Project Management Question and Answer

The usual purpose of the ________ scheduling heuristic is to delay cash outflows as long as possible.

Minimum slack first
Shortest task first
Most successors
As late as possible

Monitoring, as an activity, should be kept distinct from ________, which uses data supplied by monitoring to bring actual performance into approximate congruence with planned performance.

Auditing
Controlling
Evaluation
Verifying

Monitoring, as an activity, should be kept distinct from ________, which is the process of making judgments about the quality and effectiveness of project performance.

Planning
Controlling
Evaluation
Estimating

Secondary uses for monitoring include ________.

Auditing, learning from experience, and reporting progress and status
Exercising effective control over the project
Evaluating current status of the project
Fixing the blame when things go wrong

The key feature of cybernetic control systems is ________.

Manual operation
Directional controls
Automatic operation
Semi-automatic operation

In a cybernetic control system using a negative feedback loop, the speed or force with which the control operates is, in general, ________ to the size of the deviation from standard.

Disproportional
Proportional
Reciprocal
Double