1. Information to develop a project schedule is collected from the:
A. Organisation Breakdown Structure (OBS)
B. Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
C. budget
D. resource matrix
2. When translated into a project network, a work package will become:
A. a single activity
B. one or more activities
C. a milestone
D. a critical path
3. On a project network, the activity times are derived from the:
A. Organisation Breakdown Structure (OBS)
B. work packages
C. project proposal
D. responsibility matrix
4. An activity that has more than one dependency arrow flowing into it is termed a:
A. parallel activity
B. critical path
C. burst activity
D. merge activity
5. What sort of activity has more than one dependency arrow flowing from it?
A. parallel
B. critical path
C. burst
D. merge
6. Activities that can take place at the same time are termed:
A. parallel activity
B. critical path
C. burst activity
D. merge activity
7. Which activities are to be completed immediately following a particular activity?
A. merge
B. burst
C. predecessor
D. successor
8. Which of the following correctly calculates the early finish for an activity?
A. LS + DUR
B. ES + DUR
C. LF + DUR
D. ES + SL
9. Which of the following correctly calculates the Late Start for an activity?
A. EF - DUR
B. ES - DUR
C. LF - DUR
D. ES - SL
10. Which of the following will correctly calculate the Total Slack in an activity?
A. LS - ES or LF - EF
B. LS - LF
C. LF - ES
D. All the given answers are correct.
11. If, for some reason, the project must be expedited to meet an earlier date, which of the following actions would the project manager take first?
A. Check to see which activities cost the least
B. Check to see which activities have the longest duration
C. Check to see which activities are on the critical path
D. Check to see which activities have the most slack
12. The minimum amount of time a dependent activity must be delayed to begin or end is referred to as:
A. hammock
B. laddering
C. lag
D. buffer
13. Which of the following represents an activity on an AOA project network?
A. An arrow
B. A line
C. A node
D. All the given answers are correct.
14. Delaying noncritical activities to lower peak demand on resources is known as resource:
A. shifting
B. effectiveness
C. manipulating
D. resource smoothing
15. If resources are not adequate to meet peak demands, the resulting reschedule is termed:
A. resource-constrained scheduling
B. time-constrained scheduling
C. mandatory leveling
D. project resource adjustment
16. In a resource-constrained project, which of the following is most likely to be changed?
A. The completion date
B. The budget
C. Project quality
D. Project scope
17. Scheduling time-constrained projects focuses on resource:
A. demands
B. increases
C. assumptions
D. utilisation
18. All of these are kinds of resource constraints except:
A. materials
B. people
C. equipment
D. information
19. The two approaches used to develop project networks are known as Activity-on-Node (AON) and Activity-on-Arrow (AOA).
True False
20. An activity includes only one work package.
True False
21. The critical path is the shortest path through a network and indicates activities that cannot be delayed without delaying the project.
True False
22. The WBS identifies dependencies, the sequencing of activities and the timing of activities.
True False