Unit 3: Tasks - Practice Quiz

1 In a project management application, where is a new task name commonly entered?

2 Which entry represents a task duration of five working days?

3 Which source is most useful when estimating the duration of a familiar task?

4 What does a milestone usually represent in a project schedule?

5 What is a project phase?

6 Which activity is best entered as a recurring task?

7 Which setting determines how often a recurring task occurs?

8 Which action changes the name of an existing task?

9 What does a higher task priority generally indicate?

10 What usually happens when a task is inserted between two existing tasks?

11 What is the result of deleting a task?

12 Why would a project manager move a task?

13 Which field is used to arrange tasks according to their importance?

14 Who directly controls the scheduling information of a manually scheduled task?

15 What commonly determines the dates of an automatically scheduled task?

16 What does switching task mode change?

17 What is the main purpose of making a task inactive?

18 What does tracking a project as scheduled usually indicate?

19 Which completion percentage means that a task is finished?

20 What does the actual duration of a task record?

21 A project manager is creating a schedule before reliable duration estimates are available. What is the most appropriate initial action?

22 A task requires three working days, but a weekend occurs between its start and finish. If the project calendar treats weekends as nonworking time, which duration should be entered?

23 An optimistic estimate is 4 days, a most likely estimate is 7 days, and a pessimistic estimate is 10 days. Using the PERT weighted average, what is the estimated duration?

24 Which schedule structure best represents a testing phase that ends with formal customer approval?

25 A status meeting must occur every Monday from project start until project completion. Which approach creates the clearest schedule?

26 A monthly review is scheduled for the first Friday of each month, but one occurrence falls on a company holiday. What primarily determines how that occurrence is scheduled?

27 A task was entered as "Prepare report" but should be renamed without changing its dates, duration, or links. Which edit is most appropriate?

28 Two tasks compete for the same resource during resource leveling. Task X has priority 900 and Task Y has priority 300. What is the expected effect of these values?

29 A missing review activity must be added between two existing tasks in a schedule. What should the project manager verify after inserting it?

30 A linked task is deleted from the middle of a schedule. What is the most important immediate check?

31 A task is moved from one phase to another by cutting and pasting its entire row. Which result should be checked first?

32 A manager wants critical deployment work protected from leveling delays while allowing documentation work to move. Which priority assignment is most suitable?

33 A manually scheduled task has a typed start date and duration but is linked to a predecessor that finishes later. What should the manager expect?

34 An automatically scheduled task has a finish-to-start predecessor and no restrictive constraint. The predecessor moves two working days later. What usually happens?

35 A manually scheduled task contains incomplete planning information. Before switching it to automatic scheduling, what should be checked?

36 A team wants to compare a schedule with and without an optional training activity while keeping the activity's details available. What should it do?

37 Several tasks were completed exactly according to the baseline through the current status date. Which tracking action is most efficient?

38 A task has a duration of 10 days and progress is recorded as 40 percent complete. Assuming progress is distributed according to duration, how much actual duration is represented?

39 A task actually started one day late and has used 18 hours of work so far. Which entries best capture this progress?

40 A task was planned for 8 days. After 3 actual days of work, the team estimates that 6 more days are required. What duration is the task now expected to have?

41 A project manager enters three tasks and links them Finish-to-Start: Design, Build, and Test. Before durations are entered, all three are manually scheduled. Which result is most likely?

42 A task starts at 8:00 AM Monday on a calendar with 8-hour working days and weekends off. Ignoring holidays, how does a duration of 3ed differ from 3d?

43 Using the PERT weighted-average estimate , what duration should be entered when the optimistic, most likely, and pessimistic estimates are 4, 7, and 16 days?

44 A five-day approval task must be displayed as a milestone without losing its duration. Which configuration best preserves both the schedule calculation and the milestone symbol?

45 A weekly inspection is created as a recurring task for 12 Mondays. A holiday calendar exception makes one Monday nonworking. What should the manager verify instead of assuming the series is correct?

46 A recurring status meeting creates a summary task with 20 occurrence subtasks. The manager changes only the duration of the fifth occurrence. What is the expected scope of that edit?

47 An automatically scheduled task has a duration of 10 days, is 40% complete, and has no resource-driven recalculation. Its duration is edited to 15 days while its completion percentage remains unchanged. Which duration values are consistent afterward?

48 Two otherwise equivalent resource-overallocated tasks can be delayed by leveling. Task X has priority 900 and Task Y has priority 200. Under priority-sensitive leveling, which outcome is expected?

49 A new task is inserted between tasks with IDs 18 and 19. Existing dependencies were created by task links rather than by typing dates. What is the most accurate statement?

50 A phase summary task contains six subtasks, including linked and resource-assigned work. What is the principal consequence of deleting the summary task row?

51 A summary task with four subtasks is moved below another phase using a row-move operation. Which result best preserves the work breakdown structure?

52 A manager sorts a task table by the Priority field in descending order and selects the option to keep the outline structure. Which effect should be expected?

53 A manually scheduled successor is set to start on June 10, but its automatically scheduled predecessor slips and finishes on June 14. No explicit edit is made to the successor. What is the key scheduling risk?

54 An automatically scheduled task has two Finish-to-Start predecessors that finish on May 8 and May 12. It has no lag, constraint, or calendar exception. What determines its earliest start?

55 A manually scheduled task has typed dates that conflict with its predecessor link. The task is switched to automatic scheduling. Which outcome is most likely?

56 A proposed task lies between Design and Deployment in a linked chain. The manager inactivates the proposed task to evaluate the plan without deleting it. What is the intended result?

57 At the status date, several tasks were completed exactly as originally scheduled, while future tasks have not started. Which tracking action most directly records the elapsed scheduled work without individually entering every actual value?

58 A task has a duration of 12 days and is marked 75% complete. Under duration-based percent-complete tracking, what values should Project derive before other constraints or actual entries intervene?

59 A task was planned to start Monday, but the manager enters an Actual Start of Wednesday. No earlier actual work exists. What is the most defensible interpretation?

60 A fixed-duration task has Duration = 10 days, Actual Duration = 6 days, and Remaining Duration = 5 days after an update. What does this combination imply?