Ch. 12 Network Scheduling Techniques

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

A. True * B. False

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

A. True * B. False

(E) 2. Which of the following scheduling techniques is most appropriate today for reporting project status to a customer during an interchange meeting?

* A. BAR charts B. Milestone charts C. PERT charts D. Precedence charts

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

* A. Resource leveling B. Resource allocation or resource limited planning C. Better effort planning D. Slack utilization planning

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

* A. The forward pass going beyond the customer's end date and the backward pass is measured from the customer's end date B. Non-critical-path activity using up all of their slack C. The critical path can be completed before the customer's desired end date D. All of the above

(E) 21. An activity in a network has the following characteristics: ES = 10

EF = 18 and LS = 12. The duration of the activity is:, A. 6 * B. 8 C. 10 D. Cannot be determined

(E) 20. An activity in a network has the following characteristics: ES = 5

EF = 9 and LF = 12. LS = _____., A. 5 * B. 8 C. 9 D. 12

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

A. 3 each B. 5 each C. 10 each * D. It is unlimited

(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:

A. 7 weeks * B. 13 weeks C. 22 weeks D. 24 weeks

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

A. BAR charts B. Milestone charts C. PERT charts * D. Precedence charts

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

A. Cannot identify critical paths * B. Do not show dependencies between activities C. Cannot identify milestones D. Cannot show slack

(M) 17. Which of the following schedule compression techniques is often the lowest risk and with the added benefit of lowering the cost?

A. Crashing * B. Descoping C. Outsourcing D. Overtime

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

A. It is the longest path in the network B. It is the shortest amount of time in which the project can be completed * C. It is the path that contains the greatest number of activities D. It is the path where each activity has zero slack

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

A. Low-slack activities B. No-slack activities * C. Dummy activities D. Special activities

(E) 15. Which of the following schedule compression techniques usually requires adding more resources to each work package that is being compressed?

A. Overtime * B. Crashing C. Outsourcing D. Descoping

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

A. Overtime B. Crashing * C. Performing series work in parallel D. Outsourcing

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

A. PERT * B. GERT C. ADM D. PDM

(H) 5. Which of the following activity-on-arrow network diagramming methods does not require three estimates for durations?

A. PERT B. GERT * C. ADM D. PDM

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

A. PERT B. GERT * C. VERT D. PDM

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

A. PERT B. GERT C. ADM * D. PDM

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

A. PERT B. GERT C. ADM * D. PDM

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

A. Resource leveling * B. Resource allocation or resource limited planning C. Better effort planning D. Slack utilization planning

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

A. Start-to-start B. Start-to-finish * C. Finish-to-start D. Finish-to-finish

(H) 9. Which of the following cannot be determined after performing a forward pass and a backward pass on a network diagram?

A. The critical path B. The end date of the project * C. The effort in each activity D. The slack in each activity

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

then LF = _____., A. 4 B. 10 C. 16 * D. 22