PMI PMI-SP Quiz 2 Topic 8 Questions 6-10

Question: 1

You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You would like to crash your project to help the project schedule to get back on track. What is the primary danger of crashing?

ACrashing increases project costs.

BCrashing is a top-down approach to project completion.

CCrashing restricts resource utilization.

DCrashing always increases project risks.

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Question: 2

Jim is the project manager for his project. He and his project team are creating their duration estimates for the work packages in the WBS. For each activity, Jim is adding a few hours to the duration estimate in case something goes wrong during the completion of the work activity. Sarah, the project sponsor, does not approve of this and warns Jim of Parkinson's Law. What is Parkinson's Law?

APeople will behave based on what their behavior brings them.

BAs employees do repetitive tasks, duration should decrease.

CWork expands to fill the amount of time allotted to it.

DAn exponential increase labor does not correlate to an exponential decrease in duration.

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Question: 3

You're a project manager and you've completed your project schedule. The schedule will take 18 months to complete the project work. Throughout the schedule there are instances that the project work will require the project team members to work more than fifty hours per week. If you must adhere to a maximum of 45 hours of project work per team member, per week, what will likely happen to your project schedule as it stands right now?

ANothing, the 45 hours limit is a guideline.

BThe project will take longer to complete.

CThe project will take less time to complete.

DThe project will require more resources.

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Question: 4

You are the project manager of the GHY Project. This project is scheduled to last for one year and has a BAC of $4,500,000. You are currently 45 percent complete with this project, though you are supposed to be at your second milestone which accounts for half of the project completion. There have been some errors in the project, which has caused you to spend $2,073,654. What is this project's schedule variance?

A-$48,654

B13 percent

C-$225,000

D0.98

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Question: 5

You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You would like to crash your project to help the project schedule to get back on track. What is the primary danger of crashing?

ACrashing increases project costs.

BCrashing is a top-down approach to project completion.

CCrashing restricts resource utilization.

DCrashing always increases project risks.

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PMI PMI-SP Quiz:2 Topic:8 Questions:6-10