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COSC 305 Midterm Exam

The midterm exam for COSC 305 will cover all materials up to and including chapter 10. It will consist of multiple choice, short answer, and long answer questions assessing a wide range of topics related to project management fundamentals, frameworks, and key concepts from the course. A one page sheet of personal notes and a calculator will be permitted.

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COSC 305 Midterm Exam

The midterm exam for COSC 305 will cover all materials up to and including chapter 10. It will consist of multiple choice, short answer, and long answer questions assessing a wide range of topics related to project management fundamentals, frameworks, and key concepts from the course. A one page sheet of personal notes and a calculator will be permitted.

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COSC 305 Midterm Exam

The midterm exam will consist of multiple choice, short answer and long answer q
uestions. It will cover all
materials up to and including chapter 10 (including Milestones - p.78).
Multiple choice
-all topics covered
Short answer
* -project management fundamentals and the project environment
* -framework concepts WROTE NOTES
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-PMBOK vs APM (questions on PMBOK knowledge area and APM) WROTE NOTES
-Project phases WROTE NOTES
-Challenges in project
-Project charter
-Mythical man month/Denver airport
-Definitions & terminology
-Project life cycle
-Stakeholder management
-Project planning
-Requirement requirements
-Cultural factors in projects

Short answer and MC (est. 30 marks)


Long answer (est. 30 marks)
* -NPV, IRR and payback (financial)
* -WBS (all aspects)
* -Risk analysis
* -Stakeholder Analysis, Influence/Impact grids, Cooperation/Threat grid, Stakeh
older analysis table, Stakeholder
* communications table
-Lab concepts
1 mark for bonus questions
*Calculators will be permitted during the exam (required)
*One single sided sheet of personal notes will be allowed (not to contain printe
d copies of class notes)
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Project management overview


Components of project management
Project failures
Mythical man month
Key terminology for project management
Defining a project (i.e. what is a project in the most formal definition)
What a project is not
Key players in projects
Requirements for projects and project definitions
Competing project constraints: cost, scope, quality, risk, resources, time

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* The project management triad (triple constraint)
* Trade-offs with the pm triad

* PM experience and added value: application knowledge and areas of experience f


or PM s
* Understanding the project environment
* Cultural factors and challenges in project management
* Influence and leadership in projects
* Motivation, negotiation and problem solving in projects
* Project lifecycle initiation, planning, implementation and closure
* Frameworks for project management
* History of project management and the PMI WROTE NOTES
* Framework concepts WROTE NOTES
* PMBOK overview WROTE NOTES
* PMBOK key knowledge areas (integration, scope, time/schedule, costs, quality,
HR, communications, risk,
* procurement, stakeholders) WROTE NOTES
* -What falls under each category and implication/meaning?
* -What are the constraints and challenges is each area?
* PM Star model WROTE NOTES
* PMI waterfall project lifecycle (what happens in each phase) vs APM WROTE NOTE
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* APM structure, similarities and differences to PMI WROTE NOTES
* APM product development and project planning WROTE NOTES
* Burndown WROTE NOTES
* Stakeholder Management
* Identification of stakeholders (who they are, concerns and how to manage)
* Stakeholder interactions and stakeholder management
* Developing a stakeholder management plan
* Challenges with stakeholder management
* Relating to stakeholders
* Tools for stakeholder analysis (lecture and lab materials)
* -steps and results
* -stakeholder analysis table
* -communications plan
* Organizational culture
* PM s checklist for cultural considerations
* Team challenges with varying cultures WROTE NOTES
* Team conflict identification and management WROTE NOTES
* Milestones during project initiation
* Business case --function/purpose during project initiation
* Roles of the project sponsor
* Objectives --project initiation
* Defining objectives (criteria and measurability)
* Decision matrices and weighted decision matrices
* Financial analysis techniques (ROI, NPV, discount rate, rate of return, paybac
k period and discounted
* payback period)
* Payback analysis
* Project charter --requirements, contents and purpose
* -all items including assumptions, risk, scope, milestones, deliverables, budge
ting, approval,
* stakeholder analysis
* Project planning --purpose, objectives and deliverables
* Project planning process key items (summary what happens in each phase, etc)
* Scope planning
* Preparing the Work Breakdown Structure

* Project schedule development


* Resource planning

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Budget planning
Procurement planning
Risk management
Quality planning
Communication planning
Stakeholder management planning
Scope planning --key activities and deliverables
Defining project scope and deliverables
Requirement requirements (characteristics and measurability)
Types of requirements (all)
Software requirement specifications
Measuring requirements
Scope Input --techniques for evaluation
Scope input --sources
Requirement traceability matrix
The WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) --terminology and purpose
Creating a WBS --requirements, work packages, etc
Scope Statement
Project schedule planning
-Deliverables
-Task dependencies
-Task predecessors
-Leads and lags
-Milestones

* Lab concepts:
* Project failures - Denver airport project failure (general concepts and statem
ents regarding failure)
* Project planning and stakeholder analysis tools --QUAD chart, assumption state
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analysis table, Risk assessment grid


Details stakeholder analysis --Influence/Impact grids, Cooperation/Threat grid
Stakeholder analysis table,
stakeholder communications table
Project charter --Key sections and requirements for a project charter; purpose
and function of each
* Financial Analysis and WBS - Payback, NPV, and IRR. Creation of a WBS (key req
uirements and
* components) and scope statement.

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