You work as a project manager for ABC Inc. You are currently overseeing a project on a high-rise building site. Your prime concern is to ensure that cranes are used effectively for moving materials. You also have to ensure that delivery trucks do not have to wait in a queue and that workers on the upper floors are able to get their deliveries on time. Which type of scheduling would be required in such a scenario?
Resource-oriented scheduling focuses on using and scheduling particular resources in an effective manner. This type of scheduling should be used whenever there are limited resources available for a project and the struggle for these resources between the project activities is intense. As a result, delays are likely to arise in such cases, as actions must wait until general resources become available. Resource-oriented scheduling is also suitable in cases where unique resources are to be used, such as when there is only one excavator available in an excavation operation. Answer option B is incorrect. Time-oriented scheduling is a time-scheduling method that focuses on determining the finishing time of a project. It also specifies the crucial precedence relationships among the activities involved in the project. In time-oriented scheduling, the appropriate time is allocated for the whole project through the successive stages of the project life cycle. Answer option A is incorrect. Critical path scheduling is a technique that calculates the minimum completion time for a project along with the possible start and finish times for the project activities. Answer option D is incorrect. Network scheduling provides a basis for obtaining facts for decision making.
You are the project manager of the QAQ Project. The QAQ Project has a BAC of $2,786,121. You are
currently 20 percent complete with this project, though you should be 25 percent complete with the
project work. The project has consumed $595,000 of the project budget to date. Management has
asked you, based on the current project performance, what the project's estimate to complete will
be considering the current project schedule variance. What is the ETC for this project?
The estimate to complete wants to know how much more money the project will need
to complete its objectives.
The estimate to complete (ETC) is the expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a
scheduled activity, a group of activities,
or the project. ETC helps project managers predict what the final cost of the project will be upon
completion. The formula for the ETC is EAC-
AC. The EAC is BAC/CPI.
Answer option A is incorrect. This is the estimate at completion based on the current project
performance.
Answer option C is incorrect. This is the current schedule variance.
Answer option B is incorrect. 1.02 is the to-complete performance index based on the BAC.
You work as the project manager for Blue Well Inc. You are reviewing and regulating the progress to meet the performance objectives defined in the project management plan. Mark, a trainee, has a doubt related to the inputs of monitor and control project work. Which of the following is the input to monitor and control project work?
Performance report is an input of monitor and control project work. Reports are prepared by the
project team detailing activities, milestones,
and problems.
A performance report is made by the project team detailing activities, milestones, problems,
accomplishments, and identified issues.
Performance reports are used to report some key information as follows:
Current status
Scheduled activities
Significant accomplishment for the period
Forecasts
Issues
Answer option B is incorrect. It is the tool and technique used for monitoring and controlling project
work.
Answer options A and D are incorrect. These are the outputs to monitor and control project work.
Gary is the project manager for his organization. At each weekly status meeting with his project team, Gary collects information on the work that has been completed and reviews the work that is remaining in the project. Alice, one of Gary's project team members, consistently reports that she's late on her project work. After the meeting, Gary and Alice discuss why the work is late as it is causing other delays in the project. What is the review of the late work commonly called?
Variance analysis is the study to determine why a variance in the project exists. Alice's late work may
be for a number of reasons so Gary needs to determine why in order to address the problem.
Variance analysis is a process that examines the dissimilarities between the planned and the actual
budget or schedule in order to discover unacceptable risks to the budget, schedule, quality, or scope
of the project. It is a method for resolving the total variance in the set of scope,
schedule, and cost variables into particular component variances that are associated with defined
factors affecting the cost, scope and schedule variables.
Answer option D is incorrect. Discipline is not the best answer as Gary, at this point, is simply
reviewing the situation to determine why the variance exists.
Answer option C is incorrect. Quality control is the inspection of the work results to prove the
existence of quality and to prevent mistakes from reaching the customer.
Answer option B is incorrect. This may be a type of leadership, but it is not the best answer for the
question.
Gina is the project manager for her organization and she is working with her project team to define the project activities. In this project, the stakeholders are sensitive to the project completion date, so Gina is stressing to her project team members that while they need to provide and account for all of the project activities, they should focus on one work package in the WBS at a time. In order to start the decomposition of the project work packages into activities, Gina will need all of the following except for which one?
According to the PMBOK, Gina will not need the WBS directly, but will rely on the scope baseline.A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) in project management is a tool that defines a project and groups the project's discrete work elements in
a way that helps organize and define the total work scope of the project. A WBS element may be a product, data, a service, or any combination. WBS also provides the necessary framework for detailed cost estimating and control along with providing guidance for schedule development and control. Answer option A is incorrect. The scope baseline is an input to define the project activities. Answer option D is incorrect. Enterprise environmental factors are an input to define the project activities. Answer option B is incorrect. Organizational process assets are an input to define the project activities.
