Assessment exam answers (Chapter 8)

Question 1

Which of the following is the most common precedence relationship?

1. Finish to start
2. Start to start
3. Finish to finish
4. Start to finish

It is the most common because it gives the most pessimistic total duration of the activities and is what project management software uses by default.

Question 2

You are working with your team and analyzing the current version of your precedence network diagram, as well as the durations that have been added to it. You are trying to figure out the critical path. Which of the following would be considered the near-critical path?

1. 20 days
2. 19 days
3. 10 days
4. 5 days

The near-critical path is the second-longest in duration.

Question 3

During the planning of a large install project, your essential resource lets you know that the first rollout will include tests of the system before the rest of the installs happen. He estimates that the automated tests...