Which of the following statements is false?
a. Probability distributions for PERT activity durations are represented by use of the Beta distribution.
b. A forward pass through a project network diagram determines the early start and early finish dates for each activity.
c. To complete a projec...
ISQS 4350 (Burns) Exam 2 Questions
and Solutions
Which of the following statements is false?
a. Probability distributions for PERT activity durations are represented by use of
the Beta distribution.
b. A forward pass through a project network diagram determines the early start and
early finish dates for each activity.
c. To complete a project it is necessary to complete all tasks on all paths through
the project network.
d. The critical path is the series of activities that determine the earliest time by
which a project can be started.
e. Both c. and d. are false statements. - answer-✔d. The critical path is the series of
activities that determine the earliest time by which a project can be started.
As the project manager for a software development project, you are helping to
develop the project schedule. You decide that writing code for a system should not
start until users sign off on the analysis work. Further, you decide that testing of a
module (an object, class) will not commence until the entire module has been
coded and compiled. What type of dependency is this?
a. There is no dependency.
b. External
c. Mandatory
d. Discretionary
e. Internal - answer-✔c. Mandatory
,The district magistrate of Arkham City has decided to rebuild the busiest road in
the city. She plans to close the street for the duration of the work, causing immense
inconvenience to the people who typically use the road. The project has 3 parallel
paths defined as the following:
Path A-B-C-H will take 14 days.
Path A-F-G-H will take 28 days.
Path A-D-E-H will take 20 days.
Given the information on hand, which of the following statements is true?
a. Path A-D-E-H is the critical path.
b. Path A-B-C-H is the critical path.
c. Path A-F-G-H has the largest slack time.
d. Path A-F-G-H is the critical path.
e. Path A-D-E-H has the largest slack time. - answer-✔d. Path A-F-G-H is the
critical path.
The ________ calculates the critical path and determines how long an activity can
be delayed without delaying the project.
a. concurrent pass
b. forward pass
c. backward pass
d. parallel pass - answer-✔c. backward pass
Which of the following is not one seven processes that make up the PMBOK
knowledge area known as time (schedule) management?
,a. Sequence activities
b. Define activities
c. Control activities
d. Plan schedule management
e. Monitor activities - answer-✔e. Monitor activities
Which PMBOK activity is responsible for determining activity resource
requirements, and for determining a resource breakdown structure?
a. Estimate activity durations
b. Develop schedule
c. Plan schedule management
d. Estimate activity resources
e. Define activities - answer-✔d. Estimate activity resources
Rose leads the advertising of an innovative product, Teckos, just launched by her
company. She has determined the advertising for Teckos is an individual project
consisting of 7 activities. Information pertinent to these activities is included in the
table that follows. Using a Gantt chart, determine the earliest completion time for
the project.
a. 10 weeks
b. 13 weeks
c. 11 weeks
d. 12 weeks - answer-✔d. 12 weeks
, For any activity that has one or more predecessors, the ________ time is always
the largest early finish of any of its predecessors. If the early finish times of an
activity's predecessors were 55, 40 and 35, then this time would be the largest of
these three early finish times or 55.
a. late finish
b. early start
c. early finish
d. late start - answer-✔b. early start
In project time management, which of the following processes involve calculating
the number of work periods that are needed to complete individual tasks?
a. Defining activities
b. Estimating activity durations
c. Controlling schedule
d. Planning schedule management
e. Sequencing activities - answer-✔b. Estimating activity durations
According to PMBOK, the first process involved in project time management is
________.
a. developing schedule
b. planning schedule management
c. defining activities
d. estimating activity durations
e. sequencing activities - answer-✔b. planning schedule management
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