Chapter Exercises

Exercise 1

In this exercise, you will complete a worksheet from the CD-ROM to begin gathering information on a simulated project. To begin, follow these steps to open the Adobe Acrobat worksheet named Research Objectives on the CD-ROM.

1. Insert the IT Project Management CD-ROM into your CD-ROM drive.

2. Right-click My Computer and choose Explore to open Windows Explorer.

3. Navigate to the drive letter that represents your CD-ROM drive and click it.

4. Double-click the folder named Chapter 2 to open it.

5. Within the Chapter 2 folder, double-click the document named Research Objectives.

6. Print out the document to begin working on Exercise 2.

Exercise 2

Based on the scenario that follows , complete the Research Objectives worksheet to reflect the required questions, sources of information, where you have found the information, and the information you ve discovered . The first three questions on the Research Objectives worksheet have been provided for you. Try to come up with at least five more pertinent questions about the project. Use any resource you d like ” vendors , your experience, and Internet sites ”to complete the questions and create new ones.

You are a project manager for Caulfield Educational Supply Company. You are about to research the validity of a project to implement a web server to host your company s own web page. Currently, the company s web page is hosted through a third-party web hosting company. The average monthly bandwidth transferred is roughly 8 gigabytes. Once the web server has been created, a new, commerce- enabled site with database access will be built.

The web server you propose must be reliable and easy to implement, and can be from any reputable software vendor. Your company has a fractional Tl line to the local LAN, and Janice, your manager, is concerned that more bandwidth is going to be needed to ensure reliability for all the company s clients .

Exercise 3

Based on your findings for the Caulfield Educational Supply Company, create an executive summary. Recall that an executive summary should include information on the recommended product, the audience impacted, financial obligations, and recommended action.

Possible solutions to these exercises appear at the end of the chapter.