question 121: You are leading your project scheduling specialists in the completion of your project schedule and you wish to add leads and lags into your schedule to accura
14、tely reflect the total project duration. Some members of your team are confused about the two terms. How would you describe the difference between a lead and a lag to them?A A: A lead means a successor activity can be started prior to the completion of a predecessor activity. A lag directs a delay i
15、n the successor activity. B: A lead means that both activities can start at the same time. A lag means that neither can start until the other one starts. C: A lead means that the successor activity must start prior to the predecessor activity finishing. A lag means the successor activity has a manda
16、tory dependency and can not start until the predecessor activity is complete. D: A lead means the amount of time free on the critical path between activities. A lag is the amount of delay that can occur between activities that will not adversely affect the final project delivery date. Question 122:
17、You are completing the sequence of activities and note that one of your activities can not proceed until consent 同意 is granted by the local government agency. This is an example of what sort of dependency?B A: Discretionary B: External C: Environmental D: Mandatory Question 123: You have successfull
18、y completed the first iteration 迭代;反复;重复 of your project schedule network diagram. This indicates that you have completed the work in which PMBOK Guide process?D A: Control Schedule B: Define Activities C: Develop Schedule D: Sequence Activities Question 124: Your project sponsor has asked to see yo
19、ur resource calendar. What sort of information is included in this document?D A: The length of time the project will require input from external resources. B: The dates of annual holidays for project team members. C: The duration of each activity in the project resource diagram. D: When and how long
20、 project resources will be available during the project. Question 125: You are estimating your activity resources and breaking down the work within each activity to its lowest level and then aggregating these estimates to get a total quantity for each activitys resources. What tool or technique are
21、you using?B A: Published estimating data B: Bottom-up estimating C: Expert judgment D: Parametric estimating Question 126: You are about to begin the work to estimate activity durations on your project. Which of the following would not be an input you could use to complete this work?B A: Activity at
22、tributes B: Activity duration estimates C: Project scope statement D: Activity list Question 127: While estimating the activity durations on your project, you come across a similar project completed by your organization last year. To save time, you use information from this project to help estimate
23、activity durations. This is an example of which tool or technique?B A: Bottom-up estimating B: Analogous estimating C: Parametric estimating D: Three-point estimating Question 128: As a result of a brainstorming session, your team determines that the most likely duration of an activity will be 8 day
24、s, the optimistic duration is 6 days , and the pessimistic duration is 16 days. What it the expected activity duration?C A: 10 days B: 5 days C: 9 days ( 16+6+4*8) /6 D: 30 days Question 129: There is some uncertainty over the duration of a particular activity on your project. You call your team tog
25、ether, all of whom have experience in completing the activity. After a brainstorming session, they are able to determine a most likely duration, an optimistic duration, and a pessimistic duration. You then use these numbers to calculate the expected activity duration. This is an example of which sor
26、t of tool or technique?B A: Bottom-up estimating B: Three-point estimating C: Analogous estimating D: Parametric estimating Question 130: To estimate the amount of time it will take to install 500 meters of cable on your project, you divide the number of meters required by how many meters an hour th
27、e person laying the cable can lay. This is an example of which sort of tool or technique?D A: Three-point estimating B: Bottom-up estimating C: Analogous estimating D: Parametric estimating 参数估计 Question 131: You are leading your team members in the development of your project schedule. You have jus
28、t started the process and are checking that you have all the appropriate inputs required. Which of the following would not be an input into this process?D A: Resource calendar B: Project schedule network diagram C: Activity list D: Project schedule Question 132: What is the PMBOK Guide process of an
29、alyzing activity sequences, durations, resource requirements, and scheduled constraints to create the project schedule?C A: Project Schedule Development B: Create Project Schedule C: Develop Schedule D: Schedule Management Question 133: You are completing a network diagram with the following informa
30、tion: Task A has a duration of 3 days and has the start as a predecessor; Task B has a duration of 5 days and also has the start as a predecessor; Task C has a duration of 4 days and has Task A as a predecessor; Task D has a duration of 4 days and has Task B as a predecessor; Task E has a duration o
31、f 6 days and has Tasks C and D as predecessors; Task F has a duration of 5 days and has Task D as a predecessor; the finish milestone has a duration of zero days and has Tasks E and F as predecessors. Using this data, what is the duration of the project?D A: 16 B: 14 C:13 D: 15 Question 134: You are
32、 completing a network diagram with the following information: Task A has a duration of 3 days and has the start as a predecessor; Task B has a duration of 5 days and also has the start as a predecessor; Task C has a duration of 4 days and has Task A as a predecessor; Task D has a duration of 4 days
33、and has Task B as a predecessor; Task E has a duration of 6 days and has Tasks C and D as predecessors; Task F has a duration of 5 days and has Task D as a predecessor; the finish milestone has a duration of zero days and has Tasks E and F as predecessors. What is the critical path for this network
34、diagram?B A: Start-B-D-F-Finish B: Start-B-D-E-Finish C: Start-A-C-E-Finish D: Start-A-C-F-Finish Question 135: According to Goldratts critical chain theory, what should you do in order to reduce risk in project schedules?B A: Start activities in the feeder chains as late as possible. B: Add buffers
35、 缓冲区 to the critical chains. C: Start activities in the critical chains as early as possible. D: Start activities in the feeder chains as early as possible. Question 136: During a discussion with a fellow project manager you realize that she is using the terms critical path method and critical chain
36、 method incorrectly. You offer some pieces of advice and insight into how the two methods are different. Which of these statements about the critical path method and the critical chain method is FALSE?D A: The critical path method schedules early start and late start dates to planned activities, whe
37、reas the critical chain method schedules only late start dates to planned activities. B: The critical chain method initially uses non-conservative estimates, whereas the critical path method is concerned with using more accurate estimates. C: The critical path method focuses on managing the total fl
38、oat of network paths, whereas the critical chain method focuses on managing the buffer activity durations and the resources applied to planned schedule activities. D: The critical chain method accounts for resource availability, whereas the critical path method does not. Question 137: You are adding
39、 duration buffers that are non-workable schedule activities to manage uncertainty in your project schedule. What tool or technique are you using?D A: Parametric estimating B: Critical path method C: Three-point estimating D: Critical chain method Question 138: You are using a methodology that calcul
40、ates the amount of float on various paths in the network diagram to determine the minimum project duration. What tool or technique are you using?A A: Critical path method B: Critical chain method C: Parametric estimating D: Three-point estimating Question 139: In the first attempt at resource leveli
41、ng(资源平衡) the project schedule, what would you expect to occur?A A: The overall project duration will increase. B: The number of required resources will decrease during certain time periods of the project. C: The number of required resources will increase during certain time periods of the project. D
42、: The overall project duration will decrease. Question 140: You are the project manager on a software project. While examining your schedule you see that there has been a delay in completing a task. The sensible choice seems to move a person, someone who is an expert on the work that is behind, from
43、 another task. There is a choice between two people who are working on different tasks. One person is working on a task that has 5 days of free float and the other is working on a task that has 8 days of total float and no free float. What is your BEST course of action?D A: A person should be brough
44、t in from outside the project. B: The person working on the task with total float of 8 days. C: Either person can be used. D: The person working on the task with free float of 5 days. Question 141: You are using a computer-based modelling technique that examines possible outcomes based on a range of
45、 potential probabilities if a particular situation occurs. What is this technique called?D A: Parametric estimating B: Schedule compression C: Critical chain methodology D: What-if scenario analysis 情景分析 Question 142: Your project team is behind schedule and has decided to compress the schedule. The
46、y have requested extra budget to bring in the additional resources required. Which schedule compression technique are they seeking to use?B A: Compressing B: Crashing 赶工 C: Fast tracking D: Resource leveling Question 143: You have managed to bring forward the predicted completion date for your proje
47、ct by doing in parallel several of the activities that were scheduled to be done in sequence. What is this technique called?C A: Acceleration B: Increasing priorities C: Fast tracking D: Crashing Question 144: You are working on a project to build a new house. Usually you would wait until the concre
48、te foundation dried and then erect the wall on top of it. To speed up the project, you start putting the wall frame together off site while the concrete foundation is drying. This is an example of which schedule compression technique?A A: Fast tracking B: Compressing C: Crashing D: Resource leveling
49、 Question 145: Your project sponsor asks you to attend a senior management meeting and present a brief update on your project progress. Which of the following would be best to use in the presentation?A A: Bar chart(长条统计图) B: Project management plan C: Work performance information D: Schedule network diagram Question 146: What is the name of the process in the PMBOK Guide that monitors the status of the project to update project progress and manage changes to the schedule baseline?D A: Develop Schedule B: Monitoring and Contr