COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY

Department : Constructions & Buildings Engineering

Final Exam
Lecturer : Dr. Emad Elbeltagi
Course Title : Project Management & Scheduling Course Code: CB510
Time : 2 Hours
‫ ﻓﺮﻉ ﺟﻨﻮﺏ ﺍﻟﻮﺍﺩﻯ‬Date : 29/1/2021 Marks : 40
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Answer the following questions: The exam has THREE questions in FOUR pages.
Question 1- Multiple Choice Questions (25 points - 1 point each):
Choose the correct answer (There is only one correct answer).

1. The Engineering phase of a project life cycle consists of the following stages:
a. Market need, Procurement and Disposal
b. Design development, Procurement and construction
c. Feasibility studies, Design development and Procurement
d. Construction, Occupancy and Disposal
2. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a project?
a. Having a specific goal b. Having a defined beginning and end
c. Resources being consumed d. Never being found outside the construction field
3. In the Activity on Arrow network diagrams, you can represent which types of relationships?
a. Start-to-Finish b. Finish-to-Start
c. Start-to-Start d. All of the above
4. To calculate the late start and late finish dates for a set of tasks, you must do:
a. A backward pass analysis b. A critical path analysis
c. A forward pass analysis d. A Gantt chart Analysis
5. Work package is a/an:
a. Required level of reporting b. Task with unique identifier
c. Element at the lowest level of WBS d. Task that can be assigned to only one person
6. If D is the duration, ES and EF are the earliest start and finish, LS and LF are latest start and finish times,
and TF is the total float, then which of the following relation is correct:
a. D = LE – EF b. LS = LF + D
c. TF = EF – ES d. LF = TF + EF
7. Activities A, B, and C are the immediate predecessors for activity Y. If the earliest finish times for the
three activities are 12, 15, and 10, then the earliest start time for Y will be:
a. 10 b. 15 c. 12 d. Cannot be determined
8. Activities P, Q and R instantly follow activity M, and their current late start times are 12, 19, and 10.
Therefore, the latest finish time for activity M is

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 a. 10 b. 12 c. 19 d. Cannot be determined
9. Two 4-men crews are used to install the computers in your office, if the number of computers are 24 and
the production rate of this crew is to install 4 computers/days. Then, the total duration in days to install all
computers is:
a. 6 days b. 4 days c. 3 days d. 2 days
10. What is the shape of a “theoretically ideal” resource histogram?
a. Parabolic b. Rectangular c. Trapezoidal d. Triangular
For questions 11–17, use the following problem:
Given the schedule below and at the end of the 6th week, the data in the table below were collected.
Total ACWP Percent
Activity
Budget (LE) (LE) Complete (%)
A 2,500 2,400 100%
B 14,000 7,100 50%
C 6,000 500 10%

D 4,200 2,000 33%

11. What is the budget at completion?

a. LE26,700 b. LE12,000
c. LE11,600 d. LE25,200
12. What is the planned value?
a. LE11,600 b. LE11,000
c. There is no enough information d. LE11,900
13. What is the earned value?
a. LE11,000 b. LE11,500
c. LE12,000 d. LE11,600
14. What is the cost variance?
a. -LE500 b. -LE400
c. -LE100 d. +LE400
15. What is the schedule variance?
a. +LE400 b. -LE600
c. -LE400 d. -LE100
16. What will be the estimated cost at completion, if current performance continues?
a. LE27,860 b. LE27,500
c. LE28,000 d. LE28,200
17. After updating this project, the project duration equals:
a. 10 weeks b. 11 weeks c. 9 weeks d. 12 weeks
18. All the following actions can be used to improve contractor’s negative cash flow, EXCEPT:

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 a. Advanced payment b. Early supply of materials to site
c. Delay payment of material, labor and equipment costs d. Subcontract some work items
19. You are the project manager of an IT project. You review your earned value report and you see that your
SPI is 0.68. What does this mean to you?
a. The project is doing Fine. No corrective actions are needed.
b. The project is slightly ahead of schedule. No corrections are needed.
c. The project is slightly behind schedule. Corrections are needed.
d. The project is very much behind schedule. Immediate corrections are needed.
20. PERT analysis is based on:
a. Optimistic time b. Pessimistic time
c. Most likely time d. All the above.
B (4) F (4)
For questions 21–24, use the following problem:
1 3
A small project is shown in the opposite figure, the activities
expected durations in days are shown inside the brackets A (5) C (3) D (2) G (5)
and the activities variances underneath each activity.
2 3 1 3
21. What is the probability of completing this project in 21.5 days?
a. 84.6% b. 69.2%
E (7)
c. 72.5% d. 48.6%
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22. What is the probability of completing activity “F” in 11 days?
a. 15.9% b. 40.1%
c. 52.5% d. 22.6%
23. What are the additional days to add to the finish date of activity “F” to reach 84.1% confidence level?
a. 1 day b. 2 days
c. 0 day d. 3 days
24. What would be the project duration if a confidence level of 84.1% should be achieved?
a. 18 days b. 29 days
c. 23 days d. 27 days
Use the following Normal Distribution values for questions 21-24
SD Area % SD Area % SD Area % SD Area %
0.4 σ 15.5 0.6 22.6 0.9 31.6 1.1 36.4
0.5 19.2 0.7 25.8 1.0 34.1 1.4 41.9
25. A reinforced concrete wall is divided into three equal sections. The construction of the wall involves three
sequential activities in each section: steel fixing 1, 2 and 3, formwork 1, 2 and 3, and concreting 1, 2 and
3. Assume that one crew of each type of work will be employed in all sections. The, concreting 2 activity
will depend on:
a. Activity concreting 1 only b. Activity formwork 2 only
c. Activities steel fixing 2 and formwork 2 d. Activities formwork 2 and concreting 1

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Questions No. 2 (8 Marks)
Give the following net cash flow Curve for a given contract, answer the following Questions.

1. The project Duration is ……………….. months.

2. The estimated markup is LE ……………….. .
3. The surplus cash at the fifth month equals LE ………………..
4. The maximum amount of cash the contractor will need to finance the project is LE ………………..
5. The amount of the payment received at the fifth month equals LE ………………..
6. The expenses that the contractor incurred during the fourth month equals LE ……….
7. Assume that the monthly interest rate is 1%, then the cost of financing this project equals LE ……….
8. The advanced payment received in this project equals ………

Questions No. 3 (7 Marks)

The Table gives the activities involved in a small project
Duration No of
Activity Predecessors
and the number of labors needed for each activity per day. (week) labors/day
Your company can provide a maximum of 6 labors per day. A - 3 3
B - 3 4
a. Determine the schedule timing of the activities so that C - 4 3
the daily resources usage does not exceed the D A 4 3
E B, C 2 1
maximum limit. (5 marks)
b. What is the critical path after performing the resource leveling? (2 mark)

With my best wishes Prof. Emad Elbeltagi

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