COSC 475 Scheduling Terms Exam 2025
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Activity / Task - ✔✔Used in Primavera P6 scheduling software, the overall schedule
includes smaller components identified for planning, scheduling, monitoring, and
controlling the project. Activities are described in terms of time and will generally
consume resources
Task - ✔✔Used in Microsoft Project scheduling software, the overall schedule includes
smaller components identified for planning, scheduling, monitoring, and controlling
the project. Activities are described in terms of time and will generally consume
resources
Milestones - ✔✔They mark a significant point in time for reference or measurement.
They have a zero duration. Often, a goal date.
Work Breakdown Structure - ✔✔The master Work Breakdown Structure is a hierarchy
of work that must be completed within the project and groups activities into various
phases (ex, Preconstruction, Foundation, Structure, Finishes, Close-out, etc.).
Duration - ✔✔The length of time for an activity, series of activities, or a project. As the
schedule software reports, durations are always workdays, not calendar days.
Predecessor - ✔✔A task that comes before another task, and its completion depends
upon the start of the following task.
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, Successor - ✔✔A task that comes after another and depends on the previous task.
Lag time - ✔✔Planned delay between tasks. This is the same as Slack
Relationships - ✔✔define how an activity relates to the start or finish of another activity
or assignment. Add relationships between activities to create a path through your
schedule from the first activity to the last activity. These relationships, which form the
logic of the project network, are used together with activity durations to determine
schedule dates. An activity can have as many relationships as necessary to model the
work that must be done. You can also identify relationships between activities in
different projects; this type of relationship is referred to as an external relationship.
Types of relationships are shown below: a. Finish to Start relationship (FS)
b. Finish to Finish relationship (FF)
c. Start to Start relationship (SS)
d. Start-to-finish relationship. (SF)
Note: This is the least frequently used relationship because it is counterintuitive.
Critical Path - ✔✔The longest path to completion of the project is the longest continuous
chain of activities through the network schedule, which establishes the minimum
overall project duration.
Baseline Plan - ✔✔Original schdeule
Progress - ✔✔Actual completion status of a task in the schedule
Resource Calendar - ✔✔A calendar that indicates the working days of a specific
resource, such as people, equipment, or materials.
Summary Task - ✔✔A single-line task that summarizes all the tasks indicated within its
group. Usually shown to indicate the total duration of a phase
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Activity / Task - ✔✔Used in Primavera P6 scheduling software, the overall schedule
includes smaller components identified for planning, scheduling, monitoring, and
controlling the project. Activities are described in terms of time and will generally
consume resources
Task - ✔✔Used in Microsoft Project scheduling software, the overall schedule includes
smaller components identified for planning, scheduling, monitoring, and controlling
the project. Activities are described in terms of time and will generally consume
resources
Milestones - ✔✔They mark a significant point in time for reference or measurement.
They have a zero duration. Often, a goal date.
Work Breakdown Structure - ✔✔The master Work Breakdown Structure is a hierarchy
of work that must be completed within the project and groups activities into various
phases (ex, Preconstruction, Foundation, Structure, Finishes, Close-out, etc.).
Duration - ✔✔The length of time for an activity, series of activities, or a project. As the
schedule software reports, durations are always workdays, not calendar days.
Predecessor - ✔✔A task that comes before another task, and its completion depends
upon the start of the following task.
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, Successor - ✔✔A task that comes after another and depends on the previous task.
Lag time - ✔✔Planned delay between tasks. This is the same as Slack
Relationships - ✔✔define how an activity relates to the start or finish of another activity
or assignment. Add relationships between activities to create a path through your
schedule from the first activity to the last activity. These relationships, which form the
logic of the project network, are used together with activity durations to determine
schedule dates. An activity can have as many relationships as necessary to model the
work that must be done. You can also identify relationships between activities in
different projects; this type of relationship is referred to as an external relationship.
Types of relationships are shown below: a. Finish to Start relationship (FS)
b. Finish to Finish relationship (FF)
c. Start to Start relationship (SS)
d. Start-to-finish relationship. (SF)
Note: This is the least frequently used relationship because it is counterintuitive.
Critical Path - ✔✔The longest path to completion of the project is the longest continuous
chain of activities through the network schedule, which establishes the minimum
overall project duration.
Baseline Plan - ✔✔Original schdeule
Progress - ✔✔Actual completion status of a task in the schedule
Resource Calendar - ✔✔A calendar that indicates the working days of a specific
resource, such as people, equipment, or materials.
Summary Task - ✔✔A single-line task that summarizes all the tasks indicated within its
group. Usually shown to indicate the total duration of a phase
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