The term for safety time added to chains other than the critical chain is: Feeding buffer, first (also known as feeding buffering). B. project buffer serves as a stand-in for C. path buffer, a kind of buffer that holds a file's path. The crucial buffer, in D

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The term for safety time added to chains other than the critical chain is: Feeding buffer, first (also known as feeding buffering).
B. project buffer serves as a stand-in for C. path buffer, a kind of buffer that holds a file's path.
The crucial buffer, in D

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Feeding Buffer:

 It is a safety added to the places where chains of tasks which are non critical feed into a critical chain.

The correct answer is "A, WHICH IS "FEEDING BUFFER"".

 

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Project Buffer:

  It is an extra time added to a task so that, in case of any delay the overall project schedule is not affected.

 

 

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