Exhibit 15.2 The Following Questions Employ the AON Network and Completed Spreadsheet

question 9

Multiple Choice

Exhibit 15.2
The following questions employ the AON network and completed spreadsheet below.
-Which of the following correctly describes the focus of the Critical Path Method (CPM) ?

• A) To order activities in a project in terms of their completion time to facilitate scheduling of the activities.
• B) To determine when a project should be completed and to schedule when each activity in the project must begin in order to keep the project on schedule.
• C) To estimate the probability of completing a project by a given deadline when the time required to perform the activity is essentially a random variable.
• D) To structure the activities of a project in order to eliminate or reduce critical dependencies among the activities.

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