IMPORTANT INFORMATION

NOTE: A 60 day trial version of MS Project 2010 is provided at the link: http://download.cnet.com/Microsoft-Project-Professional-2010-64-Bit/3000-2076_4- 75451125.html

QUESTION 1E, should be saved as (.mpp) you can email the .mpp file to me Outlook: emmanuelukoha1@outlook.com

Question 1 (100 POINTS): In this question, you are going to apply the development steps of project planning in two ways: first manually, then using a CASE tool: MS Project 2010. MS Project is a very practical professional tool that helps automate the process of project planning. Learning how to use this tool wl be a very good experience for you and you can mention in resumes later on when you apply for a job/internship. Please note that using MS Project is part of this assignment. It is freely available for you to work with. So, you are expected to navigate through this tool and be able to create a simple project schedule as required in Question 1 belovw Please plan accordingly and make sure you allocate enough time to get familiar with this useful tool, so that you can solve the problem easily. The sample project presented in this question involves the tasks of building a network security lab for a software company. Following is a st of tasks associated with duration in days) and immediate predecessor(s) of each task of in this project. Please note that the resources allocated are listed as initials in Table , and the corresponding full resource names for each initial is given in Table 2. As an example, the resource PM that is assigned to task A in Table s listed as Project Manager in Table 2 and has a cost of 250USD/hr Table 1. Task Table Table 2. Resource Table Duration Initials of Resource Resource Re source Name Task ID Explanation PredessorAllocated PM, PL E1, T1 rements ct ct leader UA E1 190 Iternative plans 10 E2, T4 one alternative Infrastructure cabling for room1 Infrastructure cabling for room2 170 150 140 130 E1, CM1, CM2 CM3 F. G H T4, CM2 CMB all routers ram routers 100 70 T2, CMI UA, CM2 Test the overall s Mi 1.A) (20 POINTS) Draw the AON (activity on Node) step by step work in the process of building the activity network activity network manually. Show your 1.B.) (20 POINTS) Show ES, EF, LS and LF values for each node in a tabular form as seen below, Explain how each value is calculated for cach node. ES LS EF LF .C.) (15 POINTS) Show slack (float) variables and non-slack variables. 1.D.) (20 POINTS)What is the critical path and what is its length? Please show your work. I.E.) (25 POINTS) Projects with large number of tasks and resources become impractical to solve manually. For this reason, automated CASE tools are provided. MS Project 2010 is one of them. In this part of the question, use MS Project 2010 to verify that the critical path you calculated manually in question 1.D is correet Question 1 (100 POINTS): In this question, you are going to apply the development steps of project planning in two ways: first manually, then using a CASE tool: MS Project 2010. MS Project is a very practical professional tool that helps automate the process of project planning. Learning how to use this tool wl be a very good experience for you and you can mention in resumes later on when you apply for a job/internship. Please note that using MS Project is part of this assignment. It is freely available for you to work with. So, you are expected to navigate through this tool and be able to create a simple project schedule as required in Question 1 belovw Please plan accordingly and make sure you allocate enough time to get familiar with this useful tool, so that you can solve the problem easily. The sample project presented in this question involves the tasks of building a network security lab for a software company. Following is a st of tasks associated with duration in days) and immediate predecessor(s) of each task of in this project. Please note that the resources allocated are listed as initials in Table , and the corresponding full resource names for each initial is given in Table 2. As an example, the resource PM that is assigned to task A in Table s listed as Project Manager in Table 2 and has a cost of 250USD/hr Table 1. Task Table Table 2. Resource Table Duration Initials of Resource Resource Re source Name Task ID Explanation PredessorAllocated PM, PL E1, T1 rements ct ct leader UA E1 190 Iternative plans 10 E2, T4 one alternative Infrastructure cabling for room1 Infrastructure cabling for room2 170 150 140 130 E1, CM1, CM2 CM3 F. G H T4, CM2 CMB all routers ram routers 100 70 T2, CMI UA, CM2 Test the overall s Mi 1.A) (20 POINTS) Draw the AON (activity on Node) step by step work in the process of building the activity network activity network manually. Show your 1.B.) (20 POINTS) Show ES, EF, LS and LF values for each node in a tabular form as seen below, Explain how each value is calculated for cach node. ES LS EF LF .C.) (15 POINTS) Show slack (float) variables and non-slack variables. 1.D.) (20 POINTS)What is the critical path and what is its length? Please show your work. I.E.) (25 POINTS) Projects with large number of tasks and resources become impractical to solve manually. For this reason, automated CASE tools are provided. MS Project 2010 is one of them. In this part of the question, use MS Project 2010 to verify that the critical path you calculated manually in question 1.D is correet