Which of the following is not true about the use of dummy activities in project networking

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Statement (I): A Dummy is an activity in the network. Statement (II): A Dummy is a representation in the network requiring neither time nor resources.

  1. Both Statement (I) and Statement (II) are individually true; and Statement (II) is the correct explanation of Statement(I)
  2. Both Statement (I) and Statement (II) are individually true; but Statement (II) is NOT the correct explanation of Statement (I)
  3. Statement (I) is true; but Statement (II) is false
  4. Statement (I) is false; but Statement (II) is true.

Answer (Detailed Solution Below)

Option 2 : Both Statement (I) and Statement (II) are individually true; but Statement (II) is NOT the correct explanation of Statement (I)

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Dummy activity:

An activity that neither requires time nor any other resources is called dummy activity. It is represented by a dotted line in a network. These are required in any network to establish the grammatical and logical relationships between different activities. 

Note:

A dummy activity is used to establish the uniqueness in the network i.e. if two or more activities start from a single node and terminated to the same node then dummies are used to establish the grammatical relationship between these two activities. Refer the following figure:

Which of the following is not true about the use of dummy activities in project networking

In Fig I- Activity A and B are starting from node 1 and terminating to same node 2 which violates the network rules. To correct this we introduced a dummy activity between node 2 and node 3 (see fig II).

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