PROJECT MANAGEMENT QUIZ

1 The program that allocates resources to project activities to find the shortest project schedule conditions with fixed resource limits is called

Select one:

a. Resource leveling

b. Resource Scheduling

c. Resource Allocation

d. Resource Loading

2 If BCWS = 1000, BCWP = 1200 and ACWP = 1300, the project is

Select one:

a. Ahead of schedule and over budget

b. Behind schedule and under budget

c. Ahead of schedule and under budget

d. Behind schedule and over budget

3 Which of the following cannot be identified after performing a forward pass and backward pass

Select one:

a. Critical path activities

b. Slack time

c. How much overtime is planned

d. Dummy activities

4 The first step in the development of a schedule is

Select one:

a. calculation of effort

b. listing of activities

c. determination of dependencies

d. calculation of durations

5 If an activity on the critical path takes longer than anticipated, then

Select one:

a. None of the above

b. activities not on the critical path have additional slack

c. additional critical path activities will appear

d. activities not on the critical path have less slack

6 The main disadvantage of using the bar charts to manage a project is that bar charts

Select one:

a. do not show dependencies between activities

b. do not identify start and end dates of a schedule

c. are ineffective for projects under one year in length

d. are ineffective for projects under 1 million dollar in size

7 The probability distribution for project duration in PERT follows

Select one:

a. Binomial Distribution

b. Beta Distribution

c. Poisson Distribution

d. Normal Distibution

8 Which of the following is not a commonly used technique for scheduling compression

Select one:

a. Reducing scope

b. Resource reduction

c. Use of overtime

d. Fast tracking activities

9 You have an activity where the early start is week 6, the early finish is week 10, the latest start is week 14, and the latest finish is week 18. The slack in this activity is

Select one:

a. 18 weeks

b. 4 weeks

c. 8 weeks

d. 6 weeks

10 Reducing the peaks and valleys in manpower assignments in order to obtain a relatively smooth manpower curve is called

Select one:

a. Manpower allocation

b. Manpower scheduling

c. Manpower leveling

d. Manpower loading

11 The shortest time necessary to do of the activities in a network is called the

Select one:

a. Compression path

b. Maximum slack path

c. Critical Path

d. Activity duration lenght

12 A network based schedule has four paths, namely, 7,8,9 and 10 weeks. If the 10 week path is compressed to 8 weeks, then

Select one:

a. Only the 7-week path has slack

b. We now have two critical paths

c. The 9 week path is now the critical path

d. Not enough information is provided to make a determination

13 When a project is completed , which of the following must be TRUE

Select one:

a. ACWP = BCWP

b. SV = 0

c. BAC = ACWP

d. BAC = ETC

14 The primary purpose of the 50-50 rule is to estimate

Select one:

a. BAC

b. ACWP

c. BCWS

d. BCWP

15 If CPI is 1.1 and SPI is 0.95

Select one:

a. Running over budget but behind schedule

b. Running under budget but ahead of schedule

c. Running under budget but behind schedule

d. Running over budget but ahead of schedule

16 Activity with no time duration is called

Select one:

a. zero slack activities

b. supervision activities

c. resource activities

d. dummy activities

17 The probability distribution for activity times in PERT follows

Select one:

a. Poisson Distribution

b. Binomial distribution

c. Beta Distribution

d. Normal Distribution

18 In the earned value analysis, earned value is represented by

Select one:

a. BCWP

b. BCWS

c. ACWP

d. None of these

19 If BAC = 12000 and CPI = 1.2, then the variance of completion is

Select one:

a. Minus 2000

b. Minus 3000

c. 2000

d. 3000

20 The amount of time a job can be delayed without affecting the early start time of any other job is called

Select one:

a. Interfering Slack

b. Independent Slack

c. Total Slack

d. Free Slack