In your research project on tourism, you must collect data before the tourist season ends because the project requires interviewing the tourists. The data-collection activity has which of the following kind of dependency? a. Mandatory b. External c. Internal d. Discretionary e. Finish-to-Start

B) External

Explanation:

Dependencies are relationships that exist between the activities carried out during a research project. An external dependency involves the relationship between a project's activity and a subject or activity not included in the project. These external activities or subjects cannot be controlled by the researchers.

In this case, the researchers need to interview the tourists, but the tourists are not part of the research team, and their actions and responses cannot be controlled by them.

C, Internal

Explanation:

Internal dependency is the relationship that exists between tasks in the same project.

As regards to the question above, the research project on tourism is the main project but it has the tasks of data collection which is a function of speaking with tourists.

This means that the speaking to tourists is the basis of data collection which in turn is the basis of the tourism project.

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