EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Using the crashed schedule, if you start Activity 2002 on 12 August 2021. what is the finish date for Activity 2002?

Question2: Determine the correct formula and date for the late finish for Activity 2002.

Question3: Which of the following is NOT input data to the construction planning process?

Question4: At the end of month one, did the delay to the parking structure foundation delay the project?

Question5: 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

Question6: What is the primary difference between the arrow diagramming method (ADM) and the precedence diagramming method (PDM)?

Question7: If no time extensions are granted and all actual delays are as described above, what will the total float calculation be at the end of the project?

Question8: By subtracting a measured unit productivity rate during an impacted period from the unit productivity rate during an unimpacted period, the resulting value represents:

Question9: In its simplest form, what is the main drawback of critical path method scheduling?

Question10: What activities are concurrent to Activity 2001 in the "normal" schedule?

Question11: Which of the following parties is NOT a stakeholder of the Spring Highway project?

Question12: When resource leveling craft labor for a critical path schedule, the scheduler

Question13: If drafting of the product manual overruns its planned duration by 5 days, how many days may the manufacturing be delayed without affecting release of the product?

Question14: What is a key first step in developing a critical path method schedule?

Question15: In an earned value-based system, a schedule performance index of less than one for the project indicates the project is:

Question16: If Activity A was delayed 5 days from starting, which of the following adjustments will NOT maintain the completion date of Activity C at Day 40?

Question17: Which activity is drawn in the incorrect position?

Question18: Using the normal schedule, what is the early finish date and total float of Activity 10002?

Question19: Assuming conventional finish-to-start relationships, to calculate a schedule retaining the existing logic means that

Question20: What day would Activity C complete if the duration of Activity A was reduced by five days?

Question21: 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?

Question22: What method offers the best chance of the schedule being used effectively to implement the project in the field?

Question23: Resource planning must take all of the following into account except for

Question24: Which of the following types of delay will NOT result in a time extension and additional compensation for a contractor?

Question25: The expected remaining cost needed to complete an activity, group of activities or the project is the____________.

Question26: Which of the following will NOT affect the total float calculation of a non-resource leveled schedule?

Question27: When using a detailed estimate as the basis for work package/activity durations, which element does NOT need to be identified before the activity durations can be calculated?

Question28: In a graphical earned value analysis, what time-scaled value determines the reporting intervals for both schedule and cost performance?

Question29: Determine the correct formula and date for the late finish for Activity 2001.

Question30: Activity C is a

Question31: Is activity 7001 pictured correctly in the precedence diagram?

Question32: The amount of time that an activity can be delayed from its early start date without delaying project completion is called

Question33: During proofing of the product manual, a problem was discovered requiring 15 days additional time to effect a correction. How can the date of availability be maintained?

Question34: Assuming a total of 30 lifts per crane per day, what is the maximum number of lifts that could be accomplished using 3 small tower cranes over a 5-day period?

Question35: Which of the following risks CANNOT be estimated by BILCO with only a resource-loaded schedule?

Question36: If a cost estimate assumes that 240 hours will be expended on a given activity, and the projected crew size expected to perform that activity is 5 personnel working and 8-hour workday, what is the calculated duration for the activity?

Question37: If a new hammock activity covering activities 6001 through 6003 is developed, what are governing predecessor and successor activities?

Question38: Using the normal schedule, given Activity 3001 and the relationship with Activity 4001. what is indicated?

Question39: Why does activity 1001 have two successor activities?

Question40: Determine the correct formula and date for the late finish for Activity 9004.

Question41: What is accurate about Activity 7001 in the precedence diagram?

Question42: What is the workweek period for this project?

Question43: Which letter of the alphabet best approximates the graphical shape of a project's cumulative cost baseline, or budgeted cost of work scheduled?

Question44: What project cost elements would NOT normally be reflected in the Activity 1000?

Question45: Using the "normal" schedule, and assuming you are billing on the last day of the month for previous month and for appropriate partial months, how many invoices will you have for this project?

Question46: Constraints control events or activities that __________________.

Question47: What is the result of a forward pass calculation?

Question48: What owner action could have mitigated the late completion of the project?

Question49: Prior to the beginning work on Activity 6001, the scope is changed by executed change order to increase the activity duration by thirty days and rock fill by 100.000 cubic meters If the project has progressed as scheduled up to the point of the executed change order, what activities would be changed on the next project update?

Question50: 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?

Question51: All the following describe the critical path of a schedule EXCEPT:

Question52: As a change to the network for the current update, activity 6002 is required to begin ten days after the beginning of activity 6001. Which is the simplest logic organization?

Question53: At a minimum, periodic reporting must be done at what interval?

Question54: When reconstructing a CPM schedule electronically from a hardcopy, which of the following is NOT required to determine the critical path?

Question55: Which of the following is NOT required when performing weekly or monthly schedule updates?

Question56: Theoretically construct a summary activity for activities 2001 through 2004. Using the "normal" schedule, what is the cost of the hammock?

Question57: Crane operators require 1 hour prep and 1 hour clean-up and inspection per day. There is only 1 crane operator allocated per crane. Crane operators are not allowed to work more than 8 hours a day. Lunchtime break lasts 1 hour. Assuming a 10 minute cycle time, how many lifts per day can be expected?

Question58: During proofing of the product manual, a problem was discovered requiring 15 days additional time to affect a correction. How can the date of availability be maintained?

Question59: What portion of Activity B is on the critical path?

Question60: Considering the information provided for the project, what is the factor that most influences the successful crashing of the schedule?

Question61: An early start constraint dictates

Question62: Which of the following is NOT required when initially planning a project?

Question63: Which of the following statements is true?

Question64: What day would Activity C complete if the duration of Activity B was reduced to zero?

Question65: Assuming that you had only one crane capable of 30 lifts per day, 3 column pours requiring 28 lifts each, plus associated assorted work requiring an additional 150 lifts, what is the minimum planned working duration for this work?

Question66: The BEST reason to use multiple calendars is to:

Question67: Which of the following is NOT a tool or technique used to perform scope planning?

Question68: Using the normal schedule, what is the owner's total cost of the project?

Question69: What is the remaining work duration of Active D?

Question70: If the administrative constraints for developing the precedence diagram, as provided in the contract documents, indicate that no individual construction activities shall have a longer duration of two months, how many activities in the "normal" schedule would be affected?

Question71: Which of the following phases does NOT describe the commonly accepted construction life cycle?

Question72: Who will receive the most benefit from a master schedule of the Spring Highway project?

Question73: Which statement is true?

Question74: A driving relationship is _____________________.

Question75: Time-scaled logic diagrams are