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CAPM Time Management
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Instructions:
Answer 31 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A schedule buffer used to reduce schedule risk.
Mathematical Analysis
Forward Pass
Schedule Baseline
Reserve Time (Contingency)
2. A rarely used type of network diagram where activities are represented by arrows connecting the nodes.
Activity List
Activity on Arrow Diagram
Free Float
Backward Pass
3. Activities that must be completed before other activities either start or finish (mandatory - discretionary - and external).
Dependencies
Negative Float
Forward Pass
Fast Tracking
4. Probable number of periods this activity should take with the probable range of results (1 week +/- 3 days)
Activity Duration Estimates
Slack
Duration Compression
Float
5. Delay between an activity and the subsequent one dependent upon it.
Schedule Baseline
Expert Judgment
Lag
Free Float
6. Method of estimated where experts are asked to provide input to the schedule.
Expert Judgment
Network Diagram
Slack
Critical Path
7. The method for calculating early start and early finish dates for an activity.
Forward Pass
Schedule Baseline
Mathematical Analysis
Activity Duration Estimates
8. A type of network diagram where activities are represented on rectangular nodes with arrows representing the dependencies.
Activity on Node Diagram
Variance Analysis
Activity on Arrow Diagram
Mathematical Analysis
9. An activity in a network diagram that does not have any time associated with it. Only included to show relationship and is usually dotted or dashed line.
Dummy Activity
Activity Decomposition
Dependencies
Reserve Time (Contingency)
10. A technique primarily made up of two means of compressing the schedule: crashing and fast-tracking.
Precedence Diagramming Method
Duration Compression
Monte Carlo Analysis
Variance Analysis
11. Method for calculating late start and late finish dates for an activity.
Activity Duration Estimates
Backward Pass
Float
Precedence Diagramming Method
12. A type of network diagram where the boxes are activities - and the arrows are used to show dependencies between the activities.
Activity Duration Estimates
Precedence Diagramming Method
Expert Judgment
Activity Decomposition
13. Rules for which no formula exists; usually derived through trial and error.
Negative Float
Heuristics
Dependencies
Lead
14. The path through the network diagram that show which activities - if delayed - will affect the project finish date.
Critical Path
Lead
Lag
Activity Duration Estimates
15. A form of expert judgment often used early on when there is little information available. It is performed from the top down - focusing on the big picture.
Schedule Baseline
Lead
Analogous Estimating
Float
16. Method of diagramming project activities to show sequence and dependencies.
Activity Duration Estimates
Milestones
Activity List
Network Diagram
17. Perform activities in parallel that normally are done in sequence; increases risk
Mathematical Analysis
Fast Tracking
Float
Activity List
18. Means of gathering expert judgment where the participants do not know who the others are and therefore are not able to influence each other's opinion. Designed to prevent "groupthink."
Analogous Estimating
Delphi Technique
Precedence Diagramming Method
Fast Tracking
19. How much time an activity can be delayed without affecting the project's finish date.
Duration Compression
Crashing
Float
Dependencies
20. Or free slack--how much time an activity can be delayed without affecting the early start date of subsequent dependent activities.
Activity Duration Estimates
Delphi Technique
Free Float
Monte Carlo Analysis
21. Final result is an activity list (similar to Scope Decomposition where the result is a WBS)
Heuristics
Expert Judgment
Forward Pass
Activity Decomposition
22. List of every activity that will be performed on the project.
Dependencies
Activity List
Dummy Activity
Duration Compression
23. Applying more resources; increases cost
Reserve Time (Contingency)
Network Diagram
Milestones
Crashing
24. Float.
Fast Tracking
Schedule Baseline
Activity on Node Diagram
Slack
25. Comparing planned versus actual schedule dates.
Dummy Activity
Crashing
Mathematical Analysis
Variance Analysis
26. Computer simulation that throws a high number of "what if" scenarios at the project schedule to determine probable results.
Duration Compression
Monte Carlo Analysis
Mathematical Analysis
Backward Pass
27. High-level points in the schedule used to track and report progress.
Lead
Milestones
Activity Duration Estimates
Negative Float
28. Activities with finish to start relationships cannot start until their predecessors have been finished; however - if you have 5 days of lead time on an activity - it may begin 5 days before its predecessor.
Float
Lead
Activity on Node Diagram
Variance Analysis
29. A technique to show scheduling possibilities where early and late start and finish dates are calculated for every activity without looking at resource estimates.
Mathematical Analysis
Slack
Heuristics
Crashing
30. The approved schedule that is used as a basis for measuring and reporting. It includes the original project schedule plus all approved updates.
Schedule Baseline
Duration Compression
Precedence Diagramming Method
Critical Path
31. A situation that occurs when an activity's start date comes before a preceding activity's finish date.
Dummy Activity
Crashing
Backward Pass
Negative Float