Software Project Management Set 11

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This set of Software Project Management (SPM) Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Software Project Management Set 11

Q1 | A software                  provides the framework from which a comprehensive plan for software development can be established.
  • people
  • product
  • process
  • none of the mentioned
Answer: process
Explaination:
a small number of framework activities are applicable to all software projects, regardless of their size or complexity.
Q2 | Who defines the business issues that often have significant influence on the project?
  • practitioners
  • project managers
  • senior managers
  • none of the mentioned
Answer: senior managers
Explaination:
none.
Q3 | Who delivers the technical skills that are necessary to engineer a product or an application?
  • practitioners
  • project managers
  • senior managers
  • none of the mentioned
Answer: practitioners
Explaination:
none.
Q4 | Which of the following paradigm attempts to structure a team in a manner that achieves some of the controls associated with the closed paradigm but also much of the innovation that occurs when using the random paradigm?
  • asynchronous paradigm
  • open paradigm
  • closed paradigm
  • synchronous paradigm
Answer: open paradigm
Explaination:
open paradigm team structures are well suited to the solution of complex problems but may not perform as efficiently as other teams.
Q5 | Which of the following is a people- intensive activity?
  • problem solving
  • organization
  • motivation
  • project management
Answer: project management
Explaination:
for this reason, competent practitioners often make poor team leaders.
Q6 | Which paradigm structures a team loosely and depends on individual initiative of the team members?
  • random paradigm
  • open paradigm
  • closed paradigm
  • synchronous paradigm
Answer: synchronous paradigm
Explaination:
none.
Q7 | Which of the following is not an approach to software cost estimation?
  • empirical
  • heuristic
  • analytical
  • critical
Answer: critical
Explaination:
critical is no such standard approach of cost estimation.
Q8 | 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?
  • random paradigm
  • open paradigm
  • closed paradigm
  • synchronous paradigm
Answer: closed paradigm
Explaination:
none.
Q9 | Who interacts with the software once it is released for production use?
  • end-users
  • client
  • project (technical) managers
  • senior managers
Answer: end-users
Explaination:
a product is always built to satisfy an end-user.
Q10 | Which of the following is not an effective project manager trait?
  • problem solving
  • managerial identity
  • influence and team building
  • none of the mentioned
Answer: none of the mentioned
Explaination:
all are key traits of an effective project manager.
Q11 | Which type of software engineering team has a defined leader who coordinates specific tasks and secondary leaders that have responsibility for sub tasks?
  • controlled decentralized (cd)
  • democratic decentralized (dd)
  • controlled centralized (cc)
  • none of the mentioned
Answer: controlled decentralized (cd)
Explaination:
problem solving remains a group activity, but implementation of solutions is partitioned among subgroups by the team leader.
Q12 | Commitments to unrealistic time and resource estimates may result in
  • project delay
  • poor quality work
  • project failure
  • all of the mentioned
Answer: all of the mentioned
Explaination:
none.
Q13 | Which software engineering team has no permanent leader?
  • controlled decentralized (cd)
  • democratic decentralized (dd)
  • controlled centralized (cc)
  • none of the mentioned
Answer: democratic decentralized (dd)
Explaination:
here communication among team members is horizontal.
Q14 | Which of the following is not a project factor that should be considered when planning the structure of software engineering teams?
  • the difficulty of the problem to be solved
  • high frustration caused by personal, business, or technological factors that causes friction among team members
  • the degree of sociability required for the project
  • the rigidity of the delivery date
Answer: the degree of sociability required for the project
Explaination:
development is irrelevant of social quotient.
Q15 | Which of the following is a collection of project coordination technique?
  • formal approaches
  • formal, interpersonal procedures
  • informal, interpersonal procedures
  • all of the mentioned
Answer: all of the mentioned
Explaination:
none.
Q16 | Which activity sits at the core of software requirements analysis?
  • problem decomposition
  • partitioning
  • problem elaboration
  • all of the mentioned
Answer: all of the mentioned
Explaination:
during the scoping activity decomposition is applied in two major areas:
Q17 | Which of the following is not a sign that indicates that an information systems project is in jeopardy?
  • software people don’t understand their customers needs
  • changes are managed poorly
  • sponsorship is gained
  • users are resistant
Answer: sponsorship is gained
Explaination:
other options are contradictory to the question.
Q18 | SPMP stands for
  • software project manager’s plan
  • software project management plan
  • software product management plan
  • software product manager’s plan
Answer: software project management plan
Explaination:
after planning is complete, documenting of the plans is done in a software project management plan(spmp) document.
Q19 | Which of the following categories is part of the output of software process?
  • computer programs
  • documents that describe the computer programs
  • data
  • all of the mentioned
Answer: all of the mentioned
Explaination:
none
Q20 | 4 COST MONITORING
  • baselines
  • source code
  • data model
  • none of the mentioned
Answer: baselines
Explaination:
a baseline is analogous to the kitchen doors in the restaurant. before a software configuration item becomes a baseline, change may be made quickly and informally.
Q21 | Software Configuration Management can be administered in several ways. These include
  • a single software configuration management team for the whole organization
  • a separate configuration management team for each project
  • software configuration management distributed among the project members
  • all of the mentioned
Answer: a single software configuration management team for the whole organization
Explaination:
none
Q22 | What combines procedures and tools to manage different versions of configuration objects that are created during the software process?
  • change control
  • version control
  • scis
  • none of the mentioned
Answer: version control
Explaination:
configuration management allows a user to specify alternative configurations of the software system through the selection of appropriate versions.
Q23 | What complements the formal technical review by assessing a configuration object for characteristics that are generally not considered during review?
  • software configuration audit
  • software configuration management
  • baseline
  • none of the mentioned
Answer: software configuration audit
Explaination:
none.
Q24 | Which of the following is the process of assembling program components, data, and libraries, and then compiling and linking these to create an executable system?
  • system building
  • release management
  • change management
  • version management
Answer: system building
Explaination:
none.
Q25 | Which of the following option is not tracked by configuration management tools?
  • tracking of change proposals
  • storing versions of system components
  • tracking the releases of system versions to customers
  • none of the mentioned
Answer: none of the mentioned
Explaination:
all the options are tracked.
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