A. the continuous process of measuring products, services and practices against the toughest competitors or those companies recognized as industry leaders

b. the evergreen process of measuring and controlling the quality of software development

c. the process of establishing baselines in project management

 

8. What does PV metric measure?

 

a. Processed Value – The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.

B. Planned Value – The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.

c. Project Value – The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.

d. Proposed Value – The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.

 

9. What is the number of engineers you would need to assign to this project in the minimum amount of time (work day has 8 hours)?

Task N 10 hours | Task O 5 hours | Task P 7 hours Task Q 4 hours | Task R 20 hours | Task S 12 hours Task T 19 hours | Task U 15 hours | Task V 8 hours

You can assume that all the tasks are independent and all engineers who work on the tasks have basically the same skills but you can assign one task to one engineer only.

 

a. 6 engineers for 2.5 days

b. 7 engineers for 1.5 days

C. 5 engineers for 3 days

d. 4 engineers for 5 days

 

10. What are the maximum duration of the project in weeks and days at minimal quantity of engineers assigned (work week has 5 days)?

Task N 10 hours | Task O 5 hours | Task P 7 hours Task Q 4 hours | Task R 20 hours | Task S 12 hours Task T 19 hours | Task U 15 hours | Task V 8 hours

You can assume that all the tasks are independent and all engineers who work on the tasks have basically the same skills.

 

A. 2 weeks 3 days

b. 2 weeks 4 days

c. 3 weeks 1 day

d. 3 weeks 2 days

 

11. What is needed to be developed for initial schedule process?

 

a. Identify intermediate and final dates that must be met

b. Identify ‘depends on’ relationships between all these identified activities

c. Analyze the diagram to determine critical paths and slack times of noncritical paths

d. Identify all your activities

E. All of the given

f. Draw a dependency diagram for all identified activities and relationships

g. Identify all activities and milestones outside your project that may affect your project’s schedule

 

 

12. If we have 5 key stakeholder, how many channel of communication we need to consider?

 

a. 15

B. 10

c. 12

d. 9

e. 5

 

13. What is not an example of Quality Assurance tools?

 

a. Fishbone diagram

b. Checklists

c. Scatter diagram

D. Planning Poker

e. Inspection

 

14. If the company you work for has a 5 day work week, what other assumptions do you have to make to calculate the project duration?

Task A 2 days | Task B 3 days Task C 5 days | Task D 2 days Task E 5 days | Task F 1 day

 

a. Sick leaves

B. All of the given

c. Holidays

d. Interruptions

 

15. What are not the key ideas behind a control mechanism for a software development project:

 

A. Make sure you can tell everyone on the project what to do every day

b. Ensure that you have visibility into a project and can make changes that affect project output

c. Everything of the given is required

d. Understand what is going on in a project and make project adjustments that can achieve a beneficial outcome

e. Have a feedback method so that project changes are monitored for correct response

 

16. Please provide a definition of critical path of the project schedule

 

a. The path which contains the most important tasks of the project

b. The path which contains the tasks of the project with the highest consumption of resources

C. The path which contains the tasks of the project with 0 slack time

d. The path which contains the most expensive tasks of the project

 

18. In Configuration Management Tasks what mean «Reporting»

 

A. tell others about changes made

b. controlling changes before and after customer release

c. tracking changes to multiple SCI versions

d. ensure changes are made properly

e. authority to approve and prioritize changes

 

19. The schedule is a critical part of the plan. Determine which of the following is False for the schedule

 

a. Most schedules are done early in a project and then reviewed infrequently

b. Projects need a schedule for many reasons, but one of the most important is balancing resource loading

c. The schedule ties all parts of the project together

D. The schedule should be used as a way to force developers to do what they are told

e. The schedule is a good way to track a project

 

20. If the students had the lecture 2 days ago how much information they can recall?

 

a. 10%

b. 70%

c. 25%

d. 50%

 

21. Critical path method is used in which of the following processes:

 

a. Sequence Activities

b. Define Activities

c. Estimate Activity Durations

D. Develop Schedule

22. If you were responsible to manage the above project with tasks N-V and you were using Earned Value to manage the project what percentage of the project would be complete when Tasks N, P, Q and V were completed.

Task N 10 hours | Task O 5 hours | Task P 7 hours Task Q 4 hours | Task R 20 hours | Task S 12 hours Task T 19 hours | Task U 15 hours | Task V 8 hours

You can assume that all the tasks are independent all engineers who work on the tasks have basically the same skills

 

a.  44%

b. 35%

c.  71%

d. 29%

23. In SCM Processes «Status accounting»