Deck 2: Software Development Methodologies and Project Management Techniques

Question 1

An Elaboration of Waterfall which stresses the necessity for validation activities is known as __________.

A)extended waterfall.
B)iterative model.
C)v-process model.
D)spiral model.

Answer 1

v-process model.

Question 2

The spiral model is originated by __________.

A)b.w.boehm.
B)b.w.williams.
C)b.w.britto.
D)b.w.hackman.

Answer 2

b.w.boehm.

Question 3

_______ is a working model of one or more aspects of the projected system.

A)evolutionary model.
B)v-process model.
C)spiral model.
D)software prototyping.

Answer 3

software prototyping.

Question 4

In Software Prototype, ___________ means copies of input screens are shown to the users on a workstation, but the screens cannot actually be used.

A)simulation.
B)annealing.
C)mock-ups.
D)rad system.

Question 5

In software prototype, partial working model is classified into ________.

A)vertical and horizontal.
B)vertical and straight.
C)bended and horizontal.
D)elevated and horizontal.

Question 6

SSADM means ___________.

A)straight systems analysis design method.
B)structured systems analysis design method.
C)software systems analysis design method.
D)solutions systems analysis design method.

Question 7

Which are the two levels of development suggested by Booch ?

A)micro and macro processes.
B)inter and intra processes.
C)internal and external processes.
D)small and large processes.

Question 8

The statement "Putting more people on a late job makes it later" is from _________ law.

A)brooks.
B)peters.
C)parkinson\s.
D)brokers.

Question 9

KLOC indicates ___________.

A)hundred lines of code.
B)source lines of code.
C)thousand lines of code.
D)million lines of code.

Question 10

Effort = __________.

A)system size x productivity rate.
B)system size x kloc.
C)person in months / sloc.
D)person in months x productivity rate.

Question 11

UFP indicates ________.

A)unused function points.
B)unstructured function points.
C)uniform function points.
D)unadjusted function points.

Question 12

The activities have zero duration but are assumed to start at the same timeas the first and the end at the same time as the last one is called__________activity.

A)hijacked.
B)heuristic.
C)hammocked.
D)hole.

Question 13

_________ activities on the network diagram have zero duration and use no resources.

A)dangling.
B)dummy.
C)null.
D)zero.

Question 14

Every risk is associated with a likely problem and an _______.

A)activity.
B)outcome.
C)action plan.
D)threats.

Question 15

Risk Management consists of ____________.

A)risk analysis and risk estimation.
B)risk control and risk planning.
C)risk identification and monitoring.
D)risk control, planning, identification and monitoring.

Question 16

Ranking of the risks and determining risk aversion strategies is called _______.

A)risk analysis.
B)risk control.
C)risk identification.
D)risk evaluation.

Question 17

________ = risk likelihood X risk impact.

A)risk estimate.
B)risk expenditure.
C)risk identification
D)risk exposure.

Question 18

Ranking of the risks and determining risk aversion strategies is called ________.

A)risk analysis.
B)risk control.
C)risk identification
D)risk evaluation.

Question 19

The shortest time in which we could expect to complete the activity, barring outright miracles are called ________.

A)optimistic time.
B)pessimistic time.
C)most likely time.
D)shortest time.

Question 20

"Each activity has been scheduled to start at its earliest start date" is called as_________.

A)likelihood.
B)activity schedule.
C)probability.
D)planning.

Question 21

In _________, the priority activities are allocated resources in ascending order of total. float.

A)total free.
B)total float.
C)technical float.
D)top float

Question 22

_______ is an activity bar chart indicating scheduled activity dates and durations frequently augmented with activity floats.

A)bar chart.
B)ball chart.
C)slip chart.
D)gantt chart.

Question 23

The priorities we might apply in deciding levels in monitoring is called as ______.

A)hierarchical monitoring.
B)prioritized monitoring.
C)tracking.
D)tracing