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Code No: 741AG
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD
MBA I Semester Examinations, January-2018
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Time: 3hours Max.Marks:75
Note: This question paper contains two parts A and B.
Part A is compulsory which carries 25 marks. Answer all questions in Part A.
Part B consists of 5 Units. Answer any one full question from each unit. Each question
carries 10 marks and may have a, b, c as sub questions.
PART - A 5 ? 5 Marks = 25
1.a) What are the characteristics of a ?Project?? What are the unique characteristics of project
management? [5]
b) Explain the concept of Social Cost Benefit Analysis? [5]
c) What are the advantages and limitations of Payback period method? [5]
d) What are the essential features of quality assurance system? [5]
e) What type of organization structure is best suited for project management? Why? [5]
PART - B 5 ?10 Marks = 50
2.a) What suggestions would you offer to persons scouting for new project ideas?
b) What is the importance of screening of project ideas? What are ?Drop errors? and ?Go
errors? in this context? [5+5]
OR
3.a) What are the special characteristics of ?public sector? projects?
b) What are the different stages of project life cycle? [5+5]
4.a) What are the steps to be followed in undertaking a ?sample survey??
b) What are the aspects to be considered while performing ?technical analysis?? [5+5]
OR
5. An all equity firm is evaluating the following projects:
The risk free rate is 11 percent and the expected market risk premium is 6 percent. The
firm?s cost of capital is 16 percent.
Project Beta Expected return (%)
A 0.5 15
B 0.8 16
C 1.2 21
D 1.6 22
E 1.7 23
a) Which project should be accepted?
b) If the firm?s cost of capital is as a hurdle rate, which projects will be accepted or
rejected incorrectly? [10]
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Code No: 741AG
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD
MBA I Semester Examinations, January-2018
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Time: 3hours Max.Marks:75
Note: This question paper contains two parts A and B.
Part A is compulsory which carries 25 marks. Answer all questions in Part A.
Part B consists of 5 Units. Answer any one full question from each unit. Each question
carries 10 marks and may have a, b, c as sub questions.
PART - A 5 ? 5 Marks = 25
1.a) What are the characteristics of a ?Project?? What are the unique characteristics of project
management? [5]
b) Explain the concept of Social Cost Benefit Analysis? [5]
c) What are the advantages and limitations of Payback period method? [5]
d) What are the essential features of quality assurance system? [5]
e) What type of organization structure is best suited for project management? Why? [5]
PART - B 5 ?10 Marks = 50
2.a) What suggestions would you offer to persons scouting for new project ideas?
b) What is the importance of screening of project ideas? What are ?Drop errors? and ?Go
errors? in this context? [5+5]
OR
3.a) What are the special characteristics of ?public sector? projects?
b) What are the different stages of project life cycle? [5+5]
4.a) What are the steps to be followed in undertaking a ?sample survey??
b) What are the aspects to be considered while performing ?technical analysis?? [5+5]
OR
5. An all equity firm is evaluating the following projects:
The risk free rate is 11 percent and the expected market risk premium is 6 percent. The
firm?s cost of capital is 16 percent.
Project Beta Expected return (%)
A 0.5 15
B 0.8 16
C 1.2 21
D 1.6 22
E 1.7 23
a) Which project should be accepted?
b) If the firm?s cost of capital is as a hurdle rate, which projects will be accepted or
rejected incorrectly? [10]
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6.a) What are the advantages and limitations equity capital financing of the project?
b) What is venture capital? [6+4]
OR
7.a) The following table presents the possible cash flows for projects A and B, and their
associate probabilities. You are required to calculate the expected monetary value of each
project and state which project is to be considered.
possibilities Project A Project B
Cash flow Rs. Probability Cash flow Rs. probability
1 7,00,000 0.10 12,00,000 0.10
2 8,00,000 0.20 8,00,000 0.10
3 9.00.000 0.30 6,00,000 0.10
4 10,00.000 0.20 4,00,000 0.20
5 11,00,000 0.20 2,00,000 0.50
b) What do you understand by the term ?cost of capital?? How do you work out to arrive at
the cost of capital? [6+4]
8.a) Outline the ?lean? principles as applied to project management.
b) What are the major elements of quality cost? [5+5]
OR
9. A project consisting of eight activities has the following characteristics.
Activity Preceding
activity
Time estimates in weeks
Optimistic Most likely pessimistic
A ---- 2 4 12
B ---- 10 12 26
C A 8 9 10
D A 10 15 20
E A 7 7.5 11
F B,C 9 9 9
G D 3 3.5 7
H E,F,G 5 5 5
a) Draw the PERT network for the project.
b) Determine the critical path. [10]
10. What are the tasks and distinguishing features of a project leader? How does it differ
from project management? [10]
OR
11. What is a team? What are the challenges of building a well-knit multidisciplinary project
team? [10]
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