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1. Ensuring that no more than the allocated number of people are allocated at any given time in Software Scheduling is known as ________________?
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A. Effort Distribution

B. Effort Validation

C. Defined Milestone

D. Time Allocation

2. Which of the following uses empirically derived formulas to predict effort as a function of LOC or FP ?
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A. FP-Based Estimation

B. Process-Based Estimation

C. COCOMO

D. Both FP-Based Estimation and COCOMO

3. Which of the following is a collection of project coordination technique ?
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A. Formal approaches

B. Formal, interpersonal procedures

C. Informal, interpersonal procedures

D. All of the mentioned

4. Who delivers the technical skills that are necessary to engineer a product or an application ?
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A. None of the mentioned

B. Senior managers

C. Practitioners

D. Project managers

5. Which of the following process is concerned with analyzing the costs and benefits of proposed changes ?
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A. Version management

B. Change management

C. Release management

D. System building

6. 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)

7. 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

8. 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

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

B. FAST

C. SEE

D. CLSS

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. Which of the following is a people-intensive activity ?
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A. Problem solving

B. Motivation

C. Project management

D. Organization

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

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

B. B.W.Bohem

C. Rajiv Gupta

D. B.Beizer

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. 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

26. Which of the following is a systematic attempt to specify threats to the project plan ?
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A. Risk projection

B. Support risk

C. Risk identification

D. Performance risk

27. 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 ?
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A. closed paradigm

B. open paradigm

C. synchronous paradigm

D. asynchronous paradigm

28. Which of the following is not a project factor that should be considered when planning the structure of software engineering teams ?
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A. The degree of sociability required for the project

B. The difficulty of the problem to be solved

C. High frustration caused by personal, business, or technological factors that causes friction among team members

D. The rigidity of the delivery date

29. Commitments to unrealistic time and resource estimates may result in____________________?
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A. project failure

B. poor quality work

C. project delay

D. all of the mentioned

30. A software ______________ provides the framework from which a comprehensive plan for software development can be established?
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A. product

B. people

C. none of the mentioned

D. process

31. COCOMO stands for____________________?
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A. Comprehensive cost model

B. Constructive cost model

C. Complete cost estimation model

D. Constructive cost estimation model

32. Which software project sizing approach develop estimates of the information domain characteristics ?
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A. Fuzzy logic sizing

B. Standard component sizing

C. Function point sizing

D. Change sizing

33. What threatens the viability of the software to be built ?
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A. Project risks

B. Business risks

C. Technical risks

D. Known risks

34. The definition and use of configuration management standards is essential for quality certification in__________________?
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A. All of the mentioned

B. CMM

C. ISO 9000

D. CMMI

35. Which of the following term is best defined by the statement: The underlying technology on which the system is built is superseded by new technology. ?
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A. Requirements change

B. Technology change

C. None of the mentioned

D. Product competition

36. v Programming language experience is a part of which factor of COCOMO cost drivers ?
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A. Project Factor

B. Personnel Factor

C. Product Factor

D. Platform Factor

37. Which of the following is an important factor that can affect the accuracy and efficacy of estimates ?
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A. Project complexity

B. Degree of structural uncertainty

C. Project size

D. Planning process

38. Which of the following is the reason that software is delivered late ?
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A. All of the mentioned

B. Technical difficulties that could not have been foreseen in advance

C. Human difficulties that could not have been foreseen in advance

D. Changing customer requirements that are not reflected in schedule changes

39. Which of the following is a part of system release ?
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A. an installation program that is used to help install the system on target hardware

B. all of the mentioned

C. electronic and paper documentation describing the system

D. packaging and associated publicity that have been designed for that release

40. If a Direct approach to software project sizing is taken, size can be measured in__________________?
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A. FP

B. None of the mentioned

C. LOC and FP

D. LOC

41. A 66.6% risk is considered as__________________?
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A. high

B. very low

C. moderate

D. low

42. Every task that is scheduled should be assigned to a specific team member is termed as_________________?
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A. Defined responsibilities

B. Defined milestones

C. Defined outcomes

D. Compartmentalization

43. 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 ?
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A. Change management

B. System building

C. Version management

D. Release management

44. Which of the following option is not tracked by configuration management tools ?
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A. None of the mentioned

B. Storing versions of system components

C. Tracking of change proposals

D. Tracking the releases of system versions to customers

45. Which of the following is a project scheduling method that can be applied to software development ?
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A. PERT

B. CPM

C. CMM

D. Both PERT and CPM

46. Which of the following is not an adaptation criteria for software projects ?
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A. Project staff

B. Size of the project

C. Mission criticality

D. Customers Complaints

47. Software Configuration Management can be administered in several ways. These include __________________?
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A. All of the mentioned

B. Software Configuration Management distributed among the project members

C. A separate configuration management team for each project

D. A single software configuration management team for the whole organization

48. Which of the following is not one of the five information domain characteristics of Function Point (FP) decomposition ?
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A. External inquiries

B. External outputs

C. External inputs

D. External process

49. Which of the following is not an effective project manager trait ?
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A. Influence and team building

B. None of the mentioned

C. Problem solving

D. Managerial identity

50. What is the recommended distribution of effort for a project ?
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A. 50-20-30

B. 50-30-20

C. 30-40-30

D. 40-20-40

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