Job X, Which Has a Duration of Four Days, Is

question 76

Multiple Choice

Job X, which has a duration of four days, is due by the close of business on Friday, December 23. Without looking at the work already scheduled on X's required resource, the scheduler schedules X to be begun on the morning of Tuesday, December 20. This is an example of

• A)infinite scheduling.
• B)finite scheduling.
• C)forward scheduling.
• D)backward scheduling.
• E)prioritization.

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