Scheduling Resources And Costs for operations management

Scheduling Resources and Costs
Project Management Ch 8
6th Edition

Your Results:
The  answer for each question is indicated by a  .

1
Resources are adequate, but demand varies widely over the life of the project. Delaying noncritical activities to lower peak demand on resources is known as resource
A)
Shifting
B)
Effectiveness
C)
Manipulating
D)
Smoothing
E)
Allocation

2
Which of the following is NOT a potential consequence of failing to identify limited resources before project implementation?
A)
Activity delays
B)
Project delays
C)
Difficulty in taking quick ive action
D)
Increase costs
E)
Scope creep

3
When developing a new software package, logically, the software must be designed before the code is written, and the code must be written before it is tested. These activities are dependent on each other by _________ constraints.
A)
Physical
B)
Technical
C)
Resource
D)
Schedule
E)
Time

4
Sam, the project engineer, has been scheduled to run the product system test at the same time he is to build a marketing prototype. This is an example of what type of resource constraint?
A)
Physical
B)
Technical
C)
People
D)
Equipment
E)
Time

5
Most of the scheduling methods available today require the project manager to classify the project as either _______ constrained or ______ constrained.
A)
Time, quality
B)
Quality, resource
C)
Cost, time
D)
Quality, cost
E)
Time, resource