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PSP Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) Exam Questions and Answers

Questions 4

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?

Options:

A.

A start-to-start relationship with a ten-day lag assigned to activity 6001; activity 6002 will be dependent on activity 6001

B.

A start-to-start to relationship for both activities 6001 and 6002 with a ten-day lag assigned to activity 6002.

C.

A start-to-finish relationship with both activities 6001 and 6002 having a ten-day lag

D.

A finish-to-start relationship with a ten-day lag assigned to activity 6002; activity 6001 will be dependent on activity 6002

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Questions 5

Identify the minimum project duration.

Options:

A.

20 months.

B.

16 months.

C.

19 months.

D.

21 months.

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Questions 6

What is accurate about Activity 7001 in the precedence diagram?

Options:

A.

The successor FF lag from 7001 to 11001 is not shown

B.

The LF is correct

C.

The TF is not calculated correctly

D.

The LF is not correct

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Questions 7

Each column must be poured in one day. Each column requires 2,000 cubic feet of concrete. The lift bucket has a capacity of 40 cubic feet. How many lifts will be required per column pour?

Options:

A.

80 lifts

B.

50 lifts

C.

5 lifts

D.

20 lifts

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Questions 8

The addition of which of the following relationships would cause a logic loop?

Options:

A.

O H - D

B.

O C - J

C.

O F-I

D.

O l-C

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Questions 9

Which of the following is NOT true?

Options:

A.

Remaining durations can exceed original durations.

B.

Constraints can interfere with the longest path calculation.

C.

Multiple calendars can affect the total float calculation.

D.

A network must contain only one Critical Path.

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Questions 10

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?

Options:

A.

Industry publications.

B.

Critical path schedules prepared by you for similar completed projects.

C.

The Petrochemical Industry New Plant Task Duration Handbook.

D.

The cost estimate for the plant prepared by your firm's estimating department.

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Questions 11

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?

Options:

A.

42.

B.

36.

C.

40.

D.

37.

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Questions 12

Total float is defined as the amount of time an activity can be delayed without impacting

Options:

A.

The overall project completion

B.

The buoyancy of a successor activity

C.

The next activity

D.

The end of that activity

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Questions 13

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

Options:

A.

Use gross building square footages. The pluses and minuses all average out.

B.

Look at each activity independently and don't follow specific logic paths when assigning activity durations.

C.

Divide activities into smaller activities. This will increase activity detail and duration estimate accuracy.

D.

Use the people responsible for performing the work as a resource to assign activity durations.

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Questions 14

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?

Options:

A.

Projected crew size

B.

Estimated labor hours

C.

Hours in a standard work day

D.

Estimated cost

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Questions 15

Identify the late finish to develop plans and specs.

Options:

A.

9 months.

B.

10 months.

C.

8 months.

D.

7 months.

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Questions 16

Activity 1001 started on the scheduled date but has slipped 10 days. Activity 10002 will slip 35 days. All remaining activities retain their original duration. What is the revised completion date?

Options:

A.

02-19-04

B.

03-21-04

C.

03-11-04

D.

03-20-04

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Questions 17

Why does activity 11001 not show successor activities?

Options:

A.

The early finish and late finish are circular

B.

It is the penultimate work required for the project

C.

The scheduler forgot to add the successor activities

D.

It is the final activity for the required work for the project

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Questions 18

How much Total Float does drafting the product manual have?

Options:

A.

15 workdays.

B.

0 workdays.

C.

10 workdays.

D.

5 workdays.

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Questions 19

Due to a testing delay, release of the product for manufacture is delayed by 5 workdays and the product manual misses its print window at the printer. If the printer is delayed by 10 workdays, what is the delay to produce release?

Options:

A.

15 days.

B.

0 days.

C.

5 days.

D.

10 days.

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Questions 20

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

Options:

A.

The activities are independent, with Activity 4001 starting 15 days earlier than the start

of Activity 5001

B.

These activities are partially concurrent, with Activity 4001 starting 15 days after the

start of Activity 3001

C.

These activities are sequential, with Activity 4001 starting 15 days earlier than the start of Activity 3001.

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Questions 21

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

Options:

A.

Is a milestone.

B.

It is on the critical path.

C.

Was completed in the past.

D.

Has yet to be completed.

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Questions 22

Estimate to complete (ETC) is __________________.

Options:

A.

The expected remaining cost needed to complete an activity, group of activities or the project

B.

The costs actually incurred in accomplishing the work performed

C.

The expected total cost of an activity, group of activities or the project

D.

The value of the completed work expressed in terms of the budget assigned to that work

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Questions 23

Budgeted cost of work scheduled is _______________________.

Options:

A.

The value of the completed work expressed in terms of the budget assigned to that work

B.

The total authorized budget for accomplishing the project scope

C.

The expected total cost of an activity, group of activities or the project

D.

The sum of all budgets for work scheduled to be accomplished within a given time period

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Questions 24

Using the "normal" schedule, what is the early finish date of activity 10002 and its total float?

Options:

A.

12-27-03 and 24 days of float

B.

12-18-03 and 4 days of float

C.

12-17-03 and 4 days of float

D.

12-18-03 and 25 days of float

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Questions 25

Is activity 7001 pictured correctly in the precedence diagram?

Options:

A.

No, the total float is not shown correctly.

B.

Yes, except the early finish date is not shown.

C.

No, the start-to-start and finish-to-finish relationships are backwards.

D.

Yes, the duration is 48 days.

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Questions 26

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?

Options:

A.

Use the progressed portion of the critical path of all the updates previous to the current update.

B.

Use the progressed portion of the critical path of the baseline schedule.

C.

Interview the project personnel for their perceptions and opinions because the schedule is usually inadequate.

D.

Use the forward-looking critical path of the most current updates.

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Questions 27

Which of the following are NOT normally included in the project scope statement, either directly or by reference?

Options:

A.

Project objectives in terms of cost, schedule and quality measures

B.

Project contract between the contractor and owner

C.

Project justification

D.

Project deliverables

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Questions 28

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

Options:

A.

Budget at completion (BAC)

B.

Budgeted cost of work performed (BCWP)

C.

Estimate to complete (ETC)

D.

Estimate at completion (EAC)

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Questions 29

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

Options:

A.

Gantt Chart.

B.

Periodic Windows.

C.

Collapsed As-Built.

D.

Time Impact.

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Questions 30

Select the most appropriate explanation for use of a winter/wet weather seasonal calendar for use in this project?

Options:

A.

to highlight a time when there are more holidays and work therefore will be slower and there will be more absenteeism

B.

to denote a time during which work may not progress as fast as planned and cost and risk may be elevated

C.

to provide a key to co-a weather for safety meetings

D.

to show a difference in the calendar year

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Questions 31

Project delays are best analyzed

Options:

A.

After either the contractor or the owner acknowledges ^responsibility for the delay.

B.

Contemporaneously with the delay.

C.

By an expert after the project is finished when complete records are available and the impact is known.

D.

Late in the project.

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Questions 32

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

Options:

A.

Types of materials, equipment and labor skills required to complete the project.

B.

Earned value techniques established for the project.

C.

Time available to complete the project.

D.

Cash flow (expenditure) limitations for completing work on the project.

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Questions 33

Which of these letters, symbols or words best approximates the graphical shape of a project's cumulative BCWS?

Options:

A.

/

B.

Bell curve

C.

S

D.

_

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Questions 34

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

Options:

A.

Labor hours or dollars.

B.

Direct or indirect cost.

C.

Earned or budgeted cost yearly.

D.

Linear feet or dollars.

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Questions 35

For the late finish for Activity 11001, select the most appropriate response for transitioning from the forward pass.

Options:

A.

LS.11001 + 25 days.

B.

02-19-04.

C.

EF.11001.

D.

EF.11001 + 1 day.

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Questions 36

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

Options:

A.

Drawing a bar chart of the key phrases of the work.

B.

Defining the execution plan to meet the required scope of work.

C.

Setting out the resource to be used and its limitations.

D.

Drawing the logic diagram.

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Questions 37

Constraints control events or activities that __________________.

Options:

A.

Affect only the forward pass.

B.

Are not based on project relationships.

C.

Affect only the backward pass.

D.

May be over-ridden by activity logic.

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Questions 38

The sum of all budgets for work scheduled to be accomplished within a given time period is the ____________.

Options:

A.

Estimate at completion (EAC)

B.

Budget at completion (BAC)

C.

Budgeted cost of work performed (BCWP)

D.

Budgeted cost of work scheduled (BCWS)

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Questions 39

Which statement is true?

Options:

A.

Where compensability cannot be established, excusability is assumed.

B.

Where compensability can be established, excusabltity cannot be assumed.

C.

Where compensability cannot be established, excusability is a given.

D.

Where compensability can be established, excusability is assumed.

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Questions 40

What problems can a soils engineer deal with on a project?

Options:

A.

Survey error.

B.

Hidden subsurface conditions.

C.

Archeological findings.

D.

Toxic soils.

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Questions 41

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

Options:

A.

Predecessor is Activity 4001. successor is Activity 9004

B.

Predecessor is Activity 8001, successor is Activity 5001

C.

Predecessor is Activity 5001, successor is Activity 8001

D.

Predecessor is Activity 4001, successor is Activity 9003

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Questions 42

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

Options:

A.

35

B.

30

C.

45

D.

40

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Questions 43

These are the activities on the critical path:

Options:

A.

A, D, & I.

B.

A, C, E, & H.

C.

A, B, G, & H.

D.

A, B, F, & J

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Questions 44

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

Options:

A.

Resource Identification and leveling.

B.

The duration of each task.

C.

A schedule that identifies tasks required on a project.

D.

Logical relationships between the tasks.

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Questions 45

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

Options:

A.

Must consider breaks in continuity of work for subcontractors, thereby possibly incurring additional subcontractor mobilization and demobilization costs.

B.

Can depend on the results of the resource leveling operation to reflect a useful realignment of all schedule activities without 'further analysis.

C.

Need not consider its effects, as it is a theoretical concept with limited application to construction projects.

D.

Need only consider the non-union crafts persons.

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Questions 46

Based on the stated costs, what percentage of the total cost comes from the 2000 series of activities?

Options:

A.

3.9% (1 : 25.708)

B.

2.3% (1 : 43.501).

C.

9.1% (1 : 11.000).

D.

8.6% (1 : 11.591)

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Questions 47

What portion of Activity B is on the critical path?

Options:

A.

Last half of the activity

B.

None of it

C.

First half of the activity

D.

The whole activity

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Questions 48

Using the "normal" schedule, theoretically construct a hammock for activities 6001-6003. What is the duration of the hammock?

Options:

A.

407 days

B.

362 days

C.

255 days

D.

267 days

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Exam Code: PSP
Exam Name: Planning & Scheduling Professional (PSP) Exam
Last Update: Dec 26, 2024
Questions: 163
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