Project Management

This quiz opened at Friday, 20 October 2017, 12:00 AM

This quiz will close at Tuesday, 31 October 2017, 11:59 PM
1. When a project is completed , which of the following must be TRUE

Select one:
a. ACWP = BCWP
b. BAC = ETC
c. SV = 0
d. BAC = ACWP
2. 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 Scheduling
b. Resource Allocation
c. Resource leveling
d. Resource Loading
3. The probability distribution for project duration in PERT follows

Select one:
a. Binomial Distribution
b. Poisson Distribution
c. Normal Distibution
d. Beta Distribution
4. 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. 6 weeks
b. 8 weeks
c. 18 weeks
d. 4 weeks
5. The primary purpose of the 50-50 rule is to estimate

Select one:
a. ACWP
b. BCWP
c. BCWS
d. BAC
6. If CPI is 1.1 and SPI is 0.95

Select one:
a. Running under budget but ahead of schedule
b. Running under budget but behind schedule
c. Running over budget but behind schedule
d. Running over budget but ahead of schedule
7. In the earned value analysis, earned value is represented by

Select one:
a. BCWS
b. BCWP
c. ACWP
d. None of these
8. According to Deming, what percentage of the costs of quality is generally attributable to
management

Select one:
a. 15%
b. 100%
c. 85%
d. 55%
9. The amount of time a job can be delayed without affecting the early start time of any other
job is called

Select one:
a. Total Slack
b. Free Slack
c. Independent Slack
d. Interfering Slack
10. Which of the following cannot be identified after performing a forward pass and backward
pass

Select one:
a. Dummy activities
b. Critical path activities
c. How much overtime is planned
d. Slack time
11. Which of the following quality gurus believe "zero defects" is achievable

Select one:
a. Crosby
b. Juran
c. Deming
d. All of the above
12. 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. are ineffective for projects under 1 million dollar in size
c. are ineffective for projects under one year in length
d. do not identify start and end dates of a schedule
13. Activity with no time duration is called

Select one:
a. resource activities
b. zero slack activities
c. dummy activities
d. supervision activities
14. If an activity on the critical path takes longer than anticipated, then

Select one:
a. activities not on the critical path have less slack
b. None of the above
c. additional critical path activities will appear
d. activities not on the critical path have additional slack
15. The shortest time necessary to complete all of the activities in a network is called the

Select one:
a. Activity duration lenght
b. Maximum slack path
c. Critical Path
d. Compression path
 16. The probability distribution for activity times in PERT follows

Select one:
a. Poisson Distribution
b. Normal Distribution
c. Binomial distribution
d. Beta Distribution
17. Inspection

Select one:
a. Is always effective in stopping defective products from reaching the customer
b. Is expensive and time consuming
c. Is an appropriate way to ensure quality
d. Reduces rework and overall costs
18. 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
19. 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. The 9 week path is now the critical path
b. We now have two critical paths
c. Not enough information is provided to make a determination
d. Only the 7-week path has slack
20. 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
21. The first step in the development of a schedule is

Select one:
a. listing of activities
b. calculation of durations
c. calculation of effort
d. determination of dependencies
22. The difference between being reactive and proactive is the development of a

Select one:
a. Payoff table
b. Range of Payoffs
c. Range of probabilities
d. Contingencies plans
23. Quality Audits

Select one:
a. Are expensive and therefore not worth doing
b. Must be performed daily for each process
c. Are necessary if you do it right the first time
d. Are necessary for validation that the quality policy is being followed and adhered to
24. 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 loading
c. Manpower leveling
d. Manpower scheduling
25. If BCWS = 1000, BCWP = 1200 and ACWP = 1300, the project is

Select one:
a. Ahead of schedule and under budget
b. Ahead of schedule and over budget
c. Behind schedule and over budget
d. Behind schedule and under budget