CM 4101 PRACTICE EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS MARKED A+
(ESi)
✔✔What is an active process to monitor and update the construction plan and the
schedule. - ✔✔Project Control
✔✔Bar charts are ________ and ________ presentations that show how major work
activities are scheduled. - ✔✔simple : time-scaled
✔✔What is an advantage of a bar chart? - ✔✔Simple and ease to use
✔✔What are the disadvantages of bar charts? (4) - ✔✔-Project status cannot be
determined.
-Needs for schedule adjustments cannot be determined.
-Activities for possible project acceleration cannot be determined.
-It relies on extra links to show logical relationships between activities. Otherwise, the
logical relationships between activities cannot be determined.
✔✔For bar charts the Length of Activity is represented by what stated in days? - ✔✔the
length of the open bar
✔✔For bar charts The Activity Restraint (interrelationship) is shown using a? - ✔✔heavy
vertical line with an arrow head.
✔✔For bar charts The Activity Description is placed on the? - ✔✔top of each bar.
✔✔For bar charts The Duration is in Days. It is placed at the - ✔✔bottom left hand
portion of each activity, or inside the bar.
✔✔For bar charts The Free Float is shown as a - ✔✔horizontal dotted line between
each activity.
✔✔What are graphic representations using nodes and links. - ✔✔Networks
✔✔What is a discrete part of a project that can be identified for planning, scheduling,
monitoring, and controlling the construction project. - ✔✔Activity
✔✔What is the point in time or an instant at which the status of completion of a project
or an activity can be defined. - ✔✔Event
✔✔What is the period of time that will be consumed in completing a task. - ✔✔duration
, ✔✔What are included in schedules to mark a particular point in time for reference or
measurement. - ✔✔Milestones
✔✔What use network presentations to represent activities, sequences/logic, times and
durations. (2) - ✔✔Arrow Diagrams and Precedence Diagrams
✔✔Arrow diagrams use links to represent ________, and nodes to represent ________
- ✔✔activities : events
✔✔precedence diagrams use links to represent ________, and nodes to represent
________. - ✔✔relationships between activities : Activities
✔✔What does PERT stand for? - ✔✔Program Evaluation Research Task
✔✔What uses network presentations to represent activities, sequences/logic, times and
durations. (2) - ✔✔CPM and PERT
✔✔What has determined activity durations - ✔✔CPM
✔✔what uses three estimated times, optimistic, modal and pessimistic estimate. -
✔✔PERT
✔✔What does OBS stand for? and what is it important for? - ✔✔Organization
Breakdown Structure
WBS
✔✔What provides a framework for breaking a project down into successively greater
detail by level and organizing activities that make up a project - ✔✔WBS
✔✔What organizes the work of a project but does not address the sequencing and the
scheduling of project activities. - ✔✔WBS
✔✔Use a ________ to describe the activity as the first word to make the activity easy to
understand - ✔✔verb
✔✔Activities (5) - ✔✔-consume time
-usually consume resources
-have a definable start and finish
-are assignable
-are measurable
✔✔What are 4 types of activites? - ✔✔-Production/Construction
SOLUTIONS MARKED A+
(ESi)
✔✔What is an active process to monitor and update the construction plan and the
schedule. - ✔✔Project Control
✔✔Bar charts are ________ and ________ presentations that show how major work
activities are scheduled. - ✔✔simple : time-scaled
✔✔What is an advantage of a bar chart? - ✔✔Simple and ease to use
✔✔What are the disadvantages of bar charts? (4) - ✔✔-Project status cannot be
determined.
-Needs for schedule adjustments cannot be determined.
-Activities for possible project acceleration cannot be determined.
-It relies on extra links to show logical relationships between activities. Otherwise, the
logical relationships between activities cannot be determined.
✔✔For bar charts the Length of Activity is represented by what stated in days? - ✔✔the
length of the open bar
✔✔For bar charts The Activity Restraint (interrelationship) is shown using a? - ✔✔heavy
vertical line with an arrow head.
✔✔For bar charts The Activity Description is placed on the? - ✔✔top of each bar.
✔✔For bar charts The Duration is in Days. It is placed at the - ✔✔bottom left hand
portion of each activity, or inside the bar.
✔✔For bar charts The Free Float is shown as a - ✔✔horizontal dotted line between
each activity.
✔✔What are graphic representations using nodes and links. - ✔✔Networks
✔✔What is a discrete part of a project that can be identified for planning, scheduling,
monitoring, and controlling the construction project. - ✔✔Activity
✔✔What is the point in time or an instant at which the status of completion of a project
or an activity can be defined. - ✔✔Event
✔✔What is the period of time that will be consumed in completing a task. - ✔✔duration
, ✔✔What are included in schedules to mark a particular point in time for reference or
measurement. - ✔✔Milestones
✔✔What use network presentations to represent activities, sequences/logic, times and
durations. (2) - ✔✔Arrow Diagrams and Precedence Diagrams
✔✔Arrow diagrams use links to represent ________, and nodes to represent ________
- ✔✔activities : events
✔✔precedence diagrams use links to represent ________, and nodes to represent
________. - ✔✔relationships between activities : Activities
✔✔What does PERT stand for? - ✔✔Program Evaluation Research Task
✔✔What uses network presentations to represent activities, sequences/logic, times and
durations. (2) - ✔✔CPM and PERT
✔✔What has determined activity durations - ✔✔CPM
✔✔what uses three estimated times, optimistic, modal and pessimistic estimate. -
✔✔PERT
✔✔What does OBS stand for? and what is it important for? - ✔✔Organization
Breakdown Structure
WBS
✔✔What provides a framework for breaking a project down into successively greater
detail by level and organizing activities that make up a project - ✔✔WBS
✔✔What organizes the work of a project but does not address the sequencing and the
scheduling of project activities. - ✔✔WBS
✔✔Use a ________ to describe the activity as the first word to make the activity easy to
understand - ✔✔verb
✔✔Activities (5) - ✔✔-consume time
-usually consume resources
-have a definable start and finish
-are assignable
-are measurable
✔✔What are 4 types of activites? - ✔✔-Production/Construction
