software engineering MCQs – Page 138

Practise multiple-choice questions from software engineering for competitive examinations and subject revision. Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

2741. Which of the following is/are main parameters that you should use when computing the costs of a software development project ?
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A. travel and training costs

B. all of the mentioned

C. hardware and software costs

D. effort costs (the costs of paying software engineers and managers)

2742. Which of the following is a collection of component versions that make up a system ?
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A. Codeline

B. Baseline

C. Version

D. None of the mentioned

2743. Which of the following process ensures that versions of systems and components are recorded and maintained?
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A. Codeline

B. Configuration control

C. Workspace

D. Version

2744. The environment that supports the software project is called_______________________?
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A. CBSE

B. FAST

C. SEE

D. CLSS

2745. Which of the following is incorrect activity for the configuration management of a software system ?
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A. Version management

B. Internship management

C. Change management

D. System management

2746. Which one is not a risk management activity ?
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A. Risk control

B. Risk generation

C. Risk assessment

D. None of the mentioned

2747. What is a collection of software engineering work tasks, milestones, and deliverables that must be accomplished to complete a particular project ?
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A. Adaptation criteria

B. All of the mentioned

C. Degree of milestone

D. Task set
2748. Which of the following is a people-intensive activity ?
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A. Problem solving

B. Motivation

C. Project management

D. Organization

2749. 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___________________?
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A. EV = (Sopt + 4Sm + Spess)/4

B. EV = (Sopt + 2Sm + Spess)/6

C. EV = (Sopt + 4Sm + Spess)/6

D. EV = (Sopt + 2Sm + Spess)/4

2750. PM-CMM stands for___________________?
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A. product management capability maturity model

B. project management capability maturity model

C. process management capability maturity model

D. people management capability maturity model
2751. What combines procedures and tools to manage different versions of configuration objects that are created during the software process ?
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A. SCIs

B. None of the mentioned

C. Version control

D. Change control

2752. Which of the following term is best defined by the statement: There will be a change of organizational management with different priorities.?
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A. Management change

B. Technology change

C. Product competition

D. Staff turnover

2753. What complements the formal technical review by assessing a configuration object for characteristics that are generally not considered during review ?
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A. None of the mentioned

B. Software configuration management

C. Software configuration audit

D. Baseline

2754. COCOMO was developed initially by _____________________ ?
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A. Gregg Rothermal

B. B.W.Bohem

C. Rajiv Gupta

D. B.Beizer

2755. Which risks are associated with the overall size of the software to be built or modified ?
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A. Business impact risks

B. Product size risks

C. Development environment risks

D. Process definition risks

2756. What evaluates the risk associated with the technology to be implemented as part of project scope ?
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A. Concept scoping

B. Customer reaction to the concept

C. Technology risk assessment

D. Preliminary concept planning
2757. What involves preparing software for external release and keeping track of the system versions that have been released for customer use ?
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A. Change management

B. Release management

C. Version management

D. System building

2758. Which of the following is not a build system feature ?
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A. Documentation generation

B. Storage management

C. Reporting

D. Minimal recompilation

2759. Which of the following risk is the failure of a purchased component to perform as expected ?
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A. Business risk

B. Product risk

C. Programming risk

D. Project risk

2760. Why is decomposition technique required ?
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A. Software project estimation is a form of problem solving

B. None of the mentioned

C. Developing a cost and effort estimate for a software project is too complex

D. All of the mentioned