MTH601 Midterm Quiz 1

Mth601 (Midterm Mcqs)

1. Operations research (OR) is the application of quantitative methods to ___________ making.

Decision……confirm

2. The first step in the application of ________ is to develop a network representation of the project plan.

CPM/PERT……confirm

3. There are ___________ kinds of time calculations for a project.

4….confirm

Q4. In the phase of late start and late finish to find the critical path in a network flow diagram which of the following will be taken as latest finish time of the final event?

Early finish of final event

Q5. Which of the type of path will be critical in network flow diagram?

Longest path from starting node…….confirm

Q6. In a development project if an activity(m,n) of seven days duration, starts late on 3rd day then which of the following will be its latest finish time?

7. While finding the Critical Path in the phase of Early start and Early finish computations, we start from first event and proceed calculations from left to right up to the _____ event.

Last…..confirm

8. While finding the Critical Path in the phase of Late start and late finish we start from last node and the computations are performed from ___ up to the beginning event.

Bottom to up…..confirm

9. The length of a path in a network is the total ________ it takes to travel along the path

Time…..confirm

10. Choose the correct one for the project time that are used in project management.

Pert, CPM…..confirm

11. In PERT, the possible variation in activity times is measured from Standard Deviation which is ________ of the difference between Pessimistic and Optimistic times.

One sixth……confirm

Q12. Which of the following is an operations research (OR) process?

Networking…..confirm

13. In a network flow diagram, which of the following method through computations provides, start and completion times for each activity, critical and non critical activities and total and free slacks

CPM

14. For a development project if its standard Normal variable = 1.38 expected and the scheduled durations of the project are 100 and 110 days respectively, then the standard deviation in the project length is

52.50

15. In a network flow diagram, if two jobs a(I,j) and b(j,k) of durations 4 and 3 days duration finish late simultaneously on 7th day then on which of the following day the event I will finish earlier.