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

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

2841. Which technique is applicable when other projects in the same analogy application domain have been completed ?
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A. Expert judgement

B. Algorithmic cost modelling

C. Parkinsons Law

D. Estimation by analogy
2842. Identify the sub-process of process improvement ___________________?
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A. Process introduction

B. Process analysis

C. Process distribution

D. De-processification

2843. Which of the following is not a sign that indicates that an information systems project is in jeopardy?
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A. Sponsorship is gained

B. Changes are managed poorly

C. Users are resistant

D. Software people dont understand their customers needs

2844. The process each manager follows during the life of a project is known as ___________________?
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A. Project Management Life Cycle

B. Manager life cycle

C. All of the mentioned

D. Project Management

2845. What can be used to complement decomposition techniques and offer a potentially valuable estimation approach in their own right ?
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A. Automated estimation tools

B. Empirical estimation models

C. Decomposition techniques

D. Both Automated estimation tools and Empirical estimation models

2846. Which of the following is not an approach to software cost estimation ?
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A. Empirical

B. Analytical

C. Critical

D. Heuristic

2847. How many forms exists of Barry Boehms COCOMO Model ?
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A. Two

B. Four

C. Three

D. No form exists

2848. Which of the following is not an option to achieve reliable cost and effort estimate ?
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A. The ability to translate the size estimate into human effort, calendar time, and dollars

B. Base estimates on similar projects that have already been completed

C. Use one or more empirical models for software cost and effort estimation

D. Use relatively simple decomposition techniques to generate project cost and effort estimates

2849. Which method recommends that very frequent system builds should be carried out with automated testing to discover software problems ?
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A. Agile method

B. Parallel compilation method

C. Large systems method

D. All of the mentioned

2850. Which of the following costs is not part of the total effort cost ?
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A. Costs of networking and communications

B. Costs of lunch time food

C. Costs of providing heating and lighting office space

D. Costs of support staff