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new information.
16. A. This is an example of acceptance criteria for the deliverable.
17. B, D. Work that is not included in the WBS is not part of the project. Exclusions
from scope are work components that are not included in the project and should
not appear on the WBS.
18. C. Whenever problems arise on a project that are outside the authority or control of
the project manager to resolve or when problems have the ability to affect project
outcomes, the sponsor should always be informed.
19. A. This is an example of a constraint because it dictates the actions of the project
team.
20. B. The Planning process group is where you begin to define important documents
such as the scope statement and project plan.
Chapter 5: Creating the Project Schedule
1. B. The critical path is the longest path on the project. The tasks have zero float
because the critical path controls the project end date. Using critical path, you can
determine which tasks can start late or go longer than planned without impacting
the project end date.
2. A. A requirement such as weather conditions or a specific season that drives the
scheduling of a task is an example of an external dependency.
3. D. Analogous estimating is also called top-down estimating. It is used early in the
project, when there is not enough detail to do a detailed estimate.
4. B. There is a finish-to-start dependency relationship between Activity A and
Activity B. You do not have enough information to determine whether the
dependency between the two activities is mandatory, discretionary, or external or if
they are critical path activities.
5. A, B. PERT charts and Gantt charts, a type of bar chart, are the most common ways
to display a project schedule.
6. A. Duration compression involves either crashing the schedule by adding more
resources or creating a fast track by working activities in parallel that would
normally be done in sequence.
7. C. Float time is the length of time a task may be started late or the additional
duration a task may take without impacting the project completion date. The early
start and late start dates are the same, and the early finish and late start finish dates
are the same.
8. B. A quality gate is used to determine whether the work is accurate and meets
quality standards.
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