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Question 51

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A project engineer has been scheduled to run the product system test at the same time as building a marketing prototype. This is an example of what type of resource constraint?

A) Physical
B) Technical
C) People
D) Equipment
E) Time

F) All of the above
G) A) and E)

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Resource dependency takes priority over the technological dependency but does not violate ___________ dependencies.

A) equipment
B) time
C) technical
D) resource
E) logical

F) None of the above
G) C) and E)

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Question 53

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Which constraint category should be considered before all others?

When deciding which staff to team-up to work on work packages, factors to consider are:

Resource dependency takes priority over technological dependency but it does not violate it.

The level of resources each activity will need to be completed in the given amount of time has been estimated; therefore, there are no resource constraints.

Most of the scheduling methods available today require the project manager to classify the project as either _______ constrained or ______ constrained.

Having individual staff members assigned to multiple simultaneous tasks is an efficient way to split tasks and get tasks accomplished more efficiently.

A project leader has realized that two activities in the project cannot be done at the same time because not enough resources are available. Activity 3 is critical and has a duration of 5 days. Activity 4 has 2 days of slack and a duration of 2 days. How will the project leader decide which activity should be scheduled first?

In scheduling resource-constrained projects, _________ are typically used rather than optimum mathematical solutions.

Project managers should always assign the best people to the most difficult tasks.

Consider the following table of activities A through E in which A is the start node and E is the stop node. Assume all activities require the same resource.

When a project is classified as resource-constrained, a resource constraint exists, and positive slack is insufficient, then the project duration is typically __________.

A project budget report is showing our project as spending $50,000 against a budgeted amount of $65,000. Which of the following is true?

__________ is a technique that can be used to quickly solve the combinational problem of resource allocation.

These are all guidelines a project manager should consider when assigning project work EXCEPT

Consider the following table of activities A through E in which A is the start node and E is the stop node. Assume the project starts on Monday, May 4, 2020 and no work is done on weekends (Saturday and Sunday) . Assume no working-day holidays during the months of May and June-no Memorial Day holiday, for example.

The inability to fit more than two earth movers on a construction site at the same time when more are needed to complete the activity on time is an example of a physical constraint.

If three copiers are needed to produce a final report on time and only two are available, the project is facing a(n) ________ type of resource constraint.

A project purchasing agent is trying to order the concrete needed to continue the project. However, the supplier will not be able to deliver it until next week. This is an example of what kind of resource constraint?