Strayer BUS 375 FINAL EXAM
Final Exam Part 1
Question
Question 1
Smoothing out project resources from period to period is called
Resource leveling
Resource allocation or resource limited planning
Better effort planning
Slack utilization planning
Question 2
Which of the following scheduling techniques is most appropriate today for managing a project?
BAR charts
Milestone charts
PERT charts
Precedence charts
Question 3
The major disadvantage of using a bar chart on large projects is that bar charts:
Answer
Cannot identify critical paths
Cannot identify milestones
Do not show dependencies between activities
Question 4
Laying out a network diagram when you know before-hand the size of the available resource
pool is called:
Answer
Resource leveling
Resource allocation or resource limited planning
Better effort planning
Slack utilization planning
Question 5
Activities with zero time durations are called:
Answer
Low-slack activities
No-slack activities
Dummy activities

Special activities
Question 6
If the slack in a 12 week activity is 6 weeks and ES = 4, then LF = _____.
Answer
4
10
16
22
Question 7
Which of the following schedule compression techniques usually requires adding more resources
to each work package that is being compressed?
Answer
Overtime
Crashing
Outsourcing
Descoping
Question 8
A charting technique designed to illustrate the inductive and deductive reasoning necessary to
achieve some objective is called a _____ Diagram / network
Answer
Gantt
Logic
Descriptive
Intuition
Question 9
Which of the following is normally not one of the three critical parameters provided in
information reporting to the customer?
Answer
Time
Cost
Performance
Risks
Question 10
Which type of chart provides the least “predictive” value?
Answer
Bar chart

PERT
ADM
PDM
Question 11
When a functional manager tells you that your project is 10% more difficult than the standard
project, the functional manager is providing you with a _____ estimate.
Answer
Parametric
Analogy
Engineering
Grassroots
Question 12
Which of the following projects would most likely have reasonably good estimating techniques?
Answer
Construction
R & D
Software development
New product development
Question 13
An employee earning $40/hour works in a department where the overhead is 125%. A billable or
charge back hour to this department would be:
Answer
$ 40
$ 50
$ 90
$ 100
4 points
Question 14
Which of the following is generally not part of capital budgeting?
Answer
Life cycle cost estimating
Net present value
Internal rate of return
Discounted cash flow
Question 15
Which of the following standard project estimating techniques is usually accomplished in weeks?

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