software management MCQs – Page 4

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

software management Mcqs
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