Business 9609 · AS & A Level · Quality management

Quality management — practice question

(a)[6]

Produce a network diagram, showing the earliest start times (EST) and latest finishing times (LFT) for every activity.

(b)[3]

Calculate the items below:

  • minimum project duration value [1]
  • free float relating to activity D. [2]
(c)[12]

BSJ is currently having difficulty meeting deadlines for jewellery trade fairs (lines 36–42). Evaluate the usefulness of critical path analysis to BSJ in helping the company meet these deadlines.

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This 21-mark question has a full step-by-step worked solution and mark scheme. One marking point: A sensible effort to draw the network (if this is missing, no further marks can be awarded)

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