BSc IT Sem 5 — Software Project Development (march Question Paper PDF 2026 - Mumbai University | munotes

Questions asked in this paper

1. Q1 Attempt any three of the following: 15 marks
   • a. explain the different phases of project management life cycle
   • b. What is project portfolio management? Explain the key aspects of project portfolio
   • c. Define business case. Specify the content of business case document
   • d. Write a note on risk evaluation and management
   • e. Consider the cash flows estimates for four projects as shown in the table: Negative levels represent expenditure and positive values income. Rank the four projects in order of financial desirability and make a note of your reasons for ranking them in that way. Conclusion should be based on Net Profit, and ROI (Return On Investment)
   • f. | What do you mean by scope and objective of a project? List the activities involved in identifying project scope and objective?
2. Q2 Attempt any three of the following: 15 marks
   • a. List the advantages and disadvantage of software prototyping
   • b. Explain the five major components of Albrecht Function Point Analysis
   • c. Discuss Caper Jones estimating rules of thumb
   • d. the top-down approaches associated with parametric models
   • e. Write a note on COCOMO II Model
   • f. Waterfall Model with the help of diagram
3. Q3 Attempt any three of the following: 15 marks
   • a. Differentiate between PERT (Program Evaluation Review Technique) and CPM
   • b. network planning model and the concept of backward pass
   • c. Using the data in the following table, answer the questions given below Create a precedence activity network. What is the total project duration? Also, calculate earliest start date, latest start date and float of all the events. Identify the
   • d. Define the following terms
   • e. Explain Boehm's top ten s/w project risks & the different strategies for reducing it
   • f. Suppose four risks namely R1, R2, R3 and R4 have been identified and assigned the probabilities of occurrence of 0.1, 0.2, 0.3 and 0.4 respectively. The likely damages due to the four risks are Rs. 50, 000; Rs. 1, 00,000; 70,000; 60,000 respectively Calculate the risk exposure of all the risks
4. Q4 Attempt any three of the following: 15 marks
   • a. What is meant by software configuration management? Explain the two principal activities of configuration management
   • b. is meant by software configuration management? Explain the two principal activities of configuration management
   • c. Explain the change control process
   • d. Explain the stages in contract placement
   • e. a note on ethical and profession concerns as a member of any organization
   • f. Define the any three-term following:
5. Q5 Attempt any three of the following: 15 marks
   • a. What are the different types of Team Structure?
   • b. | What is ISO Standard? What are the sub characteristics of Functionality and Reliability of ISO 9126 Software Qualities?
   • c. State and explain different levels of Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
   • d. the metrics correlated with Software reliability
   • e. What are the steps of conducting a post implementation project review?
   • f. the different reason for which a project may need to be terminated,

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