Discussion Questions and Problems

Discussion Questions

  1. 11-1 What are some of the questions that can be answered with PERT and CPM?

  2. 11-2 What are the major differences between PERT and CPM?

  3. 11-3 What is an activity? What is an event? What is an immediate predecessor?

  4. 11-4 Describe how expected activity times and variances can be computed in a PERT network.

  5. 11-5 Briefly discuss what is meant by critical path analysis. What are critical path activities, and why are they important?

  6. 11-6 What are the earliest activity start time and latest activity start time? How are they computed?

  7. 11-7 Describe the meaning of slack and discuss how it can be determined.

  8. 11-8 How can we determine the probability that a project will be completed by a certain date? ...

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