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Browse 3 real-world technical and behavioral interview questions about Critical path. Review scenarios, edge cases, and architectural best practices.
Sum the task durations and compare that with the wall-clock span, because nine hours of waiting and nine hours of work are different problems. If the sum is still an hour, you are queueing on a bounded worker pool, usually behind sensors holding slots; if a task genuinely grew, its own duration history over the last thirty runs tells you whether it stepped or sloped.
Establish the real new date before you talk to anyone, by re-running the critical path with the slip in it rather than adding three weeks to the end. Then present one recommended date with the two rejected options and what each would have cost. It also connects stakeholder communication to the point an interviewer is testing.
Convert effort to duration through explicit productive capacity, then check it against the critical path and the customer's dependencies, because dates are often bound by sequence rather than effort. Against a promised date, commit a smaller scope rather than a compressed plan.