Project Database

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Communication planning is part of which lifecycle phase?

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Executing

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Controlling is the what phase of the lifecycle?

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Fourth

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In a WBS, deliverables are

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nouns and activities are verbs

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Controlling is sometimes referred to as

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Monitoring

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Ensuring that the project deliverables are met by monitoring and measuring progress and taking corrective action when needed- is what phase?

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Controlling

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Measure outcomes and compare to scope document to verify the deliverables and final product is acceptable happens during- what phase?

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Closing

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What are the columns used in a communication plan

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stakeholder, information, frequency, method, format

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Triple constraint

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-scope

-time

-cost

(quality in the middle)

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what is a resource

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People, money, Material or MPT (money, people, time)

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Project management started in

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The 50s

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project planning processes include all but

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Status reporting

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performance, cost and time are constraints for

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both projects and operational work

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Crawford slip

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used with pieces of paper, used to identify many of the risks in a short period of time

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Cause and effect diagram

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uses a fishbone diagram

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functional is one of the ____ categories for project requirements

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6

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the purpose of operational work is to attain its objective and then terminate

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false

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Non functional requirements describe

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restrictions to be places on a deliverable

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PMI

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project management institute

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A group of closely related tasks that encompass a major section of a project is an

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phase

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Milestone

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can be imposed on a project or developed and used by the project team to track progress

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A work task plus a resource equals

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an assignment

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A task whose start or end date determines the start or finish of another task is a

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finish to finish

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Resource Calender

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scheduling tool that determines the standard working time and non-working time for the project, resources and tasks

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Reports

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Predefined format intended for printing Microsoft project data

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Effort driven scheduling

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a scheduling method in which the duration of a task increases or decreases as you remove resources or assign resourses to a task- the amount of work needed to complete a task does not change

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If you want to print a list of tasks showing start dates, finish dates, and assigned resources, which view might you use?

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Task sheet

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If you assign a resource to more tasks than it can accomplish at its maximum units, the resource is

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Overallocated

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The Custom Reports dialog box contains

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All predefined reports plus any custom reports that have been added to Microsoft Project

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Tasks that are indented below a summary task are called successors

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false

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Once you have entered all of the tasks and durations for a project, the project duration does not change

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false

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People or organizations that might be affected by project activities are called

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stakeholders

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fixed units

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A task type in which the units value does not change

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split

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an interruption in a task, represented in by a dotted line between the two segments of the Gantt bar representing the task.

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slack

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amount of time a task can be delayed without causing a delay to another task or to the project end date.

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max units

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the maximum capacity of a resource to accomplish tasks

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Material resource

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consumable items used up as the tasks in a project are accomplished

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Cost resource

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Financial obligations to your project

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project calender

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the base calendar that provides default working times for an entire project

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Base Calender

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specifies default working and nonworking times for a resource, project, or task

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Availability

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when and how much of a resource's time can be assigned to work on tasks

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Communication Planning is part of which project lifecycle phase

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Planning

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Measure outcomes and compare to scope document to verify the deliverables and final product is acceptable happens during the ___________ phase

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Closing

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What is not a common scheduling technique

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Communication plan

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A closeout part is best accomplished by adding the activity to the WBS

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true

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Brainstorming is highly creative, encourages team work and will always be in disorder

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False

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Identify what is not an input during the Initiating Project Phase

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Proposals

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Executing efforts are

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Participating, observing and analyzing

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Non functional requirements describe

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-criteria

-restrictions

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A common activity for project managers is to _______________ information from the project schedule to share with stakeholders

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Print

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A resource calendar does not apply to

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Material resources

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Predecessor

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A task whose start or end date determines the start or finish of another task or tasks

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Assignment

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is the matching of a specific resource to a particular task to do work

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Link

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logical connection between tasks that controls sequenece and dependency

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Exception

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is added to the project calendar to denote something different fromt he standard working times

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Task

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represents the actual individual work activities that must be done to accomplish the final goal

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Project schedule

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is a model of a real project - including what you want to happen or what you think will happe

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20 hours task duration _200% assignment units -- ___________ hours work.

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40

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Three weeks for a task is shown as

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3ew

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Assigning a(n) ___________or ___________ resource to a task will not affect the duration of the task

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Material or cost

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Resources that is he standard rate listed per consumption

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Material

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when you assign a human or equipment resource to a task, the result is

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work

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Duration units is known as the

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scheduling formula

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It is helpful to assign a base calendar to a group of resources when they all

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work night shift

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The task note field can contain only words and not pictures

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False

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Custom reports dialog box

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To adapt a report to present the exact information you need

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Page setup dialog box

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To add your company name so that it prints at the top of every page

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To assign more than one resource to a task using the Assign Resources dialog box

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click ctrl

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When you initially enter tasks into Project, they are linked in a finish-to-start relationship that can be changed later (true or false)

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False

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Elapsed duration

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total length of working and nonworking time you expect will be needed to complete a task

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Duration

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number of work periods you expect a task to take to complete.