Q No 1

a. How do you get employees to change work habits that have proven to be
successful? (1)

Ans: The employees can get to change their work habits, if they are well aware about
advantages and disadvantages of the methodologies that have proven to be successful. The
advantage of this change would be less confusing, because the employees would have adequate
knowledge about the new methodology. This would also be helpful for the company in its
higher productivity, so the employees can change their working habits.

b. What influence should a customer have in redesigning a methodology that

has proven to be successful? (1)

Ans: Customers have some influences in redesigning a methodology, if it is suitable for the
company. First, if the company ask to the customers about their opinions in terms of their like
and dislike about the redesigning a methodology. In addition, the customers also have the
influence related to adjust a combined or mixture methodology, if it is demonstrated as a
successful methodology

c. What if the customers want the existing methodologies left intact? (1)

Ans :If the customers of both companies , Lakes automotive and Pelex automotive
Products desire to implement the existing methodologies than the board /
management will have to agree on a standard methodology in order to satisfy both
parties ,therefore combining methodologies becomes best option.
d. What if the customers are unhappy with the new combined methodology? (1)

Ans : In case if the customers are unhappy with the combined methodology than
board / management should revisit the most effective way in order to satisfy the
majority of the customer .

Q. No 2

a. You have been appointed as a Project Manager of a project and are required to
build a new fence. The fence is four sided. Each side is to take one month to build,
and 100,000 RS has been budgeted per side. The sides were planned to be
completed one after the other, but circumstances change on the project, and work on
the sides was able to proceed in parallel. Assume therefore that the sides have a
finish to finish relationship instead of a finish to start relationship, so more than one
side can be work on it the same time. Today is the end of March. Using the following
project status chart calculate PV, EV, AC, SV, CV, CPI, SPI, BAC, EAC, ETC, VAC,
(03)

Activity January February March April Status end of 3 days

Slide 1 S-F Complete Spent 100,000
Slide 2 S-F-P-F Complete Spent 110,000
Slide 3 P-S -P-F 50% done Spent 5,1000
Slide 4 P-S-P-F 75% done Spent 80,000

b. What is your (SPI) if your (CV) is 1,000, your (SV) is -300 and your (PV) is 10,
000? ((1/2))

c. What is the EV if your CPI is 1.1, your SPI is 0.92 and your AC is 10,000, what
reverse formula would you using? ((1/2))

Q. No 3

Activity Original Crash Time Original Crash Cost

Duration Duration Saving COST
Days Days
A 12 10 02 100,000 120,000
B 07 06 01 120,000 160,000
C 08 05 03 90,000 180,000
D 08 06 02 40,000 50,000
E 10 06 04 30,000 90,000

a. Imagine that this project has a project float of 4 days. Which activity or activities
presented above could be crashed to save 4 days on the project assuming that the
activities listed above represent initial path activities. How much would it cost to crash
this project and what is the crash duration of the project? (03)
c. Assume all activities in above scenario are on critical path. The client demands
change to the product specification that will add only three days to the critical path
which is the best thing for the project manager to do? (1)

Q. No 4

a. The Project is mostly complete. The project has a schedule variance of 400 and a cost
variance. -700. All but one of the quality control inspections has been completed and all have
met the quality requirement. All items in the issue log have been resolved. Many of the
resources have been released. The sponsor is about to call a meeting to product validation
when the customer notifies the project manager that they want to make a major change to the
scope. The project manager should do what action? (1)

ANS : Do not jump into the problem without thinking. The customer only notified the project
manager that they want to make a change. They did not describe the change. The project
manager should not say no until he or she knows more about the potential change, nor should
the project manager go to management without more information. The project manager must
understand the nature of the change and have time to evaluate the impact of that change before
doing anything else. Of these choices, the first thing to do is to determine what the change is.
The project manager might then analyze the potential change with the team, but only if their
input is required.

b. You are project Manager and get a call from a team member notifying that there is a
variance between the speeds of system on the project and designed planned speed. The
project manager is surprised because that the performance measurement was not identified is
planning. If the project manager then evaluates the variance warrants a response, he is in
which of the project manager process? (1)

ANS : Even though the measurement was not identified in planning,the project manager
would still have to investigate the variance anddetermine if it is important. Therefore, the
project manager is in projectmonitoring and controlling.

d. During project executing, you determine that a change is needed to material

purchase for the project. The project manager calls a meeting of the team to plan
how to make the change. This is example of? (1)

ANS : Lack of change management plan

d. A team member notifies you that the activities comprising a work package are
no longer appropriate. It would be best for the you to be in what part of the project
management process? (1)

ANS : Monitoring and Controlling.Explanation if you chose another part of the project
management process, you probably forgot that the situation needs to be evaluated by the
project manager before recommending a change or beginning integrated change control.
Even though the measurement was not identified in planning, the project manager would still
have to investigate the variance and determine if it is important. The project manager is in
project monitoring and controlling.

Q. No 5

a. Your project is calculated to be completed four days after the desired completion date.
You do not have access to additional resources. The project is low risk the benefit cost ration
is expected to be 1.6 and the dependencies are preferential. Under these circumstances what
is the best thing to do? ((1/2))

ANS : Make more activities concurrent.

Explanation: Cutting resources from an activity would not save time, nor would moving
resources from the preferential dependencies to the external dependencies. Removing an
activity from the project is a possibility, but since the dependencies are preferential and the risk
is low, the best choice would be to make more activities concurrent, as this would have less
impact on the project.

b. An organization has a project with an initial budget of 100,000. The project is half
complete, and it has spent 200,000. Should the organization consider the fact that it is already
100,000 over budget when determining whether to continue with project? ((1/2))

ANS :

c. In your opinion what are the impacts of opting for the Fast Tracking, Crashing, reduce
scope, cut quality schedule Compression options on your project? (02)

ANS : Cut quality - trade off some non-essential requirements for the new requirements