Construction Management Online Test

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1. Negative slack occurs:

a) When a deficiency of resources exists

b) When the latest allowable time is greater than the earliest expected time

c) When events stick to their schedule

d) None of the above

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2. CPM adopts:

a) Deterministic approach

b) Probabilistic approach

c) Fantastic approach

d) All of the above

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3. The mean of squared deviation from the mean of the distribution is known as:

a) Mode

b) Standard deviation

c) Deviation

d) Variance

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4. Critical path connecting the start and end events timewise is:

a) Longest path always

b) Shortest path always

c) May be the longest path

d) May be independent float

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5. The meaning of modular coordination in construction is:

a) Planning

b) Designing

c) Execution

d) All of the above

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6. The overall in-charge of an organization at the site responsible for the execution of works is:

a) Executive engineer

b) Engineer

c) Junior engineer

d) Sub-overseer

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7. Negative slack indicates:

a) Ahead of schedule condition

b) Behind the schedule condition

c) On schedule condition

d) None of the above

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8. The weakness in bar charts is:

a) The various activities are interdependent

b) Uncertainty in duration for various activities

c) The sequence of activities is not very clear

d) All of the above

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9. No agreement is between:

a) Client, engineer

b) Engineer, contractor

c) Client, contractor

d) Contractor, sub-contractor

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10. Inspection of construction works for quality control is carried out and covers:

a) Sampling, examination, and field testing of materials

b) Testing specimens in the laboratory

c) Observation of construction equipment and plant

d) All of the above

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11. The Force Account or AMANAT, a method of carrying out the construction work is done by:

a) Contractor using his own tools, staff, equipment, etc.

b) Owner using his own tools, staff, equipment, etc.

c) Sub-contractor using his own tools, staff, equipment, etc.

d) None of the above

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12. The variance will be zero if:

a) Each individual deviation is zero

b) Sum of deviation is zero

c) Standard deviation is zero

d) None of the above

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13. The difference between total float and free float is called interfering float which is nothing but the:

a) Float of the head event

b) Float of the tail event

c) Slack of the head event

d) Slack of the tail event

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14. A fictitious activity with zero duration and no cost used to maintain the sequential order of the activities in the network is known as a:

a) Restraint

b) Dummy activity

c) Event

d) All of the above

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15. In CPM, the actual performance of a task is called:

a) An event

b) An activity

c) A duration

d) Critical task

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16. In PERT technique, completion of an activity is called:

a) Head activity

b) Head event

c) Tail activity

d) Tail event

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17. Railway projects are treated as:

a) Light construction

b) Heavy construction

c) Industrial construction

d) None of the above

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18. The duration of time which an activity can be delayed without affecting the succeeding activity is called free float which affects only:

a) Preceding activities

b) Succeeding activities

c) The particular activity

d) None of the above

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19. In time cost optimization using CPM, the crashing of activities along the critical path is done starting with the activity having:

a) Highest cost slope

b) Least cost slope

c) Crashing has no relation with cost slope

d) None of the above

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20. In resource leveling, the main constraint would be:

a) On the resources

b) Project duration time

c) Both of the above

d) None of the above

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21. Critical path is:

a) Shortest path for the earliest completion of the project

b) Longest path of the network from the first event to the last event

c) Ideal path by preceding along which the project can be completed as per the schedule.

d) The path that takes into account the completion of all the parallel activities

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22. The relation between jobs of a particular type and various durations they have consumed for completion is expressed by:

a) Normal distribution curve

b) Beta distribution curve

c) Frequency distribution curve

d) None of the above

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23. Which operation must complete first?

a) Right of the line joining two circles

b) Left of the line joining two circles

c) Both of the above

d) None of the above

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24. The probability of completion of any activity within its expected time in PERT is:

a) 0%

b) 50%

c) 75%

d) 100%

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25. For the construction of a project, a contractor is a:

a) A person

b) A firm

c) An agency

d) All of the above

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26. Gantt chart is drawn for:

a) Time versus activity

b) Activity versus activity

c) Resources versus progress

d) Progress versus time

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27. An event is:

a) A definite job

b) A definite time interval

c) The terminals of an activity

d) A definite position of an activity

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28. Time and progress chart of construction is known as:

a) Bar chart

b) Gantt chart

c) CPM

d) All of the above

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29. Which method is known as the minimum cost or maximum time schedule method:

a) PERT

b) CPM

c) Bar chart

d) All of the above

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30. A frequency distribution curve:

a) Having a single lump is called a uninodal curve

b) If symmetrical is called a normal curve

c) If unsymmetrical is called a skew curve

d) All of the above

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