Exam 9: Project Scheduling: Networks,Duration Estimation,and Critical Path

Project Test Bank is composed of activities we will refer to as A,B,C,and D for convenience (and lack of creativity).Durations and precedence requirements are shown in the table.Each of these activities can be conveniently laddered into two sub-activities of equal duration.The first half of each activity serves as the predecessor to its second half and the first half of the original following activity.What is the expected completion time of the laddered project? Activity Length Predecessor A 10 - B 18 A C 14 A D 20 B,C

A project's duration can be reduced by:

An MBA student laboriously calculated the early and late start times and early and late finish times for all of the activities contained in this simple six activity project.Unfortunately,some of the information was washed away by lachrymal fluid.Kindly restore the table to its former glory by filling in the missing information.

The term ordered activity means:

Use the information in the table to determine the early start time for Activity B. Task Predecessor Duration Early Start Early Finish Start Sate Finish -- 3 14 6 3 26 , 32 32 38