What tool and technique can you use as a part of controlling the schedule to help you review various

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You are the project manager for your organization. You have been recording the actual results of
activity duration for your project. Many of the results are late and this is causing your project to be
late on reaching its milestones. What tool and technique can you use as a part of controlling the
schedule to help you review various scenarios to bring the schedule into alignment with the plan?

A.
What-if scenario analysis
A schedule network analysis is performed using the schedule to compute the different
scenarios, such as extending specific engineering durations, or delaying a major component
delivery. Businesses use what-if scenarios to determine the effect different costs or investments
have on profit and other financial indicators.
Answer option D is incorrect. Resource leveling can cause your project’s duration to increase.
Answer option C is incorrect. Schedule analysis is the review of the schedule, but does not
examine other possibilities for completing the project work.
Answer option B is incorrect. Root cause analysis could help you determine the reasons why the
project is running late, but it is not the best choice for this question as it is not a control schedule
process tool and technique.
QUESTION 184

You are the project manager of a software development project. Your project team will be creating
a web-based software application that will allow your company’s customers to browse your
website, search inventory, and place orders among other things. Your project team will, on a
regular basis, need to update their computer virus prevention software, update their operating
systems, and perform other maintenance on their computers in order to complete the project. This
maintenance work is not directly tied to the project deliverables, but it is needed in order for the
project to be completed. What term best describes this maintenance work?
Project management overhead

B.
Root cause analysis
Discrete effort

C.
Schedule analysis
Level of effort

D.
Resource leveling
Cost of conformance to quality

B.
Root cause analysis
Discrete effort

C.
Schedule analysis
Level of effort

D.
Resource leveling
Cost of conformance to quality

Explanation:
Of all the choices, the what-if scenario analysis allows you to determine the best approach to bring
the schedule back into alignment with the project plan. What-if scenario analysis explains the
analysis of the question “What if the situation represented by scenario ‘X’ happens?”. This What-If
Scenario Analysis shortly named as WIS
The level of effort term describes the ongoing maintenance associated with the project work, but
not a contribution to the deliverables of the project work. Level of Effort (LOE) is a project activity
which must be done to support other work activities or the entire project effort. It usually consists
of short amounts of work which must be repeated periodically. LOE is used to define the amount
of work performance within a period of time and is measured in man days or man hours per
day/week/month.
Answer option B is incorrect. Discrete effort describes the activities that can be linked directly to
the project work packages.
Answer option A is incorrect. Project management overhead is an example of apportioned effort.
Answer option D is incorrect. The cost of conformance to quality describes the dues, such as the
subscription for the anti-virus software that must be spent, so the project can reach its objectives.