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Question 31

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A project superintendent is about to begin work on a freeway resurfacing project,which is comprised of the following five activities: What is the probability that the critical path for this project will be completed within 52 weeks?

A) 0.1554
B) 0.3108
C) 0.3466
D) 0.6554
E) 0.8277

F) C) and E)
G) B) and C)

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Question 32

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Given this information about activity B: ES = 10,EF = 15,LS = 16 and LF = 21,we can determine that the amount of slack associated with the activity is:

A) 0
B) 1
C) 5
D) 6
E) 11

F) A) and D)
G) All of the above

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Once a project is underway,project managers are only responsible for managing the project schedule (time)and budget (costs).

A beta distribution can be used to describe the inherent variability of an activity's duration.

Which of the following would probably not involve the use of project management?

Activity C has an early start time of 8,an early finish time of 12,a latest start time of 13,and a latest finish time of 17.Its slack is:

What is the estimated standard deviation (in weeks)for the critical path completion time? 11eab92b_c478_4548_99e6_5b8bd904f866

The Project Manager is about to begin a project comprised of the following six activities: What is the estimated standard deviation of the duration for activity E?

In crashing this project to 18 weeks,which activities (in order of selection)will be reduced? 11eab92b_c478_936d_99e6_fd6fdfc10bad

The earliest finish time for an activity is equal to the latest finish time minus the activity slack.

A relatively simple tool for planning and scheduling simple projects is the:

The standard deviation of a project duration is equal to the sum of the variances of all the activities of the project.

A project superintendent is about to begin work on a freeway resurfacing project,which is comprised of the following five activities: What is the estimated slack time for Activity E?

A PERT/CPM activity has an optimistic duration estimate of 3 days,a most likely duration estimate of 8 days,and a pessimistic duration estimate of 10 days.The expected duration of this activity t_e is:

Which of the following is not a part of project scheduling?

In a precedence network the critical path is the sequence of activities which has:

The Project Manager is about to begin a project comprised of the following six activities: What is the estimated slack time for the path A-D-F?

A project manager for Durable Construction Co.is about to build a house involving the following six activities: What is the probability that the critical path for this project will be completed within 210 days?

What are the estimated expected (mean)durations (in weeks)for activities A-H? 11eab92b_c478_1e33_99e6_3768d426c27c

What are the estimated standard deviations (in weeks)of the durations for activities A-H? 11eab92b_c478_1e34_99e6_bfa52d4f4d37