software engineering MCQs – Page 141

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

2801. Which activity sits at the core of software requirements analysis ?
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A. Partitioning

B. Problem elaboration

C. All of the mentioned

D. Problem decomposition

2802. 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 ?
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A. An application-composition model

B. A post-architecture model

C. An early design model

D. A reuse model
2803. The project planner examines the statement of scope and extracts all important software functions which is known as___________________?
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A. Association

B. Planning process

C. Decomposition

D. All of the mentioned

2804. Which of the following is not a project managers activity ?
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A. project control

B. project management

C. project design

D. project planning

2805. 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 ?
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A. Software Macroscopic schedule

B. Software Detailed schedule

C. Software Project scheduling

D. None of the mentioned

2806. Which of the following is not project management goal ?
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A. Keeping overall costs within budget

B. Maintaining a happy and well-functioning development team

C. Delivering the software to the customer at the agreed time

D. Avoiding customer complaints
2807. A _______________ is developed using historical cost information that relates some software metric to the project cost ?
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A. Algorithmic cost modelling

B. Parkinsons Law

C. Expert judgement

D. Estimation by analogy

2808. What is the product of the probability of incurring a loss due to the risk and the potential magnitude of that loss ?
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A. Risk analysis

B. Risk prioritization

C. All of the mentioned

D. Risk exposure
2809. Estimation of size for a project is dependent on___________________?
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A. Cost

B. Schedule

C. None of the mentioned

D. Time

2810. Which of the following categories is part of the output of software process ?
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A. computer programs

B. all of the mentioned

C. documents that describe the computer programs

D. data

2811. Which of the following states that work expands to fill the time available ?
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A. Pricing to win

B. Expert judgement

C. CASE tools

D. Parkinsons Law
2812. A project usually has a timeline chart which was developed by_________________?
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A. None of the mentioned

B. Ivar Jacabson

C. Henry Gantt

D. Barry Boehm

2813. Which of the following is not an effective software project management focus ?
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A. people

B. popularity

C. product

D. process

2814. CLSS stands for_____________________?
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A. conveyor line sorting speed

B. conveyor line sorting software

C. conveyor line sorting system

D. conveyor line sorting specification

2815. Which model is used during early stages of the system design after the requirements have been established ?
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A. A reuse model

B. An application-composition model

C. An early design model

D. A post-architecture model

2816. Which of the following strategies means that the impact of the risk will be reduced ?
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A. Contingency plans

B. All of the mentioned

C. Minimization strategies

D. Avoidance strategies

2817. 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 ?
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A. Early design stage model

B. Post-architecture-stage model

C. Application composition model

D. All of the mentioned

2818. Which model assumes that systems are created from reusable components, scripting or database programming ?
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A. A post-architecture model

B. A reuse model

C. An application-composition model

D. An early design model

2819. What threatens the quality and timeliness of the software to be produced ?
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A. Technical risks

B. Known risks

C. Business risks

D. Project risks

2820. What is used to determine the recommended degree of rigor with which the software process should be applied on a project ?
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A. Degree of Rigor

B. Adaptation criteria

C. Task Set

D. Both degree of Rigor and adaptation criteria