You create a new project plan for your company’s staff training program. Which component of the project plan tracks the project’s estimated launch date, start date, and end date?

• Relevant documentation

• Milestones

• Tasks

• Time

Fill in the blank: The main difference between effort estimation and time estimation is that time estimation includes _____.

• marketing time

• inactive time

• stakeholder time

• vendor time

What is capacity in project management?

• The prediction of the amount of budget to be allocated to complete the project tasks.

• The estimated length of time it will take for the project team to complete project milestones

• The total number of people involved in the project

• The amount of work that people assigned to the project can reasonably complete in a set period of time

As a project manager, you use interpersonal skills to lead your team effectively. You ask the right questions and negotiate effectively with your team on a daily basis. What is a third important interpersonal skill you can use?

• Perform reviews

• Decrease feedback

• Increase expectations

• Practice empathy

What type of document will you create to highlight tasks, assignments, and the timeline of a project?

• Project proposal

• Team retrospective

• Project plan

• Risk assessment

Which of the following strategies follow project plan best practices? Select all that apply.

• Ask your team members daily if they are able to meet the deadlines they have for their tasks.

• Ask yourself if the information in your plan is clear enough for stakeholders to understand.

• Ask your team members to identify risks that will most likely occur, and create plans to prevent or mitigate those risks.

• Ask team members questions about their work to gain deeper insights into their tasks for the project.

During the planning phase, you notice the project needs more developers to complete the project tasks within the timeline. Which of the following steps can you take to ensure the project can still be completed on time?

• Document your concern about the project and focus on motivating your team.

• Assign as many tasks as you can to the teammates before they burn out.

• Don’t raise any concerns vocally and maintain the belief you will make the timeline.

• Communicate your concern to the team and ask for more resources on the project.

As a project manager, you estimate a task to take two days. Your team actually took five days to complete the task. What describes the tendency that caused you to underestimate the time for the task?

• Feedback fallacy

• Pessimism bias

• Opinion bias

• Planning fallacy

When creating a critical path, what does a network diagram help visualize? Select all that apply.

• Which non-essential tasks are not on the critical path

• Which skilled teammate can work on each task

• The tasks that can be performed in parallel

• The path of work from the start to the end of the project

Which of the following is a visual tool a project manager can use to manage tasks and workflows?

• RACI chart

• Project charter

• Kanban board

• Stakeholder power grid