software management MCQs – Page 2

Practise focused software management questions with marked answers for exam preparation and subject revision.

software management Mcqs
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