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Question Q. 1 -------- is a series of related activities which result in some product or services.

A (a) Network

B (b) transportation mode

C (c) assignment

D (d) none of these

Answer a

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Q. 2 Any activity which does not consume either any resource or time is called
Question activity.

A (a) Predecessor

B (b) Successor

C (c) Dummy

D (d) End

Answer c

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Q. 3 An activity which must be completed before one or more other activities start
Question is known as activity.

A (a) Predecessor

B (b) Successor

C (c) Dummy
D (d) End

Answer a

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Q. 4 Activities that cannot be started until one or more of the other activities are
Question completed, but immediately succeed them are called ----------- activities

A (a) Predecessor

B (b) Successor

C (c) Dummy

D (d) End

Answer a

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Q. 5 An event which represents the beginning of more than one activity is known as
Question --------event.

A (a) Merge

B (b) Net

C (c) Burst

D (d) None of the above

Answer c

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Question Q. 6----------- is that sequence of activities which determines the total project time.

A (a) Net work

B (b) Critical path

C (c) Critical activities

D (d) None of the above

Answer b

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Question Q. 7 Activities lying on the critical path are called---------

A (a) Net work

B (b) Critical path

C (c) Critical activities

D (d) None of the above

Answer c

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Question Q. 8 It----------- at which an activity can start.

A (a) EST

B (b) EFT

C (c) LST

D (d) LFT

Answer a
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Question Q. 9 With respect to PERT and CPM, slack

A (a) marks the start or completion of a task.

(b) is the amount of time a task may be delayed without changing the overall
B project completion time.

C (c) is a task or subproject that must be completed.

D (d) is the latest time an activity can be started without delaying the entire project.

Answer b

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Q. 10 An activity has an optimistic time of 15 days, a most likely time of 18 days, and
Question a pessimistic time of 27 days. What is its expected time?

A (a) 60 days

B (b) 20 days

C (c) 18 days

D (d) 19 days

Answer d

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Q. 11 An activity has an optimistic time of 11 days, a most likely time of 15 days, and
Question a pessimistic time of 23 days. What is its variance?

A (a) 16.33
B (b) 15.6

C (c) 4

D (d) 2

Answer c

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Q. 12 Time an activity would take assuming very unfavorable conditions is

Question represented by the

A (a) Optimistic time

B (b) Most likely time

C (c) Pessimistic time

D (d) Expected time

Answer c

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Question Q. 13 In an AON network representation, the -------- represents the activities.

A (a) Arrow

B (b) Node

C (c) Time estimate

D (d) Arcs

Answer b

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Q. 15 The earliest start (ES) of an activity is the ----------- earliest finish (EF) of the
Question immediate

A (a) smallest, successors

B (b) largest, successors

C (c) smallest, predecessors

D (d) largest, predecessors

Answer d

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Q. 16 The time of an activity in a network can be approximated by which

Question distribution?

A (a) Binomial

B (b) Normal

C (c) Chi-square

D (d) Beta

Answer d

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Question Q. 17 Which of these may require the use of a dummy activity?

A (a) Gantt Chart

B (b) Activity-on-arrow network.

C (c) Activity-on-node network.

D (d) Both b and C

Answer b

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Question Q. 18 CPM is :

A (a) Critical Project Management

B (b) Critical Path Management

C (c) Critical Path Method

D (d) Crash Project Method

Answer c

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Q. 19 Activities G, P, and R are the immediate predecessors for activity W. If the

earliest finish times for the three are 12, 15, and 10, then the earliest start time for
Question W

A (a) is 10.

B (b) is 12.

C (c) is 15.

D (d) cannot be determined. –

Answer c

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 Q. 20 Activities K, M and S immediately follow activity H, and their latest start times
Question are 14, 18, and 11. The latest finish time for activity H

A (a) is 11.

B (b) is 14.

C (c) is 18.

D (d) can not be determined.

Answer a

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Question Q. 21 The critical path

A (a) is any path that goes from the starting node to the completion node.

B (b) is a combination of all paths.

C (c) is the shortest path.

D (d) is the longest path.

Answer d

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Question Q. 22 Which of the following statements regarding PERT times is true?

(a) Optimistic time estimate is an estimate of the minimum time an activity will
A require.

(b) Optimistic time estimate is an estimate of the maximum time an activity will
B require.

(c) Most likely time estimate is an estimate of the maximum time an activity will
C require.
 (d) Pessimistic time estimate is an estimate of the minimum time an activity will
D require.

Answer a

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Q. 23 At the completion of the forward and backward passes, the slack for an
Question activity is given by the

A (a) difference between early start and early finish.

B (b) difference between early start and latest finish.

C (c) difference between latest start and early finish

D (d) difference between latest start and early start

Answer d

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Q. 24 A project has three paths: A--B—C has a length of 25 days. A—D—C has a
length of 15 days. A—E--C has a length of 20 days. Which of the following
Question statements is correct?

A (a) A—D—C is the critical path.

B (b) A—B—C has the most slack.

C (c) The expected duration of the project is 25 days.

D (d) The expected duration of this project is 60 days.

Answer c

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Question Q. 25 With respect to PERT and CPM, slack

A (a) is a task or subproject that must be completed.

B (b) is the latest time an activity can be started without delaying the entire project.

(c) is the amount of time a task may be delayed without changing the overall
C project completion time.

D (d) marks the start or completion of a task

Answer c

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Question Q. 26 A dummy activity is required when

A (a) two or more activities have the same ending events.

(b) the network contains two or more activities that have identical starting and
B ending events.

C (c) two or more activities have different ending events.

D (d) two or more activities have the same starting events.

Answer b

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Question Q. 27 PERT analysis computes the variance of the total project completion time as

A (a) the sum of the variances of all activities in the project.

B (b) the sum of the variances of all activities on the critical path.

C (c) the sum of the variances of all activities not on the critical path.
D (d) the variance of the final activity of the project.

Answer b

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Q. 28 The time of activity in a project can be estimated to have a most likely

completion time of 7 days, an optimistic time of 6 days, and a per!simi;:ltic time 1.,,f
9 days. Which of the following is true of the Expected time and the variance for this
Question activity

A (a) 0.25 days, 7.17 days

B (b) 7.33 days, 0.25 days

C (c) 7.17 days, 0.25 days

D (d) 3.67 days, 0.25 days

Answer c

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Q. 29 A project's critical path is composed of activities A, B, and C. Activity A has a

standard deviation of 2, activity B has a standard deviation of 1, and activity C has a
Question standard deviation of 2. What is the standard deviation of the critical path?

A (a) 25

B (b) 9

C (c) 3

D (d) 5

Answer c

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Q. 30 Activities A and B are both 6 days long and the only immediate predecessors
to activity C. Activity A has ES=8 and LS=8 and activity B has ES=7 and LS=10. What is
Question the ES of activity C?

A (a) 14

B (b) 15

C (c) 16

D (d) 13

Answer a

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Question Q. 31 Dummy activities

A (a) Are found in both AOA and AON networks

B (b) Have a duration equal to the shortest non-dummy activity in the network.

C (c) Cannot be on the critical path.

D (d) Are used when two activities have identical starting and ending events.

Answer d

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Question Q. 32 Full form of PERT is

A (a) Performance evaluation review technique

B (b) Programme Evaluation Review technique

C (c) Programme Evaluation Research Technique

D (d) None of these.

Answer b

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Q. 33----- is the duration by which an activity can be delayed without delaying the
Question project.

A (a) Total float

B (b) latest time

C (c) Earliest event time

D (d) None of these

Answer a

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Question Q. 34 ---- is the earliest starting time plus activity time.

A (a) EST

B (b) EFT

C (c) LST

D (d) LFT

Answer b

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Question Q. 35 Generally PERT technique deals with the project of

A (a) repetitive nature

B (b) non- repetitive nature

C (c) deterministic nature

D (d) none of the above

Answer d

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Q. 36 The activity which can be delayed without affecting the execution of the
Question immediate e'ici,E.:eciilg activity determined by

A (a) total float

B (b) free float

C (c) independent float

D (d) none of the above

Answer b

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Question Q. 37 A dummy activity is used in the network diagram when

A (a) two parallel activities have the same tail and head events

(b) the chain of activities may have common event yet be independent by
B themselves

C (c) both a and b

D (d) none of the above

Answer c

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Question Q. 44 In 2-machine and 5 jobs possible sequence of jobs are

A (a) 1

B (b) 5

C (c) 120

D (d) 2

Answer c

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Question Q. 45 In sequencing objective is

A (a) Maximize total elapsed time

B (b) Minimize total elapsed time

C (c) Maximize cost

D (d) Minimize sales

Answer b

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