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Assess Your Primavera P6 Skills

Take our expert-designed P6 skills assessment to identify gaps in your scheduling knowledge. Plan Academy's skills assessment evaluates your CPM theory, foundations, and advanced scheduling abilities in minutes. Receive instant, personalized course recommendations that match your current expertise and accelerate your professional growth.

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Name*

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Have you taken a Primavera P6 course before?*

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Critical Path Methodology

1. In CPM scheduling, which activities determine the total project duration?*

Activities that have a negative float

Activities that have a total float of 0

Activities that are on the critical path

Activities that are on the longest path

2. Which metric or value is typically used to represent a project delay?*

Lags

Free Float

Lead

Total Float

3. True or False: A CPM network can have only one critical path.*

True

False

4. True or False: The sum of the critical path activities’ durations always equals the total project duration.*

True

False

5. If two activities have the same start date and must finish on the same date, which relationship type is most appropriate?*

Start to Start

Finish to Finish

Finish to Start

Start to Finish

Primavera P6 Foundations

6. For construction scheduling, which % Complete Type is most recommended?*

Resource

Physical

Unit

Duration

7. In P6, which field stores the total labor hours required to complete an activity?*

Remaining Unit

Actual Unit

Budgeted Unit

Budgeted Unit/Time

8. What is the purpose of creating a baseline program?*

To do value engineering

To measure the project estimates

To measure the project progress

To review the drawing log

9. In Microsoft Excel, which feature can be used to generate a time-phased cash flow curve?*

Slicer

If Function

Data Validation

Pivot Table

10. Why is the project rescheduled (F9) to a specific data date after assigning the baseline?*

Assign the project

Resource level the project

Update the project

Recover the project

Advanced Primavera P6 - Schedule Building

11. For an activity with a fixed duration of 3 days, a productivity rate of 20 units/day, and a total scope of 240 units, what is the daily manpower requirement?*

3

4

12

1.5

12. Primavera P6 stores activity duration under what time unit by default?*

Mondays

Hours

Minutes

Days

13. For an activity with a fixed duration of 15 days and a constant crew size of 20 workers/day, which Duration Type is most suitable?*

Fixed Units/Time

Fixed Duration & Units

Fixed Units

Fixed Durations & Units/Time

14. Which of the following is not a potential challenge when building a baseline program?*

Absence of reliable estimates

Lack of historical reference data

Ambiguity in project scope

Progress Delay

15. While preparing a baseline schedule, which specific project details can be extracted from the contract documents?*

Milestones

User Preference

Activity duration

Resource Type

Advanced Primavera P6 - Progressing

16. What is the purpose of updating a Baseline Schedule?*

To use it as a bid schedule

To define and establish activity relationships

To assign and load project resources

To monitor and measure project progress

17. Which of the following data columns are not typically updated during project progress reporting?*

Expected Finish Date

Activity % Complete

Actual Start & Finish Date

Start & Finish Date

18. True or False: If Earned Value (EV) is less than Planned Value (PV), the Cost Variance (CV) will be negative.*

False

True

19. If Performance % Complete = 20% and Schedule % Complete = 30%, what is the Schedule Performance Index (SPI)?*

~0.66

~0.2

~1.5

~0.3

20. Given: Budget = $100,000, Actual Cost (AC) = $25,000, Earned Value (EV) = $23,000 - which statement best reflects the project status?*

Project is getting delayed

Cost performance index is less than 1

Schedule variance is $2,000

Schedule performance index is less than 1

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