Construction Planning & Management Mcqs

MCQ: Which of the following is a weakness of bar chart ?

1. interdependencies of activities
2. project progress
3. uncertainties
4. all of the above

MCQ: Which of the following is not a PERT event ?

1. site investigation started
2. sessional work completed
3. bus starts from Jaipur
4. class is being attended

MCQ: The area under the Beta – distribution curve is divided into two equal parts by_______________?

1. most likely time
2. optimistic time
3. pessimistic time
4. expected time

MCQ: Which of the following does not represent an activity?

1. site located
2. foundation is being dug
3. the office area is being cleaned
4. the invitations are being sent

MCQ: Latest start of an activity is always________________?

1. greater than or equal to latest event time of preceding node
2. less than or equal to latest event time of preceding node
3. equal to latest event time of preceding node
4. less than latest event time of preceding node

MCQ: If the optimistic time, most likely time and pessimistic time for activity A are 4, 6 and 8 respectively and for activity B are 5, 5.5 and 9 respectively, then______________?

1. expected time of activity A is greater than the expected time of activity B
2. expected time of activity B is greater than the expected time of activity A
3. expected time of both activities A and B are same
4. none of the above

MCQ: Whenever an activity has zero total float, then_______________?

1. free float of the activity must be zero but independent float need not be zero
2. independent float must be zero but free float need not be zero
3. free float and independent float both must be zero
4. free float and independent float both need not be zero

MCQ: Critical path_____________?

1. is always longest
2. is always shortest
3. may be longest
4. may be shortest

MCQ: A father notes that when his teenage daughter uses the telephone, she takes not less than 6 minutes for a call and som? times as much as an hour. Fifteen minutes call are more frequent than calls of any other duration. If these phone calls were an activity in PERT project, then phone calls expected duration will be_______________?

1. 15 minutes
2. 20.143 minutes
3. 21 minutes
4. 27 minutes

MCQ: The time by which a particular activity can be delayed without affecting the preceding and succeeding activities is known as_______________?

1. total float
2. free float
3. interfering float
4. independent float