QUESTION: 177

You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc.
Which of the following techniques will you use to determine whether particular work can best be accomplished by the project team or must be purchased from the outside sources?

Contract Types
Expert Judgment
Procurement Negotiations
Make-or-Buy Analysis

Answer(s): D

Explanation:

A make-or-buy analysis is used to verify whether a particular work can best be accomplished by the project team or must be purchased from outside sources. The budget constraints can influence the make-or-buy decisions. A make-or-buy analysis must consider all related costs; both direct and indirect support costs.

Answer option B is incorrect. Expert judgment is a technique based on a set of criteria that has been acquired in a specific knowledge area or product area. It is obtained when the project manager or project team requires specialized knowledge that they do not possess.

Answer option A is incorrect. The type of contract to be used and the specific contract terms and conditions fix the degree of risk being assumed by the buyer and seller.

Answer option C is incorrect. Negotiations clarify the structure, requirements and other terms of the purchase so that the mutual agreement can be reached prior to signing the contracts.

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QUESTION: 178

You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You have to identify the specific actions to be performed to produce the project deliverables. For this, you have to explain the three inputs for the define activities process to your project team.
Which of the following is NOT a valid input?

Work Breakdown Structure
Enterprise Environmental Factors
Scope baseline
Organizational Process Assets

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

Of all the choices, the WBS is the best choice. The entire scope baseline is needed as an input, not just the WBS.
The inputs to the Define Activities process are as follows:
Scope Baseline: The project constraints, assumptions documented, and deliverables in the project scope baseline are considered while defining activities.
Enterprise Environmental Factors: One of the factors that affect the Define Activities process is the project management information system (PMIS).
Organizational Process Assets: The assets that can affect the Define Activities process are as follows:

1.The existing proper and unofficial scheduling strategies, procedures, and related policies that are measured in developing the activity definitions
2.The lessons-learned knowledge base containing the past information about activity lists used by similar earlier projects

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QUESTION: 179

Joseph works as the project manager of the NHQ Project. He has created the project network diagram as shown in the figure:

Based on the network diagram, find out which path is the critical path for this project?

ABEHJ
ABDIJ
ABDHJ
ACFIJ

Answer(s): D

Explanation:

The critical path is the path with the longest duration to complete the project. It has no float and shows the earliest completion date and the
latest completion date for the project. In this example, path ACFIJ takes 27 days and is the critical path.
ACFIJ= A(4)+C(8)+F(4)+I(7)+J(4)= 27
A critical path is the sequence of project activities, which add up to the longest overall duration. This determines the shortest time possible to complete the project. Any delay of an activity on the critical path directly impacts the planned project completion date (i.e. there is no float on
the critical path). A project can have several, parallel, near critical paths. An additional parallel path through the network with the total durations shorter than the critical path is called a sub-critical or non-critical path. These results allow managers to prioritize activities for the effective management of project completion, and to shorten the planned critical path of a project by pruning critical path activities, by "fast tracking" (i.e., performing more activities in parallel), and/or by "crashing the critical path" (i.e., shortening the durations of critical path activities by adding resources).

Answer option A is incorrect. ABEHJ takes only 22 days to complete.
ABEHJ= A(4)+B(5)+E(2)+H(7)+J(4)= 22

Answer option C is incorrect. ABDHJ takes 21 days to complete.
ABDHJ= A(4)+B(5)+D(1)+H(7)+J(4)= 21

Answer option B is incorrect. ABDIJ takes 21 days to complete.
ABDIJ= A(4)+B(5)+D(1)+I(7)+J(4)= 21

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QUESTION: 180

Ned is the project manager of the HYQ Project. In Ned's project, the management has requested that he enforce resource leveling so that the maximum amount of hours in the project per worker will not exceed 25 hours per week. Ned's pay is based on how quickly he can complete the project work.
What must Ned do to accommodate the change in the resource allotment if he has to finish the project on time?

Crash the project.
Add more risk mitigation.
Reduce the amount of labor.
Reduce the project scope.

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

The change in the amount of labor Ned is allowed to use will cause his project schedule to increase thereby affecting the project end date.
Crashing the project will allow Ned to add more resources while still keeping each resource to a maximum of 25 hours per week.

Answer option D is incorrect. Ned likely does not have control over descoping decisions.
Answer option C is incorrect. Reducing the project labor is what resource leveling does.
Answer option B is incorrect. Adding risk mitigation won't necessarily help Ned finish the project faster.

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