Chapter 3 - T/F

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A project organization works best for an organization when the project resides in only one of its functional areas.

FALSE

PERT, but not CPM, has the ability to consider the precedence relationships in a project.

FALSE

Shortening the project's duration by deleting unnecessary activities is called "project crashing."

FALSE

The PERT pessimistic time estimate is an estimate of the minimum time an activity will require.

FALSE

The critical path can be determined by use of either the "forward pass" or the "backward pass."

FALSE

The fundamental difference between PERT and CPM is that PERT uses the beta distribution for crashing projects while CPM uses cost estimates.

FALSE

The shortest of all paths through the network is the critical path.

FALSE

The standard deviation of project duration is the average of the standard deviation of all activities on the critical path.

FALSE

Work Breakdown Structure is a useful tool in project management because it addresses the timing of individual work elements.

FALSE

By their very nature, projects have a limited lifetime, and that sets project management apart from the management of more traditional activities.

TRUE

Ethical issues which can arise in projects include bid rigging, bribery, and "low balling."

TRUE

Every network has at least one critical path.

TRUE

Gantt charts give a timeline for each of a project's activities, but do not adequately show the interrelationships of activities.

TRUE

In PERT analysis, the identification of the critical path can be incorrect if a noncritical activity takes substantially more than its expected time.

TRUE

In project management, crashing an activity must consider the impact on all paths in the network.

TRUE

One phase of a large project is scheduling.

TRUE

One responsibility of a project manager is to make sure that the project meets its quality goals.

TRUE

Project managers have their own code of ethics, established by the Project Management Institute.

TRUE

Slack is the amount of time an activity can be delayed without delaying the entire project.

TRUE

The ES of an activity that has only one predecessor is simply the EF of that predecessor.

TRUE


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