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Hello everyone! Here is this week's free PMP exam sample question from the PM Exam Simulator.

Your pharmaceutical drug manufacturing project is behind schedule and you are under pressure from the stakeholders to finish the project on time. You want to use a schedule compression technique to improve performance. You have four different tasks on your project that can be performed in parallel. Which schedule compression technique is best to use in this situation?

A. Fast Tracking
B. Crashing
C. Applying Leads and Lags
D. Resource Leveling

HINT: There are only two schedule compression techniques.

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Answer and Explanation:
The correct answer is A.

Fast Tracking is a schedule compression technique in which phases or activities normally performed in sequence are performed in parallel. Crashing is performed by allocating overtime or providing more resources.
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