CS605 Final Term Past Paper Fall 2008

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Q1. The purpose of earned value analysis is to (1 marks)

? determine how to compensate developers based on their productivity

? provide a quantitative means of assessing software project progress

? provide a qualitative means of assessing software project progress

? set the price point for a software product based on development effort

Q2. The RMMM plan assists the project team in developing strategy for dealing with risk. In this context, an effective strategy must consider: (1 marks)

? Risk avoidance

? Risk monitoring

? Risk management and contingency plan

? All of the given choices

Q3. The component-based development model is (1 marks)

? only appropriate for computer hardware design.

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? not able to support the development of reusable components.

? dependent on object technologies for support.

? not cost effective by known quantifiable software metrics.

Q4. In ___________ representation of CMMI model, consideration is given to improve all the defined processes areas. (1 marks)

? Staged

? Continuous

Q5. If you know the relationship between the use cases, classes, GUIs, Test cases and other artifacts then we can say that requirements are traceable in that project. (1 marks)

? True

? False

Q6. There could be multiple GUIs to satisfy one requirement (1 marks)

? True

? False

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Q7. Check in and Check out is actually one and the same process with two different names (1 marks)

? True ? False

Q8. If a new version of a product is released by fixing the bugs in the previous release then it is termed as _________________ (1 marks)

? Product Update

? Product Upgrade

? Defect Removal

? Product Performance

Q9. When an Item is baselined, it becomes frozen, here frozen means, that the item can be changed only by creating an old version (1 marks)

? True ? False

Q10. Please choose one Configuration Item identification involves: (1 marks)

? Identifying the structure of the s/w system

? Uniquely identify individual components