Important Questions

REVIEW QUESTIONS

1. Discuss about construction planning in detail.

2. Elaborate about construction scheduling in detail.

3. What are the different types of scheduling? Explain in detail. 4. Explain in detail about CPM in network analysis.

5. Discuss in detail about PERT.

6. Explain the following terms

(a) Earliest time

(b) Latest time

(c) Total activity slack

(d) Event slack

(e) Critical path

7. What are the rules for drawing network diagram? Also mention the common errors that occur in drawing networks.

8. Explain in detail about LOB.

9. Discuss about WBS in detail.

10. What is the difference between PERT and CPM? Explain.

11. Explain the following terms

(a) optimistic time

(b) Most likely time

(c) Pessimistic time

(d) Expected time

(e) Variance

12. For the following data, draw network. Find the critical path, slack time after calculating the earliest expected time and the latest allowable time

13. A project schedule has the following characteristics.

Construct a PERT network and find out

(a) The earliest possible time

(b) Latest allowable time

(c) Slack values

(d) Critical path

14. Calculate the variance and the expected time for each activity

15. Consider a project having activities and their associated time estimates as given in Table:

(a) Draw the network diagram.

(b) Identify the critical path and compute the expected project completion time.