PMP Certification Sample Questions 9.30 A building contractor is working on a vacation home and is looking over his schedule. He notices that the schedule calls for the foundation footers to be poured and then the rough floor decking to be installed. In this plan, the decking would be an example of what type of activity? a. Successor task b. Predecessor task c. Lag activity d. Crashed activity 9.31 Your project team is working on a brand-new project with leading-edge technology. As a result, it is very difficult for your team to give reasonable accurate estimates for how long their activities are going to take in order to be completed. Because of this uncertainty, it would be appropriate for you to require team members to use what kind of logic when estimating durations? a Normal distribution b. Beta distribution c. Deterministic estimates d. Experience 9.32 Suppose a project plan had three distinct paths through the network. The first path consisted of activities A (3 days), B (4 days) and C (2 days). The second path consisted of activities D (4 days), E (5 days), and F (5 days). The third path consisted of activities G (2 days), H (3 days), and I (10 days). Which is the critical path? a ABC . DEF * GHI d. ADG 9.33 Activity Slack (also known as float) can be calculated through which of the following means? a. Early finish (EF) - late finish (LF) b. Early finish (EF) - early start (ES) c. Late finish (LF) - late start (LS) d. Late start (LS) - early start (ES) 9.34 Your project team is working from a network diagram. This type of tool will show the team a. Activity precedence b. Duration estimates for the activities and overall schedule c. The dates activities are expected to begin d. The network diagram will show none of the above