SD Calculation

Please help with the working:

A project manager has been asked by the client to meet the promise date of the project. The project manager analyzes the schedule before promising a date to the customer. The project manager uses the program evaluation and review technique to evaluate the project schedule. She decides that based on the PERT calculations she can promise a delivery date of June 30. The expected value of the project completion date is May 30. If the project manager is willing to accept a 5% probability that the project will be delivered later than June 30, what is the standard deviation of the duration of the activities on the critical path? Assume a five-day workweek.

a. Ten days
b. Fifteen days
c. One-half month
d. One month

acurtpmp's picture

Since this is SD, 100%-5%= 95%, since 95% is +/- 2 SD or sigma, this means that 1 month is two SD, so your answer would be half a month, being answer C.

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