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In many cases, it is often more cost effective to acquire, rather than develop, computer software
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SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT MCQ
- Software project management comprises of a number of activities, which contains _________
- Effective software project management focuses on the four P’s. What are those four P’s?
- Give the Real-world factors affecting maintenance Cost
- Which Software-end factors affecting maintenance Cost?
- The always growing and adapting nature of software hugely depends upon the environment in which user works in ____________
- When the customer may ask for new features or functions in the software, what does it mean in Software maintenance?
- What is used for implementing the changes in existing or new requirements of user in software maintenance?
- Lehman has given eight laws for software evolution and he divided software into three categories. In which category software works strictly according to defined specifications and solutions
- Which tools are used in implementation,testing and maintenance?
- Software project management is the process of managing all activities that are involved in software development, they are _____
- What is legacy system?
- Who deliver the technical skills that are necessary to engineer for a product or an application?
- Which includes modifications and updations done in order to correct or fix the problems, that are either discovered by user or concluded by user error reports?
- Which structures in Organizational Paradigms on a team loosely and depends on individual initiative of the team members?
- Which phase is refers to the support phase of software development?
- Four types of change are encountered during the support phase.Which one of the following is not one that falls into such category?
- Which tools are used in Implementation, Testing and Maintenance?
- Which tools are used for project planning, cost, effort estimation, project scheduling and resource planning?
- Which subsystem implements a repository that encompasses the following elements,
- Who manages the effects of change throughout the software process?
- System Analysts have which of these following responsibilities?
- In software maintenance tackling the changes in the hardware and software environment where the software works, is called ______
- Which of the following is a layer of protection for Security ?
- What are security controls ?
- Controls that are intended to repel attacks is analogous to ____________ in dependability engineering
- Hazard analysis focuses on the identification and assessment of potential hazards that can cause the _______
- Which aspect is important when the software is moved from one platform to another?
- In project execution and monitoring, every project is divided into multiple phases according to that in which phase of SDLC all major tasks are performed?
- Abbreviate the term PERT
- Which is the publishing subsystem that does not require any further processing and are transmitted directly to the client side?
- Techniques that allows a software engineer to understand how a work process is completed when several people are included, is called _______
- Which of the following provides semi-automatic and automatic support to methods in a layered technology?
- If the software process were not based on scientific and engineering concepts it would be easier to re-create new software than to scale an existing one, is known as________
- If the software process were not based on scientific and engineering concepts it would be easier to re-create new software than to scale an existing one, is known as________
- Which of the following are valid reasons for collecting customer feedback concerning delivered software?
- Which of the following can be elements of computer-based systems?
- Which of the following is not project management goal?
- Project managers have to assess the risks that may affect a project
- Which of the following is not considered as a risk in project management?
- The process each manager follows during the life of a project is known as
- A 66.6% risk is considered as
- Which of the following is/are main parameters that you should use when computing the costs of a software development project?
- Quality planning is the process of developing a quality plan for
- Which of the following is incorrect activity for the configuration management of a software system?
- Identify the sub-process of process improvement
- An independent relationship must exist between the attribute that can be measured and the external quality attribute
- Which of the following is an important factor that can affect the accuracy and efficacy of estimates?
- What describes the data and control to be processed?
- A number of independent investigators have developed a team-oriented approach to requirements gathering that can be applied to establish the scope of a project called
- CLSS stands for
- The project planner examines the statement of scope and extracts all important software functions which is known as
- The environment that supports the software project is called
- Which of the following is not an option to achieve reliable cost and effort estimate?
- What can be used to complement decomposition techniques and offer a potentially valuable estimation approach in their own right?
- Which of the following is not achieved by an automated estimation tools?
- Software project estimation can never be an exact science, but a combination of good historical data and systematic techniques can improve estimation accuracy
- Which of the following are parameters involved in computing the total cost of a software development project?
- Which of the following costs is not part of the total effort cost?
- What is related to the overall functionality of the delivered software?
- A _________ is developed using historical cost information that relates some software metric to the project cost
- It is often difficult to estimate size at an early stage in a project when only a specification is available
- Which technique is applicable when other projects in the same analogy application domain have been completed?
- Which model assumes that systems are created from reusable components, scripting or database programming?
- Which of the following states that work expands to fill the time available
- Which model is used during early stages of the system design after the requirements have been established?
- Which model is used to compute the effort required to integrate reusable components or program code that is automatically generated by design or program translation tools?
- The COCOMO model takes into account different approaches to software development, reuse, etc
- Which of the following uses empirically derived formulas to predict effort as a function of LOC or FP?
- The empirical data that support most estimation models are derived from a vast sample of projects
- Which version of COCOMO states that once requirements have been stabilized, the basic software architecture has been established?
- Which model was used during the early stages of software engineering, when prototyping of user interfaces, consideration of software and system interaction, assessment of performance, and evaluation of technology maturity were paramount
- Which one is not a size measure for software product?
- COCOMO was developed initially by
- Estimation of size for a project is dependent on
- COCOMO-II was developed at
- Which one is not a stage of COCOMO-II?
- Why is decomposition technique required?
- Cost and effort estimation of a software uses only one forms of decomposition, either decomposition of the problem or decomposition of the process
- If a Direct approach to software project sizing is taken, size can be measured in
- Which software project sizing approach develop estimates of the information domain characteristics?
- The expected value for the estimation variable (size), S, can be computed as a weighted average of the optimistic(Sopt), most likely (Sm), and pessimistic (Spess) estimates given as
- How many forms exists of Barry Boehm’s COCOMO Model?
- Who suggested the four different approaches to the sizing problem?
- In many cases, it is often more cost effective to acquire, rather than develop, computer software
- A make-buy decision is based on whether
- Which of the following is not one of the five information domain characteristics of Function Point (FP) decomposition?
- The project planner must reconcile the estimates based on decomposition techniques to produce a single estimate of effort
- Programming language experience is a part of which factor of COCOMO cost drivers?
- If an Indirect approach is taken, then the sizing approach is represented as
- Project management involves the planning, monitoring, and control of the people, process, and events that occur as software evolves from a preliminary concept to an operational implementation
- Which of the following is not an effective software project management focus?
- PM-CMM stands for
- Which of the following is not a project manager’s activity?
- A software ________ provides the framework from which a comprehensive plan for software development can be established
- Who defines the business issues that often have significant influence on the project?
- Who delivers the technical skills that are necessary to engineer a product or an application?
- Which of the following paradigm attempts to structure a team in a manner that achieves some of the controls associated with the closed paradigm but also much of the innovation that occurs when using the random paradigm?
- Which of the following is a people-intensive activity?
- Which paradigm structures a team loosely and depends on individual initiative of the team members?
- Which of the following is not an approach to software cost estimation?
- Which paradigm relies on the natural compartmentalization of a problem and organizes team members to work on pieces of the problem with little active communication among themselves?
- Who interacts with the software once it is released for production use?
- Which of the following is not an effective project manager trait?
- Which type of software engineering team has a defined leader who coordinates specific tasks and secondary leaders that have responsibility for sub tasks?
- Commitments to unrealistic time and resource estimates may result in
- Which software engineering team has no permanent leader?
- Which of the following is not a project factor that should be considered when planning the structure of software engineering teams?
- Which of the following is a collection of project coordination technique?
- Which activity sits at the core of software requirements analysis?
- Which of the following is not a sign that indicates that an information systems project is in jeopardy?
- SPMP stands for
- Which of the following categories is part of the output of software process?
- Which is a software configuration management concept that helps us to control change without seriously impeding justifiable change?
- Software Configuration Management can be administered in several ways. These include
- What combines procedures and tools to manage different versions of configuration objects that are created during the software process?
- What complements the formal technical review by assessing a configuration object for characteristics that are generally not considered during review?
- Which of the following is the process of assembling program components, data, and libraries, and then compiling and linking these to create an executable system?
- Which of the following option is not tracked by configuration management tools?
- Which of the following is not a Software Configuration Management Activity?
- The definition and use of configuration management standards is essential for quality certification in
- What involves preparing software for external release and keeping track of the system versions that have been released for customer use?
- Which of the following process ensures that versions of systems and components are recorded and maintained?
- Which of the following process is concerned with analyzing the costs and benefits of proposed changes?
- Which of the following is not a Version management feature?
- Which method recommends that very frequent system builds should be carried out with automated testing to discover software problems?
- Which of the following is not a build system feature?
- Which of the following is a collection of component versions that make up a system?
- Which of the following is a configuration item?
- Which of the following is a part of system release?
- A sequence of baselines representing different versions of a system is known as
- Which of the following term is best defined by the statement “The creation of a new codeline from a version in an existing codeline”?
- Which of the following is the reason that software is delivered late?
- Which of the following is an activity that distributes estimated effort across the planned project duration by allocating the effort to specific software engineering tasks?
- Every task that is scheduled should be assigned to a specific team member is termed as
- What is a collection of software engineering work tasks, milestones, and deliverables that must be accomplished to complete a particular project?
- Ensuring that no more than the allocated number of people are allocated at any given time in Software Scheduling is known as
- What is used to determine the recommended degree of rigor with which the software process should be applied on a project?
- What evaluates the risk associated with the technology to be implemented as part of project scope?
- Which of the following is not an adaptation criteria for software projects?
- Which of the following is a project scheduling method that can be applied to software development?
- A technique for performing quantitative analysis of progress is known as
- What is the recommended distribution of effort for a project?
- A project usually has a timeline chart which was developed by
- Why is software difficult to build ?
- Which of the following is not a conflict in software development team?
- Which of the following lasts for the duration of the project and covers the development process?
- Which of the following is not a typical environment in communication facilitation ?
- Which of the following is a software process ?
- Which of the following is not included in Issues Meetings?
- Which of the following is not a part of Software Configuration Management Basics?
- What is a collection of software elements treated as a unit for the purposes of SCM?
- What is one or more software configuration items that have been formally reviewed and agreed upon and serve as a basis for further development?
- What is validating the completeness of a product?
- What is group with the responsibility for reviewing and approving changes to baselines?
- In many settings PM is a center of communication hub
- What is a specific instance of a baseline or configuration item?
- SCM stands for
- When code is made available to others, it goes in a/an
- Which of the following is not a main phase in Configuration Management (CM) Process?
- CM is about managing the different items in the product, and changes in them
- What allows different projects to use the same source files at the same time?
- Which of the following is not a change management process?
- Configuration management (CM) is needed to deliver product to the client
- How are baselines verified?
- Which of the following is a example of Configuration Items ?
- SCM controls only the products of the development process
- CCB stands for
- What information is required to process a change to a baseline?
- What is done during maintenance phase ?
- User documentation consists of
- The longest method of conversion is
- In what phase procedure development occurs?
- To run the old system and the new system at the same time for a specified period, the system implementation approach used is
- Which of the following way(s) the information system and capability are related to each other?
- During the maintenance phase
- System implementation phase entails
- To ensure that available resources are properly distributed, a system will implement
- Modifying an operational system by adding Internet Web site access would be an example of
- Which of the following is true about Corrective Maintenance?
- Which of the following is not a type of maintenance?
- The cost of maintenance is as high as _______ of the cost of entire software process cycle
- Which process is used to achieve system specification by thoroughly analyzing, understanding the existing system?
- In how many categories software Maintenance is classified?
- ACT stands for?
- The process of obtaining desired software from the specifications in hand
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