Exam 13: Sales and Operations Planning

The figure below shows the tasks required to complete a project and the expected duration for each task. How long should we expect it to take to complete this project?

When developing risk mitigation plans,one should:

A project manager usually has the greatest ability to affect social and technical success factors of a project in what stage of the project?

Zanda Corp.has decided that it needs a project team to implement a new ERP system.It wants the system implemented as soon as possible.Given this criterion,Zanda should choose a:

The network diagram below shows the five tasks required to complete a project and the associated times for those tasks. Which task has the greatest amount of slack?

Colson Corp.has planned a simple project with four tasks.The task information for the project is shown below: What is the estimated completion time for the project?

The network diagram below shows the five tasks required to complete a project and the associated times for those tasks. Which of the following identifies the critical path tasks?

A primary advantage of a functional project organizational structure is:

Project manager Bill Jones has determined that task R has a high variation between "best case" and "worst case" estimated durations.Task R is probably a good candidate for:

"Crashing" in a project refers to:

The project organizational structure that provides the greatest balance between speed and efficiency is:

A method for estimating the impacts of uncertainty on project tasks is:

Which of the following is NOT a good reason to terminate (kill)a project?

Spending more money to speed up a project is known as:

Joe Jones is a project manager on a major installation.He has been asked to provide weekly status reports on the project schedule.Joe should consider using which of the following?

Task X is expected to take three days to complete.The maximum (latest)earliest finish date for any predecessors to task X is 10.Therefore,the earliest finish for task X is: