Software Project Management (S2-14_SSZG622) EC1 - Quiz-3

The level of review formality is determined by which of the following?
Select one:
a. Number of findings
b. Knowledge of the reviewer
c. Preparation and structure of review
d. Size of the project
Ans: c

Which of these activities is not one of the activities recommended to be performed by an independent SQA group?
Select one:
a. serve as the test team for software produced
b. prepare SQA plan for the project
c. review software engineering activities to verify process compliance
d. report any evidence of noncompliance to senior management
Ans: a

Which of the following is not an example of a business process?
Select one:
a. hiring an employee
b. purchasing services
c. testing software
d. designing a new product
Ans: c

Effective software project management focuses on
Select one:
a. people, performance, payoff, product
b. people, product, performance, process
c. people, process, payoff, product
d. people, product, process, project
Ans: d

The tendency for the project deliverables to expand over time-usually by changing requirements, specifications, and priorities-is called
Select one:
a. Project bloat
b. Scope creep
c. Project add-on
d. Scope enhancement
Ans: b

At the end of a formal technical review all attendees can decide to
Select one:
a. recommend role changes in team
b. reject the product due to stylistic discrepancies
c. accept the work product without modification
d. modify the work product and continue the review
Ans: c

Which of the following is likely to be the most expensive cost of quality?
Select one:
a. Appraisal costs
b. External failure costs
c. Prevention costs
d. Internal failure costs
How much effort is typically expended by a software organization on software maintenance?
Select one:
a. 40 percent
b. 60 percent
c. 20 percent
d. 80 percent
Ans: b

Which these are reasons for using technical product measures during software development?
Select one:
a. large body of scientific evidence supports their use
b. provide software engineers with an objective mechanism for assessing software quality
c. they help capturing client requirements clearly
d. they allow all quality software quality information to be expressed unambiguously as a single number
Ans: b

Empirical estimation models are typically based on
Select one:
a. refinement of expected value estimation
b. trial and error determination of the parameters and coefficients
c. expert judgement based on past project experiences
d. regression model derived from historical project data
Ans: d

Which of the following activities is not part of the software reengineering process model?
Select one:
a. reverse engineering
b. inventory analysis
c. prototyping
d. forward engineering
Ans: c

Risk projection attempts to rate each risk in two ways
Select one:
a. likelihood and impact
b. likelihood and cost
c. likelihood and exposure
d. likelihood and consequences
Ans: a

Software risk always involves two characteristics
Select one:
a. staffing and budget
b. fire fighting and crisis management
c. uncertainty and loss
d. known and unknown risks
Ans: c

The first step in project planning is to
Select one:
a. establish the objectives and scope
b. determine the budget
c. select a team organizational model
d. determine the project constraints
Ans: a

Which of the following are objectives for formal technical reviews?
Select one:
a. allow senior staff members to correct errors
b. determining who introduced an error into a program
c. uncover errors in software work products
d. assess programmer productivity
Ans: c

Six Sigma methodology defines three core steps
Select one:
a. define, measure, control
b. analyze, improve, control
c. define, measure, analyze
d. analyze, design, verify
Ans: c

Which of the following is not considered one of the four important elements that should exist when a configuration management system is developed?
Select one:
a. component elements
b. human elements
c. process elements
d. validation elements
Ans: d

When software configuration management is a formal activity the software configuration audit is conducted by the
Select one:
a. development team
b. quality assurance group
c. senior managers
d. testing specialists
Ans: b

The best project team organizational model to use when tackling extremely complex problems is the
Select one:
a. Closed Paradigm
b. Open Paradigm
c. Random Paradigm
d. Synchronous Paradigm
Ans: b

Hazard analysis focuses on the identification and assessment of potential hazards that can cause
Select one:
a. an entire system to fail
b. cost overruns
c. project termination
d. schedule slippage
Ans: a