PANA Academy - project-planning - Reviewed subset 2026-09

License Preparation NepalNEC ELECTRONICS

PANA Academy - project-planning - Reviewed subset 2026-09

Full marks: 15 · Questions: 15

01Engineering Professional Practice / Project Planning and Scheduling

Bar chart is drawn for:

Time versus Activity

Activity versus Resources

Resources versus Progress

Progress versus Time

02Engineering Professional Practice / Project Planning and Scheduling

The project in which the government receives investment from international donors and does not repay it is called:

Loan projects

Grant projects

Private sector projects

Process oriented projects

03Engineering Professional Practice / Project Planning and Scheduling

The process of reducing a project's duration by using additional resources for critical activities is called:

Project reducing

Project maintenance

Scheduling

Crashing

04Engineering Professional Practice / Project Planning and Scheduling

The critical path represents:

The maximum duration in which the project can be completed

The minimum duration in which the project can be completed

Does not signify project completion

The mean time in which the project can be completed

05Engineering Professional Practice / Project Planning and Scheduling

Which of the following is correct?

PERT is commonly used in construction work

PERT is suitable for estimating activity duration with high uncertainty

PERT does not provide time duration

PERT is a deterministic approach to estimating activity duration

06Engineering Professional Practice / Project Planning and Scheduling

Which of the following is a PERT event?

Transport of sand

Transport of cement

Concreting of roof completed

Making of formwork

07Engineering Professional Practice / Project Planning and Scheduling

The estimates of activity durations in PERT follow:

Normal distribution curve

Poisson distribution curve

Beta distribution curve

None of the above

08Engineering Professional Practice / Project Planning and Scheduling

If SPI > 1, which of the following is true?

Project is ahead of schedule

Project is behind schedule

Project is on time

None of the above

09Engineering Professional Practice / Project Planning and Scheduling

Training employees increases which quality cost?

Prevention cost

Appraisal cost

Internal failure cost

External failure cost

10Engineering Professional Practice / Project Planning and Scheduling

Given the following activities, what is the project duration? A: no predecessor, 4 days; B: no predecessor, 5 days; C: no predecessor, 3 days; D: predecessor C, 7 days; E: predecessors A, B and D, 5 days.

9 days

10 days

15 days

24 days

11Engineering Professional Practice / Project Planning and Scheduling

The optimistic, most likely and pessimistic activity estimates are 5, 10 and 21 days. What are the expected time and standard deviation?

12, 3

11, 4

11, 2.67

10, 16

12Engineering Professional Practice / Project Planning and Scheduling

The company or project initiated through two or more parties is called:

Bilateral Project

Multilateral project

Joint Venture project

PPP

13Engineering Professional Practice / Project Planning and Scheduling

A dummy activity:

is artificially introduced

is represented by a dotted line

does not consume time

all of the above

14Engineering Professional Practice / Project Planning and Scheduling

The time by which activity completion can be delayed without affecting the start of succeeding activities is:

duration

total float

free float

interfering float

15Engineering Professional Practice / Project Planning and Scheduling

A schedule performance index (SPI) of 0.76 means:

You are over budget

You are ahead of schedule

You are only progressing at 76 percent of the rate originally planned

You are only progressing at 24 percent of the rate originally planned