CAPM Practice: Demonstrate an understanding of a project management plan schedule

The Critical Path Method (CPM) performs forward pass and backward pass calculations through the network to determine: early start, early finish, late start, and late finish for each activity. These dates define when activities can start earliest and latest without affecting the project's critical path or end date.

**Why not B:** Resource leveling adjusts activity timing to resolve resource over-allocation, but it does not calculate early start, late start, or float values. It is a resource optimization technique that may extend the schedule, not a scheduling analysis method.

**Why not C:** Earned value analysis measures project performance by comparing earned value to planned value and actual cost. It assesses schedule and cost performance metrics (SPI, CPI, SV, CV) but does not calculate individual activity start dates or float.

**Why not D:** Monte Carlo simulation generates probability distributions for project outcomes by running thousands of scenarios. While it provides probabilistic schedule information, it does not calculate the deterministic early/late start and finish dates that CPM produces.