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1. You are managing a software project. Your QA manager tells you that you need to plan to have her team start their test planning activity so that it finishes just before testing begins. But other than that, she says it can start as late in the project as necessary. What’s the relationship between the test planning activity and the testing activity?
2. You’re managing an industrial design project. You’ve come up with the complete activity list, created network diagrams and estimated the durations to each activity. What’s the next thing that you do?
3. You’re managing a project, when your client tells you that an external problem happened, and now you have to meet an earlier deadline. Your supervisor heard that in a situation like this, you can use schedule compression by either crashing or fast-tracking the schedule, but he’s not sure which is which. What do you tell him?
4. Three members of your project team want to pad their estimates because they believe there are certain risks that might materialize. What is the BEST way to handle this situation?
5. You’re managing an interior decoration project, when you find out that you need to get it done earlier than originally planned. You decide to fast-track the project. This means:
6. You’re managing a software project, when your customer informs you that a schedule change is necessary. Which is the BEST thing to do?
7. Your company has previously run other projects similar to the one you’re currently managing. What is the BEST way to use that information?
8. You’re managing a software project. You’ve created the schedule, and you need to figure out which activities absolutely cannot slip. You’ve done critical path analysis, identifying the critical path and calculating the early start and early finish for each activity. Which activities cannot slip without making the project late?
9. You’re managing a construction project. You’ve decomposed work packages into activities, and your client needs a duration estimate for each activity that you came up with. Which of the following BEST describes what you are doing?
10. You’re planning the schedule for a highway construction project, but the final date you came up with will run into the next budget year. The state comes up with capital from a reserve fund, and now you can increase the budget for your resources. What’s the BEST way to compress the schedule?
11. A design engineer is helping to ensure that the dependencies within her area of expertise are properly defined on the project. The design of several deliverables must be complete before manufacturing can begin. This is an example of what type of dependency?
12. Lag means?
13. Which of the following is correct?
14. A team member from research and development tell you that her work is too creative to provide you with a fixed single estimate for the activity. You both decide to use the average labor hours (from past similar projects) to develop a prototype. This is an example of which of the following?
15. Rearranging resources so that a constant number of resources is used each month is called:
16. You are calculating PERT times for a programming activity on your project. Your lead programmer said the earliest possible completion time would be 200 days. The most likely time is 280 days and the longest it might take is 330 days. What is the expected value?