Project Management

Which of the following is an appropriate characteristic of a project?

There are negative and positive risks in a project. Among the treatment of risks in scheduling, which of the following corresponds to a treatment of a positive risk?

In a development project for a system, there is a plan to create 36 programs with the same size. It was first planned to assign only Mr. A who can create six (6) programs per week, but the plan was changed and it was decided to assign two (2) people: Mr. A, and Mr. B who has half the productivity of Mr. A. When the cost per week for Mr. A and Mr. B is 300 thousand yen and 200 thousand yen respectively, how much is the change in the cost as compared to the original plan? Here, Mr. A and Mr. B perform activities in parallel, and the efficiency of Mr. A and Mr. B are always fixed.

When the management of a project is divided into progress management, quality management, and cost management, which of the following is most appropriate to be checked in progress management?

Which of the following is the appropriate explanation of a master schedule in a system development project where processes from requirements definition to implementation are performed?

Which of the following is the appropriate description concerning WBS created in a project?

Company A orders the development of a system to Company B and starts a system development project. Among (i) through (iv) below who are concerned with the project, which of the following lists all and only the stakeholders of the project?

A system development project at a company is becoming delayed. In order to resolve the delay, the project leader proposes to project members that part of the planned work procedure be omitted. The project members are divided into those who think that this cannot be avoided and those who are opposed because the quality will decrease. From the perspective of ensuring quality in a project, which of the following is the most appropriate action for a project leader to take?

In an arrow diagram that shows system development, if activities A and D are delayed for three (3) days in total, what is the delay in the entire project?

In a project team that is required to communicate information on a one-to-one basis, when the members increase from six (6) people to ten (10) people, by how many times does the number of paths that are required for communicating information increase?

Which of the following is a method that organizes all of the activities to be performed in the project in a hierarchical structure?

When a system development project is started, it is foreseen that the progress of the project may be affected by a large number of change requests for specification that come from users during the course of development. Which of the following is the most appropriate measure for ensuring that there is no deterioration in quality or delay in delivery date?

The processes of project management include project cost management, project communications management, project resources management, project schedule management, and the like. In a system development project, which of the following is the most appropriate activity in project cost management when members are added for implementing a test?

Estimation methods for system development include the analogous method, the bottom-up method, and the FP (Function Point) method. Which of the following is the appropriate explanation of the FP method?

When the system development activities are carried out, a plan is set up to complete the activities in 20 days by six (6) members having the same productivity. However, the plan is changed to have the activities finished in 15 days, and new members are added. When the productivity of the new members is half of the initially planned members, what is the minimum number of new members necessary for finishing the activities in 15 days?

Which of the following is the hierarchical decomposition for the activities of creating project deliverables?

Which of the following is the most appropriate description of stakeholders in a system development project?

The PC on one’s desk and the printer in a shared space are started by a single person under the conditions shown in the figure below. Each operation/processing needs to be performed sequentially, but during automatic processing of one device, it is possible for the person to move or operate the other device in parallel. What is the minimum time required (in seconds) for the person to start the PC startup at his/her desk, then move, start and end the printer startup, return to his/her desk, and end the PC startup?

Which of the following is the appropriate explanation concerning the approach for project management?

Which of the following is an appropriate description concerning project scope management?

Which of the following is an appropriate metrics for program quality in a software development project?

When the outsourced development project of a system has passed beyond its halfway mark, there is a request from the outsourcer for adding a function to the system. Which of the following is the most appropriate action of the project manager?

Among the descriptions A through D below concerning project management in system development, which of the following lists all and only the failures in scope management?

For software development work, a plan is created to complete it with 10 people in a period of 15 days. However, it became known that only eight (8) members of staff could be obtained for the first five (5) days. In order to complete the work in 15 days as planned, how many staff members are required from the 6-th day? Here, the productivity of each member of staff is the same.

Which of the following is the most appropriate description concerning risk management in a project?

A company orders information system development to an overseas software developer under a contract for software development. Which of the following is an appropriate activity to be performed by the company in project procurement management?

Which of the following is a method to break down the required activities into a hierarchical structure in software development?

Quality management in system development projects has a quality planning process to define quality requirements and quality standards for deliverables and to specify the methods for achieving them. Which of the following is an appropriate description concerning the quality planning process?

In a project, a contingency reserve is the cost that is included in the initial project scope and is prepared for events that are predictable but uncertain. Among the costs that are allocated by the project manager of a company that receives an order for a system development, which of the following is an appropriate cost that can be classified as a contingency reserve?

At the beginning phase of a new personnel system development project, in order to clarify the risks, the persons in charge of the planning department, personnel department, and information systems department, who act as the project team members, get together and make a list of the risks that they can think of concerning the project. What is such a method called?

Among the measures A through C for risk treatment to be considered when a new product is developed, which of the following is the list that contains all and only appropriate measures for reducing quality-related risks?

Which of the following is an appropriate description concerning decomposition that is performed to create the WBS of a system development project?

After the start of a project, the scope is defined by collecting the requirements for the project. Which of the following is the most appropriate purpose of defining the scope?

There is a project with a development period of 10 months and a labor cost budget for development of 10 million yen. After the elapse of five (5) months, the actual labor cost is recorded as 6 million yen, and 40% of the deliverables is complete. If the development is continued till completion with the same productivity, how much will the excess of the budget for labor cost be?

In order to achieve the objectives of a project, the roles, responsibilities, and skills required for project team members are determined, and the time periods of their participation are also clarified. Which of the following is the appropriate knowledge area of the project management processes where such activities are classified?

The response measure for risks in a project can be classified as avoidance, mitigation, acceptance, and transfer. In a system development project, the design and development process is to be subcontracted to Company A. In a previous system development, Company A suffered a delay for delivery, so it is also possible that a delay will occur in this project. Which of the following is a response measure that corresponds to mitigation of the risk of a delay?

When a project is launched, which of the following is created by the project manager to run the project?

In the development of a system, the decision is made to subcontract the development from program implementation to integration testing to a vendor. A contract is concluded with the vendor that has the condition of reporting the progress and quality status at a weekly regular meeting, along with all the details of resolutions to any problem that has an impact on these things. Which of the following is the appropriate activity to confirm that the vendor is complying with the contract conditions?

In a project where 60 programs are created with a budget of 18 million yen, when the status of the project was checked 20 days after the start of the project, it was found that 40 out of the 60 programs have been completed at a cost of 15 million yen. If the project continues to proceed at the same pace, what is the excess of cost over budget? Here, the scale of all programs and productivity are the same.

Project management knowledge areas are classified into project cost management, project scope management, project quality management, project risk management and other areas. Which of the following is an appropriate activity performed in project quality management?

Activities in project management include project time management, project cost management, and project human resource management, and also include project integration management that coordinates those activities. In a system development project, which of the following is an appropriate action in project integration management in a case where it has been decided that the delivery should be advanced?

In a project where a general waterfall model is used for the development, graphs are drawn below regarding the number of staff members required as the project progresses, and regarding the cost of each correction work required for a change or error. Which of the following is an appropriate combination?

Which of the following is a method that organizes all of the activities that need to be performed in the project in a hierarchical structure, and clarifies the work units to be managed in the project?

Among the following lists of descriptions A through D, which is the set that contains all appropriate descriptions concerning quality management in information systems?

When the management of a project is divided into progress management, quality management, and cost management, which of the following is most appropriate to be confirmed in progress management?

In an activity that is performed in the planning phase of a project, which of the following is a method that identifies all of the activities that need to be performed in the project and organizes them in a hierarchical structure, as well as clarifying the work units to be managed in the project?

Which of the following is an appropriate index or indicator that is used to evaluate the quality of deliverables in a system development project?

Project management includes project cost management, project scope management, project time management, and project integration management. Which of the following is an item that is created in project integration management in a software development project?

Which of the following is an appropriate activity for project human resources management in a system development project?

In a system development project, the project manager must appropriately communicate with project members. Which of the following is an appropriate item to be considered concerning communication with project members?