QUIZ QUESTION DEOM 330 (OPERATION MANAGEMENT)
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1. The three phases involved in the management of
large projects are
a. scheduling, operating, evaluating.
b. planning, scheduling, evaluating.
c. scheduling, designing, operating.
d. planning, scheduling, controlling.
2. With respect to PERT and CPM, slack
a. is a task or subproject that must be
completed.
b. marks the start or completion of a
task.
c. is the latest time an activity can be
started without delaying the entire
project.
d. is the amount of time a task may be
delayed without changing the
overall project completion time.
3. A dummy activity is required when
a. two or more activities have different
ending events.
b. the network contains two or more
activities that have identical starting
and ending events.
c. two or more activities have the
same ending events.
d. two or more activities have the
same starting events.
4. Which of the following is a basic assumption of
PERT?
a. Activity completion times are known
with certainty.
b. Only critical path activities in the
network must be performed.
c. No activity in the network must be
repeated.
d. There is only one complete route
from the start of a project to the end
of a project.
5. PERT analysis computes the variance of the total
project completion time as
a. the sum of the variances of all
activities in the project.
b. the sum of the variances of all
activities not on the critical path.
c. the variance of the final activity of
the project.
d. the sum of the variances of all
activities on the critical path.
6. The critical path of a network is the
a. longest time path through the
network.
b. shortest time path through the
network.
c. path with the most activities.
d. path with the fewest activities.
7. Which of the following is a direct responsibility of
the project manager?
a. Calculating completion probabilities
for all tasks in the project.
b. Drawing the network diagram.
c. Making sure that the people
assigned to the project receive the
motivation, direction, and
information needed to do their jobs.
d. Performing all of the activities in the
project.
8. Dummy activities
a. are found in both AOA and AON
networks.
b. are used when two activities have
identical starting and ending events.
c. have a duration equal to the
shortest non-dummy activity in the
network.
d. cannot be on the critical path.
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9. Which of the following is a limitation of PERT and 13. A project's critical path is composed of activities
CPM? A, B, and C. Activity A has a standard deviation of 2,
activity B has a standard deviation of 1, and activity
a. They can be used only to monitor C has a standard deviation of 2. What is the standard
schedules.
deviation of the critical path?
b. The graphical nature of a network
delays comprehension of the activity a. 25
list's interrelationships. b. 9
c. They are applicable to only a narrow c. 5
variety of projects and industries. d. 3
d. There is inherent danger of too
much emphasis being placed on the 14. What is the probability that a project with a
mean completion time of 23.9 days and a variance of
critical path.
6 days will be finished in 26 days?
10. An activity has an optimistic time of 15 days, a
a. 0.20
most likely time of 18 days, and a pessimistic time of
27 days. What is its expected time? b. 0.63
c. 0.80
a. 19 days d. 0.37
b. 20 days
c. 18 days 15. The EF of an activity is the
d. 60 days a. Min{LS of all immediate following
11. An activity has an optimistic time of 11 days, a activities}.
most likely time of 15 days, and a pessimistic time of b. Max{EF of all immediate
predecessors}.
23 days. What is its variance?
c. ES + Activity time.
a. 16.33 d. LF-Activity time.
b. 2
c. 4 16. The ethical issue of divulging confidential
information to some bidders to give them an unfair
d. 15.6
advantage is known as
12. Activities A and B are both 6 days long and the
only immediate predecessors to activity C. Activity A a. expense account padding.
has ES=8 and LS=8 and activity B has ES=7 and LS=10. b. bid rigging.
c. low balling.
What is the ES of activity C?
d. bribery.
a. 15
b. 13 17. PERT requires three estimates of activity
c. 16 completion time, while CPM only requires a single
d. 14 estimate.

o True
o False
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18. The optimistic time is the greatest amount of

time that could be required to complete an activity.

 True
 False

19. The expected completion time of a PERT project

is the sum of the most likely times of the activities
on the critical path.

o True
o False

20. Work breakdown structure is the division of a

project into more and more detailed components.

o True
o False
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Essay Question

Question 1.

What is the probability that this project is completed in 28 days? All activity lengths are given in days.

Activity Predecessor Optimistic Most Likely Pessimistic

A -- 1 2 3
B A 2 4 6
C A 5 8 11
D A 3 4 5
E B 10 14 18
F D 6 8 10
G C, E, F 7 9 13

Question 2.

Describe at least four of the ethical issues faced in project management.

Question 3.

Use the crash costs, regular activity durations and precedence requirements in the table to determine
the cheapest completion time and cost for this project if the project has a fixed cost of $1000 per day.
All activity lengths are given in days.

Regular Minimum
Activity $/day crash fee Predecessor
Time Time
A 10 6 $500 --
B 6 5 $300 --
C 2 2 -- B
D 4 2 $500 C
E 6 3 $600 A
F 8 5 $1200 D, E
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Question 4.

Complete this table of activity lengths and early and late start and finish times based on the indicated
precedence requirements. All times are in days.

Activity Predecessor Early Start Early Finish Late Start Late Finish Length
A -- 0 5
B A 11 11
C A 9 14
D B 18 18 7
E B, C 11 15
F D, E 3