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Sub Code: RCS7D001
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7 Semester/Regular/Back Examination: 2022-23
9 - 2 BRANCH(S): CSE/EEE
SUBJECT: Software Project Management
10 Time : 3 Hour
Max Marks : 100
Q.Code : L120
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Answer Question No.1 (Part-1) which is compulsory, any eight from Part-II and any two
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from Part-III.
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Q1 Answer the following questions : (2 x 10)
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a) What is Gantt chart? Mention its importance.
b) Give two reasons that lead to stress.
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Define configuration and revision in context of software.
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Mention any two criteria for selecting a proper process model.
f) Give two reasons that lead to stress.
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Name any two methods of improving motivation.
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h) Define the term software reliability.
i) Difference between process metrics and product metrics.
j) State two drawbacks of statistical testing.
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Only Focused-Short Answer Type Questions- (Answer Any Eight out of (6 × 8)
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What do you mean by project planning? Discuss the essential steps to be carried
out during project planning.
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Describe the necessity of software configuration management. Discuss briefly
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configuration management activities.
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c) Describe briefly about earned value analysis for cost monitoring.
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What is team structure? Categorize team structure and explain each citing their
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advantages and disadvantages.
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Explain the use of PERT to evaluate the effects of uncertainty.
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What does Halstead’s volume metric represent conceptually? How according to
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Halstead is the effort dependent on program volume?
Explain how Putnam’s model can be used to compute the change in project cost
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model to compute the additional costs incurred due to schedule compression?
h) Why is it necessary for a project manager to decompose the tasks of a project
using work breakdown structure (WBS)? To what granularity level are the tasks
decomposed? Explain your answer.
i) What are the important types of risks that a project might suffer from? How would
identify the risks that a project is susceptible to during project planning stage?
j) Discuss the salient features of the organizational reporting structure of the SQA
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group as recommended by SEI CMM and ISO 9001.
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List four metrics that can be determined from an analysis of a program’s source
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code and would correlate well with the reliability of the delivered software.
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Explain the different characteristics of software quality
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Briefly explain the agile software development model. Give an example of a project (16)
for which the agile model would be suitable and one project for which the agile
model would not be appropriate.
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State the advantages of function point over Lines of Code (LOC). List all the value
adjustment factors. What are the metric for specification quality?
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Consider a project
8 input =50
No. of2user
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1 No. of user files = 0635
No. of Enquiries =
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All CAF and weighting factor are average. Compute
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Q5 a) What are the different categories of software
COCOMO estimation Model? Give9examples - 2 of software product development (8x2)
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projects belonging to each of these 0categories.
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average experience on similar types of project. 2 The project schedule is not tight.
b) A project size of 200 KLOC is to be developed software development team has
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Q6 a) What do you understand by
advantages of TQM? Does
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total quality management (TQM)? What are the (8x2)
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