You are the project manager of the GHY Project. This project is scheduled to last for one year and
has a BAC of $4,500,000. You are currently 45 percent complete with this project, though you are
supposed to be at your second milestone which accounts for half of the project completion. There
have been some errors in the project which has caused you to spend $2,073,654. What is this
project’s schedule performance index?

Holly is the project manager for her organization. She is creating the activity list and would like to
tag those activities that are comprised of discrete effort. What is discrete effort?

Lily works as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. She has recorded the following duration
estimates for an activity in her project: optimistic 35, most likely 50, and pessimistic 95. What time
will she record for this activity?

Nancy is the project manager of the JJJ Project. This project has recently been approved by the
project customer as complete so Nancy must now finalize the administrative closure. Nancy needs
to create the final project report to report the successes and failures in the project. Who should
Nancy deliver this final project report to if she is participating in a projectized structure?

You are the project manager of the AHQ project. This project is scheduled to last for six months
and will require $345,000 to complete. If the project completes earlier than scheduled, your
organization will receive a bonus of $5,000 per day of early completion. Management has asked
you to develop an aggressive schedule to realize as much of the bonus as possible, but
management does not want you to increase the costs of the project beyond $1,000 per day of the
bonus realization. Which of the following approaches will likely add costs to the project?