Project Management Question Paper

Project Management

Institution: Kenya Methodist University question papers

Exam Year:2010

FACULTY : SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOY

DEPARTMENT : CIS AND BIT

TIME : 2 HOURS

INSTRUCTIONS Answer Question ONE and any Other TWO Questions

Question 1

a) Explain what is meant by a ‘successful’ project. (4marks)

b) Identify and explain briefly SIX factors that the project manager might consider when allocating staff to a project. (6marks)

c) Explain the difference between quality control and quality assurance. (4marks)

d) You are an IT manager responsible for selecting a project manager for an MIS development project. Describe the principal skills and qualities you would expect the project manager to possess. (10marks)

e) Identify not more than SIX of the major types of activity that would be carried out in a software development project. (6marks)

Question 2

a) Identify FOUR generic risks that can threaten the success of a project (4marks)

b) Explain the difference between risk avoidance and contingency actions, illustrating your answer by suggesting possible risk avoidance and contingency actions for TWO of the risks identified in a) above. (6marks)

c) Describe Project Charter and Project Requirement Documents and its relevance to Project Management. Construct a sample Project Charter and Project Requirement documents to explain your description. (10marks)

Question 3

a) Using a relevant example discuss Earned Value Management (EVM) as a tool of project cost control (10marks)

b) Describe the steps that can be taken to monitor and control the quality of products created by a project. (10marks)

Question 4

An IT project will have the following activities. The estimated elapsed time for each of the activities is given.

i) detailed requirements gathering and specification (4 weeks).

ii) database design (1 week) - this will be based on the data analysis carried out in activity (i).

iii) build data input software (6 weeks).

iv) build enquiry software (3 weeks).

v) build reports software (4 weeks). Activities iii), iv), and v) can be carried out at the same time.

vi) integration testing (1 week) - this is carried out by the developers to ensure that t he three software components operate together correctly.

vii) writing user manuals (2 weeks) - this activity is started as soon as the building of the three components of software has been completed, but does not have to wait for integration testing.

viii) system testing (2 weeks) - this is done by the end-users, who follow the instructions in the user manuals to try out the integrated system.

Using the above scenario:

a) Draw up an activity network (8marks)

b) Calculate the earliest start, latest finish (expressed in week numbers) and float, for each of the activities in the scenario, explaining each step in the calculation. Show how the floats for activities can be used to indicate the critical path for the project. (12marks)

Question 5

a) A software house needs to change its current unstructured approach to project management. Produce a report to the Managing Director of the software house which explains, with supporting examples, each of the following techniques. The report should discuss any potential benefits and/or drawbacks of applying each technique.

i) Work Breakdown Structures. (5marks)

ii) Resource Smoothing. (5marks)

b) Briefly explain the project time management steps. (10marks)

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