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SS dependency implies?

1. The work can happen in parallel and the tasks must end at the same time.
2. The work can overlap or proceed in parallel.
3. Task 1 must finish before Task 2 can start
4. Task 2 must finish before Task 1 can start

✅ Correct Answer: 2

A process that states how formal verfication and acceptance of completed project deliverables will be obtained is documented in the _________.

1. Procurement Management Plan
2. Quality Management Plan
3. Scope Management Plan
4. Commucations Management Plan

✅ Correct Answer: 3

When adding a resource to a task, to only use them fifty percent, type this:

1. Bob[50]
2. Bob[.50]
3. Bob(.50)
4. Bob*.50

✅ Correct Answer: 1

If you want to sort your resources by last name so that Brenda Diaz is last on your list and Florian Voss is first on your list, what sort order should you specify?

1. Descending
2. Z-A
3. Ascending
4. A-Z

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What is the smallest denomination of time that can be assigned when assigning duration to tasks?

1. Hours
2. Days
3. Seconds
4. Minutes

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The _______ is used as a template for other calendars.

1. Task calendar
2. Project calendar
3. Resource calendar
4. Base calendar

✅ Correct Answer: 1

How much should CPI and SPI be in a project ahead of schedule and costs?

1. CPI <1; SPI<1
2. CPI >1, SPI >1
3. CPI<1 : SPI>1
4. CPI>1 ;SPI<1

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following is the best way to resolve an issue in which a resource is overallocated?

1. Removing that resource from another task
2. Changing the resource's availability from 50% to 100%
3. It cannot be resolved.
4. Adding another resource to the task

✅ Correct Answer: 2

If current data consistently differs from baseline data, this is an indication that ___

1. your actual data must be incorrect.
2. you must rework your baseline.
3. your original plan was never accurate.
4. your original plan is no longer accurate.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

One of these is NOT a type of resource?

1. Schedule
2. Material
3. Work
4. Cost

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The Network Diagram, also known as the ______, shows dependencies between tasks in a graphical manner.

1. Resource Graph
2. Timeline
3. PERT Chart
4. Gantt Chart

✅ Correct Answer: 3

SF dependency implies?

1. Task 2 must finish before Task 1 can start
2. Task 1 must finish before Task 2 can start
3. The work can happen in parallel and the tasks must end at the same time.
4. The work can overlap or proceed in parallel

✅ Correct Answer: 1

You have to deliver a new costume sales website by September 30 in time for the Halloween season that begins in mid-October. This is an example of?

1. Project Scheduling
2. Project Constraints
3. Critical Success Factor
4. Deadline

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is a Scope Manangement plan?

1. Plan that defines the procurement requirements for the project and how it will be managed from developing procurement documentation through contract closure.
2. Plan that documents the scope of communications between project participants, including outlining who is responsible for various types of information.
3. Plan that determines quality policies and procedures relevant to the project for both project deliverables and project processes, defines who is responsible for what, and documents compliance.
4. Plan that documents how the project purview will be defined documented verified managed and controlled by the Project Management team.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What does CPI of 1.1 mean ?

1. Project completed behind costs by 10%
2. Project schedule overrun by 1.1%
3. Project is completed ahead of costs by 10%
4. Project completed ahead of schedule by 10%

✅ Correct Answer: 3

If you're not certain how Task "Chop the Wood" relates to the work of "Move the Chairs", which dependency type should you create?

1. SS
2. FS
3. SF
4. None of These

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The ________ tab can be used to set working times, add a holiday to the calendar, and set a baseline.

1. Calendar
2. Resource
3. View
4. Project

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The critical path method calculates theoretical early start and late start and finish dates. Critical path have either

1. Positive Total Float
2. Positive or Negative Total Float
3. Zero or Negative Total Float
4. Zero or Negative Total Float

✅ Correct Answer: 2

To have Task 10 start three days after Task 9 completes, in the predecessor column, type:

1. T9+3
2. 9FS3
3. All of these
4. 9+3d

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is CPI=?

1. None of these
2. Earned Value /Actual Schedule
3. EV/AC
4. Actual Schedule/EV

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following is NOT a valid task constraint?

1. FNLT - Finish no later than
2. FBTD - Finish by this dateMSO - Must start on
3. MSO - Must start on
4. ALAP - As late as possible

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The default task type in Microsoft Project is ____.

1. fixed work
2. fixed units
3. fixed duration
4. fixed start

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Use the ______ to see how changes to one task affect the rest of the project and to track schedule changes.

1. Resource Leveling
2. Task Inspector
3. Gantt Chart
4. Task Path Highlighting

✅ Correct Answer: 2

After "Pour the Foundation" and "Build the Frame" are both finished, "Mount the Drywall" should start immediately. To put these task relationships in your plan, which dependency types should you create?

1. "Pour the Foundation" Finish-to-Finish with "Build the Frame," and "Mount the Drywall" Finish-to-Start with "Pour the Foundation."
2. Pour the Foundation" Start-to-Start with "Build the Frame," and "Mount the Drywall" Finish-to-Start with "Pour the Foundation."
3. "Pour the Foundation" Finish-to-Start with "Build the Frame," and "Build the Frame" Finish-to-Start with "Mount the Drywall"
4. Pour the Foundation" Finish-to-Start with "Build the Frame," and "Build the Frame" Finish-to-Start with "Mount the Drywall"

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In manual scheduling, changes to which of the following updates task dates?

1. Project calendars
2. Constraints
3. None of the above
4. Task dependencies

✅ Correct Answer: 3

______ is an overlap between two tasks that are linked by a dependency.

1. Lag time
2. Slip
3. Lead time
4. Delayed start time

✅ Correct Answer: 3

When two tasks have an FS dependency, but the work can overlap or be done in parallel, how can you reduce the overall duration of the project?

1. Change their dependency to SF
2. Change their dependency to FF
3. Move the deadline forward so that participants work faster.
4. Chance their dependency to SS

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Microsoft Project allows up to ___ baselines per project.

1. 100 11 2 1
2. 11
3. 2
4. 1

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following is NOT true of deadline dates?

1. Deadline dates can affect the total slack on tasks.
2. Deadline dates indicate a target date you don't want to miss.
3. Deadline dates affect task scheduling.
4. Deadline dates can be set on summary tasks and individual tasks.

✅ Correct Answer: 3

When assigning a time duration to a task, what is the abbreviation for "months"?

1. mths
2. mos
3. mo
4. m

✅ Correct Answer: 3

If a task is ______, as resources are added or removed on the assignment, the work remains constant and is redistributed among the resources.

1. ahead of schedule
2. effort-driven
3. work-driven
4. behind schedule

✅ Correct Answer: 2

There are four tasks in your project, and the duration of your current plan is 22 days. There are FS dependencies between all four tasks. Task A is four days; Task B is six days; Task C is eight days; and Task D is four days. Which of the following changes will create a Project plan with the shortest overall duration?

1. Create a SF dependency between Task A and Task B.
2. Create a FF dependency between Task A and Task D
3. Create a SF dependency between Task C and Task D.
4. Create a SF dependency between Task B and Task C.

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In a fixed units task, if you revise Duration, what happens?

1. Timelne is recalculated.
2. Dependencies are reassigned
3. Work is recalculated.
4. Units are recalculated.

✅ Correct Answer: 3

On the Task tab, the _____ group provides buttons to mark the percent complete, link tasks to one another, and inactivate a task.

1. Task
2. Data
3. Properties
4. Schedule

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is NOT a risk-diagramming technique?

1. System Flowcharts
2. Control Diagram
3. Influence Diagrams
4. Cause and Effect Diagrams

✅ Correct Answer: 2

You are the project manager on the rehab of an apartment building. Before you can get the Certificate of Occupancy, which is necessary to complete the project, the wiring must be installed. What type of precedence relationship is this?

1. Finish to Finish
2. Start to Finish
3. Start to Start
4. Finish to Start

✅ Correct Answer: 1

______ resources affect task scheduling.

1. Work and Cost
2. Work
3. Material
4. Work and material

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is the process of putting tasks in order of the date they must be completed by?

1. Nesting
2. Dating
3. Sequencing
4. Timing

✅ Correct Answer: 1

To see all tasks for a person, which view should you look at?

1. Task usage
2. Resource sheet
3. Task sheet
4. Resource usage

✅ Correct Answer: 4

To see individual resource details by task, which view should you look at?

1. Task usage
2. Resource usage
3. Task sheet
4. Resource sheet

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A calendar can be associated with a:

1. Task
2. Resource and Project
3. All of these
4. Project

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is the most accurate way of forecasing EAC and ETC?

1. ETC based on New Estimates
2. ETC based on based on Atypical Variances
3. Earned Value
4. ETC based on Typical Variances

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What is a variance thresshold for cost or other acceptable variances called?

1. Acceptable Thresshold
2. Variance Limit
3. Control Thresshold
4. Cost Limit

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The __________ dialog box allows you select up to three fields for three levels of sorts within sorts.

1. sort
2. project information
3. group
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What is another name for a summary task?

1. Hammock task
2. Overview task
3. Upper task
4. High-level task

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Where can you set fixed duration, effort driven, and manually scheduled?

1. Team Planner
2. Resource Sheet
3. Project Information dialog box
4. Task form

✅ Correct Answer: 4

You would like the ability to edit your typed entries in the Entry Bar, which appears below the ribbon and above the default Entry table in the Gantt Chart view. You recently received a new computer and noticed that the Entry Bar is missing. How do you fix this?

1. Use the Display tab in the Project Options dialog box to enable the Entry Bar.
2. Change the from Gantt Chart view to Tracking Gantt view.
3. Use the Advanced tab in the Project Options dialog box to enable the Entry Bar.
4. On the View tab on the ribbon, in the Split View group, select Details.

✅ Correct Answer: 1

When setting the Calculate multiple critical paths option in a master project's Advanced settings, which statement is correct?

1. Subprojects will have critical paths calculated individually.
2. Individual resources will have critical paths calculated.
3. Milestones will have critical paths fixed.
4. Only one critical path will be calculated for a linked project.

✅ Correct Answer: 1

You want to switch the scheduling mode for a project from scheduling from a start date to scheduling from a finish date. This action will change the default constraint from As Soon As Possible to As Late As Possible. Which dialog box should you use to make this change?

1. Resource Information
2. Project Information
3. Task Information
4. Change Working Time

✅ Correct Answer: 2

A project contains many elements. What is used to describe the sum of the work required?

1. Task links
2. Resource Sheet
3. Work breakdown structure
4. Baseline

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which option is not available in the Report tab on the ribbon?

1. New Report
2. Network Diagram
3. Recent
4. Custom

✅ Correct Answer: 2

You are troubleshooting a schedule on someone else's computer The schedule has 10,000 tasks. When a change is made to a task's duration on a Fixed Units task, the start and finish dates do not change. change highlighting does not appear, and the Gantt Chart bat does not update. What is the cause of this issue?

1. Inserted projects are calculated like summary tasks is selected.
2. Calculate multiple critical paths is not selected.
3. One of the Com add-ins is not selected.
4. Calculate project after each edit is set to Off.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

You would like to understand which tasks are critical and which are not. When looking at the Gantt chart, how are these tasks identified by default?

1. Critical tasks are indicated in red and other tasks are indicated in blue.
2. Critical tasks are indicated in dark blue end other tasks are indicated in light blue.
3. Critical tasks are indicated in a report while the Gantt chart indicates all tasks in blue.
4. Critical tasks are indicated with an icon and other tasks are indicated in blue.

✅ Correct Answer: 1

You are working on a project that has tasks with no flexibility. Which constraint type offers no flexibility?

1. Must Finish On
2. Start No Earlier Than
3. As Soon As Possible
4. Finish No Earlier Than

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Microsoft Project uses calendars to schedule a project. Which project components can be assigned a calendar?

1. Tasks and work
2. Work and units
3. Resources and work
4. Tasks and resources

✅ Correct Answer: 1

You are working on a project file that contains many linked subprojects. When saving the files, what option can you use to immediately save the open files, including those that have not changed?

1. Yes to All
2. Yes
3. Save As
4. Save

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A resource is assigned to a task that is scheduled for 2 days. The resource is scheduled for 8 hours (8h) per day at 100%. The resource performs actual work of 10 hours on the first day. How has the Peak for this resource changed?

1. It has changed to 10h.
2. It has changed to 6h.
3. It has changed to 125%.
4. It has changed to 110%.

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is another name for a work breakdown structure?

1. A hierarchy of tasks
2. A linking of tasks
3. A duration of tasks
4. A leveling of tasks

✅ Correct Answer: 1