SOFTWARE PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND QUALITY ASSURANCE BCA-V BC0054

1 MARK QUESTIONS
1) Effective software project management focuses on : a) b) c) d) 2Ps 3Ps 4Ps 5Ps

2) Which factor provides the framework for software development? a) b) c) d) People Product Process Product

3) T-Form organization means : a) b) c) d) Time based Table based Triangle based Technology based

4) Testing procedures & certification process are defined by : a) b) c) d) Product management Software Testing Software development Logistices

5) Which factor/s influence the project management? a) Only time & scope b) Only cost c) Only quality d) All of the above 6) Who is overall responsible for successful planning & execution of a project? a) Software programmer b) Customer

c) Project manager d) End-user 7) Project charter is a) One-time announcement b) Documentation c) Project completion d) Project delivery 8) SOW stands for a) Sources of work b) Sources of wonder c) Statement of wonder d) Statement of work 9) WBS stands for a) Work beneficial structures b) Work breakdown signal c) Work beneficial signal d) Work breakdown structures 10) PERT chart is a method for a) Planning b) Requirement analysis c) Coding d) Maintence 11) Which one is the base model of all other models in planning stage a) Spiral model b) Prototype model c) Incremental model d) Waterfall model 12) Which method do/es the better monitoring of timely progress of activities? a) Pert chart b) Gantt chart c) Both do equal d) None of the above 13) PM stands for a) Price-month b) Price-minute c) Person-month d) Person-minute 14) KDSI stands for

a) b) c) d)

Thousands of Delivered source instructions Kilo of Delivered source instructions Thousands of Destination source instructions Kilo of Destination source instructions

15) ACT stands for a) Annual change technology b) Annual change traffic c) Automatic change technology d) Automatic change traffic 16) NPV stands for a) New past value b) New present value c) Net past value d) Net present value 17) Stack of an event is a) Measure of excess time b) Measure of resources available in achieving that event c) Both a & b d) None of the above 18) Zero stake includes a) Ahead of schedule b) Behind to schedule c) On schedule d) Not related to schedule 19) Crashing the schedule means a) Efforts to accelerate a project schedule b) Behind the schedule c) No schedule d) Completion of project after schedule 20) Methods of Crashing the schedule a) Insert overlap in dependency b) Change from series to parallel c) Accelerate task by adding people d) All of the above

21) What is risk? a) Total loss b) Possibility of loss c) Loss of money d) Loss of time

22) Risk assessment is a) Possibility of risk b) Estimating the level of risk c) Identify the uncertainty d) Prioritize risk 23) Which one is not an element of risk assessment a) Risk identification b) Risk analysis c) Risk resolution d) Risk prioritization 24) Which one is not an element of risk control a) Risk management planning b) Risk resolution c) Risk analysis d) Risk prioritization 25) SCM stands for a) Software construction management b) Software configuration management c) Software configuration method d) Simple construction management 26) Version control manages different versions of configuration objects by a) Combination of procedures & tools b) Only procedures c) Only tools d) None of the above 27) ECO stands for a) Engineering change order b) Economic change order c) Estimated change order d) Estimated class order

28) Configuration status reporting is a) Risk prioritization b) Risk control task c) Risk assessment task d) SCM task

29) Requirement scrubbing is a) Adding the unnecessary requirement b) Adding the requirement c) Cutting the requirement d) Cutting the unnecessary requirement 30) In centralized-control team requirement a) There are many supervisors b) There is one supervisor c) There is no supervisor d) None of the above 31) In decentralized-control team organization a) There is one supervisor b) There are many supervisors c) Team members work as a group d) None of the above 32) Mixed control team organization is a) Centralized control team organization b) Decentralized control team organization c) Combination of a & b d) None of the above 33) SQA stands for a) System quality assurance b) Software quality assurance c) System quality assistance d) Software quantity assurance 34) FTR stands for a) Formal technical review b) First technical review c) Final technical review d) None of the above 35) ISO stands for

a) b) c) d)

Inter-continental standards for organization International software for organization Indian standards for organization International standards for organization

36) MTTR stands for a) Maximum time to repair b) Mean time to repair c) Minimum time to repair d) None of the above 37) Which one is not a part of closure analysis report ? a) Size b) Casual analysis c) Information of effort d) Coding plan 38) Inter-operatability means a) Ease of finding errors b) Ease of correcting errors c) Ability of two or more software systems to exchange information d) Extent to which software uses minimum hardware 39) PDB stands for a) Process databse b) Project database c) Process data behavior d) None of the above 40) Which one is not the type of defect a) Minor b) Major c) Casual d) Cosmetic

2 MARK QUESTIONS
41) PM-CMM stands for a) Process management construction & manufacturing model b) People management capability maturity model c) People management construction & manufacturing model d) Process management capability maturity model

42) Wheelwright and Clark define a continuum of organizational structures between two extremes a) Process organization & product organization b) Functional organization & product organization c) Process organization & project organization d) Functional organization & project organization 43) Stakeholders a) Are impacted by the outcomes of project b) Can impact the outcomes of project c) Both a & b d) None of the above 44) Project charter is done by a) A project definition document b) A formal recognition of authority c) Both a & b d) None of the above 45) PERT stands for a) Program execution & renewal technique b) Program evaluation & review technique c) Program execution & review technique d) Program evaluation & renewal technique 46) Which ones are the development life cycle models? 1) Spiral model 2) Waterfall model 3) Evolutionary prototyping model 4) Iterative development model a) Only 1 & 2 b) Only 4 c) Only 2 & 3 d) All of the above 47) Any project can be developed in a) Only organic mode b) Only semidetached mode c) Only embedded mode d) Any of above all models 48) ACT = a) DSI (modified) + DSI (added) b) DSI (modified) c) DSI (modified) DSI (added) d) (DSI (modified) + DSI (added)) / KDSI

49) Positive stack would indicate . & Negative stack would indicate . a) Behind to schedule, ahead of schedule b) Ahead of schedule, behind to schedule c) More resources, less resources d) Less resource, more resources 50) Gantt chart allow for a) Tracking of schedule b) Graphical representation c) Providing a history of project d) All of the above 51) Risk prioritization is a) Analysis possible side effect of risk event, if it actually occurs b) Analysis possible side effect of risk event, if it not occurs c) Analysis possible side effect of risk event d) Analysis possible side effect 52) Risk assessment is and risk control is . a) Risk identification, risk management planning b) Risk identification, risk analysis c) Risk management planning, risk identification d) Risk management planning, risk resolution 53) .. & . ensures that the change has been properly implemented. a) Formal technical review, software configuration audit b) Risk identification, risk analysis c) Risk management planning, risk resolution d) Formal technical review, risk resolution 54) governs which software engineers have the authority to access and modify a particular configuration object and . helps to ensure that parallel changes. a)Formal technical review, software configuration audit b)Check in, check out c)Access control, synchronization control d)Formal technical review, risk resolution 55) To centralize the control of software development team is through a)Chief programmer team b)Project team c)Assistant programmer team d)None of the above

56) Nokia software factories are based on a) Geographically undistributed environment & product family architecture b) Concurrent engineering & the use of tools c) Geographically undistributed environment & the use of tools d) All of the above 57) Software engineering is a) Set of activities that analyzes requirements & develop design b) Set of activities that involve planning & controlling c) Set of activities that write codes & direct the software project d) Set of activities that structures databases & direct the software project 58) Software management is a) Set of activities that analyzes requirements & develop design b) Set of activities that involve planning & controlling c) Set of activities that write code & direct the software project d) Set of activities that structures databases & direct the software project 59) Role of closure analysis to determine a) What went right & what went wrong b) What worked & what didnt c) What went right & what worked d) All of the above 60) ISO-9001 is ....................... & ISO-9003 is ... a) Standard refers to software, guideline for software industry b) Guideline for software industry, standard refers to software c) Guideline for software industry, guideline for software industry d) None of the above

4 MARK QUESTIONS
61) Match the players of software development process to their work 1) Senior manger a) specify requirement for software 2) Project Manger b) interact with software after production 3) Customer c) define business issues 4) End user d) motivates & organizes software practitioners a) b) c) d) 1-b,2-d,3-a,4-c 1-a,2-d,3-b,4-c 1-c,2-d,3-a,4-b 1-b,2-c,3-d,4-a

62) State true or false 1) Product management work with clients to define requirements & resolve issues 2) Software programming manage people & resources 3) Logistics mange hardware & software requirement for development & testing 4) Middle management leadership create training procedures & policies

a) b) c) d)

1-T,2-T,3-T,4-F 1-T,2-F,3-T,4-F 1-F,2-F,3-T,4-T 1-F,2-T,3-F,4-T

63) Arrange the different development stages of software development 1) Planning and design 2) Project implementation 3) Project requirement 4) Maintenance a) b) c) d) 3,1,2,4 1,3,2,4 3,1,4,2 1,3,4,2 a) low risk in losing budget & schedule b) high risk in budget & schedule c) step-wise development d) defers elaboration of low risk software elements e) useful in proof of concept

64) Arrange the following 1) Spiral model 2) Waterfall model 3) Throwaway prototyping model 4) Incremental model 5) Evolutionary prototyping model a) b) c) d) 1-d,2-b,3-e,4-c,5-a 1-e,2-c,3-a,4-d,5-b 1-a,2-c,3-e,4-b,5-d 1-c,2-a,3-b,4-e,5-d

65) Match different cost estimation methods as per their weaknesses 1) Algorithmic model a) generally produces large outruns 2) Expert judgment b) may overlook system level costs 3) Parkinson & price to win c) no better than participants 4) Top-down d) calibrated to past, not to future 5) Bottom-up e) less stable a) b) c) d) 1-a,2-c,3-e,4-d,5-b 1-b,2-e,3-a,4-c,5-d 1-d,2-c,3-a,4-e,5-b 1-e,2-d,3-c,4-b,5-a

66) Match the following 1) Organic a) EAF * 3.0(KDSI)1.12 2) Semidetached b) EAF * 2.8(KDSI)1.20 3) Embedded c) EAF * 3.2(KDSI)1.05 a) b) c) d) 1-a,2-b,3-c 1-a,2-c,3-b 1-c,2-a,3-b 1-b,2-c,3-a

67) Match the following 1) Pert activity 2) Pert event 3) Predecessor event 4) Successor event 5) Critical path a) b) c) d)

a) longest possible path from starting event to terminal event b) event/s that immediately precedes some other event c) actual performance of a task d) event/s that immediately follows some other event e) a point that marks the start/completion of event/s

1-c,2-d,3-a,4-b,5-e 1-b,2-a,3-d,4-c,5-e 1-c,2-e,3-b,4-d,5-a 1-c,2-b,3-e,4-c,5-a a) risk prioritization b) risk assessment & risk control c) software engineering practice for managing risk in a project d) risk analysis

68) Match the following 1) Software risk management 2) Project risk management 3) Risk control 4) Risk assessment a) b) c) d) 1-a,2-d,3-c,4-b 1-c,2-b,3-a,4-d 1-c,2-b,3-a,4-d 1-b,2-a,3-c,4-d

69) Match the following 1) Configuration identification 2) Configuration control 3) Status accounting 4) Review a) b) c) d) 1-c,2-d,3-b,4-a 1-d,2-c,3-b,4-a 1-d,2-c,3-a,4-b 1-d,2-b,3-c,4-a

a) ensuring completeness & consistency among components b) recording & reporting the status of components c) controlling the release of a product and its changes d) which code are we working with

70) Match the following

1) Build management a) ensuring adherence to the organizations development process 2) Process management b) making sure every defect has traceability back to source 3) Environment management c) managing the process and tools used for builds 4) Defect tracing d) managing the software and hardware that host our system a) b) c) d) 1-c,2-a,3-b,4-d 1-a,2-c,3-b,4-d 1-c,2-a,3-d,4-b 1-a,2-c,3-d,4-b a) Compromise b) try team approach c) leave planning d) scarcity of resource

71) Match the following 1) Team Discipline 2) Conflict management cause 3) Conflict management resolution 4) Conflict management confrontation a) 1-d,2-c,3-b,4-a b) 1-c,2-d,3-a,4-b c) 1-c,2-d,3-b,4-a d) 1-d,2-c,3-a,4-b

72) Match the following in context with software 1) Reliability 2) Maintainability 3) Transportability 4) Efficiency a)1-a,2-c,3-d,4-b b) 1-a,2-d,3-c,4-b c) 1-a,2-c,3-b,4-d d)1-c,2-a,3-d,4-b 73) Match the following 1) Prevention costs 2) Appraisal costs 3) failure costs 4) external failure a) complaint resolution, warranty work b) rework, repair, failure mode analysis c) quality planning, formal technical d) equipment calibration & maintenance, testing a) extent to which a program can be expected to perform intended functions with required precision over a given period of time. b) extent to which software uses minimum hardware resources to perform its functions. c) is ease of finding & correcting errors in the software. d) ease of transporting a given set of software to a new hardware and/or operating system environment.

a)1-a,2-b,3-d,4-c b)1-d,2-c,3-a,4-b

c)1-c,2-d,3-a,4-b d)1-c,2-d,3-b,4-a 74) Match the following 1) Docmentation standards 2) Design standards 3) Code standards 4) procedures a)1-c,2-a,3-b,4-d b)1-a,2-c,3-b,4-d c)1-a,2-b,3-c,4-d d)1-c,2-a,3-d,4-b 75) Match the following 1) Middle management leadership 2) Project management 3) Logistics 4) Software development a)1-c,2-b,3-d,4-a b)1-c,2-d,3-b,4-a c)1-a,2-d,3-b,4-c d)1-a,2-d,3-c,4-b a) Design and code the software b) Manage hardware/Software requirement c) mange people, resources & budgets d) work with clients

a) form and content of design b) language in which the code is to be written c) content for planning and control d) explicit steps to be followed in carrying out a process

ANSWERS 1) C 11)D 21)B 31)C 41)B 51)A 61)C 71)B 2) C 12)A 22)B 32)C 3)D 13)C 23)C 33)B 4)B 14)A 24)C 34)A 5)D 15)B 25)B 35)D 6)C 16)D 26)A 36)B 7)A 17)C 27)A 37)D 8)D 18)C 28)D 38)C 9)D 19)A 29)D 39)A 10)A 20)D 30)B 40)C

42)D 43)C 44)C 52)A 53)A 54)C

45)B 46)D 47)D 48)D 49)B 50)D 55)A 56)B 57)A 58)B 59)D 60)A 66)C 67)C 68)C 69)B 70)C

62)B 63)A 64)A 65)C 72)A 73)D 74)A 75)B