Software Project Management Nptel Week 3 Answers
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Software Project Management Nptel Week 3 Answers (July-Dec 2025)
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Question 1. Generally, which one of the following is not part of the business case document?
a) Information & background to the proposal
b) Proposed project
c) Quality standards
d) Risks
e) The benefits
Question 2. Which element of project portfolio management deals with achieving a better balance of projects using the information gathered?
a) Portfolio definition
b) Portfolio management
c) Portfolio optimization
d) Portfolio deletion
e) Portfolio creation
Question 3. Which of the following are not tangible costs?
a) Purchasing hardware or software
b) Organizing personnel training
c) Reduced employee morale caused by a new system
d) Paying employee salaries
e) Improved company image
Question 4. Which of the following are indirect benefits?
a) Handling 25 percent more transactions per day due to the use of a new online system
b) Protection of the computer center from heat and fire
c) Insurance
d) Selling of fertilizers in a steel plant
e) Selling of empty oil containers in a grocery shop
f) A decrease in the number of employees in a company by 30 percent, resulting from the use of new computers
Question 5. In break-even analysis, break-even is the point where
a) The cost of the candidate (proposed) system is higher than that of the current one
b) The cost of the candidate (proposed) system is less than that of the current one
c) The cost of the candidate (proposed) system and that of the current one are equal
d) The cost of the candidate (proposed) system is double that of the current one
e) The cost of the candidate (proposed) system is half of the current one
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Question 6. What will be the ROI for a project with the following details?
(Year 0: -120,000, Year 1: 10,000, Year 2: 20,000, Year 3: 40,000, Year 4: 50,000, Year 5: 75,000)
a) 10%
b) 10.5%
c) 11%
d) 11.5%
e) 12%
f) 12.5%
Question 7. In which of the following risk evaluation methods, is it required to consider each possible outcome and estimate the probability of its occurrence and the corresponding value of the outcome?
a) Risk identification and ranking
b) Cost-Benefit Analysis
c) Risk profile analysis
d) Risk and net present value
e) Using decision trees
Question 8. In the Risk and Net Present Value method for risk evaluation, it is required
a) To categorize the projects as high, medium, or low risk projects using a scoring method and assign an appropriate risk premium for each category
b) To evaluate whether the risk is important and decide on a suitable course of action
c) To construct risk profiles using sensitivity analysis
d) To construct a project risk matrix
e) To consider each possible outcome and estimate the probability of its occurrence and the corresponding value of the outcome
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Question 9. Infrastructure programmes contain the projects
a) That an organization undertakes within a particular planning cycle
b) Implementing a single strategy
c) Performing the activities of identifying common infrastructure and its implementation, and maintenance
d) Involved in developing new innovative products based on some research
e) Based on collaboration by different organizations
Question 10. Which of the following are not true regarding a programme manager?
a) He handles only one project at a time
b) He maintains a personal relationship with skilled resources
c) He tries to optimize the utilization of resources by balancing them among the concurrent projects
d) Projects tend to be similar to him
e) He discourages the demands for resources
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