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Software Engineering Practice Test: Software Management
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Software Engineering quiz on different aspects of software management, including project planning and management, estimation models, management of risks, various decomposition techniques, configuration management of software, software projects and their scheduling and tracking. Software engineering management (SEM) is the application of planning, coordination, measurement, monitoring, control, and reporting to ensure that software development and maintenance is systematic, disciplined, and quantified. SEM covers project initiation, determining scope and requirements, feasibility analysis,... Show more
Software Engineering Practice Test: Software Management
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25 Questions

1. What describes the data and control to be processed?
2. Which of the following is not a Software Configuration Management Activity?
3. What complements the formal technical review by assessing a configuration object for characteristics that are generally not considered during review?
4. PM-CMM stands for
5. Which of the following is the reason that software is delivered late?
6. Who suggested the four different approaches to the sizing problem?
7. What evaluates the risk associated with the technology to be implemented as part of project scope?
8. In many cases, it is often more cost-effective to acquire, rather than develop, computer software.
9. Which one is not a stage of COCOMO-II?
10. Which of the following term is best defined by the statement: “Derive traceability information to maximize information hiding in the design.”?
11. Which of the following is a systematic attempt to specify threats to the project plan?
12. Risk management is now recognized as one of the most important project management tasks.
13. Which of the following uses empirically derived formulas to predict effort as a function of LOC or FP?
14. What involves preparing software for external release and keeping track of the system versions that have been released for customer use?
15. What combines procedures and tools to manage different versions of configuration objects that are created during the software process?
16. Which version of COCOMO states that once requirements have been stabilized, the basic software architecture has been established?
17. Which of the following option is not tracked by configuration management tools?
18. Programming language experience is a part of which factor of COCOMO cost drivers?
19. Which of the following is a collection of project coordination technique?
20. What is the recommended distribution of effort for a project?
21. If a Direct approach to software project sizing is taken, size can be measured in
22. It is often difficult to estimate size at an early stage in a project when only a specification is available
23. Which risks are associated with constraints imposed by management or the marketplace?
24. 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.
25. What can be used to complement decomposition techniques and offer a potentially valuable estimation approach in their own right?