Exam 8: Scheduling Resources and Costs

Comparing Planned Costs versus Actual Costs will give the project manager a quick understanding of the status of the project.

A project leader's boss has indicated that their project is very important. If the critical path is delayed, the lead will be given whatever is needed to get it back on schedule. The project is classified as ________ constrained.

Why is it critical to form a time-phased budget?

Sequential activities hold just as much potential for resource conflicts as parallel activities.

Consider the following table of activities A through E in which A is the start node and E is the stop node. The project is time-constrained and the project manager wishes to minimize the number of resources required at any given time. Each activity requires a single resource.

Splitting an activity can result in all of the following EXCEPT

Since resource leveling or smoothing delays noncritical activities, a common result is an increase in network ___________.

Project budgets are developed by time-phasing which of the following?

Why should project managers be cautious about using the splitting scheduling technique?

What is the difference in project goals when using resource leveling on time-constrained projects and using it on resource-constrained projects?

If resource demand varies widely over the life of the project, the project manager can try to use slack (delaying noncritical activities) to accommodate insufficient resources. This process is called____.

Consider the following table of activities A through E in which A is the start node and E is the stop node. Assume the project starts on Monday, May 4, 2020 and no work is done on weekends (Saturday and Sunday).

All leveling techniques delay noncritical activities by using ________ to reduce peak demand.

A test engineer is to conduct environmental testing but the chamber cannot hold all the equipment that needs to be tested. This is an example of a constraint that could impact the sequence and timing of activities in a project network. What type of constraint is it?

After resource leveling or smoothing, one goal is that the amount of resources needed over the life of the project will be ___________.

Many companies are ________ project work to contractors and consultants as a means of dealing with the peaks and valleys of resource allocation among projects.

Consider the following table of activities A through E in which A is the start node and E is the stop node. Assume all activities require the same resource.

Consider the following table of activities A through E in which A is the start node and E is the stop node. Assume all activities require the same resource.

When scheduling activities in a resource-constrained project typically the activity scheduled first has the most amount of slack.

Why is it important to make efforts to identify resource scheduling problems before the project is implemented?