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1. The traditional governmental contracting process in the United States is:

A. Design, build, and operate
B. Design, bid, build
C. EPC
D. Design, build
2. Critical delivery dates are referred to as
A. Milestones.
B. Phases.
C. Substantial completion.
D. Flags.
3. When a planner-scheduler is collecting information about the project during the initial
planning cycle, which information is of GREATEST value?
A. Contract specifications.
B. The contractor’s pre-bid site visit meeting minutes and notes.
C. The contract’s Changes clause.
D. A detailed scope of work statement.
4. Project architects are:
A. Stakeholders
B. Developers
C. Activists
D. Special interest groups
5. Which is NOT normally considered a stakeholder on a Greenfield chemical plant project?
A. Shop owners in an enclosed mall three miles downwind of the project.
B. The owner’s project banker’s engineer.
C. A third-tier electrical subcontractor.

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D. The employee-owned contractor.

6. All project stakeholders provide input data and information during the initial planning
process to set the overall project duration?
A. Absolutely true.
B. Absolutely false.
C. Only by analyzing the contract can one determine if a change in duration is allowed.
D. Only the project owner-client may set the overall duration, and this is often driven by
marketing and business considerations. .
7. Which should not be a reason why superintendent and subcontractors are included during
planning phase?
A. They have more immediate “buy-in” to project plan.
B. Planning phase is a theoretical exercise and their input is not needed until the
execution phase.
C. Accuracy of a resultant plan is improved through “brainstorming.”
D. Management expectations regarding plan are transmitted to the team (alignment).
8. Constructability, in terms of schedule modeling, is best defined as:
A. Understanding how the contractor’s plan defines overall project duration.
B. Understanding how the owner’s arbitrary completion milestones will drive resource
utilization.
C. How the contract specifies all aspects and phasing of work.
D. The input data necessary to understand the various means and methods alternatives
to accomplish and execute a project.
9. Constructability takes into account all but:
A. Location, logistics, and resource availability analysis.
B. The average price of general labor in the area.

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C. Quality inspections and compliance.

D. Labor productivity studies from previous similar projects in the area.
10-True or False: During a constructability analysis, the availability of specified materials is
determined?
11-True or False: A constructability analysis is only performed during the initial planning stage
of design?
12. During the planning process for a capital project, which is NOT a consideration?
A. Religious holidays.
B. Local country language.
C. Education and skill level of local craft labor.
D. None of the above.
13. Material resource considerations include all except:
A. Availability
B. Installation
C. Crew skills
D. Timing of delivery
14. Which of the following is NOT a constraining resource?
A. Labor availability
B. Scheduling software
C. Material delivery
D. Craft skill levels
15. True or False: On construction projects, labor and equipment are considered limitless
resources?
16. True or False: The physical constraints of a jobsite can impose a limit on the amount of
simultaneous equipment usage?

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17. True or False: The VE process starts with the submittal of bid price?
18. True or False: The information phase of VE occurs during design development?
19. Which of the following documents is probably of LEAST value when planning a contractor’s
baseline critical path schedule for construction of a high-rise building on a remote South
Pacific resort island for a private developer? The contract has been awarded.
A. Specifications – as found in the contract document.
B. The local government’s report on future resort projects on the island.
C. International Building Codes – as referenced in the contract document.
D. A project-specific geotechnical report.
20. Which of the following is NOT normally considered a project stakeholder?
A. Project supplier to a subcontractor.
B. Client or owner.
C. Project consultant or engineer.
D. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
E. Local news media
21. True or False: The project size may require additional constraints on the project?
22. True or False: Local climatological conditions may result in a restricted work schedule for
various construction activities?
23. When reporting progress and completion forecasts to the client’s management, a schedule
that is organized by the projects work breakdown structure (WBS) structure provides
_____________.
A. A useful reporting tool that meets the client’s project team special needs.
B. An “early finish” constraint with a 20 day negative lag on the last activity.
C. A “late start” constraint on the first activity with a 20 day negative lag.
D. A “late finish” constraint on the last activity.

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24. When gathering data to document activity progress and observed trends, the activity’s
reported percent complete ______________.
A. Is all that is necessary to forecast remaining duration for that activity?
B. Is used as part of the 6/10 rule to determine the remaining duration for that activity.
C. Must be analyzed in conjunction with all observed activity data (actual start dates,
trends, etc.) to estimate the remaining duration for the activity.
D. Provides sufficient information necessary to determine the activity’s earned value.
25. True or False: Contract deliverables are defined in the scope of work?
26. True or False: Drawings and specifications augment the written scope of work narrative?
27. Which is not a phase?
A. Engineering
B. Concrete
C. Conceptual engineering
D. Pre-construction
28. Which of the following is untrue?
A. OBS intersects with WBS to define a project cost account.
B. Different managers might structure a WBS differently for the same project.
C. A WBS can include design, procurement, and construction activites.
D. None of the above.
29.True or False: WBS is a system by which work activities are organized and summarized
into like activities?
30.True or False: WBS may be organized as a result of capital costing requirements?
31. When reporting progress and completion forecasts to the client’s management, a schedule
that is organized on the project’s OBS provides ______.
A. A list of all equipment resources utilized on the project.

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B. A baseline for change management reporting.

C. A useful reporting tool that meets the client’s project team special needs.
D. Identifies resource utilization, and identifies gaps, utilization variances, and areas of
management attention.
32. A CBS:
A. Should generally not include indirect costs.
B. Is not absolutely essential for effective management of a large project.
C. Allows ready comparison of actual versus planned costs.
D. All of the above.
33. Which is not a key component or characteristic of review by stakeholders?
A. Cyclical
B. Scheduled
C. Managed
D. Estimated
34. Stakeholder review is:
A. Critical and divided into multi-groups.
B. Not important
C. One-dimensional
D. Not considered
35. The baseline plan is an end result of the planning process. What is not a basic step in the
planning process that results in the baseline plan?
A. Identification of the project goals and objectives.
B. Scope of work definition.
C. Phase identification and sequencing result in the baseline plan.
D. Identification of the schedule specification.

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36. Which is not a characteristic of the baseline plan?

A. Serves as the basis for the initial schedule.
B. Serves as the basis for the cash flow model.
C. Provides the basis for progress measuring, evaluating and reporting.
D. Is critical for schedule change management.
37. The baseline plan is a fixed document and should be changed only if the following occurs:
A. Contract modifications result due to significant changes in the work.
B. Change is allowed whenever one of the primary stakeholders thinks it appropriate.
C. Never
D. Once a year
38. A new baseline should:
A. Never be approved
B. Be agreed to by all primary stakeholders who have that right and responsibility.
C. Only be approved by the contractor.
D. Be approved by the public.
39. When performing a periodic forecast what should not be considered?
A. The plan
B. The project scope
C. Contract requirements
D. The WBS and OBS
40. Periodic forecasts are key to the following:
A. Basis for control
B. Reporting against project deliverables and milestones
C. Based on trends and variances
D. All of the above

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41. What are three key components of periodic forecasts?

A. Defining forecasting requirements, frequencies and timetables.
B. Recovery schedules, scheduling change management and acceleration.
C. Constructability methods, project variables and defining project goals.
D. Sequencing and phase relationships, risk and recovery plans and schedule basis
documentation.
42. Which of the following is not an effect of change on a contract?
A. Increase in time for the work to be completed.
B. Decrease in time for the work to be completed.
C. Neutral as it affects time for the work to be completed.
D. Articulate as it relates to time for the work to be completed.
43. Which of the following types of plans is not associated with risk and recovery?
A. Baseline contingency plan.
B. Budget contingency plan.
C. Recovery plan.
D. Schedule contingency plan.
44. Which one of the following is an important processing during planning for risk and
recovery?
A. Detailed cost evaluation.
B. Planning for change.
C. Using only the contract.
D. Plan reevaluation for change.
45. Plan recovery is:
A. Always part of the planning process.
B. Sometimes part of the planning process.

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C. Usually required during planning.

D. Always used during construction evaluation.
46. If a plan estimates that 5,184 labor-hours will be expended on a series of related
construction activities, and the projected number of construction worker equivalents expected
to perform that activity is 12 personnel working a 12-hour day, what is the calculated overall
duration for those activities? Assume the work is performed sequentially.
A. 6 work weeks
B. 35 calendar days
C. 5 work weeks
D. 36 work days
47. The primary source of information that defines the scope of work that the planner-
scheduler relies upon to create a schedule model is what?
A. Contract specifications.
B. Contract provisions that define scope along with the contractor’s execution plan and
related assumptions.
C. Contract special conditions and specifications.
D. Pre-bid site visit and planning meetings.
48. What are three requirements that determine what type of schedule should be utilized on
a project?
A. Cost estimate, number of stakeholders, reporting requirements.
B. Project size, scope, complexity.
C. Project size, project variables, phase definition.
D. Risk and recovery plan, milestones, durations.
49. List four different types of schedules most commonly used?

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A. Bar and Gantt charts, Critical Path Method and network schedules, linear or line-of-
balance, milestone.
B. Critical Path Method and network schedules, hammocks, rolling wave, milestone.
C. Gantt chart, linear or line of balance, level of effort, work lists.
D. Flags, constraints, estimate, bar chart.
50. Which is not a characteristic of an activity?
A. Has a duration
B. Should have at least one predecessor successor
C. Is assigned to a calendar
D. Is constrained in time
51. When activities are logically linked they become?
A. Constraints
B. The schedule
C. Resources
D. Milestones
52. Pick the least accurate statement concerning schedule activity durations:
A. They are often determined by examining the quantity of work and the resources that
will be applied to perform that work.
B. Work is always performed continuously from start to finish.
C. There is a “rubber band” for overall duration, depending upon the quantity of work
actually performed and the number of hours of work expended.
D. Planned and assumed productivity factors, location factors, and other considerations
are applied against the optimum duration, to determine a planned duration.
53. Durations are not derived from the following:
A. Cost estimate

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B. Resource loading
C. Activity ID
D. Cost
54. Durations may include the following:
A. Multiple elements of the scope of work.
B. Relationships
C. Risk plan
D. Scheduling specification
55. In combining multiple logically tied activities with the duration provides the basis for the
following:
A. Cost estimate model
B. Defines the schedule scope
C. A fragnet schedule duration
D. The baseline schedule
56. In addition to relationships and lags, which of the following should not be considered when
building a schedule?
A. Constraints
B. Calendars
C. Stakeholders
D. Durations
57. Constraints are factors that affect an activity’s start, finish and/or duration. Which of the
following is not an example of a constraint?
A. Calendar
B. Date restraint
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D. Weather
58. Which is not a characteristic of typical project calendars?
A. Multiple
B. Weather, environmental, seasonal
C. Workday
D. Based on the type of schedule used.
59. Project calendars are formulated:
A. For estimates
B. To reflect specific, long-running conditions or circumstances.
C. For relationships
D. For resource loading
60. Calendars along with durations provide the basis for an activity’s estimated:
A. Resources
B. Cost
C. Timeframe
D. Relationships
61. What may be a limit for a number of resources assigned to an activity?
A. Resources assigned to other activities on the project.
B. Availability of resources as a result of external constraints.
C. Stakeholder driven.
D. All of the above.
62. Which of the following would limited resources not affect on a project?
A. Extend the project schedule.
B. No impact.
C. Modify the critical path.

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D. Increase the cost of the project.

63. When should milestones be developed?
A. Prior to identifying the project scope.
B. When defining the schedule scope.
C. Prior to baselining the schedule.
D. When performing schedule updates.
64. True or False: Milestones can be tied to payments?
65. True or False: Milestones should be agreed by principal stakeholders?
66. Schedule quality analysis is performed?
A. At the beginning of the project.
B. At changes of phases.
C. Throughout the duration of the project.
D. At the beginning and end of a project.
67. The three interactive relationships in a schedule quality analysis are?
A. Safety, quality, time.
B. Cost, safety, time.
C. Time, quality, cost.
D. Safety, cost, time.
68. The end result of a schedule quality analysis is?
A. Continual improvement in the schedule.
B. Schedule acceleration.
C. Tracking schedule progress.
D. Identification of constraints.
69. Schedule quality analysis should be performed by?
A. The scheduler only.

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B. The scheduler and project manager.

C. All stakeholders.
D. Only the client.
70. Which is not an example of critical aspect of schedule documentation?
A. Project scope definition.
B. Contract specifications.
C. Type of schedule used.
D. Project cost estimate.
71. The schedule basis documentation narrative includes the following:
A. Baseline schedule development and schedule change management procedures.
B. Baseline schedule development and critical/near critical path activities.
C. Critical and near-critical path activities and cost estimate model.
D. Schedule change management procedures and cost and resource management guidelines.
72. If the baseline schedule is revised and rebaselined, what should one do to the schedule basis
documentation?
A. Leave it as is.
B. Revise the document as necessary when the rebaseline has been approved.
C. Revise the document at the completion of the project.
D. Revise the document monthly.
73. The baseline schedule does all of the following, except?
A. Measure progress
B. Identify trends
C. Identify milestones
D. Identify changes
74. Important concepts for use of baseline schedules include?
A. Updating
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C. Dumping
D. Impacts
75. The baseline schedule is a fully developed schedule for construction with all of the
following attributes, except?
A. Activities with durations.
B. Activities with all appropriate attributes.
C. Activities that are linked.
D. Activities that solve logic issues.
76. True or False: The baseline schedule is the foundation for progress reporting?
77. Important considerations when tracking schedule progress include all but which of the
following?
A. Deductive documentation.
B. Future change management.
C. Historical documentation.
D. Summary reporting.
78. All but one of the following requirements is likely to be spelled out in the contract
requirements for CPM periodic updates?
A. Time period for updates.
B. Number of copies to be submitted.
C. Supporting data.
D. List of completed change orders.
79. From the following list of requirements that an owner might specify for a baseline
submittal, which one is most likely not a requirement?
A. Time for submittal after Notice-to-Proceed.
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C. Time as a requirement for completion of the work.

D. Time length for increments of long duration activities.
80. Which of the following principals is not used in cost and resource management?
A. Effective and efficient data gathering.
B. Accurate data creation and manipulation.
C. Schedule performance evaluation.
D. Variance evaluation.

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