software management MCQs – Page 2

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

software management Mcqs
51. A technique for performing quantitative analysis of progress is known as______________________?
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A. EVA

B. BAC

C. BCWS

D. CBSE

52. Which paradigm structures a team loosely and depends on individual initiative of the team members ?
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A. random paradigm

B. synchronous paradigm

C. open paradigm

D. closed paradigm

53. What is related to the overall functionality of the delivered software ?
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A. Size-related metrics

B. Product-related metrics

C. None of the mentioned

D. Function-related metrics
54. Quality planning is the process of developing a quality plan for__________________?
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A. team

B. project manager

C. project

D. customers

55. What all has to be identified as per risk identification ?
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A. Threats

B. Vulnerabilities

C. All of the mentioned

D. Consequences

56. Risk management is one of the most important jobs for a__________________?
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A. Investor

B. Client

C. Production team

D. Project manager
57. Which one is not a stage of COCOMO-II ?
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A. Early design estimation model

B. Comprehensive cost estimation model

C. Application Composition estimation model

D. Post architecture estimation model

58. Which risks are associated with constraints imposed by management or the marketplace ?
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A. Process definition risks

B. Development environment risks

C. Product size risks

D. Business impact risks
59. Which of the following is not considered as a risk in project management ?
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A. Testing

B. Staff turnover

C. Specification delays

D. Product competition

60. Which of the following are parameters involved in computing the total cost of a software development project ?
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A. Hardware and software costs

B. All of the mentioned

C. Effort costs

D. Travel and training costs

61. Who suggested the four different approaches to the sizing problem ?
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A. Putnam

B. Myers

C. Boehm

D. Putnam and Myers
62. A number of independent investigators have developed a team-oriented approach to requirements gathering that can be applied to establish the scope of a project called ?
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A. None of the mentioned

B. CLASS

C. JAD

D. FAST
63. Which of the following is a configuration item ?
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A. Design & Test specification

B. Source code

C. All of the mentioned

D. Log information

64. A make-buy decision is based on whether________________?
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A. The software may be purchased off-the-shelf

B. Customer-built software should be developed

C. All of the mentioned

D. Full-experience or Partial-experience software components should be used

65. Which software engineering team has no permanent leader ?
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A. None of the mentioned

B. Democratic decentralized (DD)

C. Controlled decentralized (CD)

D. Controlled Centralized (CC)

66. 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

67. 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
68. 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

69. 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

70. 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

71. 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
72. 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

73. 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
74. Estimation of size for a project is dependent on___________________?
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A. Cost

B. Schedule

C. None of the mentioned

D. Time

75. 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

76. 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
77. 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

78. Which of the following is not an effective software project management focus ?
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A. people

B. popularity

C. product

D. process

79. 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

80. 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

81. 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

82. 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

83. 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

84. 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

85. 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

86. 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

87. 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
88. 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)

89. 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

90. 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

91. 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
92. 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

93. 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

94. 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)

95. 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

96. 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
97. 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

98. 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

99. 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

100. 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