Project Management Part 2

Question 1

developed by representatives of DuPont to assist in the management of industrial projects

Answer 1

Critical path method CPM

Question 2

The focus of ________is to determine when a project should be completed and to schedule when each activity in the project must begin in order to keep the project on scheudule

Answer 2

CPM

Question 3

was developed by EU S Navy because many tasks required to complete a project had uncertain times

Answer 3

program evaluation and review technique PERT

Question 4

focuses on estimating the probability of completing a project by a given deadline

Answer 4

program evaluation and review technique PERT

Question 5

over the years the two techniques have blended together and I referred to collectively

Answer 5

PERT/CPM

Question 6

any project can be broken down into component activities

Answer 6

Time of activities

Order of activities

Question 7

projects require

Answer 7

amounts of time accomplished in a specific order

Question 8

The major differences between CPM and PERT

Answer 8

involve how the time element of the activities is determined

Question 9

Projects must have

Answer 9

both require a detailed network that clearly indicate the main activities and their precedent relationship

Question 10

Activity on node

Answer 10

a network design that portrays activities bynodes in a chart there are immediate predecessors and immediate successors of each activity

Question 11

Activity on ark

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represents the project activities with arrows

Question 12

After creating a network The next step in the CPM technique is to

Answer 12

determine the earliest time that each activity in the network can start and finish

Question 13

Forward Pass allows us to

Answer 13

determine the earliest time that each activity in the network can start and finish

Question 14

this analysis determines the earliest time that the project itself can be completed

Answer 14

Forward Pass