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p6 Interview Questions

This document contains a list of common interview questions for a Planning Engineer role. It includes questions about project scheduling concepts like total float, free float, constraints, work breakdown structure (WBS), milestones, critical activities, resource allocation and leveling, baselines, earned value management, schedule performance measurement, and differences between scheduling software like MS Project and Primavera. Additional questions covered open-end activities, schedule updating frequency, retained vs override logic, and continuous vs interruptible scheduling.

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p6 Interview Questions

This document contains a list of common interview questions for a Planning Engineer role. It includes questions about project scheduling concepts like total float, free float, constraints, work breakdown structure (WBS), milestones, critical activities, resource allocation and leveling, baselines, earned value management, schedule performance measurement, and differences between scheduling software like MS Project and Primavera. Additional questions covered open-end activities, schedule updating frequency, retained vs override logic, and continuous vs interruptible scheduling.

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PRIMAVERA QUESTIONS FOR INTERVIEWGiven below are list of interview questions faced by Planning

Engineer , other than their personal and Experience. if anyone like to add more u are welcome pls.............Common
Interview questions for Planning Engineer:

1. What is total float?


In project management, float or slack is the amount of time that a task in a project network can be delayed
without causing a delay to: subsequent tasks ("free float") project completion date ("total float").

2. What are the difference between free float and total float?

Total Float (TF) = the maximum amount of time an activity can be delayed from its early
start without delaying the entire project. Late Date Early Date = Total Float

More simply, the range an activity can move around without affecting the end date of the
project.

Free Float (FF) = the maximum amount of time an activity can be delayed without
delaying the early start of any of its succeeding activities.

3. What is a constraint?
4. What are the difference between MS Project and Primavera?
5. How to load cost & resource in a program?
6. What is WBS?
7. What is a milestone? What are the types of milestone?
8. What are the difference between flag and milestone activity?
9. What is a critical activity?
10. What is resource allocation and leveling?
11. What is a Baseline Program?
12. What are BSWS, BSWP, and ACWP?
13. What are SV and CV?
14. What is a Budget and how do you compare budget against Actual cost?
15. What is an S Curve?
16. What is the difference between P3.1, P3E, and P5 etc.
17. What is an open end activity?
18. How often you update your program?
What is an open end activity?
How do u measure & compare the progress?
During an interview, ive been asked these questions:-
What is the difference between Retained Logic & Override Logic?-
What is the difference between Continuous & Interruptible scheduling?-
What is the no. of activities that u monitor & how do u make the update?-
How do u measure & compare the progress?-
Earned Value Terms (very detailed).Regards.Dear AllIt is really a very good interview tips at the senior/lead planner
level. It istrue as some of our friend explain that it is bit hard for a fresh graduate or even a planner with 4-5 year of
experience, except a very genius.Here the some answer that Mr Stephen did not reply in detail or may be I could not
got the point.4. What are the difference between MS Project and Primavera?I will reply that the cost & resource
management is much better in P3 rather then MS project where as MS project can produced more makeup(good
fonts/color/tabbing and etc) reports then P3 for presentation.8. What are the difference between flag and milestone
activity?Mile stone & flags both are events rather then activities. Some client likes touse flags rather than mile stone
due the following differences
.1- With the use of flags the logic of main event can be easily tracked as thesecan not be created without predecessor
as stand alone allocating the constraint.Where as mile stone can.
2- Flags can not update manually as P3 automatically update the status where asmilestone can be update manually.

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