Certification of Capability in Business Analysis (CCBA) — Question 376

You are hired as a contract project manager for Dreams Unlimited Inc. The project involves setting up ten servers and fifty client computers on the network. From past experience, you know it takes around fifteen hours to install, test, and finalize a server, while it takes only ten hours for a client. You consider these data for making an estimate of schedule of the task. Which of the following estimation techniques has been used?

Answer options

• A. Bottom-up
• B. Schedule performance index
• C. Parametric modeling
• D. Analogous

Correct answer: D

Explanation

The correct answer is D, Analogous, as it involves using historical data from previous projects to estimate the duration of the current project tasks. The other options like Bottom-up and Parametric modeling involve different methods of estimating that do not rely solely on historical data comparisons.