software engineering MCQs – Page 142

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

2821. Which of the following term is best defined by the statement The creation of a new codeline from a version in an existing codeline ?
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A. Merging

B. Mainline

C. Branching

D. Codeline

2822. Which of the following risks are derived from the software or hardware technologies that are used to develop the system ?
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A. Managerial risks

B. Organizational risks

C. Estimation risks

D. Technology risks
2823. Which type of software engineering team has a defined leader who coordinates specific tasks and secondary leaders that have responsibility for sub tasks ?
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A. Controlled decentralized (CD)

B. Democratic decentralized (DD)

C. None of the mentioned

D. Controlled centralized (CC)

2824. What assess the risk and your plans for risk mitigation and revise these when you learn more about the risk ?
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A. Risk monitoring

B. Risk analysis

C. Risk identification

D. Risk planning

2825. Which one is not a size measure for software product ?
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A. Halsteads program length

B. Cyclomatic Complexity

C. LOC

D. Function Count

2826. Which version of COCOMO states that once requirements have been stabilized, the basic software architecture has been established ?
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A. Post-architecture-stage model

B. All of the mentioned

C. Application composition model

D. Early design stage model
2827. Which of the following is not a Software Configuration Management Activity ?
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A. Risk management

B. Branch management

C. Release management

D. Configuration item identification

2828. Which of the following risks are derived from the organizational environment where the software is being developed ?
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A. People risks

B. Technology risks

C. Organizational risks

D. Estimation risks

2829. A sequence of baselines representing different versions of a system is known as ____________________?
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A. System building

B. None of the mentioned

C. Mainline

D. Software Configuration Item(SCI)

2830. SPMP stands for__________________?
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A. Software Project Management Plan

B. Software Project Managers Plan

C. Software Product Managers Plan

D. Software Product Management Plan

2831. 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 ?
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A. open paradigm

B. synchronous paradigm

C. random paradigm

D. closed paradigm
2832. Which of the following is not a business risk ?
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A. losing budgetary or personnel commitment

B. lack of documented requirements or software scope

C. building an excellent product or system that no one really wants

D. losing the support of senior management due to a change in focus or change in people

2833. Which is a software configuration management concept that helps us to control change without seriously impeding justifiable change ?
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A. Source code

B. Baselines

C. None of the mentioned

D. Data model

2834. Which of the following term is best defined by the statement:the degree of uncertainty that the product will meet its requirements and be fit for its intended use.?
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A. Support risk

B. Schedule risk

C. Performance risk

D. Cost risk

2835. If an Indirect approach is taken, then the sizing approach is represented as_______________?
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A. LOC and FP

B. FP

C. LOC

D. Fuzzy Logic

2836. COCOMO-II was developed at _____________________?
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A. MIT

B. University of Southern California

C. University of Texas

D. IIT-Kanpur

2837. What describes the data and control to be processed ?
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A. External hardware

B. Project complexity

C. Software scope

D. Planning process

2838. Which of the following is not a Version management feature ?
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A. Project support

B. Version and release identification

C. Build script generation

D. Change history recording

2839. Who defines the business issues that often have significant influence on the project ?
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A. None of the mentioned

B. Senior managers

C. Project managers

D. Practitioners

2840. Which of the following is not achieved by an automated estimation tools ?
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A. Predicting staffing levels

B. Predicting clients demands

C. Predicting software schedules

D. Predicting software cost