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PMP资格认证考试-项目进度管理
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[单项选择]In your project, you are in the process of creating an activity list. This should contain all the following EXCEPT ______ .
A. activities that are not required as part of project scope
B. activities that are to be performed as part of the project
C. activity identifier and scope of work description for each schedule activity
D. all the above are included in the activity list
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[单项选择]You have taken information on project scope and resources and then developed durations for input to schedules. Since there was very limited information about the project, you used actual duration of a previous, similar activity as the basis for estimating future activity. What will be a next step after this activity
A. Using diagramming techniques like GERT and systems dynamic
B. Calculating theoretical early and late start and finish dates for all project activitie
C. Using standardized networks to expedite preparation of project network diagram
D. Subdividing project work packages into smaller more manageable components for better management contro
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[单项选择]All the following are benefits of fast tracking a project EXCEPT ______ .
A. facilitates duration compression
B. reduces risk
C. ensure activities are done in parallel which would normally be done in sequence
D. helps shorten the project schedule without changing the project scope
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[单项选择]Upon completing a project schedule, Roberta finds the critical path indicates the project will complete on April 15. As she works through the schedule, she finds there are several tasks with float. Task B has 10 days of free float, while Task F has 5 days of total float. If the start of Task B is delays, what is the completion date of the project
A. April 25.
B. Not enough information provided to calculat
C. April 20.
D. April 10.
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[单项选择]If you are calculating one early start and early finish for each task, you are using ______ (choose the best answer).
A. PERT
B. CPM
C. GERT
D. PDM
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[单项选择]In your project, you are using most likely. optimistic and pessimistic activity duration estimates(for activity duration estimating). The technique that you are using is ______ .
A. PERT
B. CPM
C. parametric estimating
D. none of the above
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[单项选择]You got news that because of bad weather, your shipment has got delayed by 2 weeks。What should be the first step that you take
A. Fast track the project to ensure that the project schedule is not delaye
B. Review the performance reports to determine which planned dates have not been met, and the impact on critical pat
C. Try to get additional supplies from an alternate location as soon as possibl
D. Take corrective action to minimize the impact because of the dela
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[单项选择]All the following statements regarding creating of time estimates are correct EXCEPT:
A. Mathematical analysis like CPM, GERT and PERT indicate the dates in which the activity can be scheduled given resource limits and other constraint
B. Duration compression techniques including fast tracking and crashing can help in decreasing the project schedul
C. WBS classification allows for useful activity ordering and sortin
D. The duration of the project is the sum of durations for all the tasks in the projec
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[单项选择]You work for one of the leading manufactures of country and western apparel. You are managing a project to redesign retail store layout to improve customer throughput and efficiency. Much of the project work must be done on site and will require the active participation of store employees. Many of these are lifelong members of a powerful union that has a reputation for labor unrest. One important component of your schedule must be ______ .
A. a resource capabilities matrix
B. buffers and reserves
C. a resource calendar
D. a resource histogram
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[单项选择]The critical path is established by calculating the following dates:
A. Start-to-start, start-to-finish, finish-to-finish, finish-to-star
B. Early start, early finish, late start, late finis
C. Predecessor-to-successor, predecessor-to-predecessor, successor-to-successo
D. Primary-to-secondary, primary-to-finish, secondary-to-secondary, finish-to-finis
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[单项选择]In schedule development, you create a distribution of probable results for each activity and use it to calculate distribution of probable results for the total project. The technique that you are using is ______ .
A. what-if analysis
B. mathematical analysis
C. Monte carlo analysis
D. resource leveling heuristic
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[单项选择]Your schedule analysis has shown that your project has a high likelihood of experiencing a schedule overrun. You know this because the cumulative EV is much ______ .
A. higher than the cumulative AC
B. higher than the cumulative PV
C. lower than the cumulative PV
D. lower than the cumulative CPI
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[单项选择]If the number of critical paths in the project increases, but the duration of the project remains same, what is the impact on the project
A. Crashing will be required to complete project on tim
B. Fast tracking will be required to complete project on tim
C. Risk of the project increase
D. None of the abov
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[单项选择]The schedule control process for a project ______ .
A. focuses on starting the project earlier than scheduled
B. is necessary for controlling changes to the project schedule
C. is concerned only with activities that are on the critical path
D. should focus entirely on activities that are difficult to carry out
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[单项选择]All the following are advantages of GERT(graphical evaluation and review techniques)as compared with PERT(project evaluation and review technique)EXCEPT ______ .
A. allows looping
B. allows for dummy tasks
C. allows branching
D. allows multiple project end results
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[单项选择]In your project, some requested changes were generated from the activity definition process. These changes will be processed through ______ .
A. activity change control system
B. corrective action
C. integrated change control system
D. activity sequencing
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[单项选择]In roiling wave planning:
A. Focus is maintained on long-term objectives, allowing near-term objectives to he roiled out as part of the ongoing wave of activitie
B. The work to be accomplished in the near term is planned in detail at a low level of the WB
C. The work far in the future is planned in detail for WBS components that are at a low level of the WB
D. A wave of detailed activities is planned during strategic planning to ensure that project milestones are achieve
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[单项选择]The objective of fast tracking a project is to ______ 。
A. increase productivity
B. reduce project duration
C. increase schedule tracking controls
D. reduce project risks
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[单项选择]Which of the following techniques is used to control the project schedule
A. Pareto diagra
B. Performance measuremen
C. Parametric modelin
D. Statistical samplin
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[单项选择]As one of the tools and techniques of activity sequencing, a lead ______ .
A. directs a delay in the successor activity
B. could be accomplished by a finish to-start relationship with a delay time
C. means the successor activity cannot start until after the predecessor is completed
D. allows an acceleration of the successor activity
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[单项选择]An activity has an optimistic estimate of 10 days, pessimistic estimate of 16 days, most likely estimate of 13 days. Assuming a normal distribution, what is the probability that the task will be completed within 10~16 days
A. 99.99%.
B. 99.73 Y0.
C. 95.46%.
D. 68.26%.
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[单项选择]Activities that are related and shown as a single, aggregate activity reported at a summary level are called ______ .
A. master schedule
B. hammock
C. WBS
D. hanger
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[单项选择]In your project, you realize the importance of determining the start and finish dates for project activities. If the project start or end dates are not realistic, then the project may not be completed on time. This is done as part of ______ .
A. activity sequencing
B. activity duration estimating
C. schedule development
D. activity definition
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[单项选择]Both the CPM and PERT methods assume that estimated activity durations are ______ .
A. statistically dependent
B. mean distributed
C. standard distributed
D. statistically independent
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[单项选择]All of the following are true about resource leveling EXCEPT:
A. Can be used to keep selected resource usage at a constant level during specific time period
B. Often results in a projected duration for the project that is longer than the preliminary project schedul
C. Is sometimes called the resource-based metho
D. Is used to develop a meaningful WB
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[单项选择]All of the following choices represent inputs to the activity resource estimating process EXCEPT:
A. Organizational process asset
B. Activity lis
C. The actual final cost of the last projec
D. Enterprise environmental factor
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[单项选择]Analogous duration estimating is ______ .
A. bottom-up estimating
B. frequently used to estimate project duration when there is a limited amount of detailed information
C. similar to multiple duration estimating
D. deductive estimating
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[单项选择]Which of the following is true about critical chain
A. It is a technique that allows development of an optimum project schedule when resources are unlimite
B. It is a technique that modifies the project schedule to account for limited resource
C. It is another name for the bar char
D. It is primarily used to ensure safety in major construction project
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[单项选择]The project time management processes include ______ .
A. define activities, sequence activities, estimate activity resources, and estimate activity durations
B. define activities, activity sequencing, and activity duration estimating
C. activity identification, activity execution, and activity results
D. activity determination, activity duration estimating, activity implementation, and activity results
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[单项选择]Resource calendars affect a specific resource or category of resources. They reflect how some resources work only during normal business hours, while others work three full shifts, or a project team member might be unavailable, such as on vacation or in a training program, or a labor contract can limit certain workers to certain days of the week. Resource calendars are valuable inputs for ______ .
A. developing an approximation of the costs of the resources needed to complete each schedule activity
B. aggregating the estimated costs of individual schedule activities or work packages to establish a total cost baseline for project performance
C. searching the cause of positive and negative variances as part of integrated change control process
D. assuring that potential cost overruns do not exceed the authorized funding periodically and in total for the project
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[单项选择]A planning package is a ______ .
A. unit of the project plan
B. unit of the scope management plan
C. WBS component below the control account
D. template used for the project
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[单项选择]A project schedule completion date will change if ______ .
A. the critical path is reduced
B. the contingency is no longer available
C. no float time is available
D. project resources are reduced
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[单项选择]To maintain the customer's schedule, massive overtime will be required between Christmas and new years. Many of your team members have put in for vacation during this time. You should ______ .
A. let the schedule slip and inform the customer
B. first give the employees the choice of working overtime
C. make the employees cancel their vacation plans and work overtime
D. hire temporary employees for the overtime
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[单项选择]Rearranging resources so that constant resource levels are maintained is called ______ .
A. floating
B. leveling
C. restructuring
D. crashing
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[单项选择]You are doing a Monte Carlo Analysis in which you are defining a distribution of possible activity durations for each schedule activity and calculating a distribution of possible outcomes for the total project. Monte Carlo analysis is an example of ______ .
A. resource leveling
B. what-if scenario analysis
C. schedule network analysis
D. critical path method
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[单项选择]In what way does free float differ from total float
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[单项选择]The “three-point estimates” method for estimating activity duration differs from the “single point, most-likely estimate” method in that it uses ______ .
A. an average of the three estimated durations to estimate activity duration
B. “dummy” activities to represent logic ties
C. “free float” instead of “total float” in the schedule calculations
D. bar charts instead of logic diagrams to portray the schedule
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[单项选择]Activity definition involves identifying and documenting the specific activities that must be performed to produce the deliverables and sub-deliverables identified in the work breakdown structure(WBS). All the following statements about the activity list produced as an output from activity definition are true EXCEPT:
A. Activity list must include All activities that will be performed on the projec
B. Activity list may include some activities that are as part of the project WB
C. Activity list should include descriptions of each activity to ensure that the project team members will understand how the work is to be don
D. Activity list is used in the schedule model and is a component of the project management pla
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[单项选择]You have just discovered an error in the implementation plan that will prevent you from meeting milestone date. The BEST thing you can do is to ______ .
A. develop altemative solutions to meet the milestone date
B. change the milestone date
C. remove any discussion about due dates in the project status report
D. educate the team about the need to meet milestone dates
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[单项选择]You are working on a software development project. On this project, a number of tests must be performed, including some that must be performed multiple time. The project includes activities whose sequence is conditional based on the outcomes of prior activities. For example, if an error is discovered through inspection, the project’s design may have to be modified, creating the need for additional testing. The network technique best able to handle these situations is ______ .
A. PDM network
B. PERT chart
C. GERT network
D. ADM network
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[单项选择]Output from the activity resource estimating process includes ______ .
A. job descriptions
B. salary schedules
C. identification and description of the types and quantities of resources required
D. analogous estimating
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[单项选择]Crashing in time management is ______ .
A. a schedule compression technique that typically includes reducing schedule activity durations and increasing the assignment of resources to schedule activities
B. a schedule compression technique in which phases or activities that normally would be done in sequence are performed in parallel
C. the timely input of data to calculate the critical path
D. equivalent to minimizing float
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[单项选择]The critical chain ______ .
A. focuses on managing the resources applied to buffer activities
B. alters the required dependencies in the project schedule to optimize resource constraints
C. adds duration buffers that are work schedule activities to maintain focus on the total float of network paths
D. adds duration buffers that are non-work schedule activities to maintain focus on the planned activity durations
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[单项选择]PERT means ______ .
A. program evaluation and review tech
B. project evaluation and review tech
C. project estimate and review tech
D. program estimate and review tech
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[单项选择]The Precedence Diagramming Method provides project managers with knowledge of ______ .
A. all levels of the work breakdown structure
B. activities likely to be involved in the project integration and resource allocation functions
C. a graphical representation of interdependencies of activities
D. the project completion date
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[单项选择]You work for an architectural-engineering firm and are responsible for designing the world’s most advanced chicken coop. The project is highly complex and will require hundreds of drawings. You multiply the number of drawing by the hours needed to produce each drawing to estimate how long the coop will take to design. This results in which one of the following estimate types
A. Quantitatively base
B. Exper
C. Analogou
D. Parametri
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[单项选择]Critical chain is a schedule network analysis technique that modifies the project schedule to account for limited resources. Critical chain combines deterministic and probabilistic approaches. Initially, the project schedule network diagram is build using non-conservative estimates for activity durations within the schedule model, with required dependencies and defined constraints as inputs. The critical path is then calculated. After the critical path is identified, resource availability is entered and the resource-limited schedule result is determined. The resulting schedule often has an altered critical path. The critical chain method adds non-work schedule activities to maintain focus on the planned activity durations, also referred to as ______ .
A. duration buffers
B. resource leveling
C. reverse resource leveling
D. crashing
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[单项选择]The hybrid of a project network diagram and bar chart is called ______ .
A. time-scaled network diagram
B. gantt chart
C. AON
D. precedence diagramming method
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[单项选择]Your project is behind schedule due to conflict between team members. Having resolved the conflict, to get the project back on schedule, you should consider ______ .
A. crashing the schedule
B. performing resource leveling
C. conducting reverse resource allocation scheduling
D. utilizing the critical chair resources
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[单项选择]Activity duration estimate inputs include all of the following EXCEPT ______ .
A. resource requirements
B. projeet document updates
C. activity lists
D. constraints