Management has decided to "crash" a project in order to avoid penalty payments for late deliveries. To crash the project, either overtime or additional resources should be assigned to:

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• 1A line manager provides you with three estimates for his activity in your PERT network. His estimates are 2 weeks optimistically, 4 weeks most likely, and 12 weeks pessimistically. The expected time which would appear on the chart would be:

  A.4 weeks

  B.5 weeks

  C.6 weeks

  D.7 weeks

  E.None of the above.

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• 2Increasing resources on the critical path activities may not always shorten the length of the project because:

  A.Certain activities are time-dependent rather than resource-dependent (i.e., using three ovens rather than one to bake a cake).

  B.Safety, OSHA and EPA may have placed restrictions on the number of people used on certain activities or in the physical location of the project.

  C.The skill level of the added resources might not be appropriate for the activities to be performe

  D.D.Adding more resources may create additional work and produce inefficiencies (i.

  E., additional people may need training and supervision.)E.All of the above.

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• 3Scheduling systems such as PERT, ADM, and PDM are project management tools to be used by:

  A.The project manager and project office personnel.

  B.The project team and functional managers.

  C.The project sponsor.

  D.All of the abov

  E.E.A and B.only.

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• 4Network schedules are prepared during the （    ） phase and updated during the （    ） phase.

  A.Conceptual, execution.

  B.Development, implementation.

  C.Development, close-out.

  D.Implementation, close-out.

  E.Planning, finishing.

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• 5During project execution, the customer authorizes and funds a scope change which requires a major change in the schedule. The baseline schedule:

  A.Now becomes the new schedule, including the changes, and the original baseline is disregarded.

  B.Is still the original baseline but annotated to reflect that a change has taken place.

  C.Is amended to reflect the scope change, but the original baseline is still maintained for post-project review.

  D.B.Is still the original baseline but annotated to reflect that a change has taken plac

  E.C.Is amended to reflect the scope change, but the original baseline is still maintained for post-project review.D.Is meaningless since every schedule update changes the baseline (i.e., a rubber baseline.)E.Is the same since baseline schedules cannot change once the development phase is completed.

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• 6A network has been developed with resources from six different departments. One of the six departments has just informed you that they can increase the number of employees from 5 to 8. This will result in:

  A.A shortening of the critical path.

  B.A shortening of the noncritical path.

  C.A decrease in the total cost of the project.

  D.An increase in the cost of the project.

  E.A through D are possible based upon where the resources are deployed.

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• 7Bar charts are most appropriate for:

  A.Comparing actual to planned performance to each activity.

  B.Showing slack time.

  C.Showing critical path dependencies.

  D.Showing which activities can be rearranged in parallel.

  E.All of the above.

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• 8A non-critical path activity is completed in half the time. Then,

  A.The critical path is also reduced.

  B.The slack in the path containing this activity will increase.

  C.The total cost for this activity has decrease

  D.B.The slack in the path containing this activity will increas

  E.C.The total cost for this activity has decreased.D.Manpower from this activity can be assigned to other activities.E.All of the above.

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• 9Once the logic of a network is laid out, the project manager will conduct a forward pass and backward pass through the network. This will provide information on the （    ） and identification of the （    ） .

  A.Slack for each activity, critical path.

  B.Slack for each activity, high risk activities.

  C.Manpower shortages, high risk activities.

  D.High risk activities, non-critical paths.

  E.Manpower availability, contingency plans.

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• 10ADM is an activity-on-arrow method. In this method, a dummy activity:

  A.Denotes a critical path relationship.

  B.Denotes any dependency relationship.

  C.Shows slack.

  D.Identifies customer deliverables dates.

  E.Identifies customer team meeting dates.

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