Department of Information Technology

Year 2020-21
Class: TEIT UNIT-III Sub: SEPM

Q.1. Following are the phases of Project Management Life Cycle. Arrange them in correct order

1. Design, 2. Marketing, 3. Analysis and evaluation, 4. Inspection, testing and delivery

(A) 3-2-1-4

(B) 1-2-3-4

(C) 2-3-1-4

(D) 4-3-2-1

Ans: A

Q.2. The successful project managers spend most of their time:

a. Planning with their personnel

b. Planning with the top management
c. Communication with the project team
d. Studying project results.
Ans: C
Q.3. PERT analysis is based on

a. (Optimistic time + 4*Most likely time + pessimistic time)/6

b. (Most likely time + 4* Optimistic time + pessimistic time)/6

c. (Pessimistic time + 4*Most likely time + Optimistic time)/6

d. None of the above

Ans: A

Q.4. The critical path

 a. Is a path that operates from the starting node to the end node

b. Is a mixture of all paths.

c. Is the longest path

d. Is the shortest path

Ans: C

Q.5. Activities A, B, and C are the immediate predecessors for Y activity. If the earliest finish times
for the three activities are 12, 15, and 10, then the earliest start time for Y will be

a. 10

b. 15

c. 12

d. Cannot be determined

Ans: B

Q.6. Activities P, Q and R instantly follow activity M, and their current start times are 12, 19, and 10.
Therefore, the latest finish time for activity M is

a. 11

b. 10

c. 18

d. Cannot be determined

Ans: A
Q.7. Gantt charts are used for

a. Forecasting sales

b. Production schedule

c. Scheduling and routing

d. Linear programming

Ans: B

Q.8. What does a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) “break down?”

a. Project costs are broken down into the departments where they are charged.

b. The structural elements of the project facility and equipment are broken down for

inventory and tracking purposes.c. Sequence Diagram

c. Project deliverables are broken down into tasks and activities.

d. Don’t Know

Ans: C

Q.9. A project document that describes all the work that must be done to complete the project, is know
as -

a. Work Basic structure

b. Work Breakdown structure

c. Work Break structure

d. Work Boundry structure

Ans: B

Q.10. 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
Ans: D

Q.11. What is true about critical path method (CPM), or critical path analysis (CPA), Method.

a. It is method for scheduling a set of project activities.

b. It is the longest path of planned activities.

c. Both a and b

d. None of the above

Ans: C

Q.12. What is a work breakdown structure?

a. list of the activities making up the higher levels of the project

b. A definition of the hierarchy of project tasks, subtasks, and work packages

c. A depiction of the activities making up a project

d. A Gantt chart

Ans: B

Q.13. Various Symbol used in Gantt chart are-

a. Black Diamond, Black bar, Lighter horizontal bar, Arrow

b. Black Triangle, Black line, Lighter horizontal bar, Arrow

c. Both Statements are correct

d. Both are wrong

Ans: A

Q. 14. Which of the following is a project scheduling method that can be applied to software
development?

a. PERT
b. CPM
c. CMM
d. Both PERT and CPM

Ans: D
Q.15. What is a collection of software engineering work tasks, milestones, and deliverables that must
be accomplished to complete a particular project?

a. Task set
b. Degree of milestone
c. Adaptation criteria
d. All of the mentioned

Ans: A

Q.16. PERT weighted average given by?

a. (O+4ML+P)/10
b. (O+6ML+P)/6
c. (O+6ML+P)/4
d. (O+4ML+P)/6

Ans: D

Q.17. Activities A, B, and C are the immediate predecessors for Y activity. If the earliest finish times
for the three activities are 12, 15, and 10, then the earliest start time for Y will be.

a. 10

b. 15

c. 12

d. Cannot be determined

Ans: B