COSC 475 Exam 2 2025 Questions
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If you are running a company and you have a limited number of labor resources but
multiple different projects, would distance between the two projects impact your
resource leveling options between the two projects? - ✔✔Yes
You are a southern California contractor. You have been awarded two projects: one in
downtown Los Angeles and one near the Mojave reservation. Each project needs a
bulldozer and a crew of 4 at essentially the same time, each with a duration of about 3
weeks. The bulldozer helps accomplish essentially the first 3 weeks of work onsite.
Would you share resources between these two projects when both projects have a fixed
hard end date? - ✔✔No
If you build the same project 10 times in a row, same building but different locations, do
you always choose the same material management strategy? - ✔✔No
The leveling of resources looks at the overall fluctuations in day to day resource usage
throughout a project, labor and equipment, and attempts to do what to those
fluctuations? - ✔✔Minimize
When pertaining to labor, hourly workers are hired to perform which of the following?
- ✔✔All of the above
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, Are resource driven schedules and manpower loaded schedules the same thing?
Meaning, are the schedules both driven by the activities in the same way/manner? -
✔✔No
Which of the following is not a method used to reduce fluctuations the resource profile
when resource leveling? - ✔✔Fast tracking activities
The main idea of resource leveling is to increase the efficiency of the project and
minimize the overall costs. Leveling which of the following really does not assist in
these cost reduction and efficiency improvement efforts. - ✔✔Materials
Utilizing extreme theories like the inventory buffer theory, is it economical to have all
materials on-site before starting a project to achieve the lowest cost option project (Cost
driven, not schedule driven)? One clue, when referencing just all material being on-site
before construction starts, is that I would refer to this as "The Dream Project" -
✔✔Uneconomical
If you are GC and have multiple large subcontractors that have labor resources in many
states and multiple crafts, should you bother to resource load your master schedule? -
✔✔Yes
The assignment of resources required to complete a given activity, or work item, in the
required amount and timing is known as what? - ✔✔Resource allocation
When dealing with work space and the ever changing nature of the work during the life
cycle of a project, which of the following is not considered a work space consideration
for planning and resource leveling? - ✔✔All of the above should be considered
You are a southern California contractor. You have been awarded two projects: one in
downtown Los Angeles and one near the Mojave reservation. Each project needs a
safety manager at essentially the same time, each for a duration of about 6 weeks.
Would you share resources between these two projects when both projects have a
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If you are running a company and you have a limited number of labor resources but
multiple different projects, would distance between the two projects impact your
resource leveling options between the two projects? - ✔✔Yes
You are a southern California contractor. You have been awarded two projects: one in
downtown Los Angeles and one near the Mojave reservation. Each project needs a
bulldozer and a crew of 4 at essentially the same time, each with a duration of about 3
weeks. The bulldozer helps accomplish essentially the first 3 weeks of work onsite.
Would you share resources between these two projects when both projects have a fixed
hard end date? - ✔✔No
If you build the same project 10 times in a row, same building but different locations, do
you always choose the same material management strategy? - ✔✔No
The leveling of resources looks at the overall fluctuations in day to day resource usage
throughout a project, labor and equipment, and attempts to do what to those
fluctuations? - ✔✔Minimize
When pertaining to labor, hourly workers are hired to perform which of the following?
- ✔✔All of the above
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, Are resource driven schedules and manpower loaded schedules the same thing?
Meaning, are the schedules both driven by the activities in the same way/manner? -
✔✔No
Which of the following is not a method used to reduce fluctuations the resource profile
when resource leveling? - ✔✔Fast tracking activities
The main idea of resource leveling is to increase the efficiency of the project and
minimize the overall costs. Leveling which of the following really does not assist in
these cost reduction and efficiency improvement efforts. - ✔✔Materials
Utilizing extreme theories like the inventory buffer theory, is it economical to have all
materials on-site before starting a project to achieve the lowest cost option project (Cost
driven, not schedule driven)? One clue, when referencing just all material being on-site
before construction starts, is that I would refer to this as "The Dream Project" -
✔✔Uneconomical
If you are GC and have multiple large subcontractors that have labor resources in many
states and multiple crafts, should you bother to resource load your master schedule? -
✔✔Yes
The assignment of resources required to complete a given activity, or work item, in the
required amount and timing is known as what? - ✔✔Resource allocation
When dealing with work space and the ever changing nature of the work during the life
cycle of a project, which of the following is not considered a work space consideration
for planning and resource leveling? - ✔✔All of the above should be considered
You are a southern California contractor. You have been awarded two projects: one in
downtown Los Angeles and one near the Mojave reservation. Each project needs a
safety manager at essentially the same time, each for a duration of about 6 weeks.
Would you share resources between these two projects when both projects have a
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