ISDS 351 Final Exam – comprehensive practice questions with answers and
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True - correct answer ✔✔A dependency pertains to the sequencing of project activities or tasks.
False - correct answer ✔✔After defining project activities, the next step in project time
management is developing the schedule.
Critical Path - correct answer ✔✔A(n) ...... for a project is the series of activities that determine
the earliest time by which the project can be completed.
False - correct answer ✔✔In a critical path analysis, the shortest path is what drives the
completion date for the project.
False - correct answer ✔✔In a Gantt Chart, thick black bars represent milestones achieved in a
project.
Project Management Plan Update - correct answer ✔✔In project time management, a(n) ....... is
an output of controlling the schedule.
False - correct answer ✔✔In project time management, one should control the schedule before
estimating the duration for each activity.
Developing a Schedule - correct answer ✔✔In project time management, the ultimate goal
of ...... is to provide a basis for monitoring project progress for the time dimension of the
project.
Ballpark - correct answer ✔✔A rough order of magnitude estimate can be referred to as a .......
estimate.
,Not directly related to the products or series of a project. - correct answer ✔✔Indirect costs
are?
False - correct answer ✔✔Intangible costs can be easily measured in monetary terms.
False - correct answer ✔✔It is important for project managers to focus on indirect costs
because they can be easily controlled.
Direct - correct answer ✔✔Newtech Inc. hires John for the position of a software programmer
to work on their new project. Salary paid to John by Newtech Inc. would be an example of .......
costs.
False - correct answer ✔✔A budgetary estimate is the most accurate of the three types of
estimates.
Cost - correct answer ✔✔Accounts define ......... as a resource sacrificed or foregone to achieve
a specific objective.
Profit - correct answer ✔✔........ are revenues minus expenditures.
False - correct answer ✔✔Budgetary estimates are made even before a project is officially
started.
Sunk - correct answer ✔✔Good Earth, a company manufacturing packaged food products, sets
up its stores in Baltonia. However, a year later, the company closes the store down due to high
operating costs. In such a scenario, the money spent in paying for the rent of the store in
Baltonia would be an example of ........ costs.
,True - correct answer ✔✔If an important supplier goes out of business, management reserves
can be set aside to cover the resulting costs.
True - correct answer ✔✔In a bottom-up estimate, the size of the individual work items is one
of the factors that drives the accuracy of the estimates.
Critical Tasks - correct answer ✔✔Tasks which determine when a project will really finish are
called?
Critical Path - correct answer ✔✔The set of tasks that need to be completed for a project to be
considered complete is called the .....
Filter - correct answer ✔✔The author talks about another way of showing only the critical tasks
by using a ......
Format Tab - correct answer ✔✔If you click on the ..... Tab you can see an option to select the
critical task.
True - correct answer ✔✔Gaps in the critical path are completely explicable and they can be
there for a good reason.
True - correct answer ✔✔The professor says that the dangers of Cyber Threat are enormous.
True - correct answer ✔✔Seriously smart and sophisticated people with knowledge of
technology can have a malicious intent to wage a cyber attack.
False - correct answer ✔✔Cyber attacks can come from nonstate actors as well as state actors.
, True - correct answer ✔✔When a nation state launches a Cyber attack it is equivalent to an act
of war that could trigger a counter attack.
True - correct answer ✔✔The professor believes that there is a long connection from Cyber
Security to Cyber Threat and financing of terrorism.
Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) - correct answer ✔✔The interviewer mentioned a type of
cyber attack called ?
True - correct answer ✔✔Public as well as private sector organizations must recognize the same
diligence toward protection as a physical attack.
False - correct answer ✔✔The interviewer talks about worms and viruses being like a nuclear
bomb.
Firewall - correct answer ✔✔..... can be a safe way to shield from these bombs can boomerang
back to the attacker.
True - correct answer ✔✔The professor believes that International laws and regulations
relevant to the changing forms of technology and their use as weapons of warfare must be
developed.
True - correct answer ✔✔It is the Department of Defense, government and the military
leadership that decides the "should" for Military operations.
False - correct answer ✔✔The laws of armed conflict states that the military should do
everything in its power to target civilians and combatants.
True - correct answer ✔✔Lethal, autonomous weapons is not allowed in the battlefield today.
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True - correct answer ✔✔A dependency pertains to the sequencing of project activities or tasks.
False - correct answer ✔✔After defining project activities, the next step in project time
management is developing the schedule.
Critical Path - correct answer ✔✔A(n) ...... for a project is the series of activities that determine
the earliest time by which the project can be completed.
False - correct answer ✔✔In a critical path analysis, the shortest path is what drives the
completion date for the project.
False - correct answer ✔✔In a Gantt Chart, thick black bars represent milestones achieved in a
project.
Project Management Plan Update - correct answer ✔✔In project time management, a(n) ....... is
an output of controlling the schedule.
False - correct answer ✔✔In project time management, one should control the schedule before
estimating the duration for each activity.
Developing a Schedule - correct answer ✔✔In project time management, the ultimate goal
of ...... is to provide a basis for monitoring project progress for the time dimension of the
project.
Ballpark - correct answer ✔✔A rough order of magnitude estimate can be referred to as a .......
estimate.
,Not directly related to the products or series of a project. - correct answer ✔✔Indirect costs
are?
False - correct answer ✔✔Intangible costs can be easily measured in monetary terms.
False - correct answer ✔✔It is important for project managers to focus on indirect costs
because they can be easily controlled.
Direct - correct answer ✔✔Newtech Inc. hires John for the position of a software programmer
to work on their new project. Salary paid to John by Newtech Inc. would be an example of .......
costs.
False - correct answer ✔✔A budgetary estimate is the most accurate of the three types of
estimates.
Cost - correct answer ✔✔Accounts define ......... as a resource sacrificed or foregone to achieve
a specific objective.
Profit - correct answer ✔✔........ are revenues minus expenditures.
False - correct answer ✔✔Budgetary estimates are made even before a project is officially
started.
Sunk - correct answer ✔✔Good Earth, a company manufacturing packaged food products, sets
up its stores in Baltonia. However, a year later, the company closes the store down due to high
operating costs. In such a scenario, the money spent in paying for the rent of the store in
Baltonia would be an example of ........ costs.
,True - correct answer ✔✔If an important supplier goes out of business, management reserves
can be set aside to cover the resulting costs.
True - correct answer ✔✔In a bottom-up estimate, the size of the individual work items is one
of the factors that drives the accuracy of the estimates.
Critical Tasks - correct answer ✔✔Tasks which determine when a project will really finish are
called?
Critical Path - correct answer ✔✔The set of tasks that need to be completed for a project to be
considered complete is called the .....
Filter - correct answer ✔✔The author talks about another way of showing only the critical tasks
by using a ......
Format Tab - correct answer ✔✔If you click on the ..... Tab you can see an option to select the
critical task.
True - correct answer ✔✔Gaps in the critical path are completely explicable and they can be
there for a good reason.
True - correct answer ✔✔The professor says that the dangers of Cyber Threat are enormous.
True - correct answer ✔✔Seriously smart and sophisticated people with knowledge of
technology can have a malicious intent to wage a cyber attack.
False - correct answer ✔✔Cyber attacks can come from nonstate actors as well as state actors.
, True - correct answer ✔✔When a nation state launches a Cyber attack it is equivalent to an act
of war that could trigger a counter attack.
True - correct answer ✔✔The professor believes that there is a long connection from Cyber
Security to Cyber Threat and financing of terrorism.
Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) - correct answer ✔✔The interviewer mentioned a type of
cyber attack called ?
True - correct answer ✔✔Public as well as private sector organizations must recognize the same
diligence toward protection as a physical attack.
False - correct answer ✔✔The interviewer talks about worms and viruses being like a nuclear
bomb.
Firewall - correct answer ✔✔..... can be a safe way to shield from these bombs can boomerang
back to the attacker.
True - correct answer ✔✔The professor believes that International laws and regulations
relevant to the changing forms of technology and their use as weapons of warfare must be
developed.
True - correct answer ✔✔It is the Department of Defense, government and the military
leadership that decides the "should" for Military operations.
False - correct answer ✔✔The laws of armed conflict states that the military should do
everything in its power to target civilians and combatants.
True - correct answer ✔✔Lethal, autonomous weapons is not allowed in the battlefield today.
