TU Wien:Advanced Project Management VU (Fischer)/Prüfung 2021-06-23

Kontext

Die Prüfungen im Sommersemester 2021 wurden remote durchgeführt. Dabei war die geprüfte Person in einem Zoom Meeting mit dem Vortragenden verbunden. Die Prüfung selbst war ein Tuwel-Test, bei dem es möglich war die Fragen in einer beliebigen Reihenfolge zu beantworten.

Fragen

Question 1 - 2 P.

Which of the following statements are correct about the Project Management Office (PMO)?

• The supportive PMO provides only support for the project, but has no formal authority over the project.
• The PMO standardizes the project-related governance processes in an organization
• Every project needs a PMO. You can't do a project without a PMO.
• The PMO is responsible for gathering the requirements and acts as a bridge between the project team and the customer.

Question 2 - 2 P.

What are the principles of agile software?

• The development should be at a constant pace.
• The team has to be colocated.
• The project manager assigns the task to the developers.
• Business people and developers must work together daily.

Question 3 - 2 P.

Which of the following statements are correct about the scaled agile Framework (SAFe)?

• The agile release train (ART) is the heart of SAFe.
• Each team has its own schedule and releases their product on demand
• The Nexus Team supports the Release Train Engineer (RTE)
• SAFe is a framework for scaling agile projects with four configurations for different project sizes.

Question 4 - 3 P.

What is Portfolio Management?

Question 5 - 2 P.

What are knowledge areas of the PMBOK?

• Project Budget Planning
• Project Scope Management
• Project Customer Relationship Management
• Project Quality Management

Question 6 - 2 P.

Which meetings are part of Scrum?

• Sprint Retrospective
• Sprint Closure Meeting
• Burndown Planning Meeting
• Sprint Planning Meeting

Question 7 - 2 P.

What is a stakeholder in a project?

Question 8 - 3 P.

What are typical characteristics of a project?

• Budget over 1 million Euro
• There is some kind of uniqueness and novelty to a project
• Has at least 5 project members
• It is timely limited with start and end
• Has a minimum duration of one month
• Has some risks that it could fail

Question 9 - 3 P.

Name and describe one of the PM standards presented in the lecture

Question 10 - 2 P.

Which of the following statements are correct about IPMA?

• The IPMA Competence Baseline consists of 10 knowledge areas
• Core principles of IPMA are the projects are managed by stage and by exception
• The pm baseline is a national PM guide for Austria and is based on IPMA
• The IPMA Competence Baseline defines the competences of a project manager in the areas perspective, people and competences.

Question 11 - 3 P.

Describe the Nexus Framework and its purpose in agile project management.

Question 12 - 2 P.

Name two principles of Kanban and describe one of them

Question 13 - 3 P.

Name and describe a typical reason for project failure

Question 14 - 2 P.

Which of the following statements are correct about the Spotify model?

• Chapters consist of multiple squads and share a common goal
• Squads are self-organizing and cross-functional teams with a dedicated product owner
• The Spotify Model consists of squads, tribes, chapters and guilds
• Each squad in a tribe has a single responsibility like development, testing and UI

Question 15 - 2 P.

What are methods for cost and complexity estimations?

• Oracle Method
• Function Point Method
• Educated Guess
• COCOMO 3

Question 16 - 4 P.

Describe Project Scope Management in a project.

Question 17 - 3 P.

What is a burndown chart in Scrum?

Question 18 - 3 P.

What is the vicious square (Teufelsquadrat) in project management and explain its meaning.

Question 19 - 2 P.

What information can be found in a milestone trend analysis?

• The scope on a milestone
• The end date of the project
• All milestones of a project
• The reason why a project is delayed

Question 20 - 3 P.

Explain the pure project organization and describe its advantages and disadvantages.