The project manager needs to understand the availability of team members required to complete project work. She should look at the resource calendars, which identify the working days, shifts, and availability of each resource. The resource calendars serve as an input to the Acquire Resources process, showing when resources are available during planned activity periods. Reviewing the calendars will provide the project manager with the information about team member availability to perform the project work.

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2. A project manager is in the process of obtaining team members. She wants to understand the
availability of the team members required to complete project work.
What should the project manager do to find this information?
A. Look at the resource calendars
B. Contact the project management office
C. Review the resource requirements
D. Examine the resource breakdown structure
HINT: Which input to the Acquire Resources process identifies the working days and shifts upon
which each specific resource is available?
Question

3. The correct answer is A.
The scenario implies that the project manager is about to start one of the iterations of the
Acquire Resources process and needs to understand the availability of the project team
members.
The project documents include the resource calendars which serve as an input to the Acquire
Resources process. A resource calendar identifies the working days, shifts, start and end of normal
business hours, weekends, and public holidays when each specific resource is available.
Information on which resources are potentially available during a planned activity period is used
for estimating resource utilization. Resource calendars also specify when and for how long the
identified team and physical resources will be available during the project.
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4. Of the available choices, looking at the resource calendars provides the best source of
information for the project manager about the availability of the team members to perform
project work.
Note, resource calendars are progressively elaborated and updated throughout the project. Once
created as an output of the Acquire Resources process, they are used as needed whenever this
process is repeated. In other words, after the Acquire Resources process is completed for the first
time, resources calendars become an input to each subsequent iteration of the process, which is
the assumption the scenario described.
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