Construction Planning and Management

31. Crash project duration is obtained by summing the

  1. Normal durations for all the activities
  2. Crash durations for all activities
  3. Crash durations for all the activities along the critical path obtained by taking into account the normal duration for all the activities
  4. Crash durations for all the activities along the critical path obtained by taking into account the crash duration for all the activities.

Correct answer: (D)
Crash durations for all the activities along the critical path obtained by taking into account the crash duration for all the activities.

32. Critical path

  1. Is always longest
  2. Is always shortest
  3. May be longest
  4. May be shortest

Correct answer: (A)
Is always longest

33. Critical path lies along the activities having total float

  1. Positive
  2. Negative
  3. Zero
  4. Same

Correct answer: (C)
Zero

34. Critical path method

  1. Is an improvement upon bar chart method
  2. Provides a realistic approach to daily problems
  3. Avoids delays which are very common in bar charts
  4. All the above

Correct answer: (D)
All the above

35. Critical Path Net Work helps an engineer

  1. To concentrate his attention on critical activities
  2. To divert the resources from non-critical advanced activities to critical activities
  3. To be cautious for avoiding any delay in the critical activities to avoid delay of the whole project
  4. All the above

Correct answer: (D)
All the above

36. During the construction period, price variation clause in contracts caters to

  1. Increase in rates of only important materials
  2. Variation in cost in materials element, labour element and petrol-oil-lubricant element
  3. Variation in total cost of the project on an ad hoc basis
  4. Rate of inflation

Correct answer: (B)
Variation in cost in materials element, labour element and petrol-oil-lubricant element

37. Earliest finish of an activity is always

  1. Greater than earliest event time of the following node
  2. Less than earliest event time of the following node
  3. Less than or equal to earliest event time of the following node
  4. Greater than or equal to earliest event time of the following node

Correct answer: (C)
Less than or equal to earliest event time of the following node

38. Economic saving of time results by crashing

  1. Cheapest critical activity
  2. Cheapest noncritical activity
  3. Costliest critical activity
  4. Costliest noncritical activity

Correct answer: (A)
Cheapest critical activity

39. Final technical authority of a project lies with

  1. Assistant Engineer
  2. Executive Engineer
  3. Superintending Engineer
  4. Chief Engineer

Correct answer: (D)
Chief Engineer

40. For a given activity, the optimistic time, pessimistic time and the most probable estimates are 5, 17 and 8 days respectively, The expected time is

  1. 8 days
  2. 9 days
  3. 10 days
  4. 15 days

Correct answer: (B)
9 days

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