Consider the information provided below( all duration expressed in months)

You are asked to work on this project using MA project. You need to take into account the following information.

The project needs to be delivered on 1/6/2017.

Consider a working week of 5 days (Monday to Friday) and 8 hours of work everyday (8.00-16.00)

No activity will take place in bank holidays, (1/1/16, 6/1,16, 14/3/16, 25/3/16

, 29/4/16, 30/4/16 , 1/5/16, 2/5/16, 16/6/16, 20/6/16 15/10/16,28/10/16,16/12/16,1/1/17, 6/1/17, 27/2/17, 25/3/16 , 14/4/17, 15/4/17, 16/4/17, 17/4/17, 1/5/17

All activities are fixed duration

The requirements in resources R1 (workers) for every activity are i) activities A,B,C,D,E,I, J require 2 units of resource R1 and ii) for activities C, G and H. You can allocate 5 units of resources R1 per month apart from period 1/5 -31/5/2017 when you can only allocate 1 unit ,

Question 1

When is the start date of the project?

Question 2

which is the duration of the project in days?

Question 3

what is the latest finish date of the project?

Question 4?

What is the latest cumulative resource allocation? R1 in hours , 20/03/17

Note : Use the command Format - Details - Cumulative work

Question5

What would be the impact of the project if not all resources R1 are available on the 1st and 2nd of September?

Question 6

What is the critical path of the project

Question 7

What practices would you employ to bring the end date forward by 1 month? Consider the cost of overtime is 70% on top of the normal rates. What would be the impact to the cost? Note consider the costs only accounts for the salaries of the workers)

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