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EXECUTIVE M.B.A. DEGREE EXAMINATION, MAY 2018
First and Second Years
B-FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Project Management
Time 3 Hours Maximum Marks :70
SECTION A
Answer any three of the following questions. x 5 15)
Q1) Project manager.
Project organization.
Financial aspects.
Project reports.
Project review.
Project planning.
SECTION B
Answer any three of the following questions. x 15 45)
Q2) Explain in detail the need for technical analysis.
Q3) What are the various sources of project financing?
Q4) Explain the project management information system.
Q5) How do you manage transition from project planning to operations? Explain.
Q6) What are the various techniques in network analysis?
Q7) How do you formulate the detailed project report? Explain.
SECTION C
(Compulsory)
Q8) Case Study
Project consisting of eight activities has the following characteristics:
Activity Preceding Time estimates (in weeks)
Activity Optimistic Most likely Pesimistic
A None 2 4 12
B None 10 12 26
C A 8 9 10
D A 10 15 20
E A 7 7.5 11
F B,C 9 9 9
G D 3 3.5 7
H 5 5 5
Draw the PERT network for the project.
Determine the critical path.
If a 30 week deadline is imposed, what is the probability that the project will
be finished within the time limit? and
If the project manager wants to be 99% sure that the project is completed on
schedule data, how many weeks before that data should he start the project
work? (area of normal curve between Z=0 and Z=0.41 is 0.1591 and the value
of Z which covers 49% of area is 2.33).