PMP Questions ID 2915 you are a senior project manager for a company that produces mobile phone applications in your l

You are a senior project manager for a company that produces mobile phone applications. In your latest project, you have teamed up with another project manager, who will manage a subset of the project. She tells you that the work packages have been decomposed and milestones captured for her deliverables. Together, you review her list of milestones, the first of which reads “Finish GUI: 30 Days.” What is wrong with this scenario?

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The project manager is unclear as to the definition of a milestone.

A milestone cannot contain the word GUI.

Work packages should not be decomposed.

Two project managers cannot be associated with one project.

PMP Question No 2914 - All Domains

Your project sponsor has reviewed the initial project schedule you created for the project. She is not happy with the project end date because it doesn’t match the promise date she gave the customer. You decide to use some compression techniques first. Which of the following statements should you keep in mind (and know to be true) regarding duration compression?

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Crashing is a compression technique that typically produces a viable alternative.

Fast-tracking is a compression technique that typically results in increased costs.

Schedule compression shortens the project schedule but doesn’t change the project scope.

Crashing is a compression technique that typically results in increased risk.

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PMP Question No 2913 - All Domains

You are a project manager for Time Will Tell, an international watch manufacturer. Your project entails developing a watch with global positioning satellite (GPS) capabilities. Kit is a junior staff member with two years of experience in GPS technology. Carrie is a senior staff member with five years of experience working with GPS technology. You are developing the activity duration estimates for the project activities. You are trying to determine an estimate for a particular activity that involves GPS skills and knowledge. Carrie has worked on activities similar to this in the past. She tells you the activity will likely take 45 days. All of the following statements are true regarding the information in this question except which one?

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Carrie used an analogous estimating technique to come up with the 45-day estimate for this activity.

The activities are similar in fact, not just appearance, and Carrie has the needed expertise to provide this estimate, so you can rely on the estimate being reasonably accurate.

Carrie used a technique that is a form of expert judgment to estimate this activity.

The technique Carrie used can also be used to estimate project duration because of the amount of information available about the details of the project.

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PMP Question No 2912 - All Domains

Which of the following represents a definitive range of estimates?

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-25 percent to +75 percent

-5 percent to +10 percent

-10 percent to +10 percent

-50 percent to +50 percent

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PMP Question No 2910 - All Domains

Marysil, an enterprise project manager for Cups on Fire, is in the process of sequencing activities with her team to develop the project schedule. One team member noted that when the next-generation prototype cup is cauterized, it will need to sit for a period of two days before it can be hand-painted. How will Marysil reflect this within the schedule?

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By adding a two-day lead between the two activities

By adding a two-day lag between the two activities

By adding a two-day buffer between the two activities

By adding a two-day project buffer to the project

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