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1 nam I BIA Un IVERS ltv OF SCIEnCE AnD TECHnOLOGY Faculty of Computing and Informatics Department of Informatics QUALIFICATION: Bachelor of Information Technology in Business Computing QUALIFICATION CODE: 80BSBC LEVEL: 6 COURSE: Project Management(IT) DATE: June 2016 DURATION: 2 Hours COURSE CODE: PTM210S SESSION: 1 MARKS: 100 FIRST OPPORTUNITY EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER EXAMINER(S) Ms Helena David MODERATOR: Mr Josphat Mukabi THIS QUESTION PAPER CONSISTS OF 6 PAGES (Excluding this front page) INSTRUCTIONS 1. Answer ALL the questions. 2. Write clearly and neatly. 3. Number the answers clearly.

2 SECTION A: MULTIPLE CHOICE {25 MARKS) 1. A is a temporary endeavour undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result. program process project portfolio 2. Which of the following is not an attribute of a project? projects are unique projects are developed using progressive elaboration projects have a primary customer or sponsor projects involve little uncertainty 3. Which of the following is not part of the triple constraint of project management? meeting scope goals meeting time goals meeting communications goals meeting cost goals 4. is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements. Project management Program management Project portfolio management Requirements management 5. A is a product or service, such as a technical report, a training session, or hardware, produced or provided as part of a project. deliverable product work package tangible goal 6. Which of the following statements is false? An analysis project life cycle is a collection of project phases. A product life cycle is the same as a project life cycle. The waterfall approach is an example of a predictive life cycle model. Agile is an example of an adaptive life cycle model. 7. The nature of IT projects is different from projects in many other industries because they are very expensive technical

3 diverse challenging 8. A is a series of actions directed toward a particular result. goal process plan project 9. processes include coordinating people and other resources to carry out project plans and create the products, services, or results of the project or phase. Initiating Planning Executing Monitoring and controlling e. Closing 10. A work breakdown structure, project schedule, and cost estimates are outputs of the process. initiating planning executing monitoring and controlling e. closing 11. Initiating involves developing a project charter, which is part of the project management knowledge are integration scope communications risk 12. involves measuring progress toward project objectives and taking corrective actions. e. Initiating Planning Executing Monitoring and controlling Closing 13. Which of the following is not a best practice for new product development projects? aligning projects and resources with business strategy selecting projects that will take less than two years to provide payback 2

4 focusing on customer needs in identifying projects assigning project managers to lead projects 14. A is a document that formally recognizes the existence of a project and provides direction on the project's objectives and management. project charter contract business case project management plan 15. Which of the following items is not normally included in a project charter? the name of the project manager budget information stakeholder signatures a Gantt chart 16. Which of the following processes involves determining the policies, procedures, and documentation that will be used for planning, executing, and controlling the project schedule? planning schedule management defining activities estimating activity resources activity sequencing 17. Predecessors, successors, logical relationships, leads and lags, resource requirements, constraints, imposed dates, and assumptions are all examples of. items in an activity list items on a Gantt chart milestone attributes activity attributes 18. As the project manager for a software development project, you are helping to develop the project schedule. You decide that writing code for a system should not start until users sign off on the analysis work. What type of dependency is this? technical mandatory discretionary external 19. Which of the following statements is false? A resource breakdown structure is a hierarchical structure that identifies the project's resources by category and type. Duration and effort are synonymous terms. A three-point estimate includes an optimistic, most likely, and pessimistic estimate. 3

5 A Gantt chart is a common tool for displaying project schedule information. 20. is a network diagramming technique used to predict total project duration. PERT A Gantt chart Critical path method Crashing 21. is a project performance measurement technique that integrates scope, time, and cost dat Reserve analysis Life cycle costing Project cost budgeting Earned value management 22. is the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfils requirements. Quality Conformance to requirements Fitness for use Reliability 23. What is the purpose of project quality management? to produce the highest-quality products and services possible to ensure that appropriate quality standards are met to ensure that the project will satisfy the needs for which it was undertaken all of the above 24. What is the preferred order for performing testing on IT projects? unit testing, integration testing, system testing, user acceptance testing unit testing, system testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing unit testing, system testing, user acceptance testing, integration testing unit testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing, system testing 25. At the bottom of Maslow's pyramid or hierarchy of needs are needs. self-actualization esteem safety physiological 4

6 SECTION B: SHORT QUESTIONS (35 MARKS) 1. Define the following terms in relation to project management: [10 Marks] a) Quality b) Scope c) Project management plan d) User acceptance testing e) Gantt Charts 2. Name the five (5) project management process groups. [5 Marks] 3. Identify ten (10) project management knowledge areas. [10 Marks] 4. What are four main response strategies for negative risks? [4 Marks] 5. What information should be recorded in a risk register? [6 Marks] 5

7 SECTION C: LONG QUESTIONS (40 MARKS) 1. What is Project Integration Management? Explain six main processes involved in Project Integration Management? [14 Marks] 2. Briefly describe what happens in each of the five Project Management Process Groups)? [10 Marks] 3. Name and describe three communication methods classification. [9 Marks] 4. What is the significant of the critical path? Calculate the critical path for the project shown in figure 1 below? [7 Marks] D=4 1=: \/ 7F=4 Note: Assume all durations are in days; A=l means Activity A has a duration of 1 day. Figure 1 End of Paper 6