ITPEC FE Subject A April 2026 Question 42
ITPEC FE Subject A April 2026 — Question 42 of 60
66 person-months — compute development, add the fixed work, then apply the management overhead to their sum.
- •Development:
500 ÷ 10= 50 person-months - •Installation and education: 10 person-months (given)
- •Subtotal:
50 + 10= 60 - •Project management:
60 × 0.1= 6 - •Total:
60 + 6= 66
Answer (d)
Why not others:
- (b) 60 — stops at the subtotal and forgets the project management overhead entirely
- (c) 65 — applies the 10% to development only (50 × 0.1 = 5), although the question bases it on development plus installation and education
- (a) 51 — adds only 10% of the 10 person-months to the development figure, dropping both the 10 itself and the rest of the overhead
Key rule: Read carefully what the percentage is taken of. Here it is the total of all three activities, so the overhead must be computed last, after the other numbers are summed.
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