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When there are multiple critical paths in a project?

a) The risk is less as it is divided between the paths

b) The risk is more as the risk of delay is more

c) Risk depends on how the critical path is calculated

d) There is no risk as the paths cancel it out

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Question added by Mohamed Helal , Project Manager , GROUP CONSULT INTERNATIONAL
Date Posted: 2016/06/30
Ksenija Kancelak
by Ksenija Kancelak , Construction Project Manager , City of Koprivnica, Koprivnica (Croatia)

My answer is:

b) The risk is more as the risk of delay is more

Yaqoub Alomar
by Yaqoub Alomar , Civil Engineer , Al-Zubeir municipality

My answer is (b) 

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Muhammad Farooq
by Muhammad Farooq , QA-QC MANAGER , AL Bawani contracting co.

Agreed with Ksenija Kancetak answer

VINAY KUMAR GOSWAMI
by VINAY KUMAR GOSWAMI , Partner , 2MI

Ans: (B) Higher Risk [From Systems Engineering perspective: If a system consists of two components each having reliability of 90%, than the reliability of the system will be 0.90 x 0.90 = 0.81 i.e. 81%. Now consider each critical path as one component, system as the project and reliability as the Risks associated with the critial path. So as you will keep adding more components (aka critical paths), reliability of overall system (Project) will go down even if the risks of each critical path is same.

Deleted user
by Deleted user

Thanks for invitation -

With the choice - B .

Sattar Abdulkarim  Mohamed
by Sattar Abdulkarim Mohamed , Country Sales Director , Ideal Technical Solutions

Thanks for your invitation. I think the mutiple critical paths in a project as :

1- Risk of the Engineering system

2- Risk of  components reliability of the Integrating System

3- Delay in the execution stages

4- Big damage in the deliveries

Ahilan R
by Ahilan R , Scientific Assistant-D , Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL)

b) The risk is more as the risk of delay is more is the correct answer, which was practically experienced by me twice.

mamoun mokhtar
by mamoun mokhtar , general manager , albyan technical foungary

because each project have  so many tasks and every task is composed of so many activities the shortest time to complete the task is called critical path for that task so  for many tasks then the critical path is the shortest  time to complete the project you can even plot adigram to find the critical  path of every tacsk and the critical path of the whole project

Krishna   KHASANIS  PMP
by Krishna KHASANIS PMP , Project Manager-Electrical , Larsen & Toubro Ltd, P T & D (International)

Answer : b) The risk is more as the risk of delay is more

Since critical path increases the risk, more the critical paths more the risk.

Mohamed Helal
by Mohamed Helal , Project Manager , GROUP CONSULT INTERNATIONAL

Option b- is the most appropriate answer

Mohammad Sheraz Alamgir
by Mohammad Sheraz Alamgir , Site Engineer. , Sameen Enterprises

c) Risk depends on how the critical path is calculated.

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