CE1.4-R4 Page 1 of 2 July, 2016
CE1.4-R4: PROJECT MANAGEMENT
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Time: 3 Hours Total Marks: 100
1.
Explain basic, intermediate and detailed COCOMO models in brief.
Briefly describe what are the steps involved in identification of project scope and objective?
Describe what do you mean by "Aids for Risk Identification" with the help of relevant example.
Explain what is meant by Quality control, Quality plan and TQM?
Explain the relationship between Time and cost with respect to project management.
Explain Contract Management and the role of contract manager.
What is strategic assessment? Differentiate between strategic assessment and technical
assessment.

2.
Software project planning entails what activities? What are the difficulties faced in measuring
the Software Costs?
Net Present Value measures the total value of an investment over its lifetime. Why is it useful to
know the Net Present Value of a proposed software development project? How would you
calculate the Net Present Value of a proposed project?
Explain the purpose and procedures for operating a configuration management system.

3.
Explain in detail about creating the framework for monitoring and control.
Explain the various approaches to controlling changes to a project requirement.
What is ROI? How it is calculated? Calculate the ROI for a software project development, where
the net profit is 60,000 and total investment is 3,00,000.

4.
Define development costs? What are the steps in cost-benefit analysis?
Define risk analysis and risk monitoring? What things are to be considered in risk management?
What is meant by stakeholder management and describe how the project manager ensures
stakeholder co-operation?

5.
Describe the following concepts with the help of relevant examples:
Risk Components and drivers
ii) Risk Prioritization
1. Answer question 1 and any FOUR from questions 2 to 7.
2. Parts of the same question should be answered together and in the same
sequence.
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Determine
network diagram
ii) critical path
iii) ES, EF, LS and LF
iv) free slack for each activity for the project parameters given below:
Task
Number
Description Duration (days)
Dependent on
Tasks
T1 Specification 15
T2 Design Database 45 T1
T3 Design GUI 30 T1
T4 Code database 105 T2
T5 Code GUI part 45 T3
T6 Integrate and Test 120 T4 and T5
T7 Write user manual 60 T1

6.
Differentiate between quality assurance and quality control. Are they synonyms? Justify.
What is CMM? Describe its levels and compare it with ISO 9001.

7.
Explain the stages and documentation required for an effective change management
system.
A project consisting of 6 activities to the budgets, the complete and the actual recorded
costs for a specific point in time are as shown below:
Calculate the Earned Value for each activity
ii) Calculate the overall of the project
iii) Calculate the CPI (or efficiency) of the project
iv) Calculate the estimated final cost