Management Chapter 12 Network Scheduling Techniques E Which

CHAPTER 12: NETWORK SCHEDULING TECHNIQUES

(E) 1. Which of the following scheduling techniques is most appropriate today for managing

a project?

(E) 2. Which of the following scheduling techniques is most appropriate today for reporting

project status to a customer during an interchange meeting?

(M) 3. The major disadvantage of using a bar chart on large projects is that bar charts:

(E) 4. Which of the following is not one of the four network diagramming techniques?

(H) 5. Which of the following activity-on-arrow network diagramming methods does not

require three estimates for durations?

(M) 6. Which of the following network diagramming methods do not use dummy activities?

(M) 7. Which of the following network diagramming methods allows for branching and

looping?

(M) 8. Which of the following is an activity-on-node network diagramming method?

(H) 9. Which of the following cannot be determined after performing a forward pass and a

backward pass on a network diagram?

(H) 10. Negative slack is the result of:

(M) 11. Activities with zero time durations are called:

(H) 12. Which of the following is false concerning the critical path in a network?

(M) 13. The critical path is the path in the network with the greatest amount of risk.

(E) 14. 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:

(E) 15. Which of the following schedule compression techniques usually requires adding more

resources to each work package that is being compressed?

(M) 16. In which of the following schedule compression techniques is the cost of rework

usually the greatest?

(M) 17. Which of the following schedule compression techniques is often the lowest risk and

with the added benefit of lowering the cost?

(E) 18. Smoothing out project resources from period to period is called

(E) 19. Laying out a network diagram when you know before-hand the size of the available

resource pool is called:

(E) 20. An activity in a network has the following characteristics: ES = 5, EF = 9 and LF = 12.

LS = _____.

(E) 21. An activity in a network has the following characteristics: ES = 10, EF = 18 and LS =

12. The duration of the activity is:

(M) 22. If the slack in a 12 week activity is 6 weeks and ES = 4, then LF = _____.

(M) 23. The measurement of lag is made within an activity whereas slack is measured between

activities.

(M) 24. PERT network reflect what type of precedence diagram?

(E) 25. What are the maximum number of inputs and outputs that can exist in a node in the

precedence diagramming method?