Exam 9: Reducing Project Duration

The ________ project cost is the sum of the indirect and direct costs.

An activity's crash cost includes ________ costs.

The shortest possible time an activity can be completed realistically is called ___­­­_____ time.

When determining which activity to crash,there are other factors that should be assessed beyond cost.Which of the following is NOT one of these factors?

Which of the following projects would be least benefited if additional resources were added?

As a project is crashed and project duration is reduced,indirect costs typically

When considering whether to move the project to its optimum cost-time position,the manager should also consider ________.

Shortening an activity's duration is termed crashing.

The easiest way to add more labor to a project is not to add more people,but to schedule overtime.What are the disadvantages of scheduling overtime?

____________ is the rearranging of the project network logic so that critical activities are done in parallel rather than sequentially.

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

The total cost for each time unit of a project is the sum of labor,materials,and equipment.

When do you know you have crashed project activities enough? In other words,when you are crashing a project,how do you know you are finished?

Indirect costs generally represent overhead costs such as supervision,administration,consultants,and interest.