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Without a __________ budget a good project schedule and cost control are impossible.

A) time-phased
B) project cost baseline
C) definitive
D) forecasted
E) firm

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Having too few programmers and too many engineers is an example of a people resource constraint.

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Which of the following is NOT a potential consequence of failing to identify limited resources before project implementation?

After constructing a project network based on technical constraints and reviewing resource requirements throughout the project, a project manager realizes many peaks and valleys in regard to resource usage. At one point the project manager needs 6 developers, but top management has made it very clear that she will not have access to more than 4. Classify this project in terms of the scheduling problem. What are the project manager's options at this point?

A project budget report is showing our project as spending $82,000 against a budgeted amount of $85,000. We can assume that everything is going as planned and that we are under budget.

If resources are truly limited and activity time estimates are accurate, the resource-constrained schedule will materialize as the project is implemented, not the time-constrained schedule.

In terms of project classification, ________ constrained means that project duration is fixed and resources are flexible.

What are the impacts of resource-constrained scheduling?

Consider the following table of activities A through E in which A is the start node and E is the stop node.

When a company will reduce the number of projects they have to manage internally to only core projects and send noncritical projects to contractors and consulting firms this is called

When considering the sequence and timing of activities, which of the following is NOT one of the types of project network constraints?

When developing project networks, which of the following is not a reason for delineating technical dependencies first before doing resource dependencies?

In a resource-constrained project the third priority in assigning resources is usually given to activities with the

When there are not enough people, money, and / or equipment available for a project it is known as being