multiple choice

1 The project baseline is established by combining data from the:

a.

project schedule , time phased project budget and the work breakdown structure.

b.

S-curve and the project budget.

c.

Time-phased project budget and the PERT chart.

d.

Work breakdown structure and the project budget.

2 If your project has many subcontractors:

a.

PERT/CPM should not be used.

b.

It is important that the network is a mutually accessible document.

c.

It is illegal to reveal one subcontractor's plan to another.

d.

One subcontractor's network diagram should never be shown to another for ethical reasons.

3 Which of these is typically a recurring cost for one year project ?

a.

salary of project guard

b.

annual office rental

c.

Market analysis

d.

Training

4 Gantt charts can show early start or late start logic.

a.

True

b.

False

5 Activity-based costing and bottom-up budgeting share the step of:

a.

Identifying cost drivers associated with each activity.

b.

Tending to overestimate project costs due to the lack of involvement by top management.

c.

Identifying activities that consume resources and assigning costs to them.

d.

Assigning costs to projects by multiplying the cost driver rate times the volume of units.