SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

INTERNAL TEST -3 QUESTION BANK

1.The total value credited to a project at any point is known as _______.

A. earned value.
B. moral value.
C. money value.
D. recurred value
ANSWER: A
2. You are told to prepare a report on the most commonly occurring product defects. You
review the software defect reports, which categories the defects of coding errors,
requirement errors, documentation errors, etc. The best tool to report this information is
A. A histogram
B. A pareto diagram
C. A cause and effect diagram
D. A scatter plot
ANSWER: A
3. Read the following paragraph and identify the correct statement.
“Imagine that you were recently hired as a software engineer to a company that
specializes in aircraft navigation control software. While orientating yourselves to the
company’s work practices, you observe that they in fact do not conduct a few tests that
they should in order to comply with the relevant safety standard. When you inquire about
this from the project manager, he dismisses it saying that those tests are really
unnecessary (and takes an unreasonably long time to conduct, as well as being
superfluous) and that they have managed with the other tests for so long, without any
problems.”
a) You should immediately resign from the company and file a complaint with the relevant
standard institution
b) You should do nothing and let the matter slide
c) Although you are new to the company, and you hardly know anything about the internal
processes and politics, you should insist on the company changing its work practices
immediately; failing which you threaten to report the matter
d) Since you are new to the company, and you are unfamiliar with the internal processes and
politics, you should first find-out more about the issue and its background
Answer :d
4. Project managers have to assess the risks that may affect a project.
a) True
b) False
Answer:B

5. Which of the following is not considered as a risk in project management?

a) Specification delays
b) Product competition
c) Testing
d) Staff turnover
Answer:C

6. The process each manager follows during the life of a project is known as
a) Project Management
b) Manager life cycle
c) Project Management Life Cycle
d) All of the mentioned
Answer:C

7. Arrange the following steps to form a basic/general Engineering Process Model.

i. Test
ii. Design
iii. Install
iv. Specification
v. Manufacture
vi. Maintain
a) 2, 4, 5, 1, 6, 3
b) 4, 2, 5, 1, 3, 6
c) 2, 4, 5, 1, 3, 6
d) 4, 2, 5, 1, 6, 3
Answer:B

8. Which is a software configuration management concept that helps us to control change

without seriously impeding justifiable change?
a) Baselines
b) Source code
c) Data model
d) None of the mentioned

Answer:A

9. Software Configuration Management can be administered in several ways. These

include
a) A single software configuration management team for the whole organization
b) A separate configuration management team for each project
c) Software Configuration Management distributed among the project members
d) All of the mentioned
Answer:A

10. What complements the formal technical review by assessing a configuration object
for characteristics that are generally not considered during review?
a) Software configuration audit
b) Software configuration management
c) Baseline
d) None of the mentioned

Answer:A
11. The first step in the framework for defining and assigning work is ____.

A.defining how the work will be accomplished

B.breaking down the work into manageable elements
C.finalizing the project requirements
D.assigning work responsibilities

Answer: C

12. If the Earned Value is equal to Actual Cost, it means

A. Schedule Variance Index is 1
B. There is no schedule variance
C. There is no cost variance
D. Project is on budget and on schedule

ANSWER: C

13. Ensuring that no more than the allocated number of people are allocated at any
given time in Software Scheduling is known as
a. Time Allocation
b. Defined Milestone
c. Effort Validation
d. Effort Distribution

Ans:C

14. Which of the following is incorrect activity for the configuration management of a
software system?
a. Version management
b. Change management
c. Internship management
d. System management

Ans :C
15. A Gantt chart is a standard format for displaying project schedule information by
listing project activities and their corresponding start and finish dates in a ____ format.

A. pie chart
B. line graph
C. bar graph
D. calendar

Answer: D

16. Key outputs of ____ process are project staff assignments, resource calendars, and
project management plan updates.

A. Managing the project team

B. Acquiring the project team
C. Developing the project team
D. Developing the human resource plan

Answer :B

17. Why is Requirements Management Important? It is due to the changes

A) to the environment
B) in technology
C) in customer’s expectations
D) in all of the mentioned.

Answer:D

18. Check points are used to measure

A. Measure project evalution time

B. Measure project completion time
C.Measure the effective ness
D.None of the above

Ans : a

19.In ____, Henry Gantt developed the famous Gantt chart as a tool for scheduling
work in factories.

A. 1897
B. 1917
C. 1927
D. 1957

Answer: B
20. Which of the following option is not tracked by configuration management tools?

A) Tracking of change proposals

B) Storing versions of system components
C) Tracking the releases of system versions to customers
D) None of the mentioned

Answer:D

21. What is the objective of project steering committee?

A. Keep track of projects on scheduled date and time.

B. To measure effectiveness of the project.
C.To check whether the expected target is met or not
D.To measure the project evaluation time.

Ans A:

22. CCA Stands for

a. Clinger-Cohen Act
b. construction Association
c. Computability and Complexity in Analysis
d. None of the above

Ans :b

23. What are the colors used in traffic light color?

A.Green
B. Amber
C.Red
D.All of the aboves

Ans: D

24 Ball chart is used

a. To Provide visual indication of project activities

b. To take project progress
c. to indicate whether the expected target is met or not
d. To measure project effectiveness

Ans C
25. Identify the activities that are carried out in project termination process

a. Testing
b. Maintenance
c. Collection of objective information
d. Analysis

Ans:C

26. Identify the classes of product domain

a. Customer
b. Business
c. Real Time
d. All of the above

Ans : d

27.---------- is the one of the basic stages of development

a.Estimating the cost

b. Estmating Time
c. Control
d. Maintenance

Ans :A

28. Which of the following is not the process of PMI

a. Planning
b. Executing
c. Controlling
d. Analyzing

Ans d

29. The decision categories are

a.Planning
b.Control
c. Maintenance
d.All of the above

Ans d

30. The longest path through a network diagram that determines the earliest
completion of a project is called the ____ path.

A. essential
B. important
C. critical
D.vital

Answer: C

31. Many organizations are now using enterprise or project ____ management software
to help manage projects.

A. path
B. portfolio
C. institute
D.office

Answer: B

32. ____ tools are often recommended for small projects and single users.

a. Low-end
b. Mid Range
c. High-end
d. Expensive

Answer: A

33. ____ are the people involved in or affected by project activities and include the
project sponsor, project team, support staff, customers, users, suppliers, and even
opponents of the project.

a. Managers
b. Stakeholders
c. Directors
d. Citizens

Answer: B

34. In an interview with two chief information officers (CIOs), both men agreed that
the most important project management skills seem to depend on ____.

a. the difficulty of the project and the resources involved

b. the difficulty of the task and the people involved
c. the uniqueness of the project and the difficulty of the task
d. the uniqueness of the project and the people involved

Answer: D

35. Why project termination review are important?

a. It is beneficial to other teams

b. It is beneficial to terminated projects
c. It provides important opportunities to learn from past mistakes
d. All of the given options

Answer d

36. What are the 2 important factors associated with Risk?

a. Cause & Issue

b. Effect & Probability
c. Issue & Effect
d. Cause & Effect

Ans:d

37. Which of the following is defined by American Society of Qulaity?

A. Product Process
B. Project Process
C. Both A and B
D. None of the above

Ans : B

38.Milestone of a project denotes

A. Stages of a project
B. Phases of a project
C. Collections of related product activities
D. All of the above

Ans :C

39. What is Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs ?.

A. Self Actualization
B. Belongingness
C. Physiology
D. All of the above

Ans:D

40. Which of the following option is not tracked by configuration management tools?
a) Tracking of change proposals
b) Storing versions of system components
c) Tracking the releases of system versions to customers
d) None of the mentioned

Answer:D

41. Which of the following are parameters involved in computing the total cost of a
software development project?
a) Hardware and software costs
b) Effort costs
c) Travel and training costs
d) All of the mentioned

Answer:D

42. PMI provides certification as a Project Management ____ (PMP), someone who has
documented sufficient project experience and education, agreed to follow the PMI code
of professional conduct, and demonstrated knowledge of the field of project
management by passing a comprehensive examination.

a. Producer
b. Practitioner
c. Professional
d. Professor

Answer: C

43. _ is best known for developing Theory X and Theory Y.

a.Frederick Herzberg
b.David McClelland
c.Abraham Maslow
d.Douglas McGregor

Answer: D

44.Identfy the measures that are often used to enhance job design

a. Job design
b. Job Enrichment
c. Job Enlargement
d. Both B and C

Ans :d

45. The objectives of project teams are

a. To improve group thinking

b. To Analyse the coordination of project
c. To perform requirements analysis
d. Both a and b

Answer a

46. Identify the objectives of organizational structure

 A. Functional
B. Matrix
C. Projected
D. Combination of the above

Answer:

47. What are the objectives of organizational behaviour?

a. To perform requirements analysis

b. To Analyse coordination of project
c. To improve group thinking
d. To select the best people for the job

Ans :d

48 . ……………… is one of the model for motivating the people.

a. Matrix model
b. Gannt Model
c. Taylorist Model
d. Oldham model

Ans : C

49. The virtual team is also known as

a. Geographically dispersed team

b. Distributed team
c. Remote team
d. All of the above

Answer : d

50. what are the measures used to reduce the disadvantages of group decision making?
a. The cooperation of a number of experts
b. Proper planning
c both a and b
d.None of the above

Ans a