Exam 9: Reducing Project Duration

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Because direct costs are assumed to be developed from "normal" methods and in a "normal" amount of time, any reduction in activity time should add to the costs of the activity.

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Question 101

Consider the following table of activities that describes a project network. Without causing the critical path to become noncritical or otherwise wasting money, by how many days could you reduce the first activity that you would crash?

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Question 102

The direct cost for completing an activity in the shortest time it can realistically be completed in is called its __________ cost.

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Question 103

Design flaws, equipment breakdown and adverse weather can create negative slack. These are examples of the need for reducing project duration on successive critical activities that was caused by

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Question 104

One way of reducing project costs is identifying tasks that _________ can do themselves.

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Question 105

Consider the following table of activities that describes a project network. Which activity will you crash first?

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Because direct costs are assumed to be developed from "normal" methods and in a "normal" amount of time, any reduction in activity time should add to the costs of the activity.

Consider the following table of activities that describes a project network. Without causing the critical path to become noncritical or otherwise wasting money, by how many days could you reduce the first activity that you would crash?

The direct cost for completing an activity in the shortest time it can realistically be completed in is called its __________ cost.

Design flaws, equipment breakdown and adverse weather can create negative slack. These are examples of the need for reducing project duration on successive critical activities that was caused by

One way of reducing project costs is identifying tasks that _________ can do themselves.

Consider the following table of activities that describes a project network. Which activity will you crash first?

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