Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1790

A number of approaches can be helpful when estimating resource requirements for activities on a project. Assume you are managing a project and you have already prepared your WBS. When you decomposed your WBS, it has 45 work packages. You then
prepared an activity list. Now, you are preparing your schedule and determining your resource requirements. You found there were about 30 activities that you could not estimate with a reasonable degree of confidence, so you and your team decided to use which
one of the following approaches to help with these activity resource estimates:


A.
Resource breakdown structure
B. Published estimating data
C. Alternatives analysis
D. Bottom-up estimating

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

Explanation:
When an activity cannot be estimated with a reasonable degree of confidence, the work then needs to be decomposed into more detail. The estimates then are aggregated into a total quantity for each of the activity’s resources through a bottom-up approach.

These activities may or may not have dependencies between them. However, when dependencies exist, this pattern of use of resources then is documented in the estimated requirements for each activity.