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Critical Path

GATE Mechanical Engineering · Industrial Engineering - Project Management (PERT) · 2002-2026

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2026 Q65

The activities of a PERT network and their corresponding activity time estimates (in weeks) i.e., optimistic (t_o), most likely (t_m), and pessimistic (t_p) are given in the table...

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2022 PYQ

A project consists of five activities (A, B, C, D and E). The duration of each activity follows beta distribution. The three time estimates (in weeks) of each activity and immediat...

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2021 Q8

A PERT network has 9 activities on its critical path. The standard deviation of each activity on the critical path is 3. The standard deviation of the critical path is

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2021 Q35

Activities A, B, C and D form the critical path for a project with a PERT network. The means and variances of the activity duration for each activity are given below. All activity...

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2019 Q35

The activities of a project, their duration and the precedence relationships are given in the table. For example, in a precedence relationship "X < Y, Z" means that X is predecesso...

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2019 Q55

A project consists of six activities. The immediate predecessor of each activity and the estimated duration is also provided in the table below: If all activities other than S take...

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2005 PYQ

A project has six activities $$(A$$ to $$F)$$ with respective activity durations $$7,5,6,6,8,4$$ days. The network has three paths $$A-B,C-D$$ and $$E-F.$$ All the activities can b...

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2003 PYQ

A project consists of activities $$A$$ to $$M$$ shown in the net in the following figure with the duration of the activities marked in days. The project can be completed

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2002 PYQ

A project consists of three parallel paths with mean durations and variances of $$(10,4), (12,4)$$ and $$(12,9)$$ respectively. According to the standard $$PERT$$ assumptions, the...

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