Construction Management Online Test – Paper 3

1. Policy is:

2. The estimated time required to complete an activity is termed as:

3. In PERT, optimistic time is:

4. The reduction in project time normally results in:

5. The minimum number of consulting firms for the direct purchase of services is:

6. No agreement is between:

7. Negative slack indicates:

8. Gantt chart is drawn for:

9. The variance will be zero if:

10. Performance security is necessary:

11. In PERT, the most likely time is:

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

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

14. Free float is mainly used to:

15. Frederick W. Taylor introduced a system of working known as:

16. For completion of a project, the critical path of the network represents:

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

18. Type of organization used in the construction industry is:

19. If D is the duration, ES and EF are the earliest start and earliest finish time, LS and LF are the latest start and latest finish time, then the following relation holds good:

20. In PERT analysis, the time estimates of activities and the probability of their occurrence follow:

21. The expected project duration in CPM follows:

22. Most of the works related to measurement of items and making entry to the measurement book is initiated by:

23. 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:

24. CPM network is:

25. If an activity has its optimistic, most likely, and pessimistic times as 2, 4, and 6, respectively, then its expected time and variance are respectively:

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

27. The mean coincides with the node if the frequency distribution curve is:

28. The number of pre-operations associated with an operation may be:

29. A contractor can start the construction works following the receipt of:

30. When the times of earliest finish and the latest finish are equal in an operation, the operation is called:

31. Earliest finish time of an activity is always:

32. The main disadvantage of line organization is:

33. A construction schedule is prepared after collecting:

34. The amount of VAT for the purchase of steel having an amount of NRs. 6000/- should be:

35. The dispute in construction is resolved through discussion of all parties on their respective stands leading to consensus. The process is called:

36. Free float for any activity is defined as the difference between:

37. Railway projects are treated as:

38. The interrelationship between the functional elements of a program is achieved through:

39. Residential buildings are treated as:

40. Of the following, the PERT event is:

41. Completion of an activity on the CPM network diagram is generally known as:

42. The pictorial representation of activities and events of a project is known as:

43. Jobs going ahead of schedule are conveniently shown in:

44. The square root of the variance is known as:

45. CPM family includes:

46. If the completion time for a particular project is 6 weeks and its expected time is 8 weeks, then the slack time for the project is:

47. The salient feature of functional organization is:

48. The amount of earnest money deposited at the time of submission of tender is:

49. The main responsibility of an overseer/Sub-Engineer is:

50. The upper portion of horizontal bars in a bar chart indicates: