Chapter 12: Network Scheduling Techniques Flashcards
Which of the following scheduling techniques is most appropriate today for managing a project?
- Bar charts
- Milestone charts
- PERT charts
- Precedence charts
Precedence charts
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
BAR charts
The major disadvantage of using bar chart on large projects is that bar charts?
Do not show dependencies between activites
Which of the following is not one of the four network diagramming technique?
- PERT
- GERT
- VERT
- PDM
VERT
Which of the following activity on arrow network diagramming methods does not require 3 estimates for duration?
- PERT
- GERT
- ADM
- PDM
ADM
Which does not use dummy activities?
- PERT
- GERT
- PDM
- ADM
PDM
Which of the following network diagramming method allows for branching and looping?
- PERT
- GERT
- PDM
- ADM
GERT
Which of the following is a activity-on-node network diagramming method?
- PERT
- GERT
- PDM
- ADM
PDM
Which of the following cannot be determined after performing a forward pass and a backward pass on a network diagram?
- critical path
- end date of the project
- effort in each activity
- slack in each activity
The effort in each activity
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.
Activities with ZERO time duration are called?
Dummy activities… duh
Which of the following is false concerning the critical path in a network? It is the…
- longest path in the network
- shortest amount of time in which the project can be completed
- path that contains the greatest number of activities
- path where each activity has zero slack
It is the path that contains the greatest number of activities.
T/F The critical path is the path in a network with the greatest amount of risk.
False
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?
13 weeks
Which of the following schedule compression techniques usually requires adding more resources to each work package that is being compressed?
- overtime
- crashing
- outsourcing
- descoping
Crashing