PD5/March 2017

Professional diploma in procurement and supply

Programme and project management

Date Wednesday 8 March 2017

Time Start 09:30 End 12:30 Duration 3 hours

QUESTION PAPERINSTRUCTIONS FOR CANDIDATES

This examination has FOUR compulsory questions worth 25 marks each.

1. Do not open this question paper until instructed by the invigilator.

2. All answers must be written in the answer booklet provided.

3. All rough work and notes should be written in the answer booklet.

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QUESTIONS

You are advised to spend 45 minutes on each question.

Q1 In any project, there will be relationships between the objectives of safety, quality, cost and delivery.

Assess the impact of these relationships, using examples to illustrate your answer. (25 marks)

Q2 (a) Review the use of Model Form Contracts in project management. (15 marks)

(b) Outline the core clauses in the New Engineering Contract (NEC3) and give examples of the optional clauses. (10 marks)

Q3 Project initiation documents will usually be linked to a justification for project selection.

Discuss FIVE approaches to project selection that are either numerical or non-numerical. (25 marks)

Q4 (a) Propose a methodology to undertake value engineering for a major project. (15 marks)

(b) At a recent conference, a keynote speaker claimed that “despite the apparent rise of activity in open book costing, such true transparency rarely exists in practice and it remains an aspiration”.

Debate the use of open book costing and its related transparency in programme and project management. (10 marks)

END OF QUESTION PAPER

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