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This document contains 6 questions related to project management techniques including: 1) Differences between CPM and PERT, definitions of float types, and crashing procedures. 2) Fulkerson's rules for network diagrams, critical path significance, and identifying critical activities. 3) Drawing network diagrams, calculating time estimates, floats, critical path, and project duration. 4) Determining probability of project completion given activity information in PERT format. 5) Calculating project completion time distribution from a given PERT table. 6) Developing a crashing scheme to reduce a project's duration by 3 weeks given normal and crash times and costs.

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This document contains 6 questions related to project management techniques including: 1) Differences between CPM and PERT, definitions of float types, and crashing procedures. 2) Fulkerson's rules for network diagrams, critical path significance, and identifying critical activities. 3) Drawing network diagrams, calculating time estimates, floats, critical path, and project duration. 4) Determining probability of project completion given activity information in PERT format. 5) Calculating project completion time distribution from a given PERT table. 6) Developing a crashing scheme to reduce a project's duration by 3 weeks given normal and crash times and costs.

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1) a)Give atleast four differences between CPM &

PERT (2M)
b) Define Total float, Independent float, Free float and Head
Slack of an activity. (2M)
c) What do you mean by crashing of the project and explain
crashing procedure for a project

2) a) State Fulkerson?s rules for drawing a network diagram.


b) What do you mean by critical path and give the significance of
total float. (2M)
c) The following details are available regarding a project.
Determine the critical path, the critical activities and the project
completion time. (6M)

Activi Predecessor Duration


ty Activity (Weeks)
A --- 3
B A 5
C A 7
D B 10
E C 5
F D,E 4

3) Estimate the following for the activities in a project shown


below.
a) Draw the network diagram neatly. b) EST, LST, EFT,
LFT (2M)
c) Total float, Free float, Independent float
d) Critical path, Project
duration (3M)
Activit 1 1 1 2 3 3 3 4 5 6 7
y - - - - - - - - - - -
2 3 4 5 5 6 7 6 7 8 8
Durati 2 7 8 3 6 1 4 6 2 5 6
on 0

4) The owner of a chain of fast food restaurant is considering


a new computer system for accounting an inventory control. A
computer company sends the following information about the
system installation. Determine the probability of completing the
project in 55 days. (10M)
Activity A B C D E F G H I
Predecess -- A A B B C E D, G,
or F H
T0, Tm, TP 4,6 5,7, 4,8, 15,20, 10,18, 8,9, 4,8, 1,2 6,7
,8 15 12 25 26 16 12 ,3 ,8

5) The data for a PERT is given below. Determine the


completion of duration of entire
project and find the probability of completing the project
between 45 and 54 days. (10M)
Activity 1- 1- 1-4 2- 2-5 3-4 3- 4-6 5-6
2 3 3 6
T0, Tm, TP 2,4 6,6 6,12, 2,5 11,14, 15,24, 3,6 9,15, 4,10,
,6 ,6 24 ,8 23 45 ,9 27 16

6) A project has activities with the following normal and crash


times and cost. Determine a crashing scheme for the above
project so that the total project time is reduced by 3 weeks.(7
M)
Activi Predecess Norm Crash Normal Crash
ty or al Time Cost Cost
Activity Time (Wee (Rs.) (Rs.)
(Wee ks)
ks)
A --- 4 3 8,000 9,000
B A 5 3 16,000 20,000
C A 4 3 12,000 13,000
D B 6 5 34,000 35,000
E C 6 4 42,000 44,000
F D 5 4 16,000 16,500
G E 7 4 66,000 72,000
H G 4 3 2,000 5,000



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