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software management Mcqs
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