Software Project Management BSSE 6th Term Past Paper 2017 UOS

University of Sargodha

BS 6th Term Examination 2017

Subject: Software Engineering
Paper: Software Project Management (SE: 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. Differentiate between Forward Pass and Backward Pass?
ii. List out different types of Risks?
iii. What is Portfolio Management?
iv. Differentiate between Project, Process and Product?
v. Define Critical Path?
vi. What is Configuration Management?
vii. What is Triple 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. What is payback period?
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.
a. Identify the roles and responsibilities and draw RAM for this project?

Q.4. Consider the given scenario.

a) Draw a Network Diagram for the above scenario
b) Find the Expected Time and Standard Deviation for each activity
c) Find the expected time and standard deviation for project length
d) Determine the critical path

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.
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. Organization Structure in Project Management
c. Leaderships and their styles