1. What type of chart compares the current project schedule with the original baseline schedule so that deviations from the original plan can be easily noticed?
2. What are the four major categories of project based on the area undergoing change?
3. In a Gantt chart, the horizontal axis is usually which of the following?
4. What is work breakdown structure?
5. A company must perform a maintenance project consisting of seven activities. The activities, their predecessors and their respective time estimates are presented here:
Using CPM, which activities make up the critical path?
6. A simple project listing of five activities and their respective time estimates are presented here:
Using CPM, which activity make up the critical path?
7 You are looking at a chart that has the terms BCWS, BCWP and AC indicating lines on the chart. What kind of chart are you looking at?
8. Popular project management software used in mid-sized project is
9. For an activity in a CPM analysis, the early finish time is 20 and the late finish time is 20. Which of the following statement is true?
10. Earned Value management (EVM) has the capability to combine measurements of scope, schedule and cost in project
11. The Gantt chart is an example of a project control chart
12. A series of projects that are organized in such a way that each project utilizes people from different functional areas is using which of the following organizational structure?
13. Slack activity time is the difference between the early start and the late finish of a project activity time.
14. One of the assumptions made using CPM is that project activity sequence relationships can be specified and networked.
15. In a Gantt chart the horizontal axis is usually which of the following?
16. A simple project listing of five activities, their predecessors and their respective time estimates are presented here:
Using the CPM, which activities have slack in this project?
1. Which of the following is a graphic project reort used in project management?
11. In the time-cost CPM model, cost is assumed to be a linear function of time.
19. A company must perform a maintenance project consisting of seven activities. The activities, their predecessors and their respective time estimates are present here:
Using the CPM, which activities have slack in this project?
90. Project management can be defined as planning, directing and controlling resources to meet the technical, cost and constraints of the project.
91. The critical path of activities in a projects is the sequences of activities that form the shortest chain in a project network of activities
92. In CPM, the late start time estimate is the latest time you can start an activity and still keep the entire project on schedule
93. A simple project listing of two activities and their respective time estimates are presented here
Using CPM, which activities make up the critical path?
94. Project management software available today combines CPM and other scheduling aids, to aid in tracking progress of project competition
95. One of the disadvantages of a pure project organizational structure is that the project manager has full authority over the project
96. For an activity in a CPM analysis,the early start time is 1 and the late start time is 10 which of the following statement is true?
9. Earned management is a technique for measuring project progress in an objective manner
91. A project may be defined as a series of related jobs directed towards some major output and requiring a significant period of time to perform
99. Here are the data for a time-cost CPM scheduling model analysis.The time is in days and the costs include both direct and indirect costs
Activity Immediate Predecessor Normal Time Crash Time Normal Cost Crash Cost
If you crash this project to reduce the total time by one day, what is the total time of the project and total cost?
100. CPM is an abbreviation for Critical path method
101. The critical path in a project is the sequences of activities that consume the largest amount of time in a project network of activities
102. You have the following time and cost information for use in a time-cost CPM scheduling model
What are the three costs per unit of time to expected each activity?
103. A Listing of immediate predecessor activities is important information in a CPM analysis for which of the following reasons?
104. Work Breakdown Structure and Activities for the Smart phone Design Project
105. Determine the minimum number of weeks for completing the project.
106. . Find the activities that are on the critical path for completing the project in the shortest time.
10. What feature in project management information systems can be used to resolve overvaluation of project resources?
101. What type of chart compares the current project schedule with the original baseline schedule so that deviations from the original plan can easily noticed?
109. What is critical path?
110. How many weeks will take to complete the project?
111. How many slack does activity B have?
112. You have just been assigned to oversee a series of project. Functional areas will loan you personnel for each project, and separate project managers will be responsible for separate projects. These project managers will report to you. Which project management structure is being used?
113. What is work breakdown structure?
114. You know when you have arrived at the optimal solution in using the time-cost CPM scheduling model analysis when what happens?
115. A listing of immediate predecessor activites is important information in a CPM analysis for which of the following reasons?
116. You are looking at a chart that has the terms BCWS, BCWP, and AC indicating lines on the chart. What kind of chart you are looking at?
11. Schedule the following activities using CPM:
What is critical path?
How many weeks will take to complete the project?
Which activities have slack, and how much?
111. What feature in project management information systems can be used to resolve over allocation of project resources?
119. You have just been assigned to oversee a series of project. Functional areas will loan you personnel for each project, and separate project managers will be responsible for separate projects. These project managers will report to you. Which project management structure is being used?
120. What is work breakdown structure?
121. A company must perform a maintenance project consisting of seven activities . The activities, their predecessors, and their respective time estimates are presented here.
Using CPM, which activity makes the critical path?
123. You are looking at a chart that has the terms BCWS,BCWP, and AC indicating lines on the chart. What kind of chart you are looking at?
124. Popular project management software used in mid-sized projects is
125. The R&D department is planning to bid on a large project for the development of a new communication system for commercial planes. the accompanying table shows the activities, times, and sequences required:
What is critical path?
Suppose you want to shorten the completion time as much as possible, and you have the option of shortening any or all of B,C,D and G each one week. Which would you shorten?
What is the new critical path?
What is the earliest completion time of the new critical path?
126. The R&D department is planning to bid on a large project for the development of a new communication system for commercial planes. The accompanying table shows the activities, times, and sequences required:
What is the critical path
Suppose you want to shorten the completion time as much as possible, and you have the option of shortening any or all of B, C, D, and G each one week. Which would you shorten?
What is the new critical path?
What is the earliest completion time for the new critical path?