It Project Man 600 CA Test 2 Mcqs
It Project Man 600 CA Test 2 Mcqs
It Project Man 600 CA Test 2 Mcqs
EASY QUESTIONS
ANSWER:D
A. True
B. False
ANSWER:A
The software scope identifies what the product will do and what it will not do, what the end product
will contain and what it will not contain.
A. Yes
B. No
ANSWER:A
A schedule activity may begin 10 days before the predecessor activity finishes. This is an example of:
A. Finish-to-Start
B. Start-to-Finish
C. Start-to-Start
D. Finish-to-Finish
ANSWER:A
In PDM, which of the following relationships is rarely used:
A. Finish-to-Start
B. Start-to-Finish
C. Start-to-Start
D. Finish-to-Finish
ANSWER:B
Which of the following does NOT generate changes to the Project documents:
A. Define Activities
B. Sequence Activities
C. Estimate Activity Resources
D. Estimate Activity Durations
ANSWER:A
INTERMEDIATE QUESTIONS
A schedule activity may begin 10 days before the predecessor activity finishes. This is an example of:
A. ADM
B. PDM
C. A dependency with lag
D. A dependency with lead
ANSWER:D
Work study is concerned with_____
A. improving present method and finding standard tools
B. motivation of workers
C. improving production capabilities
D. all of the above
ANSWER:A
Activity Resource Requirements is an input to which of the following processes:
A. Estimate Activity Durations
B. Control Schedule
C. Estimate Activity Resources
D. Sequence Activities
ANSWER:A
Which of the following is not a main element of the project management process?
A. Schedule.
B. Plan.
C. Estimation.
D. Systems design.
ANSWER:C
ADVANCED QUESTIONS
A. Yes
B. No
ANSWER:A
A clear hierarchy of objectives in the project definition would not normally contain:
A. Control mechanisms
B. The purpose
C. Success criteria
D. Desired end result
ANSWER:A
Software project management is the process of managing all activities that are involved in software
development, they are.
A. Time
B. Cost
C. Quality management
D. All mentioned above
ANSWER:D
EASY QUESTIONS
Which of the following are claimed as advantages of the AON method over the AOA method of
network diagram notation?
A. Most computer software uses the AON approach.
B. AON do not need dummy activities to maintain the relationship logic.
C. AON diagrams have a clearer notation than AOA.
D. The first, second and third answers.
ANSWER:C
Which of the following is especially useful for monitoring project progress against plan?
A. Network diagrams.
B. Capacity loading graphs.
C. Gantt charts.
D. Flow diagrams.
ANSWER:C
Activities A and B are both 6 days long and the only immediate predecessors to activity C. Activity A
has ES=8 and LS=8 and activity B has ES=7 and LS=10. What is the ES of activity C?
A. 14
B. 15
C. 16
D. 13
ANSWER:A
An activity has an optimistic time of 11 days, a most likely time of 15 days, and a pessimistic time of
23 days. What is its variance?
A. 16.33
B. 15.6
C. 2
D. 4
ANSWER:D
The standard deviation of a path through a network is equal to the sum of the standard deviations
for each of the activities that make up that path.
A. True
B. False
ANSWER:B
The time of activity in a project can be estimated to have a most likely completion time of 7 days, an
optimistic time of 6 days, and a pessimistic time of 9 days. Which of the following is true of the
Expected time and the variance for this activity
A. 0.25 days, 7.17 days
B. 7.33 days, 0.25 days
C. 7.17 days, 0.25 days
D. 3.67 days, 0.25 days
ANSWER:C
A 2 3 4
B 2 4 6
C A, B 3 4 8
D C 2 3 7
E D 4 6 8
F E 5 8 13
G E 4 4 4
H F, G 2 4 6
A. 17
B. 26
C. 25
D. 37.33
ANSWER:B
INTERMEDIATE QUESTIONS
Dummy relationships or dummy activities can be used in which of the following Activity Sequencing
techniques:
A. Precedence Diagramming Method [PDM]
B. Arrow Diagramming Method [ADM]
C. Fragment Network
D. Schedule Network Templates
ANSWER:B
When a network is crashed, every activity is reduced to its shortest possible time
A. True
B. False
ANSWER:B
A project's critical path is composed of activities A, B, and C. Activity A has a standard deviation of 2,
activity B has a standard deviation of 1, and activity C has a standard deviation of 2. What is the
standard deviation of the critical path?
A. 25
B. 9
C. 3
D. 5
ANSWER:C
What is the probability that a project with a mean completion time of 23.9 days and a variance of 6
days will be finished in 26 days?
A. 0.20
B. 0.37
C. 0.63
D. 0.80
ANSWER:D
The ethical issue of divulging confidential information to some bidders to give them an unfair
advantage is known as
A. low balling.
B. bid rigging.
C. bribery.
D. expense account padding.
ANSWER:B
ANSWER:B
ANSWER:B
Dummy activities
A. are found in both AOA and AON networks.
B. have a duration equal to the shortest non-dummy activity in the network.
C. cannot be on the critical path.
D. are used when two activities have identical starting and ending events.
ANSWER:D
In activity on arrow networks the only reason for using a dummy activity is to make the logic correct.
A. True
B. False
ANSWER:B
The shortest time of a project is the time of the path with the longest duration.
A. True
B. False
ANSWER:A
For an activity duration is 5 days and the node at the start has an early start time of 4 days and a
latest start time of 5 days. The node at the end has an early start time of 10 days and a latest start
time of 11 days. The Total Float is:
A. 0 days
B. 1 day
C. 2 days
D. 5 days
ANSWER:C
ADVANCED QUESTIONS
ANSWER:B
What would be the critical path if the duration of activity C increased to 10?
A. ABGHIF
B. ABCF
C. ABDEF
D. ABCEF
ANSWER:B
The best person to hire as a project team leader is the most competent software engineering
practitioner available.
A. True
B. False
ANSWER:B
The best project team organizational model to use when tackling extremely complex problems is the
A. closed paradigm
B. open paradigm
C. random paradigm
D. synchronous paradigm
ANSWER:B
In PERT chart
A. all activities should be numbered
B. only important activities should be numbered
C. only critical activities are numbered
D. no activity is numbered
ANSWER:A
Which of the following is a major disadvantage of the Matrix method of project management?
A. A single project manager is held responsible for the successful completion of the project.
B. Team members must leave their functional "home" - jeopardizing their career path.
C. Communication between functional disciplines is discouraged.
D. Team members report to two bosses - creating a potential conflict.
ANSWER:D
ANSWER:B
To identify the financial benefits and costs associated with the development project is the
purpose of:
A. economic feasibility
B. technical feasibility
C. operational feasibility
D. schedule feasibility
ANSWER:A
Software project manager is engaged with software management activities. He is responsible for.
A. Project planning.
B. Monitoring the progress
C. Communication among stakeholders
D. All mentioned above
ANSWER:D
Critical path on PERT / CPM chart is obtained by joining the events having
A. maximum slack
B. minimum slack
C. average slack
D. no slack
ANSWER:B
PERT analysis computes the variance of the total project completion time as
A. the sum of the variances of all activities in the project.
B. the sum of the variances of all activities on the critical path.
C. the sum of the variances of all activities not on the critical path.
D. the variance of the final activity of the project.
ANSWER:B
ANSWER:D
EASY QUESTIONS
A resource histogram is a bar chart representing the total resources used per time unit, across all
resources that are used in the activities.
A. True
D. False
ANSWER:B
The textbook indicated that ________ is the major dimension of strategic management.
A. Responding to changes in the external market
B. Allocating scarce resources of the organization
C. Beating competition to the market
D. Both a and b are correct
ANSWER:D
Which of the following questions does the organization's mission statement answer?
A. What are our long-term strategies?
B. What are our long-term goals and objectives?
C. How do we operate in the existing environment?
D. What do we want to become?
ANSWER:D
The assessment of the external and internal environments is called _______ analysis.
A. SWOT analysis
B. Competitive
C).Industry
D. Market
ANSWER:A
Which of the following is not one of the requirements for successful implementation of strategies
through projects?
A. Allocation of resources
B. Prioritizing of projects
C. Motivation of project contributors
D. All of these are requirements
ANSWER:D
Which of the following is not one of the commonly heard comments of project managers?
A. Where did this project come from?
B. Why are we doing this project?
C. How can all these projects be first priority?
D. Why is this project so strongly linked to the strategic plan?
ANSWER:C
Project managers who do not understand the role that their project plays in accomplishing the
organization's strategy tend to make all the following mistakes except:
A. Focusing on low priority problems
B. Overemphasizing technology as an end in and of itself
C. Focusing on the immediate customer
D. All the above are likely mistakes
ANSWER:D
For network analysis, activities in a project must satisfy one of the following:
A. They use time and resources only
B. They use time, resources, and structure
C. They take time but are independent of the resources used
D. They can be done at any time.
ANSWER:B
You have just been asked to oversee 100 people on a two-year project, to develop a new MRI
machine similar to a current product, which will have twice the effectiveness and cost less to
manufacture. You are uncertain about the time required to complete many of the activities. Which
project management technique should you use?
A. CPM with a single time estimate
B. MRP
C. CPM with three time estimates
D. GANTT
ANSWER:D
Resource reallocation from non-critical to critical activities is an example of which Project Scheduling
technique:
A. Critical Path Method
B. Schedule Compression
C. What-if Analysis
D. Resource Leveling
ANSWER:D
For critical path scheduling techniques to be most applicable, the jobs or tasks of a project must be:
A. well-defined.
B. independent.
C. ordered.
D. all of the above.
ANSWER:D
ANSWER:D
INTERMEDIATE QUESTIONS
ANSWER:B
ANSWER:C
In project execution and monitoring, every project is divided into multiple phases in which all major
tasks are performed based on which phase of SDLC.
A. Milestones checklist
B. Status reports
C. Activity monitoring
D. None of the above
ANSWER:A
Some organizations require a preliminary financial analysis of the project before granting approval to
perform the detailed planning. Although such analyses are very rough because not enough
information is known about the project at this time, they will offer a tripwire for project-planning
approval, that is called___________.
A. Feasibility study
B. Financial analysis
C. Risk analysis
D. Break even study
ANSWER:B
ADVANCED QUESTIONS
Knowledge of best practices in a particular area is MOST likely to give rise to which of the following
dependencies:
A. Finish-to-Start dependency
B. Soft Logic
C. Mandatory dependency
D. External dependency
ANSWER:B
A Project Manager is preparing a Project Schedule network diagram. During the diagram
development, she removes a dependency between two tasks that was defined in an earlier stage.
After the network diagram is completed, she updates activity attributes for the two tasks. This is an
example of:
A. Define Activities
B. Sequence Activities
C. Develop Schedule
D. Lack of change control
ANSWER:D
Susie's department is implementing many projects. She finds herself starting and stopping work on
one task to go and work on another task, and then return to the work on the original task. Susie is
experiencing
A. Poor scheduling
B. Excess work burden
C. Flexible tasking
D. Multitasking
ANSWER:D
Which of the following is not one of the classifications for assessing a project portfolio?
A. Sacred cow
B. Bread-and-butter
C. Pearls
D. Oysters
ANSWER:A
Which of the following is not true for Resource Leveling:
A. Project schedule is build with resource buffers to prevent schedule slippage
B. Project’s Critical path may be altered
C. Resource based scheduling method
D. Reverse resource allocation scheduling
ANSWER:A
Which of the following is the reason(s) why project managers need to understand their
organization's mission and strategy?
A. To make appropriate decisions and adjustments
B. To be effective project advocates
C. To be able to get their job done
D. Both A and B are correct
ANSWER:D
When can selected common process framework activities be omitted during process decomposition?
A. when the project is extremely small in size
B. any time the software is mission critical
C. rapid prototyping does not require their use
D. never—the activities should always occur
ANSWER:D
Product and process decomposition often occurs simultaneously as the project plan evolves.
A. True
B. False
ANSWER:A
Which of these software characteristics are used to determine the scope of a software project?
A. context, lines of code, function
B. context, function, communication requirements
C. information objectives, function, performance
D. communications requirements, performance, information objectives
ANSWER:C
Project management is less important for modern software development since most projects are
successful and
completed on time.
A. True
B. False
ANSWER:B
Which chart is a tool that depicts project as network diagram. It is capable of graphically
representing main events of project in both parallel and consecutive way.
A. PERT chart
B. Gantt chart
C. Both A & B
D. None of the above
ANSWER:A
EASY QUESTIONS
Following can be BEST described as a kind of dependency that can create arbitrary float values and
limit scheduling options:
A. Mandatory dependency
B. Discretionary dependency
C. Start-to-Finish dependency
D. External dependency
ANSWER:B
ANSWER:C
How does a software project manager need to act to minimize the risk of software failure?
A. double the project team size
B. request a large budget
C. start on the right foot
D. both c and d
ANSWER:D
Software scope is not a well-defined boundary, which encompasses all the activities that are done to
develop and deliver the software product.
A. True
B. False
ANSWER:B
Successful project management does NOT include which of the following factors?
A. Responsiveness to clients
B. Competent team members
C. Interchangable staff
D. Control mechanisms
ANSWER:C
Organizations that achieve high levels of maturity in people management have a higher likelihood of
implementing effective software engineering processes.
A. True
B. False
ANSWER:A
INTERMEDIATE QUESTIONS
ANSWER:A
In Risk management process what make note of all possible risks, that may occur in the project.
A. Manage
B. Monitor
C. Categorize
D. Identification
ANSWER:D
The major areas of problem decomposition during the project scoping activity are the
A. customer workflow
B. functionality to be delivered
C. process used to deliver functionality
D. both b and c
ANSWER:D
Which factors should be considered in choosing the organizational structure for a software team?
(Select all that apply)
A. degree of communication desired
B. predicted size of the resulting program
C. rigidity of the delivery date
D. a, b, and c
ANSWER:D
ANSWER:D
All of the following are advantages of the pure project organizational structure EXCEPT:
A. the project manager has full authority over the project.
B. equipment and people are shared across projects.
C. lines of communication are shortened.
D. high team pride and commitment. .
ANSWER:B
As a rule of thumb estimate, what percentage of the entire development effort should be
devoted to the project initiation and planning process?
A. between 10 and 20 percent
B. less than 5 percent
C. less than 10 percent
D. between 20 and 30 percent
ANSWER:A
Activities designed to assist in organizing a team to conduct project planning is the focus of:
A. project planning
B. project identification and selection
C. project initiation
D. analysis
ANSWER:C
ANSWER:A
A. True
B. False
ANSWER:A
Positive slack on a PERT indicates that project is ______
A. ahead of schedule
B. beyond schedule
C. on critical path
D. none of the above
ANSWER:A
ADVANCED QUESTIONS
ANSWER:B
EASY QUESTIONS
Which may be estimated either in terms of KLOC (Kilo Line of Code) or by calculating number of
function points in the software.
A. Time estimation
B. Effort estimation
C. Cost estimation
D. Software size estimation
ANSWER:D
A Project Manager must have good understanding of the mechanics of power and politics to be
effective. As defined by Pfeffer, power includes all the following except:
A. The Potential to influence behavior
B. Potential to change the course of events and overcome resistance
C. Ability to get people to do things that they would not otherwise do
D. Ability to handle power struggles and organizational games
ANSWER:D
ANSWER:B
Which of the following is not project management goal?
A. Keeping overall costs within budget.
B. Delivering the software to the customer at the agreed time.
C. Maintaining a happy and well-functioning development team.
D. Avoiding costumer complaints.
ANSWER:D
Project managers have to assess the risks that may affect a project.
A. True
B. False
ANSWER:B
Which of the following is/are main parameters that you should use when computing the costs of a
software development project?
A. travel and training costs
B. hardware and software costs
C. effort costs (the costs of paying software engineers and managers)
D. All of the mentioned
ANSWER:D
INTERMEDIATE QUESTIONS
You are working in the Project Office of your organization. What is your job responsibility?
A. Managing the different activities of a project
B. Always being responsible for the results of the project
C. Providing support functions to Project Managers in the form of training,
software, templates etc.
D. Providing Subject Matter Expertise in the Functional areas of the project
ANSWER:C
Your IT company is responsible for making software virus programs. You are responsible for
managing both the individual product releases and the co-ordination of multiple releases over time.
Your role is that of a:
A. Program Manager
B. Project Manager
C. Functional Manager
D. Operations Manager
ANSWER:A
A major outcome and deliverable from the project initiation and planning phase that contains
the best estimate of a project’s scope, benefits, costs, risks, and resource requirements
defines the:
A. Baseline Project Plan
B. Information Systems Plan
C. Mission Statement
D. Statement of Work
ANSWER:A
A cost associated with an information system that can be measured in dollars and with
certainty is referred to as a(n):
A. economic cost
B. tangible cost
C. intangible cost
D. one-time cost
ANSWER:B
ADVANCED QUESTIONS
Cost reduction and avoidance, error reduction, and increased flexibility are examples of:
A. intangible benefits
B. qualitative benefits
C. tangible benefits
D. legal and contractual benefits
ANSWER:C
You are managing the release of a new drug in the market. Your role is that of a:
A. Functional Manager, because you have good understanding functional knowledge of the
pharmaceutical industry
B. Project Manager, because you are creating a unique product within specific time schedules
C. Operations Manager, because you have to do several repetitive tasks
D. Program Manager, because you have to manage several sub-projects to effectively do your job
ANSWER:B
Which of the following is incorrect activity for the configuration management of a software system?
A. Internship management
B. Change management
C. Version management
D. System management
ANSWER:A