West Visayas State University

(Formerly Iloilo Normal School)

COLLEGE OF BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT
Luna St., La Paz, Iloilo City 5000
Iloilo, Philippines
* Trunkline: (063) (033) 320-0870 loc 1817 * Telefax No.: (033) 320-0879
* Website: www.wvsu.edu.ph * Email Address: [email protected]

UNIT EXAM
UNIT VIII – Project Scheduling
BA 214 – Project Management
I. True or False
Direction: On the space provided write T if the statement is correct and F if
otherwise
T
___________ 1. Scheduling is particularly important to project because of complex
coordination problems.
T
___________ 2. A Gantt chart, which is a monitoring technique, is closely related to
Network diagrams.
T
___________ 3. Network techniques can adopt either an activity-on-node or activity
or activity-on-arc framework without significantly altering the
analysis
T
___________ 4. Critical projects are usually constructed from left to right, indicating
activity precedence and event times as the network is constructed
F
___________ 5. The network approach to scheduling does not offers a number of
specific advantages of special value for projects.
T
___________ 6. Critical project tasks typically constitute more than 10 percent of all
project tasks.
T
___________ 7. Technological performance is not significantly affected by the use of
PERT/CPM in projects
T
___________ 8. There is significantly lower probability of cost and schedule
overruns by the use of PERT/CPM in large projects.
T
___________ 9. Through the use of network, critical activities and events can be
identified
T
___________ 10. Gantt chart’s drawbacks do not clearly indicate task precedence and
dependencies
 West Visayas State University
(Formerly Iloilo Normal School)
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT
Luna St., La Paz, Iloilo City 5000
Iloilo, Philippines
* Trunkline: (063) (033) 320-0870 loc 1817 * Telefax No.: (033) 320-0879
* Website: www.wvsu.edu.ph * Email Address: [email protected]

II. Identification
Trade - off
___________ 1. It is the amount of one factor that must be sacrificed in order to
achieve more or less of another factor
Path
___________ 2. It is a sequence of lines and nodes in a network

Node
___________ 3. It is an intersection of two or more lines or arrows, commonly used
for depicting an event or activity

Milestone
___________ 4. It is a clearly identifiable point in a project or set of activities that
commonly denotes a reporting requirement or completion of a large
or important set of activities
Gantt Chart
___________ 5. It is the manner of illustrating multiple, time-based activities on a
horizontal time scale.
Event
___________ 6. It is an end state for one or more activities that occurs at a specific
point in time

Critical
___________ 7. It is an activity or event that, if delayed, will delay project
completion.

Crash
___________ 8. In CPM, it is an activity can be conducted at a normal pace or at an
expected pace, known as crashing, at a greater cost

Arc
___________ 9. It is the line connecting two nodes
Activity
___________ 10. It is a specific project task that requires resources and time to
complete
 West Visayas State University
(Formerly Iloilo Normal School)
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT
Luna St., La Paz, Iloilo City 5000
Iloilo, Philippines
* Trunkline: (063) (033) 320-0870 loc 1817 * Telefax No.: (033) 320-0879
* Website: www.wvsu.edu.ph * Email Address: [email protected]

UNIT EXAM
UNIT IX – Project Resource Allocation
BA 214 – Project Management
III. True or False
Direction: On the space provided write T if the statement is correct and F if otherwise
___________ 1. The task that logically precede a particular task in
Predecessor tasks time.

Heuristic
___________ 2. A formal process for solving a problem like a rule of thumb,
that results in an acceptable solution
Cost___________
/ Time Slope 3. The ratio of the increased cost for expediting to the decreased

Priority Rules amount of time for the activity

Formal
___________ 4. Formal methods, such as ratios, that rank items to determine
which one should be next
Predecessor tasks 5. The task that logically follow a particular task in time
___________
Resource Loading 6. The amount of resources of each kind that are to be devoted
___________
to a specific activity in a certain time period.
Fast - Tracking
___________ 7. Overlapping the design and build phases of a project
Tree Search 8. The evaluation of a number of alternatives that logically
___________
branch from each other like a tree with limbs
Resource Leveling
___________ 9. Approaches to even out the peaks and valleys of resource
requirements so that a fixed amount of resources can be
Mathematical employed over time
Programming
___________ 10. A general term for certain mathematical approaches to solving
constrained optimization problems, including linear
programming and so on.
 West Visayas State University
(Formerly Iloilo Normal School)
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT
Luna St., La Paz, Iloilo City 5000
Iloilo, Philippines
* Trunkline: (063) (033) 320-0870 loc 1817 * Telefax No.: (033) 320-0879
* Website: www.wvsu.edu.ph * Email Address: [email protected]

IV. True or False

Direction: On the space provided write T if the statement is correct and F
if otherwise
Cost / Time Slope
___________ 1. It is the ratio of the increased cost for expending to the
decreased amount of time for the activity

Predecessor tasks 2.
___________ These are tasks that logically follow a particular task in time
Heuristic
___________ 3. It is a formal process for solving a problem, like a rule of
Mathematical thumb, that in results in an acceptable solution
Programming
___________ 4. It is a general term for certain mathematical approaches to
solving constrained optimization problems, including linear
programming, integer programming and so on.
Predecessor tasks
___________ 5. These are task that logically precede a particular task in
time
Priority Rules
Formal
___________ 6. These are methods such as ratios that rank items to
determine which one should be the next
Resource Leveling
___________ 7. These are approaches to even out the peaks and valleys of
resource requirement so that a fixed amount of resources
can be employed over time.
Resource Loading
___________ 8. It is the amount of resources of each kind that are to be
devoted to a specific activity in certain time period.
Tree Search 9.
___________ It is the evaluation of a number of alternatives that logically
As soon as branch from each other like a tree with limits
possible
___________ 10. The default rule for scheduling. This provides general
solution for critical path and time
 West Visayas State University
(Formerly Iloilo Normal School)
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT
Luna St., La Paz, Iloilo City 5000
Iloilo, Philippines
* Trunkline: (063) (033) 320-0870 loc 1817 * Telefax No.: (033) 320-0879
* Website: www.wvsu.edu.ph * Email Address: [email protected]

UNIT EXAM
UNIT X – Project Monitoring and Information System
BA 214 – Project Management
V. True or False
Direction: On the space provided write T if the statement is correct and F if otherwise
___________ 11. The first task in designing the monitoring system is to identify the
T key factors in the project action plan to be monitored.
T
___________ 12. It is important that the planning, monitoring, controlling cycle be a
closed loop cycle based on the same structure as the parent system
T
___________ 13. Project reports should include an amount of detail appropriate to the
target level of management with a frequency appropriate to the need
for control
T
___________ 14. The earned value chart depicts scheduled progress, actual cost, and
actual progress.
T
___________ 15. Project managers preferred PMIS features were friendliness,
schedule calendar, budgets, reports, graphics, networks, charts,
migration and consolidation
F
___________ 16. The nature of the monitoring reports should not be consistent with
the logic of the planning, budgeting and scheduling system
F
___________ 17. PMIS verification are excessive computer involvement with
computer activity replacing project management, loss of touch with
the project and its realities
F
___________ 18. Migration is the ability to aggregate multiple projects into a single
database for determination of total resource usage and detection of
resource conflicts.
T
___________ 19. Reports is the ability to see the schedule where interaction is
especially important.
T
___________ 20. Computer dependence are due to the unequal coverage of the PMIS,
certain project subareas are over managed and other areas receive
inadequate attention.
 West Visayas State University
(Formerly Iloilo Normal School)
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT
Luna St., La Paz, Iloilo City 5000
Iloilo, Philippines
* Trunkline: (063) (033) 320-0870 loc 1817 * Telefax No.: (033) 320-0879
* Website: www.wvsu.edu.ph * Email Address: [email protected]

VI. Identification

Computer Paralysis 1.
___________ Excessive fascination or activity with the computer rather than the
project itself such that the project suffers

Cost Variance 2. The budgeted cost of the work performed less the actual cost of the
work performed

Earned Value 3. An approach for monitoring project progress that relies on the
budgeted cost of activities completed to ascribe value

Friendliness 4. When applied to computer use, this term refers to how easy it is to
learn and/or use a computer or software package

Hard Copy 5. Printed information output, as opposed to screen output

Information 6. Having an excess of information so that the information desired is

Overload difficult to locate

Migration 7. The ability to move files and data between software packages

Monitor 8. To keep watch in order to take action when progress fails to match
plans

Schedule 9. The budgeted cost of work completed less the budgeted cost of work
Variance scheduled at this time.

Software 10. The instruction for running a computer

Spreadsheet 11. A matrix of data used with a computer as the data in particular cells
are changed, the results of other cells change also to keep in
accordance.

Time Variance 12. The scheduled time for the work completed less the actual time.

Variance 13. A deviation from plan or expectation

Windowing 14. A computer software feature that allows different functions to be

conducted in a separate section of the screen called a window.