Knowledge Area Quiz Project Time Management Practice

Questions
Test Name: Knowledge Area Test: Project Time Management
Total Questions: 10
Correct Answers Needed to Pass: 7 (70.00%)
Time Allowed: 15 Minutes

Test Description
This practice quiz specifically targets your knowledge of the Project Time
Management knowledge area.

Test Questions
1. While planning the schedule for your project, you frequently refer to
the project calendar. The project calendar is:
A. A calendar containing the days on which various meetings
are scheduled within the project team.
B. A calendar of working days or shifts that establishes those
dates on which schedule activities are worked.
C. A calendar containing the list of days on which the project
team members will be on leave or take an "off".
D. A calendar that establishes the dates on which project
deliverables are sent to the customer.
2. As a project manager, you are in the process of preparing the
project schedule for the project. Which of the following accurately
depicts the sequence of your activities before you began preparing
the project schedule?
A. Sequence Activities, Estimate Activity Resources, Estimate
Activity Durations
B. Sequence Activities, Estimate Activity Durations, Estimate
Activity Resources
C. Estimate Activity Durations, Sequence Activities, Estimate
Activity Resources
D. Estimate Activity Resources, Estimate Activity Durations,
Sequence Activities
3. After one year of construction, an office building is scheduled to be
completed on 30 January. The landscaping work needs to start 15
days prior to completion of the building. Which of the following
relationships most likely represents the relationship of the start of
landscaping work to the completion of the office building?
A. Finish-to-start with a 15 day lead
B. Start-to-finish with a 15 day lead
C. Finish-to-start with a 15 day lag
D. Start-to-finish with a 15 day lag
4. You are the project manager of a project. As part of the planning

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process, you utilize a planning technique to subdivide the project

scope and deliverables into smaller, more manageable components.
What is this technique called?
A. Unit task analysis
B. Decomposition
C. Rolling wave planning
D. Arrow Diagramming Method
The accuracy of Activity Duration estimates can be improved by
considering the amount of risk in the original estimate. The three
types of estimates on which three-point estimates are based are:
A. Budgetary, ballpark, and Order of Magnitude.
B. Best case scenario, expected scenario and current scenario.
C. Most likely, likely and unlikely
D. Most likely, optimistic, and pessimistic
You have decided to apply Resource Leveling to a project, due to a
critically required resource being available only at certain times.
Which of the following will likely be true?
A. Resource Leveling can often cause the original critical path to
change.
B. Resource Leveling will over allocate resources to schedule
the project before the deadline.
C. Resource Leveling will require additional resources to
complete the project.
D. Resource Leveling will never alter the original critical path
Bar charts, with bars representing activities, show activity start dates
as well as end dates and expected activity durations. For control and
management communication, the broader and more comprehensive
summary activity that is used between milestones is referred to as:
A. Activity bridge
B. Milestone chart
C. Hammock activity
D. Gantt chart
A technique that iterates the project schedule many times to
calculate a distribution of possible project completion dates is called:
A. Monte Carlo Analysis
B. Monteford analysis
C. Pareto Cost chart
D. Deming Analysis
The critical path method (CPM) calculates the theoretical early start
and finish dates and late start and finish dates. The difference
between the late and early start of a task is called:
A. Free float
B. Feeding buffer
C. Danger zone
D. Total float
You are managing a project that involves work on a film shoot. The
editing activity can happen only after the film has been shot. The
logical relationship between the editing and shooting of the film can
best be described as:

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Finish-to-Finish (FF)
Start-to-Start (SS)
Start-to-Finish (SF)
Finish-to-Start (FS)

Answers
1. B - A project calendar is a calendar of working days or shifts that
establishes those dates on which schedule activities are worked. It also
establishes non-working days that determine dates on which schedule
activities are idle, such as holidays, weekends and non-shift hours.
[PMBOK 5th edition, Page 184] [Project Time Management]
2. A - The correct sequence of processes in the Time Management
Knowledge Area is: Plan Schedule Management, Define Activities,
Sequence Activities, Estimate Activity Resources, Estimate Activity
Durations, Develop Schedule, and Control Schedule. [PMBOK 5th edition,
Page 141] [Project Time Management]
3. A - The landscaping work needs to start on completion of the office
building, so it is a finish-to-start relationship. Since it needs to start 15
days before completion of the building, it requires a lead of 15 days.
Hence, the answer is finish-to-start with a 15-day lead. [PMBOK 5th
edition, Page 156] [Project Time Management]
4. B - Decomposition is the correct response. [PMBOK 5th edition, Page
151] [Project Time Management]
5. D - The accuracy of Activity Duration estimates can be improved by
considering the amount of risk in the original estimate. The three types of
estimates on which three-point estimates are based are: Most likely,
Optimistic, and Pessimistic. An Activity Duration can be estimated using
values derived from these three estimated durations. [PMBOK 5th edition,
Page 170] [Project Time Management]
6. A - Resource leveling can often cause the original critical path to change.
[PMBOK 5th edition, Page 179] [Project Time Management]
7. C - The correct response is the hammock activity. The comprehensive
summary activity that is displayed in bar chart reports for control and
management communication is called the hammock activity. [PMBOK 5th
edition, Page 182] [Project Time Management]
8. A - Monte Carlo Analysis is a technique that computes or iterates the
project cost or the project schedule many times, using input values
selected at random from probability distributions of possible costs or
durations. In this way, one can calculate a distribution of possible total
project costs or completion dates. [PMBOK 5th edition, Pages 180, 340]
[Project Time Management]
9. D - The difference between the early and late finish of a task is called the
total float for that task. Total float is the amount of time that a scheduled
activity can be delayed from its early start date without delaying the
project finish date. [PMBOK 5th edition, Page 177] [Project Time
Management]
10. D - This is a situation where the editing activity can happen only after the
film shooting has been completed. Hence, the logical relationship
between the two tasks is Finish-to-Start (FS). [PMBOK 5th edition, Page
156] [Project Time Management]