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Chapter 12 Flashcards

1
Q 
Which of the following scheduling techniques is most appropriate today for managing a project?
BAR charts
Milestone charts
PERT charts
Precedence charts
A

Precedence charts

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Q 
Which of the following scheduling techniques is most appropriate today for reporting project status to a customer during an interchange meeting?
BAR charts
Milestone charts
PERT charts
Precedence charts
A

BAR charts

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3
Q

The major disadvantage of using a bar chart on large projects is that bar charts:
Cannot identify critical paths
Do not show dependencies between activities
Cannot identify milestones
Cannot show slack

A

Do not show dependencies between activities

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4
Q 
Which of the following is not one of the four network diagramming techniques?
PERT
GERT
VERT
PDM
A

VERT

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5
Q 
Which of the following activity-on-arrow network diagramming methods does not require three estimates for durations?
PERT
GERT
ADM
PDM
A

ADM

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6
Q 
Which of the following network diagramming methods do not use dummy activities?
PERT
GERT
ADM
PDM
A

PDM

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7
Q 
Which of the following network diagramming methods allows for branching and looping?
PERT
GERT
ADM
PDM
A

GERT

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8
Q 
Which of the following is an activity-on-node network diagramming method?
PERT
GERT
ADM
PDM
A

PDM

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9
Q 
Which of the following cannot be determined after performing a forward pass and a backward pass on a network diagram?
The critical path
The end date of the project
The effort in each activity
The slack in each activity
A

The effort in each activity

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10
Q

Negative slack is the result of:
The forward pass going beyond the customer’s end date and the backward pass is measured from the customer’s end date
Non-critical-path activity using up all of their slack
The critical path can be completed before the customer’s desired end date
All of the above

A

The forward pass going beyond the customer’s end date and the backward pass is measured from the customer’s end date

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Q 
Activities with zero time durations are called:
Low-slack activities
No-slack activities
Dummy activities
Special activities
A

Dummy activities

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12
Q

Which of the following is false concerning the critical path in a network?
It is the longest path in the network
It is the shortest amount of time in which the project can be complete
It is the path that contains the greatest number of activities
It is the path where each activity has zero slack

A

It is the path that contains the greatest number of activities.

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13
Q

The critical path is the path in the network with the greatest amount of risk.
True
False

A

False

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14
Q 
If the optimistic time for an activity is 6 weeks, the pessimistic time is 24 weeks and the most likely time is 12 weeks, then the expected duration is:
7 weeks
13 weeks
22 weeks
24 weeks
A

13 weeks

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15
Q 
Which of the following schedule compression techniques usually requires adding more resources to each work package that is being compressed?
Overtime
Crashing
Outsourcing
Descoping
A

Crashing

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16
Q 
In which of the following schedule compression techniques is the cost of rework usually the greatest?
Overtime
Crashing
Performing series work in parallel
Outsourcing
A

Performing series work in parallel

17
Q 
Which of the following schedule compresson techniques is often the lowest risk and with the added benefit of lowering the cost?
Crashing
Descoping
Outsourcing
Overtime
A

Descoping

18
Q

Smoothing out project resources from period to period is called
Resource leveling
Resource allocation or resource limited planning
Better effort planning
Slack utilization planning

A

Resource leveling

19
Q

Laying out a network diagram when you know before-hand the size of the available resource pool is called:
Resource leveling
Resource allocation or resource limited planning
Better effort planning
Slack utilization planning

A

Resource allocation or resource limited planning

20
Q 
An activity in a network has the following characteristics: ES = 5, EF = 9 and LF = 12. LS = \_\_\_\_\_.
5
8
9
12
A

8

21
Q 
An activity in a network has the following characteristics: ES = 10, EF = 18 and LS = 12. The duration of the activity is:
6
8
10
Cannot be determined
A

8

22
Q 
If the slack in a 12 week activity is 6 weeks and ES = 4, then LF = \_\_\_\_\_.
4
10
16
22
A

22

23
Q

The measurement of lag is made within an activity whereas slack is measured between activities.
True
False

A

False

24
Q 
PERT networks reflect what type of precedence diagram?
Start-to-start
Start-to-finish
Finish-to-start
Finish-to-finish
A

Finish-to-start

25
Q 
What are the maximum number of inputs and outputs that can exist in a node in the precedence diagramming method?
3 each
5 each
10 each
It is unlimited
A

It is unlimited

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