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CS413 Software Engineering Project Management Midterm Exam Review Questions
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CS413 Software Engineering Project Management Midterm Exam will be held on Tuesday
April 2nd, 17:40 -19:40 at EB101, EB102, and EB103. There will not be any lecture on Monday
April 1st.
I will post your names and classroom & seat assignments at the door of each classroom.
Midterm is closed notes/books in class exam. You are not allowed to leave the classroom and
come back during the exam.
Midterm will cover Project Charter, SRS, EBook Chapters 1-5, supplementary slides and
handouts. You can find all the material on the course Web site. If you do not have some of the
handouts that I distributed in class, you can get it from me.
The following are the review questions. Midterm will have parts where you will explain and
discuss these concepts on a case study. It will also include a section for solving schedule and
resource management problems
What is a project?
What is software project management?
What are the main activities of a software project manager?
What are the properties of software that make software engineering projects more difficult
compare to other types of projects such as civil engineering projects?
What is the difference between a project-based company and operation-based company?
What is the difference between a manager and a leader?
What is the difference between a team and a group?
What is a successful project? Or, what does it mean for a project to fail?
What are some constraints on software projects?
What are some assumptions of software projects?
What is risk management process?
What are the sub-processes of risk management?
What are some strategies for risk planning?
What are common risks of software projects?
What is a functional organizational structure?
What is a project organizational structure?
What is a matrix organizational structure?
What are the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders in software engineering projects?
What is a software development process model?
What are the characteristics of Waterfall model?
What are the characteristics of V-Model model?
What are the characteristics of Incremental model?
What are the characteristics of Spiral model?
What are the characteristics of Evolutionary model?
What are the characteristics of Agile software development process models?
What is the role of prototyping in software development?
What is a fixed price contract?
What is time & material contract?
What is a cost plus fixed or incentive fee contract?
What is requirement elicitation?
What is requirements analysis?
What is requirements acceptance?
What is requirements management?
What are the characteristics of a good Software Requirements Specification (SRS)?
What are requirements Verification & Validation?
What are user requirements?
What are functional requirements?
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What are non-functional requirements?
What is configuration management?
What is change management?
What is version management?
What is system building?
What is release management?
What is a baseline?
What is a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)?
What is a product-oriented WBS?
What is a process-oriented WBS?
What is a hybrid WBS?
What is the difference between graphical (organizational chart) format WBS and outline
(indented text) format WBS?
What is the importance of numbering scheme in a WBS?
What are the decomposition criteria for WBS?
What are the guidelines to design a WBS?
What is a work package?
What is an activity or a task?
What is project scheduling?
What is PERT?
What is schedule (activity) network diagram?
What is schedule (activity) network forward pass?
What is schedule (activity) network backward pass?
What is schedule (activity) network slack time?
What is schedule (activity) network diagram critical path?
How is probability of project completion calculated?
What is resource Gantt chart?
What is project crashing?
What is resource leveling?
What is the difference between resource shifting and resource splitting?
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