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1 Assignment - Week 1 (Instructions and Guidelines) Dear Candidates, Please read the instructions very carefully before solving and submission of the assignments. **** INSTRUCTIONS **** 1. This is an Objective Type assignment covering the concepts that will be taught in Lectures There are total of 25 objective type questions having and carrying a total of 25 marks. Every question carries equal weight-age. 3. Assignments of only those candidates will be evaluated who have registered and paid for the certification. Others can solve the questions for their own practice. 4. In case anyone has any query regarding any question, kindly post all you query in the forum. It is advised to post all queries regarding a particular question in a single post rather than posting multiple times. This will help other students too if anyone has similar queries and will also save our time. 5. DEADLINE for submission of the assignment is 29 th January, 2017 by 23:59 HRS (IST). 6. Answers will be uploaded on 30 th January, There will be a total of 8 assignments. 1 Assignment will be posted every week on Mondays. Best of 6 out of 8 assignment s score will be evaluated for the final grading. Weight age of all assignment will be same. 8. No extension of deadline will be entertained. If you fail to submit, the course coordinators or the NPTEL TEAM members will be helpless in getting you out of the situation. 9. This assignment is open to all i.e. candidates who have registered and paid for the certification as well as to those candidates those who have only registered for auditing the course. 10. Please follow the instructions while submission of the assignment. Make sure you follow every step carefully and generate the correct ID before submission. Examination pattern will be announced later. Kindly keep checking the assignment section regularly for further updates. Regards, NPTEL-TEAM

2 1. What is the reason for a Project Charter? A. To formally approve a venture or a stage and archive beginning prerequisites which fulfill the partner's needs and desires B. To archive how the venture will be arranged, executed, observed/controlled, and shut C. To connect the venture, which will be arranged, executed, and observed/controlled to the progressing work of the association D. To portray the way toward playing out the work characterized in the venture administration arrange so as to accomplish the venture's targets (Ans.: A) 2. You are a venture director taking a shot at a venture to showcase another item. The deliverables of the venture have been built up, and the venture work has started. An agreement to convey the deliverables has been agreed upon. The client who has marked the agreement has called you to ask for extra work to be done on the venture. This work will influence the monetary allowance however not the calendar of the venture. This venture has a high need with your organization. What would it be a good idea for you to do next? A. Do what the customer asks you to do and add the additional requirements to the original contract B. Refuse the request and send a memo to your management explaining the situation C. Respond to the customer s request by explaining the change procedure and asking that he or she submit a request for change D. Arrange to meet with the project team to discuss this change 3. You are the supervisor of research team gathering that is building up another substance material. You procure a man from a contending organization who has a lot of aptitude here. The individual contributes extraordinarily to the advance of your venture. Amid discussion with the individual you establish that a considerable lot of this current individual's thoughts were produced by the contending organization. What do you do? A. Tell the individual that he or she ought not say that the thoughts originated from another organization B. Consent to a nondisclosure arrangement with this individual before he or she leaves your organization C. Acknowledge the new thoughts

3 D. Explore the representative for security reasons 4. You are dealing with a venture that is in process. A vast and surprising issue happens that will bring about a postponement in the calendar in abundance of the possibility plan for the venture. What would it be advisable for you to do? A. Take a gander at different errands in the calendar and see which ones ought to be lessened to permit time for this issue to be worked B. Diminish testing on the finished assignments C. Require compulsory extra minutes for the venture group D. Address the partners about getting extra time and spending plan for the venture (Ans.: A) 5. You are the venture administrator for an expansive venture. A few individuals from the venture group have come to you and asked that they be allowed to deal with an adaptable timetable. A portion of the other colleagues feel that it is critical that all colleagues be nearby at all circumstances unless they are truant for business reasons. What would it be a good idea for you to do? A. Turn down the demand for adaptable time plans B. Acknowledge the demand for adaptable time plans C. Arrange a meeting of the venture colleagues and permit them to choose D. Examine this issue with your supervisor and follow up on the aftereffects of the meeting 6. You are dealing with a venture and the client's engineer visits your office on an examination and general acclimating visit. Amid the visit they make the remark that the parts that are being composed ought to be in stainless steel rather than plain steel with enamel. What would it be advisable for you to do? A. Approve the adjustment in configuration to your specialists B. Proceed with the present plan C. Address the meeting engineers and talk about having a casual meeting between your architects and the meeting engineers D. Request that the meeting engineers present a change proposition to the change framework

4 7. You are the venture chief for a huge venture that is finished on time and on spending plan. The client and the greater part of the partners are satisfied with the outcomes. As an immediate consequence of the fruitful fulfillment of the venture, your administrator endorses a reward of Rs.25 Lakh for you. There are fifteen individuals from the venture group. One of the general members in the venture group has been a low benefactor to the venture; the other fourteen have all been above standard. What would it be advisable for you to do with the cash? A. Keep the cash yourself; you merit it. Furthermore, the supervisor offered it to you B. Isolate the cash similarly among all the colleagues C. Ask the colleagues how they would separate the cash D. Isolate the cash similarly among the colleagues with the exception of the substandard colleague 8. One of the individuals from your venture group comes to you and says that he heard that one of the providers to the venture had given a significant blessing to one of the venture colleagues with the expectation that the colleague would support his organization with a buy arrange. The organization was favored with a buy arrange for the parts. What would it be advisable for you to do? A. Converse with the individual and get him or her to give back the blessing B. Research the matter totally C. Scratch off the buy arrange with the provider D. Meet with your chief and talk about the issue (Ans.: B) 9. A man who is included in or might be influenced by the exercises or any individual who has something to pick up or lose by the action of the venture is known as a: A. Team member B. Customer C. Stakeholder D. Supporter 10. A brief attempt embraced to make a new product or service is known as a: A. New product development

5 B. Project C. Program D. Enterprise (Ans.: B) 11. A project manager makes a story depiction of the work that must be accomplished for her venture. This is called: A. Project plan B. Control chart C. Statement of work D. Project objective 12. A project manager is employed by a construction & development organization and is in charge of the outfitting of the finished building. One of the primary things that the project manager for this venture ought to do is to compose a: A. Work breakdown structure B. Budget baseline C. Project charter D. Project plan 13. A project manager is making a work breakdown structure for her venture. In the work separate structure, the most reduced level of the breakdown for the venture chief is called: A. Activity B. Task C. Work package D. Cost account (Ans. C) 14. A project manager is reviewing the scope of the project and the scope baseline of the project. This includes which of the following? A. The original project schedule, budget, and scope B. The original project description and project charter

6 C. The original scope of the project plus or minus any scope changes D. The current budget of the project 15. Amid the life of a venture, the venture will experience a few stages initiating, planning, execution, and closeout. Which period of the venture is probably going to have the greatest amount of its financing spent? A. Initiating B. Planning C. Executing D. Closeout 16. The coordinated undertaking of interrelated activities directed toward a specific goal that has finite period of performance is a: A. Project charter B. Project C. Set of project objectives D. Program (Ans.: B) 17. The document that is proof of upper management s commitment to the project and gives the authority to manage the project to the project manager is called: A. The project plan B. The project goals and objectives C. The project charter D. The project definition 18. A venture is proposed to a client. Price and schedule for conveyance are settled upon. The work breakdown structure is consented to too. The client asks for that one of the points of reference of the venture be finished by a specific date. The venture calendar is looked into, and it is found that the normal culmination date for this point of reference is impressively prior that the date asked for by the client. The date for this milestone is which of the following?

7 A. Consideration B. Summary activity C. Constraint D. Suggestion 19. The main difference between the two types (ADM, arrow diagramming method, and PDM, precedence diagramming method) of the critical path method (CPM) of scheduling is: A. Placement of the activity on the logic diagram line B. Arrow diagramming method (ADM) is a deterministic method, whereas the precedence diagramming method (PDM) is a probabilistic method C. Precedence diagramming method (PDM) is a deterministic method, whereas the arrow diagramming method (ADM) is a probabilistic method D. Precedence diagramming method (PDM) is a more accurate method (Ans.: A) 20. The scrum approach began with agile software development as professionals searched for approaches to: A. Enhance Communication B. Decrease throughput C. Increment hazard D. All of Above (Ans.: A) 21. The main roles in Scrum are: A. ScrumMaster B. Product Owner C. Team D. All the above (Ans.: D) 22. The... is in charge of boosting return on investment (ROI) by distinguishing item highlights, making an interpretation of these into an organized component list, choosing which

8 ought to be at the highest priority on the rundown for the following Sprint, and consistently reorganizing and refining the rundown. A. Scrum Master B. Item Owner C. Director D. Group (Ans.: B) 23. The initial phase in Scrum is for the Product Owner to verbalize the item vision. Inevitably, this develops into a refined and organized rundown of components called the: A. Sprint Backlog B. Whiteboard C. Item Backlog D. All of above 24. Decisions with regards to the sorts of projects that ought to be accomplished and strategic plans with regards to the nature of the tasks that are required ought to be the choice of which of the accompanying? A. Project manager B. Procurement manager C. Upper management D. Stakeholders 25. A project manager is responsible for all that goes on in the project. One of the most important duties that the project manage can perform is the function of: A. Risk management B. Quality management C. Cost management D. Integration (Ans.: D)