PMI PMI-SP Quiz 2 Topic 8 Questions 6-10

Question: 1

You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You would like to crash your project to help the project schedule to get back on track. What is the primary danger of crashing?

ACrashing increases project costs.

BCrashing is a top-down approach to project completion.

CCrashing restricts resource utilization.

DCrashing always increases project risks.

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Question: 2

Jim is the project manager for his project. He and his project team are creating their duration estimates for the work packages in the WBS. For each activity, Jim is adding a few hours to the duration estimate in case something goes wrong during the completion of the work activity. Sarah, the project sponsor, does not approve of this and warns Jim of Parkinson's Law. What is Parkinson's Law?

APeople will behave based on what their behavior brings them.

BAs employees do repetitive tasks, duration should decrease.

CWork expands to fill the amount of time allotted to it.

DAn exponential increase labor does not correlate to an exponential decrease in duration.

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Question: 3

Jim is the project manager for his project. He and his project team are creating their duration estimates for the work packages in the WBS. For each activity, Jim is adding a few hours to the duration estimate in case something goes wrong during the completion of the work activity. Sarah, the project sponsor, does not approve of this and warns Jim of Parkinson's Law. What is Parkinson's Law?

APeople will behave based on what their behavior brings them.

BAs employees do repetitive tasks, duration should decrease.

CWork expands to fill the amount of time allotted to it.

DAn exponential increase labor does not correlate to an exponential decrease in duration.

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Question: 4

If you are the project manager of the BNQ Project and you add "waiting time" between two

activities, then what have you added in the project?

AYou have added lag time to the project activities.

BYou have added management reserve to the project activities.

CYou have added lead time to the project activities.

DYou have added float to the project activities.

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Question: 5

Which organizational theory explains the factors that promote performance of people in any organization?

AHerzberg's theory

BMaslow's Hierarchy theory

CMcGregor's theory

DExpectancy theory

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PMI PMI-SP Quiz:2 Topic:8 Questions:6-10