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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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1. Which version of COCOMO states that once requirements have been stabilized, the basic software architecture has been established?
2. Which of the following is not an effective software project management focus?
3. The environment that supports the software project is called
4. If a Direct approach to software project sizing is taken, size can be measured in
5. In many cases, it is often more cost-effective to acquire, rather than develop, computer software.
6. 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.
7. What is a collection of software engineering work tasks, milestones, and deliverables that must be accomplished to complete a particular project?
8. 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?
9. Which of the following term is best defined by the statement: “There will be a change of organizational management with different priorities.”?
10. CLSS stands for
11. COCOMO was developed initially by
12. Who defines the business issues that often have significant influence on the project?
13. What can be used to complement decomposition techniques and offer a potentially valuable estimation approach in their own right?
14. Which activity sits at the core of software requirements analysis?
15. PM-CMM stands for
16. Which risks are associated with the overall size of the software to be built or modified?
17. What evaluates the risk associated with the technology to be implemented as part of project scope?
18. The project planner must reconcile the estimates based on decomposition techniques to produce a single estimate of effort.
19. Which of the following is a project scheduling method that can be applied to software development?
20. Which of the following is not a Software Configuration Management Activity?
21. The COCOMO model takes into account different approaches to software development, reuse, etc.
22. What describes the data and control to be processed?
23. A make-buy decision is based on whether
24. Which paradigm relies on the natural compartmentalization of a problem and organizes team members to work on pieces of the problem with little active communication among themselves?
25. Which of the following are parameters involved in computing the total cost of a software development project?