CAPES case studies

CAPES - the Certified Associate in Project and Engineering Scheduling - is a multiple-choice credential aimed at schedulers, planning engineers, project controls analysts, and project managers who build and maintain project schedules in engineering and construction environments. It is an associate-level exam: it assumes you understand how a schedule is constructed and read, not that you have run a program controls office for a decade. The ten domains move from fundamentals and terminology, through WBS development, logic and duration estimating, and critical path calculation, into resource loading and leveling, cost loading, schedule risk and contingency, progress and performance analysis, change control, and finally schedule quality and validation. The weighting leans toward CPM and schedule calculation, so be prepared to compute forward and backward passes, total and free float, and to reason about what a logic change does to the critical path. The CAPES case studies are 5 cases and about 3,280 words.