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Performance Task 2 | Project Scheduling: PERT/CPM

Due
Jun 15 at 10am
Points
70
Questions
19
Available
Jun 13 at 1:30pm - Jun 15 at 10am
Time Limit
120 Minutes

This quiz was locked Jun 15 at 10am.

Attempt History
Attempt Time Score
LATEST Attempt 1
32 minutes 55 out of 70

Score for this quiz:

55 out of 70
Submitted Jun 14 at 11:20pm
This attempt took 32 minutes.

Project Scheduling Based on Expected Activity Times

Nyora is the personnel director of Jayson and Moira, a company that

specializes in consulting and research. One of the training programs that
Nyora is considering for the middle-level managers of Jayson and Moira is
leadership training. Nyora has listed a number of activities that must be
completed before a training program of this nature could be conducted.
The activities, immediate predecessors and time in hours appear in the
following table:

Immediate
Activity Time
Predecessors

A - 2

B - 3
C - 4
D B 4
E A,D 3
F C 7
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G E,F 2

Develop a Project Network for this problem and answer the following
questions.

1.How many hours will the project to be completed?

2. Determine the critical activities of the project.

3. What is the earliest starting time of activity D?

4. What is the latest finish time of activity F?

5. What is the slack of activity A?

6. What is the slack of activity E?

Question 1 1
/ 1 pts

Project Scheduling Based on Expected Activity Times

How many hours will the project to be completed?

Correct!
13

orrect Answers 13 (with margin: 0)

Question 2 7
/ 7 pts

Project Scheduling Based on Expected Activity Times

Determine the critical activities of the project.

Correct! Activity A  
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No

Correct! Activity B   No

Correct! Activity C   Yes

Correct! Activity D   No

Correct! Activity E   No

Correct! Activity F   Yes

Correct! Activity G   Yes

Question 3 1
/ 1 pts

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What is the earliest starting time of activity D?

Correct!
3

orrect Answers 3 (with margin: 0)

Question 4 1
/ 1 pts

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Project Scheduling Based on Expected Activity Times

What is the latest finish time of activity F?

Correct!
11

orrect Answers 11 (with margin: 0)

Question 5 1
/ 1 pts

Project Scheduling Based on Expected Activity Times

What is the slack of activity A?

Correct!
6

orrect Answers 6 (with margin: 0)

Question 6 1
/ 1 pts

Project Scheduling Based on Expected Activity Times

What is the slack of activity E?

Correct!
1

orrect Answers 1 (with margin: 0)

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Project Scheduling Considering Uncertain Activity Times

Pepito Manaloto, a director of personnel of Management Resources, Inc.,

is in the process of designing a program that its customers can use in the
job-finding process. Some of the activities include preparing resumés,
writing letters, making appointments to see prospective employers,
researching companies and industries, and so on. Some of the
information on the activities is shown in the following table:

Days Immediate
Activity
a m b Predecessor

A 8 10 12 -
B 6 7 9 -
C 3 3 4 -
D 10 20 30 A
E 6 7 8 C
F 9 10 11 B, D, E
G 6 7 10 B, D, E
H 14 15 16 F
I 10 11 13 F
J 6 7 8 G, H
K 4 7 8 I, J
L 1 2 4 G, H

1. Determine the expected time for each activity.

2. Determine the variance for each activity.

3. What is the completion time?

4. What is the latest finish time of activity I?

5. What is the slack of activity E?

6. Determine the critical activities of the project.

7. Determine the probability that the project will be

finished in 60 days or less.

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8. Determine the probability that the project will be

finished in 70 days or less.

9. Determine the probability that the project will be

finished in 75 days or less. 

10. Determine the probability that the project will be

finished in 70 days or more.

Question 7 11
/ 12 pts

Project Scheduling Considering Uncertain Activity Times

Determine the expected time for each activity.

(Note: Your answer must be in two decimal places)

Activity Mean

A 10

B 7.17

C 3.17

D 20

E 7

F 10

G 7.33

H 19.5

I 11.17

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J 7

K 6.67

L 2.17

Answer 1:

Correct! 10

orrect Answer 10.00

Answer 2:

Correct! 7.17

Answer 3:

Correct! 3.17

Answer 4:

Correct! 20

orrect Answer 20.00

Answer 5:

Correct! 7

orrect Answer 7.00

Answer 6:

Correct! 10

orrect Answer 10.00

Answer 7:

Correct! 7.33

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Answer 8:

ou Answered 19.5

orrect Answer 15

orrect Answer 15.00

Answer 9:

Correct! 11.17

Answer 10:

Correct! 7

orrect Answer 7.00

Answer 11:

Correct! 6.67

Answer 12:

Correct! 2.17

Question 8 11
/ 12 pts

Project Scheduling Considering Uncertain Activity Times

Determine the variance for each activity.

Activity Variance

A 0.44

B 0.25

C 0.03

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D 11.11

E 0.11

F 0.11

G 0.44

H 17.36

I 0.25

J 0.11

K 0.44

L 0.25

Answer 1:

Correct! 0.44

orrect Answer .44

Answer 2:

Correct! 0.25

orrect Answer .25

Answer 3:

Correct! 0.03

Answer 4:

Correct! 11.11

Answer 5:
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Correct! 0.11

orrect Answer .11

Answer 6:

Correct! 0.11

orrect Answer .11

Answer 7:

Correct! 0.44

orrect Answer .44

Answer 8:

ou Answered 17.36

orrect Answer .11

orrect Answer 0.11

Answer 9:

Correct! 0.25

orrect Answer .25

Answer 10:

Correct! 0.11

orrect Answer .11

Answer 11:

Correct! 0.44

orrect Answer .44

Answer 12:

Correct! 0.25

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orrect Answer .25

Question 9 0
/ 1 pts

Project Scheduling Considering Uncertain Activity Times

What is the completion time?

(Note: Your answer must be in two decimal places)

ou Answered
73.17

orrect Answers 68.67 (with margin: 0)

Question 10 0
/ 1 pts

Project Scheduling Considering Uncertain Activity Times

What is the latest finish time of activity I?

ou Answered
66.5

orrect Answers 62 (with margin: 0)

Question 11 0
/ 1 pts
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Project Scheduling Considering Uncertain Activity Times

What is the slack of activity E?

ou Answered
26.83

orrect Answers 16 (with margin: 0)

Question 12 12
/ 12 pts

Project Scheduling Considering Uncertain Activity Times

Determine the critical activities of the project.

Correct! Activity A   Yes

Correct! Activity B   No

Correct! Activity C   No

Correct! Activity D   Yes

Correct! Activity E   No

Correct! Activity F   Yes

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Correct! Activity G   No

Correct! Activity H   Yes

Correct! Activity I   No

Correct! Activity J   Yes

Correct! Activity K   Yes

Correct! Activity L   No

Question 13 0
/ 2 pts

Project Scheduling Considering Uncertain Activity Times

Determine the probability that the project will be finished in 60 days or

less.

(Note: Your answer must be in four decimal places)

ou Answered
0.0077

orrect Answers 0.0068 (with margin: 0)

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Question 14 0
/ 2 pts

Project Scheduling Considering Uncertain Activity Times

Determine the probability that the project will be finished in 70 days or

less.

(Note: Your answer must be in four decimal places)

ou Answered
0.281

orrect Answers 0.648 (with margin: 0)

Question 15 0
/ 2 pts

Project Scheduling Considering Uncertain Activity Times

Determine the probability that the project will be finished in 75 days or

less.

(Note: Your answer must be in four decimal places)

ou Answered
0.6331

orrect Answers 0.9641 (with margin: 0)

Question 16 0
/ 2 pts

Project Scheduling Considering Uncertain Activity Times

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Determine the probability that the project will be finished in 70 days or

more.

(Note: Your answer must be in four decimal places)

ou Answered
0.719

orrect Answers 0.352 (with margin: 0)

Project Crashing

Bob the builder manufactures steel storage sheds for commercial use.
Bob, president of Bob the builder, is contemplating producing sheds for
home use. The activities necessary to build an experimental model and
related data are given in the accompanying table.

Normal Crash Immediate

Activity
Time Cost Time Cost Predecessor

A 3 1000 2 1600 -

B 2 2000 1 2700 -

C 1 300 1 300 -

D 7 1300 3 1600 A

E 6 850 3 1000 B

F 2 4000 1 5000 C

G 4 1500 2 2000 D, E

1. What is the completion time?

2. Determine the critical activities

3. What is the total cost of the project if you want to finish it in 10 days?

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Question 17 2
/ 2 pts

Project Crashing

What is the completion time?

Correct!
14

orrect Answers 14 (with margin: 0)

Question 18 7
/ 7 pts

Project Crashing

Determine the critical activities.

Correct! Activity A   Yes

Correct! Activity B   No

Correct! Activity C   No

Correct! Activity D   Yes

Correct! Activity E   No

Correct! Activity F  

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No

Correct! Activity G   Yes

Question 19 0
/ 2 pts

Project Crashing

What is the total cost of the project if you want to finish it in 10 days?

ou Answered
11,600

orrect Answers 11,250 (with margin: 0)

Quiz Score:
55 out of 70

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