SPM Revision II

Which one of the following is not considered as a risk in project management?

• Staff turnover

• Testing

• Product competition

• Specification delays

Risk projection attempts to rate each risk in two ways

• likelihood and exposure

• likelihood and consequences

• likelihood and cost

• likelihood and impact

A project budget report shows spending of Rs. 350,000/- against a budgeted amount of Rs. 400,000/-. Which of the following is true?

• The project will complete within budget

• They are doing a good job managing the project

• We can not be sure how the project is going

• Project is spending less than the required amount

The 40-20-40 rule suggests that the least of amount of development effort be spent on:

• Planning

• Coding

• Testing

• Modeling

Timeline charts assist project managers in determining what tasks will be conducted at a given point in time.

• True

• False

The purpose of earned value analysis is to

• determine how to compensate developers based on their productivity

• provide a quantitative means of assessing software project progress

• provide a qualitative means of assessing software project progress

• set the price point for a software product based on development effort

Earned value analysis is a technique that allows managers to take corrective action before a project crisis develops.

• True

• False

Doubling the size of your software project team is guaranteed to cut project completion time in half.

• True

• False

Which of the following is not one of the guiding principles of software project scheduling:

• compartmentalization

• market assessment

• time allocation

• effort validation

COCOMO II is an example of a suite of modern empirical estimation models that require sizing information expressed as:

• function points

• lines of code

• object points

• any of the above