1. The final form of testing COTS software is _________ testing.

2. Which configuration objects would not typically be found in the project database?

3. Which of the following is not the guiding principle of software project scheduling?

4. Algorithmic cost estimation in different organisations may be different for the same application development, because

5. Which of these is not true ?

6. What do you call, when the elements of a module, all operate on the same data?

7. Which of the following is not a logical layer of the application in client server system?

8. What would be investigated during Requirements analysis?

9. Which of the following interface design principles reduces the user’s memory load? Define intuitive shortcuts "I. Disclose information in a progressive fashion "II. Establish meaningful defaults "V. Provide an on-line tutorial"

10. The advantage of following the IEEE Standard for drawing up a Software Project Management Plan (SPMP) – see IEEE Standard 1059.1 1987 – is

11. Efficiency in a software product does not include ________

12. Imagine that you were recently hired as a software engineer to a company that specializes in aircraft navigation control software. While orientating yourselves to the company’s work practices, you observe that they in fact do not conduct a few tests that they should in order to comply with the relevant safety standard. When you inquire about this from the project manager, he dismisses it saying that those tests are really unnecessary (and takes an unreasonably long time to conduct, as well as being superfluous) and that they have managed with the other tests for so long, without any problems.'

13. The software life cycle can be said to consist of a series of phases. The classical model is referred to as the waterfall model. Which phase may be defined as “The concept is explored and refined, and the client’s requirements are elicited?'

14. Which tests are designed to confront the program with abnormal situations?

15. What do you call when two modules are coupled, when they communicate via a composite data item?

16. Which of the following is true for a thin-client?

17. What are the factors to be considered when planning a software development effort?

18. Identify the correct statement: “Software engineers shall

19. To be an effective aid in process improvement the baseline metrics used must be

20. Black box testing is also called

21. Software measurement is useful to

22. Brooks’ view of the essence of software included

23. Which of the following is not an objective for building analysis models?

24. In the maintenance phase the product must be tested against previous test cases. This is known as __________ testing.

25. Software configuration activities would not include