NIELIT Question Paper : C Level Course Project Management
Institute : National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (nielit.gov.in)
Course : C Level Course
Subject Code/Name : CE1.4-R4/Project Management
Document Type : Old Question Paper
Location : India
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Project Management Sample Paper :
CE1.4-R4:
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Time: 3 Hours
Total Marks: 100
1. a) What is the content of SPMP (Software Project Management Plan) document?
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b) What are the variations of COCOMO Model? What are the shortcomings of that?
c) What are the soft skills required by a software project manager?
d) Distinguish between software product and a software process. What is the meaning of software process model? Why is it needed? Name four process models that are used to develop large software systems.
e) “Software quality managers are responsible for three kinds of activities”. Name and explain them.
f) What are the objectives of Project Planning? What is the significance of customer communication and scope in Project Planning?
g) Narrate the relationship between people and effort. State the process of building and monitoring schedules for software development projects. (7×4)
2. a) Suppose the project has a very tight schedule. Suggest two ways in which productivity could be improved to help bring this project on schedule. Discuss how each of the methods described actually improves productivity.
b) What is a Function Point? Compare Function Point with Feature Point techniques. What is the significance of these metrics for a project manager?
c) Which are the five primary functions performed by software managers? What are the attributes of a successful software project manager? (7+5+6)
3. a) What are the uses of PERT charts and GANTT charts in the overall management of project? How do they assist Project Manager?
b) What are the five software configuration management tasks? Define and discuss each of them.
c) How is the quality of the product controlled? What are the approaches to SQA (Software Quality Assurance)? Differentiate between Quality and Reliability. (6+5+7)
4. a) How is the Project schedule developed? How is the Project cost estimated?
b) What are the fundamental tasks that must be included in Software Quality Assurance (SQA) planning?
c) Which are the factors that affect the team in an organization? What are the coordination and communication issues between the team members? (6+6+6)
5. a) Compare the ISO 9000 certification and CMM model. Discuss potentialities and limitations of ISO 9000 and CMM model.
b) Explain process of identification of Risks that a project is susceptible to. What are the steps the project manager should take to mange these Risks for large software?
c) What are the major attributes all software products should have for the successful implementation and configuration of a software project? (7+7+4)
6. a) What are the benefits of outsourcing? What is to be done in subcontracting? Which systems would be ideal for outsourcing?
b) How would you identify resource requirements for a project? How would you allocate the resources to a project?
c) Which are the types of people involved in software development? What are the various team organization structures? (6+6+6)
7. a) How risk analysis and management can be done? Which are the major software risks? How do you assess the risks?
b) What is the meaning of W5HH Principles in Project Management Concepts?
c) What is the necessity of configuration management? What are the configuration management activities? (6+6+6)
CE1.4-R4: Project Management – July 2012 :
1. a) Why is Project Management important to the Software Development Process? What are the different activities in Project Management?
b) How do you quantitatively analyze the quality of a project during the development?
c) How to estimate the resources for a project? Which are the various options available for the estimation of the same?
d) How to perform variation analysis and risk analysis for a project?
e) Project Managers must focus on the fours P’s to manage the projects. Explain the four P’s in brief with their relationships.
f) Why software reliability always takes precedence over efficiency? Explain in brief.
g) What are software quality problems? What are seven principles of quality system? (7×4)
2. a) Explain why the process of project planning is an iterative one and why a plan must be continually reviewed during a software project.
b) Discuss the techniques for estimating project duration and determining the staffing pattern.
c) Briefly explain how algorithm cost model can be used for estimating software cost. Explain the COCOMO for software cost estimation. (6+6+6)
3. a) How to define the project responsibilities? What kind of actions are to be taken by the project manager to bring deliverable or task back on the schedule?
b) What is the need of Software Quality Certification in Software Quality Assurance? Briefly explain major certification related to Software Quality Assurance.
c) What is meaning of Total Quality Management? What are advantages of TQM? Does ISO 9001 is aimed for TQM? (6+6+6)
4. a) What is the difference between the system life cycle and a system development methodology? What is the critical distinction between a milestones and deliverables?
b) What is the meaning of FTR (Formal Technical Review)? What are the guidelines to review software product? List and explain various activities involved in Software audit. c) Heavy maintenance and quality of a software product are inversely proportional. Elaborate. (6+6+6)
5. a) What is a Function Point? How can the software size for the application be estimated in the function points? Using FP count, how the efforts can be estimated, provided various productivity means are given.
b) What is the relationship between software configuration management and software maintenance?
c) Why is it important to develop the cost and schedule estimates during planning before software requirement analysis or design conducted? (6+6+6)