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Chapter 14 - Project Planning and Scheduling
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1. The job of the project manager is to:
Difficulty: Moderate
2. The purpose of performing a forward pass is to:
Difficulty: Hard
3. An assumption of the PERT method is:
Difficulty: Easy
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4. Multiple critical paths can exist under the critical path method (CPM) because:
Difficulty: Easy
5. Project management requires:
Difficulty: Easy
6. Gantt charts are effective for project scheduling if:
Difficulty: Easy
7. Controlling a project does NOT include:
Difficulty: Moderate
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8. Which of the following statements is true about a critical path?
Difficulty: Moderate
*The following question requires a Standard Normal Probability Distribution (Appendix A in the textbook).
9. Given the list of activities, the expected time estimates, and variances, compute the
probability that the project time will be less than 30 minutes. Round Z to two decimals.
Difficulty: Moderate
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10. The critical path of the following network is:
Difficulty: Moderate
11. A forward pass of the above network indicates that the early start time of activity 4-5 is:
Difficulty: Easy
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12. Project managers’ objectives include:
Difficulty: Moderate
13. Project managers’ work includes:
Difficulty: Moderate
14. The advantage(s) of the network method over the Gantt chart is (are) that:
Difficulty: Moderate
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15. The advantage(s) that the Gantt chart has over the network method is (are):
Difficulty: Moderate
16. The information calculated from the forward and backward pass can be used for:
Difficulty: Moderate
17. "Slack" refers to the difference between:
Difficulty: Moderate
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18. A network-based project scheduling method that requires three time estimates for each
activity is:
Difficulty: Easy
19. The project management concept that can best be applied to situations such as R&D,
computer systems design, and military invasions is:
Difficulty: Moderate
20. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the PERT method of project
scheduling?
Difficulty: Hard
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21. Which of the following statements about critical path method (CPM) is true?
Difficulty: Moderate
22. A forward pass is required while computing the early start and early finish times of
activities.
Difficulty: Moderate
23. Critical path method (CPM) network scheduling assumes a second order (non-linear)
time-cost tradeoff exists.
Difficulty: Easy
24. The early start and late start times are equal for an activity on the critical path of a
network.
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25. PERT assumes that the statistical variation in total project completion times can be
computed by adding the standard deviations along the critical path.
Difficulty: Hard
26. A work-breakdown structure is used in the scheduling activity of project management.
Difficulty: Easy
