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Question 1 of 98

P.1 Which of the following is generally the MOST correct use of a project network diagram?

A. Showing the project schedule

B. Documenting task interdependencies

C. Defining project resources

D. Defining the project costs

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Question 2 of 98

P.2 At a minimum, periodic forecasts must be done at what interval?

A. monthly

B. as requested by the owner

C. as requested by the project manager

D. as specified in the contract documents

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Question 3 of 98

P.3 The calculated duration for a project is 28.166. The standard deviation is 5.5. What technique would you use to compute the probability of completing a project on a specific day?

A. PERT formula

B. Monte Carlo simulation

C. Probability analysis

D. Variance analysis

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Question 4 of 98

P.4 The best reason to use multiple calendars is to ___________

A. sequence the float for the benefit of the contractor

B. more accurately show how the project will be built

C. give specialty contractors the information they need

D. track owner activities according to their specific calendar in order to develop a good working relationship

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Question 5 of 98

P.5 During planning you discover that the time needed to complete the project is longer than the time available. What do you do?

A. Tell the customer that the required date cannot be met

B. Tell management that the required date cannot be met

C. Spend time determining what work can be done for the length of time available and accomplish only that work

D. Determine options for crashing and/or fast tracking the project and present management with your recommended option

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Question 6 of 98

P.6 Free float is the ____________

A. difference between the early dates and late dates of an activity

B. amount of time an activity can be delayed without impacting the early start of the successor activity.

C. difference in float value of the critical path activities and the float value of the specific activity being analyzed.

D. difference between the early finish dates and late finish dates of an activity

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Question 7 of 98

P.7 In an activity-on-arrow diagram, the boxes represent:

A. Activities.

B. Tasks.

C. Task dependencies.

D. Arrrows.

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Question 8 of 98

P.8 Every activity in a schedule, except the first and last activity, should have activity as a successor

A. at least one constraint

B. a milestone activity as a predecessor

C. at least one predecessor and at least one successor

D. a milestone

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Question 9 of 98

P.9 A project manager has increased project costs by US $100,000, but completed the project four weeks earlier than planned. What tool is BEST described here?

A. Resource leveling

B. Duration compression

C. Crashing

D. Fast tracking

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Question 10 of 98

10.

P.10 An early start constraint dictates __________

A. the planned start of an activity

B. the planned start of a successor activity

C. an activity’s remaining duration

D. the actual start of an activity

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Question 11 of 98

11.

P.11 Dummy activities are NOT used on which type of network diagram?

A. CPM

B. Detailed

C. PDM

D. PERT

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Question 12 of 98

12.

P.12 Which of the following is NOT required when performing weekly or monthly schedule updates?

A. actual frnish of activities

B. original duration of activities

C. percent complete

D. Remaining duration of activities

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Question 13 of 98

13.

P.13 During the creation of a project plan, you want to find the critical path of the project. Which of the following project management tools would you use to determine the critical path?

A. Work breakdown structure

B. Network diagram

C. Project control plan

D. Critical Resource Histograms

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Question 14 of 98

14.

P.14 All of the following describe the critical path of a schedule except:

A. Determined by network logic and is the chain of activities that controls the overall project completion time

B. The series of activities having the least amount of total float

C. Frequently defined as the shortest path through the schedule

D. Changed by redefining the network logic or changing activity durations or both

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Question 15 of 98

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P.15 How many types of relationships between activities can be found on a precedence diagram?

A. 4

B. 3

C. Multiple

D. 2

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Question 16 of 98

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P.16 Project delays are best analyzed ________

A. late in the project acknowledges responsibility for the delay

B. by an expert after the project is finished when complete records are available and the impact is known

C. contemporaneously with the delay

D. after either the contractor or the owner

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Question 17 of 98

17.

P.17 All of the following relate to controlling the schedule EXCEPT?

A. Value analysis.

B. Crashing

C. Mandatory

D. Slack

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Question 18 of 98

18.

P.18 Hammock activities in a schedule include all of the following except that they

A. are included in the forward and backward pass calculations

B. depict a start-to-finish relationship between a sequence of activities in the same path

C. measure the elapsed time between start and completion of a sequence of activities

D. may be separated by any number of activities or events in the logic path

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Question 19 of 98

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P.19 A project manager is involved in the ABC project. Time lines have slipped for project ABC and he feels there could have been a mistake in the initial time estimate of this project. The following are assumptions that he made when doing the initial schedule using the critical path method (CPM). Which one is incorrect?

A. He estimated each task with a single time estimate.

B. The CPM can have no dummies.

C. The CPM uses only an activity-on-arrow (AOA) diagram.

D. The CPM helps to emphasize cost control and schedule flexibility.

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Question 20 of 98

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P.20 Which of the following is NOT required while initially planning a project?

A. A schedule that identifies all the tasks required on the project

B. The duration of each task

C. Resource identification and leveling

D. Logical relationships between the tasks

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Question 21 of 98

21.

P.21 Project schedules help control all of the following except for

A. time

B. cost

C. resources

D. quality

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Question 22 of 98

22.

P.22 During the planning phase, Task G was estimated to take five days. Task G is on the critical path. On day two, it became clear that Task G would take 15 days, which will impact the imposed project end date. The project team meets to perform root cause analysis to identify the cause of the variance and to plan schedule recovery with activities performed later in the schedule. What should be the output of this meeting?

A. Corrective action

B. WBS updates

C. Activity list updates

D. Schedule updates

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Question 23 of 98

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P.23 The calculation of the latest finish time and latest start time for all incomplete network activities or late time for events in the ADM and PDM scheduling methods is referred to as ______

A. a backward pass

B. a forward pass

C. the remaining duration

D. just-in-time scheduling

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Question 24 of 98

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P.24 Which of the following are GENERALLY illustrated better by bar charts than network diagrams?

A. Logical relationships

B. Critical paths

C. Resource trade-off

D. Progress or status

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Question 25 of 98

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P.25 In an earned value-based system, a schedule performance index of less than one for the project indicates the project is ____________

A. ahead of schedule

B. behind schedule

C. over budget

D. under budget

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Question 26 of 98

26.

P.26 You evaluate your critical path and determine the project will be completed two weeks ahead of management’s expected due date. What should you do?

A. Delay the project for two weeks

B. Prepare a list of risks that did not occur

C. Pull resources off the critical path to work on non-critical path tasks

D. Increase the scope that will enhance the project and consume two more weeks to complete

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Question 27 of 98

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P.27 An earned value-based project control system can use either of which two budgets as the basis of its calculations? feet or dollars

A. direct or indirect cost

B. earned or budgeted cost yearly

C. labor hours or dollars

D. linear

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Question 28 of 98

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P.28 While evaluating the Gantt chart, the project manager determines that the project is behind schedule. What should she do?

A. Obtain approval from the customer to slip the project

B. Report findings to management

C. Evaluate the alternatives with the team

D. Evaluate the alternatives with the customer

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Question 29 of 98

29.

P.29 If the optimistic estimate is one, the pessimistic estimate is nine, and the most likely estimate is eight, what is the PERT estimate?

A. 9

B. 7

C. 8

D. 3

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Question 30 of 98

30.

P.31 The project manager has a project that is three months behind but, surprisingly, markedly under budget. She has decided to try to make up time, but wants to avoid rework. What should she do?

A. Crash

B. Fast Track

C. Redefine the scope

D. Resource level

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Question 31 of 98

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P.32 A total float value less than zero on a schedule activity indicates that the

A. activity is being impacted by an imposed schedule constraint

B. activity is not on the critical path

C. activity is either completed or ahead of schedule

D. schedule variance is favorable

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Question 32 of 98

32.

P.33 During schedule development, which of the following would BEST provide the basis for the most likely activity duration estimate?

A. Labor productivity rates published by a professional association

B. A consultant’s estimate of the overall labor man-hours required

C. The initial estimate used to budget the project

D. The schedule for a similar project at the same facility completed two years earlier

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Question 33 of 98

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P.34 Total float is defined as the amount of time an activity can be delayed without impacting _______

A. the next activity

B. the end date of that activity

C. the overall project completion

D. the buoyancy of a successor activity

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Question 34 of 98

34.

P.35 What is the duration of a milestone?

A. Undefined

B. Shorter than the activity it represents

C. There is no duration.

D. Same length as the activity it represents

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Question 35 of 98

35.

P.36 When creating a baseline project schedule, the ideal outcome is ___________

A. more than 10 days of positive total float on the longest path

B. less than 10 days and more than 1 day of positive total float on the longest path

C. a zero total float value on the longest path

D. less than 10 days of negative total float on the longest path

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Question 36 of 98

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P.37 A project manager received executive orders to deliver the project two weeks earlier than scheduled doing whatever it takes. He decided the least costly means would be to add resources to critical path tasks in order to shorten the time of those tasks. In this case, the project manager has:

A. Fast tracked the critical path part of project schedule.

B. Decomposed the critical path WBS.

C. Leveled resources.

D. Crashed the critical path.

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Question 37 of 98

37.

P.38 What is a critical path method schedule? accomplished by responsible party and when it is to be accomplished

A. a graphic showing the project plan

B. a plan for executing a given scope of work

C. a network diagram of logically interconnected activities

D. a list of work to be

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Question 38 of 98

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P.39 You are managing the project when you discover an estimated completion date will occur after the desired date. What should you do FIRST?

A. Add resources to the project

B. Evaluate the possibility of doing more tasks in parallel

C. Negotiate for more time

D. Explain to the customer that the project cannot be done on time

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Question 39 of 98

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P.40 What is the result of a forward pass calculation?

A. the value of free float for individual activities

B. the value of total float for individual activities

C. the critical path

D. the early start and early finish date for individual activities

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Question 40 of 98

40.

P.41 Which of the following BEST describes comparing actual dates with planned dates?

A. Schedule definition

B. Resource leveling

C. Variance analysis

D. PERT

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Question 41 of 98

41.

P.42 A project plan results in a project schedule that is too long. If the project network diagram cannot change but you have extra personnel resources, what should you do?

A. Fast track the project

B. Level the resources

C. Crash the project

D. Perform a value analysis

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Question 42 of 98

42.

P.43 Resource planning must take all of the following into account except for

A. earned value techniques established for the project

B. types of materials, equipment and labor skills required to complete the project

C. cash flow (expenditure) limitations for completing work on the project

D. time available to complete the project

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Question 43 of 98

43.

P.44 After analyzing the status of your project, you determine that the earned value is lower than the planned value. What should you expect as an outcome if this trend continues?

A. The actual cost will be lower than planned.

B. The estimate at completion will be lower than planned.

C. The project will finish behind schedule.

D. The project will finish below the original cost estimate.

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Question 44 of 98

44.

P.45 Which of the following describes a type of schedule logic?

A. milestone-to-milestone

B. start-to-finish

C. forward and backward

D. critical connection

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Question 45 of 98

45.

P.46 The sponsor wants the project completed in 40 days. The CPI is 1.1, the project critical path duration is 38 days with a standard deviation of two days. What is the maximum project float?

A. Zero days

B. Two days.

C. Four days

D. Six days

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Question 46 of 98

46.

P.47 Hard logic within a CPM schedule refers to activities ___________

A. with interrelationships that are fixed, and activities that should always be worked in the logic sequence defined

B. with interrelationships that are fixed

C. that are on the critical path

D. that should always be worked in the logic sequence defined

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Question 47 of 98

47.

P.48 A project manager obtains weighted average duration estimates from the team to calculate activity duration. Which type of mathematical analysis is he using?

A. Monte Carlo

B. GERT

C. CPM

D. PERT

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Question 48 of 98

48.

P.49 What is the primary difference between the arrow diagramming method (ADM) and precedence diagramming method (PDM)?

A. ADM uses arrows, while PDM uses boxes

B. ADM is manual CPM calculations, while PDM is computerized

C. PDM is a bar chart with network logic, while ADM is a pure logic network

D. ADM is limited to finish-to-start logic relationships, while PDM is not

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Question 49 of 98

49.

P.50 A heuristic is BEST described as a:

A. Control tool.

B. Scheduling method.

C. Planning tool.

D. Rule of thumb.

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Question 50 of 98

50.

P.51 A task needs more time and the project manager determines that there is enough reserve to accommodate the change. Who needs to approve the change?

A. Management

B. Project manager

C. Team member

D. Functional manager

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Question 51 of 98

51.

P.53 You have a project with the following tasks: Task A takes 40 hours and can start after the project starts. Task B takes 25 hours and should happen after the project starts. Task C must happen after Task A and takes 35 hours. Task D must happen after Tasks B and C and takes 30 hours. Task E must take place after Task C and takes 10 hours. Task F takes place after Task E and takes 22 hours. Which of the following is TRUE if Task B actually takes 37 hours?

A. The critical path is 67 hours.

B. The critical path changes to tasks B, D.

C. The critical path is A, C, E, F.

D. The critical path increases by 12 hours.

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Question 52 of 98

52.

P.54 Longest path is identified by using ________

A. driving relationships

B. total float

C. free float

D. primary resource

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Question 53 of 98

53.

P.55 If project time and cost are not as important as the number of resources used each month, which of the following is the BEST course of action?

A. Perform a Monte Carlo analysis

B. Fast track the project

C. Perform resource leveling

D. Analyze the life-cycle costs

Question 53 of 98

Question 54 of 98

54.

P.56 A project deadline has been imposed for the end of the year. The project consists of two tasks. Task A has a duration of two months and task B has a duration of three months. Tasks A and B can be performed concurrently. The start date for the project is set for the beginning of July. What is the total duration for the critical path?

A. Two months

B. Three months

C. Five months

D. Six months

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Question 55 of 98

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P.57 A task has an early start of day 3, a late start of day 13, an early finish of day 9, and a late finish of day 19. The task:

A. Is on the critical path.

B. Has a lag.

C. Is ahead of schedule.

D. Is not on the critical path.

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Question 56 of 98

56.

P.58 Which of the following is NOT a construction planning activity?

A. Periodic Forecasts

B. Commissioning Schedule

C. Work Breakdown Structure

D. Baseline Plan

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Question 57 of 98

57.

P.59 Which of the following is NOT correct about network diagrams?

A. A critical path can run over a dummy.

B. All the project interdependencies are shown.

C. Slack is the time a task can be delayed without delaying the project.

D. The path with the dummy is always the critical path.

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Question 58 of 98

58.

P.60 What is the BEST method of estimating the time for a task that has never been done by your company before?

A. CPM

B. PERT

C. Monte Carlo analysis

D. Activity definition

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Question 59 of 98

59.

P.61 What is a prerequisite if schedule status is to be summarized using an earned value-based system?

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Question 60 of 98

60.

P.62 According to your project network diagram, the critical path for the project is six weeks. One week into the project, the project sponsor informs you that the executive steering committee has moved the project’s finish date to two weeks sooner than your published finish date. Assuming you are on schedule, what is the project slack?

A. Two weeks

B. Four weeks

C. Minus four weeks

D. Minus two weeks

Question 60 of 98

Question 61 of 98

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P.63 When resource leveling craft labor for a critical path schedule, the scheduler ___________

A. can depend on the results of the resource leveling operation to reflect a useful realignment of all schedule activities.

B. must consider breaks in continuity of work for the craft labor, thereby possibly reducing any additional mobilization and demobilization costs

C. need not consider its effects, as it is a theoretical concept with limited application to construction projects

D. need to consider the craft labor to compare the requirement pattern to request additional deployment.

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Question 62 of 98

62.

P.64 All of the following are inputs to schedule development EXCEPT?

A. Vacation schedules

B. Need for delay between ordering equipment and installing it

C. Establish interdependencies between activities

D. Planned start and finish dates for each activity

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Question 63 of 98

63.

P.65 Free slack is the amount of time a task can be delayed without delaying the:

A. Project.

B. Completion date required by the customer.

C. Early start of its successor.

D. Project completion date.

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Question 64 of 98

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P.66 A task has an early start of day three, a late start of day 13, an early finish of day nine, and a late finish of day 19. What is the duration of this task?

A. 3

B. 6

C. 7

D. 10

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Question 65 of 98

65.

P.67 Which best describes the following: A master schedule is composed of five different, logically tied subproject schedules. How many different critical paths can be found?

A. at least one

B. at most two

C. at least six

D. at least five

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Question 66 of 98

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P.68 A project has three critical paths. How does this affect the project?

A. It makes it easier to manage.

B. It increases the project risk.

C. It requires more people.

D. It makes it more expensive.

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Question 67 of 98

67.

P.69 Which of the following will NOT affect the total float calculation?

A. multiple calendars

B. start and finish constraints

C. front end loading

D. preferential logic

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Question 68 of 98

68.

P.70 Which of the following is the BEST tool for showing the team the project schedule status during project execution?

A. Milestone chart

B. Gantt chart

C. Work breakdown structure

D. Network diagram

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Question 69 of 98

69.

P.71 You are a project manager for a new product development project that has four levels in the work breakdown structure, and has been sequenced using the arrow diagramming technique. The activity duration estimates have been received. What time management activity would you do NEXT?

A. Create an activity list

B. Update the work breakdown structure

C. Collect historical records

D. Duration compression

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Question 70 of 98

70.

P.72 In a graphical earned value analysis, what time-scaled value is the indicator that is used to represent both schedule and cost performance?

A. Budgeted Cost of Work Scheduled

B. Actual Cost of Work Scheduled

C. Budgeted Cost of Work Performed

D. Schedule Performance Index

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Question 71 of 98

71.

P.73 During project execution, the forecast remaining hours begin to exceed planned remaining hours. Consequently, the project takes on a negative variance. Which analysis method is the project manager likely to use as a measurement tool to validate this information?

A. EV-PV

B. EV/AC

C. EV/PV

D. EV-AC

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Question 72 of 98

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P.74 The slack of a task is determined by:

A. Performing a Monte Carlo analysis.

B. Waiting time between tasks.

C. Lag.

D. The amount of time a task can be delayed before it delays the critical path.

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Question 73 of 98

73.

P.75 Which of the following is NOT an element of the project planning process?

A. earned value analysis

B. resource budgeting

C. cost budgeting

D. schedule development

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Question 74 of 98

74.

P.76 A project has seven activities: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. A, B, and D can start anytime. A takes three weeks, B takes five weeks, and D takes 11 weeks. A and B must be completed before C can start. C takes six weeks. B, C, and D must be completed before E can start. E takes two weeks. F can start as soon as C is completed and requires four weeks. E must be completed before G can start. G takes three weeks. F and G must be completed for the project to be completed. What activities have slack available?

A. Activity A has two weeks slack, and activity F has one week.

B. Activity F has one week slack.

C. There is no slack available in the project.

D. Activity A has eight weeks slack.

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Question 75 of 98

75.

P.77 A driving relationship is __________

A. a finish-to-start relationship

B. the link between two related activities

C. the link between a predecessor and the activity whose dates it controls

D. a critical relationship

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Question 76 of 98

76.

P.78 To control the schedule, a project manager is re-analyzing the project to predict project duration. She does this by analyzing the sequence of activities with the least amount of scheduling flexibility. What technique is she using?

A. Critical path

B. Flow chart

C. Precedence diagramming

D. Work breakdown structure

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Question 77 of 98

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P.79 If after calculating a schedule an activity exhibits negative total float, which of the following is certain. The activity _________

A. was completed in the past

B. has yet to be completed

C. is on the critical path

D. is a milestone

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Question 78 of 98

78.

P.80 What is the BEST report to use when reporting to senior management?

A. Gantt chart

B. Milestone chart

C. Project plan

D. Network diagram

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Question 79 of 98

79.

P.81 Which of the following BEST describes the primary use of project management software?

A. Managing a project

B. Creating and controlling a schedule

C. Creating a complete project plan

D. Creating a work breakdown structure

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Question 80 of 98

80.

P.82 A team member from research and development tells you that her work is too creative to provide you with a fixed single estimate for the task. You both decide to use the average time the task has taken for past projects to predict the future. This is an example of which of the following?

A. Parametric estimating

B. PERT

C. CPM

D. Monte Carlo

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Question 81 of 98

81.

P.83 Which of the following will always describe the critical path? The path with

A. negative float

B. zero float

C. the longest duration

D. the shortest duration and negative float

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Question 82 of 98

82.

P.84 A project manager for a small construction company has a project that was budgeted for US $130,000 over a six week period. According to her schedule, the project should have cost US $60,000 to date. However, it has cost US $90,000 to date. The project is also behind schedule, because the original estimates were not accurate. Who has the primarily responsibility to solve this problem?

A. Project manager

B. Senior management

C. Project sponsor / Owner

D. Project Management Consultant

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Question 83 of 98

83.

P.85 You are looking at the standard reports that the project office has supplied, and you see network diagrams and Gantt charts. Under what circumstances would you want to use a network diagram instead of a Gantt chart?

A. To track progress or to report to the team

B. To create a work breakdown structure

C. To show interdependencies between tasks

D. To report to senior management

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Question 84 of 98

84.

P.86 Under what circumstances should one use resource-leveling calculations?

A. When the contract contains a provision for float-banking.

B. When activities to be performed with limited resources are on the critical path.

C. Never, since good schedule logic should take resource limitations into account.

D. When you believe that known resource limitations may override scheduled dates.

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Question 85 of 98

85.

P.87 Which estimating method uses one time estimate for each task?

A. PERT

B. CPM

C. Monte Carlo

D. Control charts

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Question 86 of 98

86.

P.88 A task has an early start of day three, a late start of day 13, an early finish of day nine, and a late finish of day 19. What is the task’s float?

A. 10

B. 6

C. 3

D. Can not be determined

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Question 87 of 98

87.

P.89 In its simplest form, what is the main drawback of critical path method scheduling?

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Question 88 of 98

88.

P.90 You are a project manager for a small construction project. Your project was budgeted for US $72,000 over a six-week period. As of today, you’ve spent US $22,000 of your budget to complete work that you originally expected to cost US $24,000. According to your schedule, you should have spent US $30,000 by this point. Based on these circumstances, your project could be BEST described as:

A. Ahead of schedule.

B. Behind schedule.

C. On schedule.

D. Having not enough information provided.

Question 88 of 98

Question 89 of 98

89.

P.91 Which of the following is correct concerning a change control system?

A. It should include a method for controlling schedule

B. It is better if it focuses on cost

C. It is better if it concentrates on risk

D. It should be created during the execution phase

Question 89 of 98

Question 90 of 98

90.

P.92 The characteristic of the precedence diagramming method that models construction projects differently than the arrow diagramming method is that it __________

A. uses arrows to signify logic in a network

B. can be used to calculate the late start and late finish of all activities

C. allows multiple relationship types to be associated with activities

D. allows more than one critical path to be represented

Question 90 of 98

Question 91 of 98

91.

P.93 A project has seven activities: A, B, C, D, E, F, and G. Activities A, B, and D can start anytime. A takes three weeks, B takes five weeks, and D takes 11 weeks. A and B must be completed before C can start. C requires six weeks to complete. B, C, and D must be completed before E can start. E requires two weeks. F takes four weeks and can start as soon as C is completed. E must be completed before G starts. G requires three weeks. F and G must be completed for the project to be completed. What is the critical path?

A. A, C, F

B. B, C, E and G

C. D, E and G

D. Both B, C, E, G and D, E, G.

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Question 92 of 98

92.

P.94 If the optimistic estimate for a task is 12 days and the pessimistic estimate is 18 days, what is the standard deviation of the task?

A. 1

B. 1.3

C. 6

D. 3

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Question 93 of 98

93.

P.95 Which of the following is true of activity duration estimating?

A. Estimates should always include some indication of the range of possible results.

B. It is more expensive.

C. Historical data is too old to use in estimating.

D. Critical paths help create original task estimates

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Question 94 of 98

94.

P.96 You have a project with four tasks as follows: Task 1 can start immediately and has an estimated duration of one. Task 2 can start after task 1 is completed and has an estimated duration of four. Task 3 can start after Task 2 is completed and has an estimated duration of five. Task 4 can start after Task 1 is completed and must be completed when Task 3 is completed. The estimate for Task 4 is ten. What is the shortest amount of time in which the project can be completed?

A. 10

B. 9

C. 18

D. 11

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Question 95 of 98

95.

P.97 Which of the following does NOT need to be done if there is a major delay on a non-critical path activity?

A. Investigate the delay

B. Reevaluate which path is critical

C. Change the project schedule

D. Review slack time for the task

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Question 96 of 98

96.

P.98 If the optimistic estimate for a task is 12 days and the pessimistic estimate is 18 days, what is the most likely estimate?

A. 15 days

B. 13 days

C. 16 days

D. Unknown, the most likely estimate is a separate estimate

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Question 97 of 98

97.

P.99 The sponsor of the project you are managing asks you to compress the duration of the project. Which of the following is correct?

A. Crashing always shortens the time line but often increases risk.

B. Fast tracking often results in rework, and crashing often results in increased cost.

C. Crashing is only a viable alternative if earned value analysis indicates that the project is ahead of schedule and under budget.

D. Fast tracking will result in less parallel tasks than crashing the project.

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Question 98 of 98

98.

P.100 The relationships in an activity-on-arrow diagram are:

A. Finish to start.

B. Finish to finish.

C. Finish to start, start to finish, finish to finish, or start to start.

D. Start to start or start to finish.

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