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WorksheetsRevision of MAAR 7453-23-24
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 21mins
How can design economics help the building team in enhancing sustainable development?
Provide building team a complete work schedule from the start of construction until handover.
Building team able to purchase cheap material according to help client save his/her budget.
Building team will be clear and aware on how the project should be executed to achieve sustainability.
Increase the building team awareness on minimizing wastages and pollution.
Which of the following describes the term "Life Cycle Costing (LCC)"?
Building life cycle cost comprises of total cost for the building from inception until building demolition. Life cycle cost depends on the owner, user and designer’s effort to reduce the recurring cost.
Building life cycle cost comprises of total cost for the building from construction stage until handover stage. Life cycle cost depends on the responsibility of designer’s to reduce the price of the building.
Building life cycle cost comprises of total cost for the building from idea phase until the start of the rental. Life cycle cost depends on the owner's financial status.
Building life cycle cost comprises of total cost for the building from inception until building demolition. Life cycle cost depends on the future user building design preferences.
Design economics is a concept used by the design team to deliver value for money to the client. Which of the following is false on factors to be considered in evaluating value for money?
Grouping of Buildings
Planning Efficiency
Refurbishment
Authorities Approval
Fulfilling the client's needs and requirements is very important. However, the consultant and contractor needs also need to be considered to ensure the project to be successful such as:-
i. Reasonable return for the risk taken.
ii. Payment on time.
iii. Clients who do not keep changing their minds.
iv. Future projects from the client.
i, iii and iv
i, ii and iii
All of the above
ii, iii and iv
Time, cost and quality are the three main criteria of a project success. Which of the following is the correct criteria that constitute in quality success of the project.
i. Appearance
ii. Aesthetic/commercial value
iii. Value for money
iv. Zero defects
V. Completion date
All of the above
i, ii, iii and iv
i, ii, iii and v
ii, iii, iv and v
Which of the following is the false statement about Life Cycle Costing?
LCC constitutes of initial cost, operation cost, maintenance & repair cost and replacement cost.
LCC is to be prepared after the design stage of the project.
LCC can be implemented at any level of the design process and can also be an effective tool for evaluation of existing building systems.
LCC is an essential design process for controlling the initial and the future cost of building ownership.
Project Planning gives the team direction for producing quality outputs, handling risks, creating acceptance, communicating benefits, and managing supplies.
True
False
Project Monitoring and Control is sometimes combined with planning because they often occur at the same time.
True
False
In Project Closure phase, teams open a project when they deliver the finished project to the customer, communicating completion to stakeholders and releasing resources to other projects.
True
False
What are the constraints that looks at the outcome of the project undertaken.
(a)
In Critical Path Method, the project completion period is the EF of last activities.
True
False
Changing the duration of a critical activity will not affect the overall completion time.
True
False
The starting activities that have no predecessor cannot be carried out in parallel.
True
False
The backward pass calculation cannot proceed if the forward pass had not completed.
True
False
Changing the duration of a non-critical activity will not affect the overall completion time, provided the revised float is positive.
True
False
In Critical Path Method, the project completion period is the sum of all activities duration.
True
False
Activities on critical path will have positive float.
True
False
When developing a project schedule, what should you start with?
The end product and due date
Estimated costs
Human resources and material resources
Deliverables
During which project management phase, communication is a paramount key?
Planning phase
Design phase
Construction & operation phase
All phases
Resources are...
the things you need to make your project
the people you need to make your project
the activities you need to complete for your project
the time you need to make your project
Development of WBS must consider ..................................
activities that require time
activities that require cost
activities that you need to arrange
activities that you want to monitor
Which of the following statement is CORRECT about WBS?
A WBS demonstrates the sequence of works to be performed
A WBS should be developed before scheduling and resource allocation
Different parts of WBS can be developed by various groups
The WBS should be developed by the people who ultimately do the work.
Why use a project plan?
(a) Because you can easily track a project
without a plan.
(b) Because you know the project end
date at the beginning of the project
(c) Because a proper project plan enhances the likelihood of
accomplishing project objectives.
(d) Because everything will go well
because you consider "business as
usual"
What is the problem (not possible) with MS Excel regarding developing & tracking a project time schedule?
(1) We can not make the network
diagram
(2) We can not find total number of resources
(3) We can not incorporate the logical
relationship among activities
(4) We can not estimate total cost from
cost of each activity
What makes multiple project planning and scheduling hard?
(1) Each project is having its own project plan and there is no consolidated view of who is doing what.
(2) Resources are working on more than one project at a time
(3) Failure to make resource allocation across multiple projects leads to overallocation issue.
All the above three options (1),(2), and (3)
Earned Value Management & Analysis
is a project control technique preferred by PMI
is used to detect performance variances
is used to establish a clear relationship between planned and actual accomplishments
is a way to forecast project’s cost and completion date using historical and statistical projections.
is a project analysis tools can answer these questions using time and cost tracking
Being as a project managers there are important elements related to "Earned Value" that you need to know related to the followings:
Is the project on schedule? Time tracking
Is the project on budget? Cost tracking
How much of the budget that should have been spent at this point in time
How much value has the work on the project "earned" so far?
Is the project fulfill the quality? Quality tracking
Life cycle costing estimates the costs and revenues attributable to a product over its entire expected life cycle. True or false?
True
False
What is the primary purpose of Project Initiation phase?
To define the project, set its objectives, and establish the feasibility of the project.
To execute the project and deliver the final product to the customer.
To monitor and control the project activities.
To close the project and release resources to other projects.
What is the main challenge in multiple project planning and scheduling?
Failure to make resource allocation across multiple projects leads to overallocation issue.
Each project having its own project plan without a consolidated view of who is doing what.
Resources working on more than one project at a time.
Interpreting strategies to deal with threats or risks.
The finest building in terms of design economic throughout the history of architecture has been circular in shape. However, the shape influences the economic of the building. What is the factors of circular plan shape building that influence the cost of the building?
i. Complicated setting out
ii. Uneconomical use of site area
iii. Furniture and fittings
iv. Requires skilled labour
i, ii and iv
ii, iii and iv
i, ii and iii
i, iii and iv
Constructing one large building is more economical compared to constructing a few small buildings which has the same total floor area. Why?
i. The wall to floor area ratio is smaller
ii. Requires only single setting out
iii. Unit cost of one large building is smaller than multiple small building
iv. Multiple small building requires multiple approval of the authorities
All of the above
i, ii and iii
ii, iii and iv
i, ii and iv
Which of the following is not true about complicated building design?
Complicated building design makes the installation of floor tiles difficult and time consuming.
Complicated building design may need specialist works or custom made building materials.
Complicated building design may provide less usable area.
Complicated building design will not affect the building cost.
In which sort of project is the use of a Gantt chart most appropriate?
Projects where the time period involved are very short
Projects with few activities and resources involved
Projects with many activities involved
Projects in which the use of resources must be carefully monitored.
The critical path is the path through a network diagram, and it represents the time it takes to complete a project.
longest;longest
shortest;longest
longest;shortest
shortest;shortest
Project management involves
Creating, organizing and planning
Creating, organizing and executing
Creating, organizing and gaining
