Practice Test: Question Set - 05
1. With regard to Evolutionary development, identify the correct statement.
- (A) Evolutionary
development usually comes in two flavors; Exploratory development and throw-away
prototyping
- (B) Very
large projects are natural candidates for an evolutionary development based
approach
- (C) Exploratory
development is used in situations where most of the requirements are well
understood in advance
- (D) One
of the strong points of evolutionary development is that it facilitates easy
project management, through the high volume of documentation it generates
2. If a control switch is passed as an argument this is an example of __________ coupling.
- (A) Content
- (B) Common
- (C) Control
- (D) Stamp
3. In Intermediate COCOMO the mode that represents complex products is referred to as
- (A) Embedded
- (B) Semidetached
- (C) Organic
- (D) Multiplicative
4. Software engineering is the systematic approach to the
- (A) Development
of software
- (B) Operation
of software
- (C) Maintenance
of software
- (D) All
of the above
5. In planning a software project one would
- (A) Find ways to
produce results using limited resources
- (B) Pad the
schedule to accommodate errors
- (C) Overestimate
the budget
- (D) Structure
the team to prevent administrative interference
6. Empirical estimation models are typically based on
- (A) Expert
judgment based on past project experiences
- (B) Refinement
of current project estimation
- (C) Regression
models derived from historical project data
- (D) Trial
and error determination of the parameters and coefficients
7. Which configuration objects would not typically be found in the project database?
- (A) Design
specification
- (B) Marketing
data
- (C) Executable
code
- (D) Test
plans
8. Software Engineering:
- (A) Is a set of
rules about developing software products
- (B) Has been
around as a discipline since the early 50’s
- (C) Started as a
response to the so-called ‘Software Crisis’ of the late 90’s
- (D) Is
an engineering discipline concerned with all the aspects of software production
9. A simple way of looking at the spiral software life-cycle model is as a waterfall model with each phase proceeded by
- (A) Build-and-fix
- (B) Freezing
- (C) Synchronization
- (D) Risk
analysis
10. The best way to test the Software Project Management Plan (SPMP) is by
- (A) Prototyping
- (B) Inspection
- (C) Simulation
- (D) Compilation
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