Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1814 | Project Management Professional PMP Mock Exam Practice

Within your company's portfolio, your project is ranked in the top five in terms of importance of the 60 projects under way; however, the number of resources available to you is still limited. You have decided to pilot test the use of critical chain on your project. You
have calculated your critical path. You want to ensure that your target finish date does not slip in the critical chain method. To do so you should______________

A. Add a project buffer
B. Put in three feeding buffers
C. Determine the drum resource
D. Manage the total float of the network paths

Correct Answer: A

Explanation:

Explanation:
After the critical path is identified using the critical chain method, resource availability is entered and a resource-constrained schedule results. This schedule may have an altered critical path that is known as the critical chain. The critical chain method adds
duration buffers that are non-work schedule activities to manage uncertainty. To protect the target finish date from slippage on the critical chain, a project buffer is placed at the end of the critical chain.