SKILL BENCHMARK
Project Schedule Management Competency (Intermediate Level)
- 20m
- 20 questions
The Project Schedule Management Competency (Intermediate Level) benchmark measures your ability to recognize key terms and concepts related to project schedule management concepts. You will be evaluated on your skills in executing schedule planning, critical path methods, schedule control, and Agile adaptive planning. Learners who score high on this benchmark demonstrate that they have the skills related to project schedule management terminology and concepts.
Topics covered
- choose the appropriate technique to define activities for a given project
- identify and calculate float in the project schedule
- identify components of the schedule management plan
- identify techniques used to shorten overall schedule duration
- identify the activities and milestones in a project
- identify the critical path and its characteristics
- match types of precedence relationships with their descriptions
- perform a backward pass using the critical path method
- perform a forward pass using the critical path method
- perform earned value management calculations to assess a project’s schedule performance
- recognize characteristics of the critical path method
- recognize how Agile takes an adaptive approach to planning the schedule
- recognize if crashing is the most appropriate schedule compression technique, given a scenario
- recognize if resource leveling is the ideal resource optimization technique, given a scenario
- recognize if resource smoothing is the ideal resource optimization technique, given a scenario
- recognize the process for creating a schedule network diagram
- recognize the relationships and dependencies between activities
- recognize the roles that the activity list and activity attributes play in project management
- recognize the roles that the milestone list plays in managing a project
- recognize tools and techniques used to control the schedule
