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With _____,activity estimates are usually provided by the team members.

A) Guesstimating
B) Delphi Technique
C) Time Boxing
D) Top-Down Estimating
E) Bottom-Up Estimating

F) D) and E)
G) A) and E)

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The PMBOK area called project time management includes all of the following except:

A) Define Activities
B) Assign Activities
C) Estimate Activity Durations
D) Develop Schedule
E) Control Schedule

F) C) and D)
G) A) and E)

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_____ can be very effective and provide reasonable assurance when the stakes are high and and the margin of error is low.

A tangible and verifiable piece of work is called a milestone.

The most common error in guesstimating is to be pessimistic and to overestimate the time and resources necessary to complete a project.

The 100 percent rule is the most important criterion in the developing and evaluating the WBS.The rule states: "The parent)element must represent 100 percent of the work applicable to next level decomposition of a WBS element child level)."

One way to ensure that the WBS has the appropriate level of detail is to ensure that the people who do the work are involved in its development.

How can function point analysis be used to help manage scope creep?

What is the proper level of detail for a WBS?

Project success will be determined in large part by _____

This estimation technique may be driven by an upper management mandate.

The work breakdown structure WBS)decomposes,or subdivides,the project into smaller components and more manageable units of work called work packages.

What is a function point? What advantages do function points have over counting lines of code?

With COCOMO,_____ projects are challenging in that they may support a new business process or area that is new to the organization.

In much the same fashion as the claim "you can never be too rich",when developing a WBS,one can never have too much detail in planning activities.

What is time boxing? What are some advantages and disadvantages of time boxing project activities?

The first step in accurately estimating an IT application is to _____.

Basing an estimate of activity durations on experience gained from working on similar projects is called analogous estimation.

The Work Breakdown Structure is subdivided into smaller components called:

Time boxing involves allocating a time segment for a task rather than attempting to estimate how long that task should take.