Susan, a Project Manager, Uses a Work Breakdown Structure to List

question 3

Multiple Choice

Susan, a project manager, uses a work breakdown structure to list the elemental tasks of a project. She then asks the team members responsible for each of these tasks to give her an estimate of the cost required to accomplish each task. Next, she adds indirect costs such as administrative costs and a reserve for contingencies to the total task cost and files her budget with the accounting department. In this scenario, Susan is using _____.

• A) top-down budgeting
• B) bottom-up budgeting
• C) agile project budgeting
• D) dynamic matrix budgeting
• E) lateral budgeting

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