Computer Science Year 11 ATAR exam (semester 1 and 2) questions & answers 2024/25

Computer Science Year 11 ATAR exam (semester 1 and 2) questions & answers 2024/25 What is project management? - ANSWERSProject management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements. What are the steps involved in project management? - ANSWERS• Planning: laying out what you need to do, how you are going to do it and how much money you are going to spend to produce the end product. This includes brainstorming ideas, the target audience and what jobs you will need to assign to employees. To do with time, cost and resources. • Scheduling: Allowing us to allocate times to finish certain tasks and planning the individual plans for each task. Scheduling is the process of giving people tasks and giving them times and dates for which they have to complete their assigned job. This ensures a project is fluently completed under deadlines. One form of scheduling is through Gantt charts. • Budgeting: Budgeting requires managing all the monetary and resource needs required in a project. Budgeting includes allocating and spending money on resources, human (work force). • Tracking: Tracking is the process of checking up on progress on a project, making sure that everything is according to plan, following the budget and on time. The process of maintaining the production of a project. What are Gantt Charts and why are they used? - ANSWERS• A scheduling system that allows for multiple tasks to be shown to be done at the same time. showing when activities begin and end allowing for overlap creating a predicted timetable. • it is used during the scheduling process in project management • If a bar is fully coloured, the task the person is completing should take that amount of time. For bars that are not completely filled in, the darker segment shows the expected time it will take to complete the task and the lighter colour shows an amount of extra time needed if a task isn't completed in time.