Software Project Management Unit 3 – Activity Planning and Risk Management: AKTU previous year questions
21 AKTU questions from Unit 3 (Activity Planning and Risk Management) asked in 2022–2025, tagged by marks, year and topic. In short: about 32 marks of every paper come from this unit; the most asked topic is Activity Planning and Scheduling (9 times); 20 questions came back in a later year. The latest ones are listed below; on the page you can filter them by 2-mark or long questions, topic and repeats.
Unit 3 previous year questions
- Name the three forms of presenting a project schedule. (2 marks, 2025, Activity Planning and Scheduling)
- What do you mean by activity-based approach? (2 marks, 2025, Activity Planning and Scheduling)
- Write down about the following. (i) Risk identification. (ii) PERT technique. (7 marks, 2025, PERT Technique)
- Describe the various project scheduling techniques. How are network models used in scheduling? (7 marks, 2025, Activity Planning and Scheduling)
- What is a Critical Path Method? How is it used to identify project bottlenecks? (7 marks, 2025, Critical Path Method)
- Explain the critical path in software project development. (2 marks, 2024, Critical Path Method)
- Discuss the structure of the activity node in the activity network. (2 marks, 2024, Activity Planning and Scheduling)
- Illustrate project scheduling with the help of various project schedule activities. (10 marks, 2024, Activity Planning and Scheduling)
- In the application of risk management to software development projects has been strongly advocated. In practice, however, managers are often reluctant to apply the techniques. Derive the reasons you might think for this. (10 marks, 2024, Risk Management)
- Consider the following project specifications with estimated activity durations and precedence requirements. Formulate an activity network using activity-on-node network conventions, carry out forward and backward pass and identify the critical paths. (10 marks, 2024, Critical Path Method)
- Discuss Technical Risk in software project management. (2 marks, 2023, Risk Management)
- Explain why Risk Planning is required. (2 marks, 2023, Risk Management)
Most asked Unit 3 topics
- Activity Planning and Scheduling – asked 9 times
- Critical Path Method – asked 6 times
- Risk Management – asked 4 times
Unit 3 question pattern
- 2-mark questions: 9 asked in 2022–2025
- 7-mark questions: 3 asked in 2022–2025
- 10-mark questions: 9 asked in 2022–2025
- About 32 marks from Unit 3 in every paper
- 20 questions were asked again in a later year
Unit 3 questions year by year
- 2025: 5 Unit 3 questions asked (25 marks across that year's papers)
- 2024: 5 Unit 3 questions asked (34 marks across that year's papers)
- 2023: 6 Unit 3 questions asked (36 marks across that year's papers)
- 2022: 5 Unit 3 questions asked (34 marks across that year's papers)