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CompTIA Project+ Study Guide: Exam PK0-004 - Second Edition

By : Kim Heldman
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CompTIA Project+ Study Guide: Exam PK0-004 - Second Edition

By: Kim Heldman

Overview of this book

The CompTIA Project+ Study Guide, Second Edition is your comprehensive resource for taking Exam PK0-004. With 100% coverage of all exam objectives, this book gives you everything you need to approach the exam with confidence. Detailed explanations and superior study tools cover and reinforce setup, initiation, planning, execution, delivery, change, control, communication, and closure, and the author Kim Heldman's twenty-five years of project management experience provide deep insight into real-world applications. The book contains detailed explanations and superior study tools that cover and reinforce all the exam objectives. You’ll begin by tackling questions related to pre-project setup and project initiation. Then you’ll solve questions about creating a project charter and planning it. You’ll also take questions about developing schedules and budgets and project execution. The later chapters provide questions on managing change, control, and communication. Finally, you’ll be given questions on project closure. By the end of the book, you’ll have the knowledge you need to be confident on exam day.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Acknowledgments
2
About the Author
15
Advert
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EULA

Determining Task Durations

Determining task durations is the next step in constructing the project schedule. Duration estimating can be as easy as an expert giving you an educated estimate based on their experience, or it can be a complex process involving techniques and calculations to develop estimates—albeit most of these estimates are still based on expert opinions.

Before explaining some of the techniques you can use to complete your task duration estimates, let’s make sure we have a common understanding of activity duration.

Defining Duration

When you are estimating duration, you need to make sure that you are looking at the total elapsed time to complete the activity. For example, let’s say you have a task that is estimated to take five days to complete based on an eight-hour workday. You have one full-time resource assigned to this task, but they have only four hours a day to work on it. That means the actual duration estimate for this task is 10 days.

You...