NAVEDTRA 14043A, BUILDER BASIC Chapter 4 Flashcards
What is the process of determining requirements and devising and developing methods and action for construction a project? (Page 4-4)
Planning
What is the process of determining the amount and type of work to be performed, quality and the quantities of material, equipment, and labor required? (Page 4-4)
Estimating
Who is a person who evaluates the requirements of a task? (Page 4-4)
Estimator
What is the process of determining when an action must be taken and when material, equipment, and manpower and required? (Page 4- 5)
Scheduling
The four basic types of schedules include progress, material, equipment, and what else? (Page 4-5)
Manpower
What are your main basis for defining the required activities for measuring the quantities of material? (Page 4-12)
Construction drawings
What are used as a basis for purchasing materials, determining equipment, and determining manpower requirements? (Page 4-13)
Quantity estimates
A typical NMCB project might have between fifteen and how many construction activities? (Page 4-15)
50
What is a clearly definable quantity of work? (Page 4-20)
Activity
What are used to procure construction material and to determine whether sufficient material is available to construct or complete a project? (Page 4-20)
Material estimates
What percent of the posted speed limit does equipment speed usually average? (Page 4-24)
40-56%
What part of the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) contains specific information on the quantities and characteristics of construction equipment available to the NMCBs? (Page 4-27)
Table of Allowance (TOA)
According to NAVFAC P-437 a man day is equivalent to a how many hour day for contingency operations? (Page 4-27)
10
What is considered productive labor that does not contribute directly or indirectly to the product? (Page 4-27)
Overhead labor
What are the two types of labor estimates? (Page 4-27)
Preliminary and Detailed
A good preliminary estimate varies less than what percent from the detailed estimate? (Page 4-28)
15%
What represents any sequencing of priorities amont activities that form a project? (Page 4-34)
Network
What are intermediate goals within a network? (Page 4-35)
Milestones
What is an activity within the network that has zero float time? (Page 4-35)
Critical activities
What is the accumulative time span in which the completion of all activities may occur and not delay the termination date of the project referred to as? (Page 4-41)
Total float
What is the time span in which the completion of an activity may occur and not delay the finish of the project or the start of a successor activity referred to as? (Page 4-41)
Free float