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Ins401:Legal And Ethical Aspects Of Information Question Paper
Ins401:Legal And Ethical Aspects Of Information
Course:Bachelor Of Science In Information Science
Institution: Moi University question papers
Exam Year:2016
MOI UNIVERSITY
OFFICE OF THE CHIEF ACADEMIC OFFICER
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS
2015/2016 ACADEMIC YEAR
FOURTH YEAR FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATION
FOR THE DEGREE OF
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
IN
INFORMATION SCIENCES
COURSE CODE: INS 401
COURSE TITLE: LEGAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS OF INFORMATION
DATE: 10TH AUGUST, 2016 TIME: 2.00 P.M. – 4.15 P.M.
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MOI UNIVERSITY
SCHOOL OF INFORMATION SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY AND INFORMATION STUDIES
FIRST SEMESTER 2015/2016 ACADEMIC YEAR EXAMINATIONS
COURSE CODE: INS 401
COURSE TITLE: LEGAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS OF INFORMATION TIME: 2 Hrs 15 Mins
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SECTION A: ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS FROM THIS SECTION (30 MARKS)
1. You are a project manager newly assigned to a large project for your organization. The project charter has been signed, and the stakeholders have been identified. What should you do next?
A. Ask appropriate team members to submit WBS input
B. Initiate the scope planning process
C. Start the develop project management plan process
D. Begin the activity definition process
2. The communications management plan is a document which includes descriptionsof
A. Project level performance reports
B. Activity level status reports
C. Stakeholders communication requirements
D. Responsibility assignment
3. What is a common result of poor project planning?
A. Wasted effort
B. Lost time
C. Increased cost
D. All of the above
4. A project is:
A. An activity with a fixed start date, but no end date
B. A number of ongoing tasks an organization undertakes
C. A set of activities with fixed start and end dates
D. A task without a budget
5. Which of the following is NOT part of the expert judgement tool and technique for the develop project management plan process?
A. Tailor the process to meet the project needs
B. Hold planning meetings to develop the risk management plan
C. Determine resources and skill levels needed to perform project work
D. Define the level of configuration management to apply to the project
6. Projects can fail because:
A. The project is planned in too much detail
B. The project is not controlled closely
C. Stakeholder requirements are too specific
D. Project risks are identified too early in the project
7. You are creating your WBS and find that you keep decomposing tasks into smaller and smaller units. How can you tell when you are done?
A. Keep decomposing tasks until you reach an amount of work that is small enough to reliably estimate required resources and duration
B. Keep decomposing tasks until you reach an amount of work that can be accomplished in one hour
C. Keep decomposing work until you reach an amount of work that can be accomplished in your organization’s basic work unit
D. Keep decomposing work until you reach a predetermined number of hierarchy levels to keep the WBS balanced
8. As the project manager, you decided to arrange a team meeting to identify and analyze lessons learned from quality control with stakeholders. What should you do with them?
A. Document them and make them part of the historical database for the project and the performing organization
B. Discuss them with management and make sure that they remain otherwise confidential
C. Publish them in the corporate newsletter
D. Follow your strategic decisions, independent from lessons learned. These decisions have been made and should be implemented whatever the outcomes are
9. Which of the following is an output pf the collect requirements process?
A. Scope management plan
B. Requirements management plan
C. Requirements risk breakdown
D. Requirements traceability matrix
10. Which of the following is a valid input to the collect requirements process?
A. Project charter
B. Requirements traceability matrix
C. Validated deliverables
D. Work performance information
11. The project schedule:
A. Is used to calculate how long the project will take
B. Can only be done using a software program
C. Contains the lists of tasks, their duration and resources allocated
D. Is the same as the Gantt chart
12. What does a project scope statement document?
A. What work is to be completed during the project
B. What deliverables need to be produced by the project
C. Both A and B
D. Neither A nor B
13. As the project manager in a software project which is currently initiated, you want to assess high-level risks. What should you do?
A. Develop the project charter and a risk management plan to start identifying risks based on those and other documents.
B. Identify and analyze risk events using qualitative and quantitative techniques
C. Develop contingency plans and fallback plans in case the original plan proves wrong
D. Discuss the risks documented in you Risk register with the project key stakeholders
14. The collection of projects that an organization undertakes within a particular planning cycle is called as:
A. Motto
B. Mission
C. Programme
D. Portfolio
15. Project controls are used to assess:
A. Schedule
B. Budget
C. Quality
D. All of the above
16. How should change management be planned for?
A. Changes are generally not predictable, therefore planning for change management cannot be reasonable
B. Planning for change management should be done while the various change control processes are being applied
C. Change management can be planned in a set of management plans or a specific change management plan
D. Changes are a sign of bad planning. One should avoid changes during a project, thus eliminating the need to manage them
17. The ___ is in essence thinking carefully about something before you do it.
A. Planning
B. Testing
C. Collection
D. Executing
18. What is the role of the Project Sponsor?
A. To train users
B. To chair the steering committee
C. To determine the critical priorities for the project
D. To own the product or system when it becomes operational
19. During the execution of a project to build a complete mission critical system, your team has run into a deep crisis. The project’s goals and objectives have been challenging right from the start, but now you have discovered that your team members have become increasingly unaware of them. Being busy solving detail problems, they often fail to understand the overall requirements. Then they develop solutions which resolve issues on their area of limited responsibility, while causing new problems at the interfaces with other system components. Meanwhile, the team members show signs of growing frustration, and time is running away. How can you help your team in this situation?
A. Accompany your team members along a sequence of maturity levels from dependence through independence to interdependence
B. Ignore the low-level issues and focus on achieving the overall requirements, details can be sorted out during test and handover
C. If everybody simply does their jobs, then there should be no problem. Make sure that team members are fully aware of their accountability
D. Problems of this dimension have their origin in fundamental personal incompatibilities between team members. You should replace them all.
20. A customer is requiring a minor scope change and expects you to do this without delays and additional costs. You believe that you have adequate authorization to make the decision by yourself, but you are not quite sure. What should be your nest steps?
A. A requested change is always an opportunity to get paid more money by the customer and to secretly solve schedule and quality problems. You should make some reasonable estimates on time, costs, risks etc. and then add a nice margin on top of that to calculate the new price
B. Customer satisfaction is your top priority. The customer gives you an opportunity to increase their satisfaction, which you should use to the maximum benefit. Most project managers have contingencies to cover risks; these can be used to pay the additional costs
C. Before making a decision you should have a look at the customer’s parking lot. If you find there many expensive, new models, it is likely that you can use the requested change to increase the profit from the contract. Otherwise, you should reject the request
D. Handle the request according to the integrated change control processes described in your management plans. Then make a decision together with the appropriate change control body, whether the increased customer satisfaction will be worth the extra costs, work risks etc
21. A project is typically defined in terms of scope, time, cost and which other parameter?
A. Benefits
B. Quality
C. Tolerance
D. Controls
22. Which one of the following statements best defines teamwork?
A. People working collaboratively towards a common goal
B. Developing skills that will enhance project performance
C. Gathering the right people together to work on a project
D. Establishing vision and direction towards a common purpose
23. You are in the process of planning a project and found that stakeholders often have varying objectives and requirements. This makes it hard to come up with a plan with which all objectives will be met. What is probably most helpful to ensure common understanding?
A. Ask the project stakeholders to build focus groups in order to discuss and remedy conflicting interests
B. Create an exhaustive document describing your point of view and ask stakeholders to review it
C. Let each stakeholder write a statement of work, merge the documents to a project scope statement
D. Use your authorization as the project manager to clearly prioritize the different objectives
24. Construct an activity on arrow network based on the activity descriptions below. Show all your work. Label activities in the network by their activity letters and node numbers. Remove any redundant dependencies and label dummy activities Dummy1, Dummy2, etc. [7 marks]
• The predecessors to Activity Z2 are Activities L, C and R.
• The successors to Activity B are Activity E1, S, W and D2.
• Activity E1 also depends on Activity M.
• Activity U and F follow Activities W and D2, and precede Activities E and R1.
• Activity Y follows Activities C and R, and followed by Activity L.
• Activities D, M and B start the project.
• Activity C can start when Activities D, E1 and S are completed.
• Activity R cannot begin until Activity W is finished.
• Activity I follows Activity D and precedes Activity L.
• Activity E follows Activities C and R.
SECTION B: ANSWER ANY TWO QUESTIONS FROM THIS SECTION. EACH QUESTION CARRIES 15 MARKS
QUESTION TWO
a) Explain what is meant by stakeholder management and describe how the project manager ensures stakeholder co-operation. (8 marks)
b) List five characteristics of projects and describe how each is different from business-as-usual activities. (7 marks)
QUESTION THREE
a) Describe the main project organization structures and give their advantages and disadvantages. (7 marks)
b) Moi University School of Information Sciences plans to install a video conferencing infrastructure. You have been incorporated as one of the project team members. Explain the steps that you will follow in the procurement of the facility citing the documents involved in each step and their significance. (8 marks)
QUESTION FOUR
a) Explain four types of estimates and give their approximate accuracy rating. (8 marks)
b) By use of suitable typical project life cycle diagram explain the phases of a project. (7 marks)
QUESTION FIVE
a) Citing a project of your choice, explain the risk management process. (8 marks)
b) By use of suitable examples, explain the difference between programme management and portfolio management. (7 marks)
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