Which of the Following Statements Regarding Time-Cost Tradeoffs in CPM

question 26

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements regarding time-cost tradeoffs in CPM networks is false?

• A)Crashing shortens project duration by assigning more resources to critical tasks.
• B)Crashing sometimes has the reverse result of lengthening the project duration.
• C)Crashing must consider the impact of crashing an activity on all paths in the network.
• D)Activities not on the critical path can become critical after crashing takes place.
• E)A negative crash cost per period would imply that either crashing is cheaper than not crashing or that the crash time was slower than the normal time.

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