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Exam 10: Project Scheduling: Lagging, crashing, and Activity Networks

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What is project crashing and what are three reasons why it might be important to do so?

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The process of accelerating a project is...

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Networks are adaptable and useful for all scheduling challenges that an organization faces.

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Determine early start and early finish times for all activities in this network.Activity duration in days appears under each arrow.

An activity of duration zero whose sole purpose is to maintain network logic is a(n)________.

The most common type of logical sequencing between tasks is referred to as the:

In order to accelerate completion of a project,the manager must crash critical path activities.

Use the Gantt chart and the activity list to determine when resource 2 is free.

Consider the Gantt chart shown below where the time scale is in minutes and all activities are performed on an early start basis.How much slack is available in The Great Hair Washing project?

Use the Gantt chart and the activity list to determine which resource is free for use in another project before the others.

Use the Gantt chart and the activity list to determine which resource is needed earliest in this project.

Brook's Law states that the typical crashing decision to add more resources to an activity only delays the activity further.

The logical relationship between the start and finish of one activity and the start and finish of another activity is the ________.

The primary drawback with ________ occurs when the project is very complex,with numerous paths through the model.

A finish to start lag delay is usually shown:

What is the early start time for activity C if it has the start to start relationship shown?

Use the Gantt chart and activity list to determine which resource is released from this project for use in another project the earliest.

Use the Gantt chart and activity list to determine which resource has the greatest continual use.

Which of these approaches will NOT accelerate the completion of a project?

For large projects,network diagrams are more useful if they are completely detailed.

Mick has a project consisting of eight activities as listed in the table (with durations in days).He assigned his intern Guinness to sketch a network diagram in AOA and Guinness produced the sketch shown below.Determine the early and late start and finish times for all of these activities.