Project Management Professional (PMP) Exam Practice – Question1392

To meet regulatory requirements, you need to crash your project schedule. Your first step is to compute______________


A. The cost and time slope for each critical activity that can be expedited
B. The cost of additional resources to be added to the project's critical path
C. The time saved in the overall schedule when tasks are expedited on the critical path
D. Three probabilistic time estimates of PERT for each critical path activity

Correct Answer: A

Explanation:

Explanation:
Slope = (Crash cost -Normal cost)/(Crash time -Normal time). This calculation shows the cost per day of crashing the project. The slope is negative to indicate that as the time required for a project or task decreases, the cost increases. If the costs and times are
the same regardless of whether they are crashed or normal, the activity cannot be expedited.