Frank is the project manager of a construction project. In this project, Frank has elected to allow
the interior design phase of the project to overlap with the pool construction phase of the project.
Normally, Frank would not allow these two phases to overlap, but for this project, he has elected to
do so in order to compress the project schedule. What is this schedule compression technique
called?

You are the project manager of a project that has a budget of $875,000 and you have completed
40 percent of the project work. Due to some errors, however, you have actually spent $425,000 of
the budget. Management wants to know what the project’s cost performance index is. What value
do you report?

You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. Which of the following techniques will you use to
determine whether particular work can best be accomplished by the project team or must be
purchased from the outside sources?

You work as a project manager for BlueWell Inc. You have to identify the specific actions to be
performed to produce the project deliverables. For this, you have to explain the three inputs for the
define activities process to your project team. Which of the following is NOT a valid input?

Joseph works as the project manager of the NHQ Project. He has created the project network
diagram as shown in the figure:

Based on the network diagram, find out which path is the critical path for this project?