Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1392

To meet regulatory requirements, you need to crash your project schedule. Your first step is to compute______________


A.
The cost and time slope for each critical activity that can be expedited
B. The cost of additional resources to be added to the project's critical path
C. The time saved in the overall schedule when tasks are expedited on the critical path
D. Three probabilistic time estimates of PERT for each critical path activity

Correct Answer: A

Explanation:

Explanation:
Slope = (Crash cost -Normal cost)/(Crash time -Normal time). This calculation shows the cost per day of crashing the project. The slope is negative to indicate that as the time required for a project or task decreases, the cost increases. If the costs and times are
the same regardless of whether they are crashed or normal, the activity cannot be expedited.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1391

Various tools and techniques are available to sequence activities, and several factors can help to determine which tool or technique to select. When a project manager decides to include sub-networks or a fragment network as part of his or her scheduling
technique, what does this decision say about the project?


A.
The work is unique requiring special network diagrams at various stages.
B. Software that manages resources is available over an existing electronic network.
C. Several identical or nearly identical series of activities are repeated throughout the project.

D. Multiple critical paths exist in the project.

Correct Answer: C

Explanation:

Explanation:
When identical network descriptions are repeated throughout a project, templates of those activities can be developed. If those series of tasks are repeated several times, the template can be updated several times. Software can be used with the templates to
facilitate documenting and adapting them for future use. The sub-network or fragment tends to represent a sub-project or a work package and is often used to illustrate or study some potential or proposed schedule condition, such as a change in preferential
schedule logic or the scope of the project.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1390

A schedule performance index of less than 1.0 indicates that the______________


A.
Project is running behind the monetary value of the work it planned to accomplish
B. Earned value physically accomplished thus far is 100%
C. Project has experienced a permanent loss of time
D. Project may not be on schedule, but the project manager need not be concerned

Correct Answer: A

Explanation:

Explanation:
The SPI represents how much of the originally scheduled work has been accomplished at a given period in time, thus providing the project team with insight as to whether the project is on schedule.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1389

When sequencing project activities in the schedule, all the following are true EXCEPT______________


A.
There may be scheduled dates for specific milestones
B. Every activity is connected to at least one predecessor and at least one successor
C. Lead or lag time may be required
D. Necessary sequencing of events may be described by the activity attributes

Correct Answer: B

Explanation:

Explanation:
The sequence activity process involves identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities. However, the last activity or milestone are not connected to at least one successor.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1388

Decomposition is a technique used for both WBS development and activity definition. Which following statement best describes the role decomposition plays in activity definition as compared to creating the WBS?


A.
Final output is described in terms of work packages in the WBS.
B. Final output is described as deliverables or tangible items.
C. Final output is described as schedule activities.
D. Decomposition is used the same way in scope definition and activity definition.

Correct Answer: C

Explanation:

Explanation:
Final output is described as schedule activities.
In the create WBS process, final output is described as deliverables or tangible items. In the define activities process, final output is described as activities.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1387

You are remodeling your kitchen and decide to prepare a network diagram for this project. Your appliances must be purchased and available for installation by the time the cabinets are completed. In this example, these relationships are______________


A.
Start-to-finish
B. Finish-to-start
C. Start-to-start
D. Finish-to-finish

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

Explanation:
The completion of the work of the successor activity depends upon the completion of the work of the predecessor activity.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1386

Review the following network diagram and table.

Of the various activities, which ones would you crash and in what order?


A.
A, C, E, andF
B. A, B, D, andF
C. A, B, E, andF
D. C, A, F, andG

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

Explanation:
First, it is necessary to determine the critical path, which is A, C, F, and G. To determine the lowest weekly crashing cost, start with C at $1,500 per week. The next activity is A, followed by F and G.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1385

Your approved project schedule was based on resource leveling because of a scarcity of resources. Management has now mandated that the project be completed as soon as possible. Which of the following methods will you use to recalculate the schedule?


A.
Resource manipulation
B. Reverse resource allocation
C. Critical chain scheduling
D. Resource reallocation

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

Explanation:
While resource leveling will often result in a project duration that is longer than the preliminary schedule as the original critical path probably will change and increase, it can also be used to get a schedule back on track by reassigning activities from noncritical to
critical path activities.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1384

Working with your team to provide the basis for measuring and reporting schedule progress, you agree to use the______________


A.
Schedule management plan
B. Network diagram
C. Project schedule
D. Technical baseline

Correct Answer: C

Explanation:

Explanation:
The approved project schedule is a key input to schedule control. It is the schedule baseline, as it is the approved version of a schedule model, and it provides the basis for measuring and reporting schedule performance.

Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1383

"I cannot test the software until I code the software." This expression describes which of the following dependencies?


A.
Discretionary
B. Rational
C. Preferential
D. Mandatory or hard

Correct Answer: D

Explanation:

Explanation:
Mandatory dependencies may be required contractually or be inherent in the nature of the project work. They describe a relationship in which the successor activity cannot be started because of physical constraints until the predecessor activity has been finished.
For example, software cannot be tested until it has been developed (or coded). They should not be confused with assigning schedule constraints in the scheduling tool.