Critical Task And Critical Path

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CAPM ASSIGNMENT-2 Q1. What is a difference between a critical task and critical path? Critical task are those tasks which cannot be delayed in any circumstance and there is 0 slack time between the tasks means that if one task is finished the next task immediate start without any delay. Critical path is the series of critical tasks Critical tasks in the critical path are linked by dependencies: One task has finished before start the next task. In the Gantt chart, critical tasks appear to red which helps to creating the critical path. Microsoft Project helps you map out the critical path. Q2. How does ms project calculate the critical path? Project defines critical tasks as those that have no slack. However, we can change when a task becomes critical. For example, we can make a task critical if it has one or two days of slack. This is helpful if you want to be alerted to tasks becoming critical when you still have a day. Microsoft project calculate critical path by starting and ending date. If there is slack between the tasks so ms project will not calculate the critical path. Cri...

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