Question

In the context of planning and scheduling of activities in project management, consider the following statements :
Statement-1 : In the PERT formulation, the completion time of activities is assumed to follow a Gamma distribution
Statement-2 : The forward pass gives an estimate of the earliest time when an activity can be started.
Which of the following is CORRECT?

• A. Statement-1 is TRUE and Statement -2 is FALSE
• B. Both statements are TRUE
• C. Statement-1 is False and Statement-2 is TRUE
• D. Both statements are FALSE

Answer 1

The correct option is C Statement-1 is False and Statement-2 is TRUE

Statement-1: In the PERT formulation, the completion time of activities is assumed to follow Beta distribution.
Statement-2: The forward pass gives an estimate of the earliest time when an activity can be started.