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1. Which of the following types of delay will NOT result in a time extension and additional compensation for a contractor?

2. Which of the following documents is most likely to be of the LEAST value to a planner/scheduler when planning a contractor's baseline critical path schedule for the construction of a large high-clearance bridge located very near an airport? The contractor has been awarded the contract.

3. In order for a claimant to be entitled to an extension of contract time for a delay event (and further to be considered compensable):

4. Which of the following is NOT required when initially planning a project?

5. Which of the following is NOT a tool or technique used to perform scope planning?

6. Which of the following are NOT considerations or constraints of the planning process for construction scheduling?

7. What method offers the best chance of the schedule being used effectively to implement the project in the field?

8. At a minimum, periodic reporting must be done at what interval?

9. Which is NOT an industry-recognized methodology for quantifying critical delay?

10. What is the primary difference between the arrow diagramming method (ADM) and the precedence diagramming method (PDM)?

11. Time-scaled logic diagrams are

12. Activity durations are normally estimated in an intuitive and subjective way. All of the following will improve duration accuracy EXCEPT

13. You are developing a detailed critical path schedule for a proposed petrochemical plant. The schedule will become a part of the project baseline document, which will be sent to the company's board of directors for its consideration.

What document or resource is likely to be MOST valuable in determining the schedule's work activity durations?

14. Free float is the

15. What is a key first step in developing a critical path method schedule?

16. Assuming conventional finish-to-start relationships, to calculate a schedule retaining the existing logic means that

17. A driving relationship is _____________________.

18. If someone wanted to constrain a project's end date so that any project slippage would cause negative float, they would do so by using

19. An early start constraint dictates

20. Constraints control events or activities that __________________.

21. Which of the following is NOT required when performing weekly or monthly schedule updates?

22. Which of the following will always describe the critical path? The path with

23. Of the following update procedures, which is the least important in achieving an accurate forecast for completion of a construction schedule?

24. What method would be the best way to determine the most likely as-built critical path of a project that is underway, and the schedule of which has been partially progressed?

25. An earned value-based project control system can use either of which two budgets as the basis of its calculations?

26. Which letter of the alphabet best approximates the graphical shape of a project's cumulative cost baseline, or budgeted cost of work scheduled?

27. Under which circumstance should one perform resource-leveling calculations?

28. Resource planning must take all of the following into account except for

29. When resource leveling craft labor for a critical path schedule, the scheduler

30. Project delays are best analyzed

31. All the following describe the critical path of a schedule EXCEPT:

32. In analyzing a logical chain of activities in a critical path method (CPM) schedule, what do differing total float values within that chain typically indicate?

33. Each of the following accurately describes total float in a schedule EXCEPT:

34. The amount of time that an activity can be delayed from its early start date without delaying project completion is called

35. In its simplest form, what is the main drawback of critical path method scheduling?

36. If after calculating a schedule an activity exhibits negative total float, which of the following is certain? The activity

37. Which of the following will NOT affect the total float calculation of a non-resource leveled schedule?

38. You are retained by a contractor who asks you to perform a simple as-planned versus as-built analysis (APAB) of a large hydro-electric dam project that took more than five years to complete. Your analysis will form the basis of a change order that requests a time extension. You suggest using a different methodology for quantifying the delay.

Which of the following reasons for recommending a different analysis does NOT apply to a simple APAB analysis?

39. Which statement is true?

40. Which of the following phases does NOT describe the commonly accepted construction life cycle?