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1
Which is not a type of development project?
A)Product Change
B)Process Change
C)Research & Development
D)Alliance & Partnership
E)Critical Path
2
Which of the following is not a typical project milestone?
A)Completion of design
B)Production of a prototype
C)Training of project members
D)Completed testing of the prototype
E)Approval of a pilot run
3
Which of the following are organizational structures used to tie the project to the parent firm?
A)Pure project
B)Functional project
C)Matrix project
D)Only A and B
E)Only B and C
F)A, B, and C
4
The advantages of pure project include all but:
A)The project manager has full authority over the project.
B)Team pride, motivation, and commitments are high.
C)Decisions are made quickly.
D)A team member can work on several projects.
E)Team members report to one boss.
5
The advantage(s) of the network planning models over the Gantt chart is (are) that:
A)they are easy to use and quite widely understood
B)the precedence relationships in network scheduling are explicitly shown
C)they are less costly to use
D)both A and B
E)both B and C
6
"Slack" refers to the difference between:
A)latest and earliest times
B)finish and start times
C)observed and predicted times
D)optimistic and pessimistic times
E)none of the above
7
Which of the following would not be considered in deciding how far to minimum-cost schedule (crash) a project?
A)Project overrun penalties
B)Incentives for early completion
C)Indirect project costs (e.g. interest on a construction loan)
D)The normal duration times of tasks not on a critical path
E)How far individual tasks can be crashed
8
Which statement is true about Project Scheduling?
A)Slack is defined as the difference between the earliest start and the latest finish of a task.
B)The critical path seldom has a slack time of zero.
C)Project crashing is an effort to maximize project duration.
D)The earliest finish for a task is equal to the early start plus the task duration.
E)None of the above statements are true.
9
There is an activity "A". The earliest activity "A" can be completed is 8 days, the most likely time is 10 days, and the latest activity "A" can be completed is 12 days. Assume that a Beta Distribution is used to describe the activity time. What is the expected time needed to complete activity A?
A)8 days
B)10 days
C)12 days
D)11 days
E)None of the above
10
There is an activity "A". The earliest activity "A" can be completed is 8 days, the most likely time is 10 days, and the latest activity "A" can be completed is 12 days. Assume that a Beta Distribution is used to describe the activity time. Which of the following is the standard deviation of this activity A?
A)sqrt (4/36)
B)sqrt (16/36)
C)sqrt (10/36)
D)4/36
E)16/36





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