IT Project Management BSIT 6th Term 2017 Past Paper UOS

BS 6th Term Examination 2017
Subject: I.T
Paper: IT Project Management (IT-4349)
Time Allowed: 2:30 Hours
Maximum Marks: 80

Objective Part (Compulsory)

Q.1. Write short answers of the following in 2-3 lines each. (2*16)
i. Define Backward Pass?
ii. What is RMMM?
iii. What is Portfolio Management?
iv. Differentiate between Project, Process and Product?
v. Define Stakeholder?
vi. What is Configuration Management?
vii. What is Quadruple Constraints?
viii. What’s the difference between BCWP and BCWS?
ix. What is Gantt Chart?
x. What is procurement management?
xi. What’s the difference between Testing and Debugging?
xii. Define Preliminary Investigation?
xiii. How can slack be negative?
xiv. Differentiate between Schedule Variance and Cost Variance?
xv. Define term “Statement of Work”
xvi. What is change control?

Subjective Part (3*16)

Q.2. What is Preliminary Investigation? What’s the importance of this investigation? At which point during SDLC this investigation is being done? What is the end product of this investigation?

Q.3.
(a) What’s the difference between ROI (return on investment) and payback period? Explain with example?
(b) A project has following activities: Environment Permits, Traffic report, Utility Locates and Intersection Design. To complete this project, the approval of these activities (Environment Permits, Traffic Report, and Intersection Design) is given by project manager. The project manager is also informed the Utility Locates. Environmental coordinator is responsible for environment permits and he is also consulted in intersection design. Traffic officer is responsible for traffic report and intersection design and also informed utility locates. Utility officer is responsible for utility locates and consulted for intersection design.

• Identify the roles and responsibilities and draw RAM for this project?

Q.4. Consider the following scenario and answer the following question:

a) Draw the project network diagram.
b) Develop the project schedule (EST, EFT, LST, LFT, Slack).
c) What are the critical activities and critical path?
d) What is the project completion duration?
e) If there is an option to delay one activity without delaying the entire merge project, which activity would you delay and why?

Q.5. Suppose you are managing a software development project. The project is expected to be completed in 6 months at a cost of $15,000 per month. After 4 months, planned completion should have been 70%. But you realize that the project is 50% completed at a cost of $70,000. [3+4+3]
a) Find BCWP, BCWS, and ACWP
b) Calculate SPI and CPI and interpret these indexes?
c) Calculate EAC for this project.

Q.6 Write a Note on any two of following option?
a) Skill requirements for project manager
b) Process Groups in Project Management
c) Formulation of Network Model