CS625 Final Term MCQs

CS625 PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES

MCQS of Final term

1. ---------------- Rights are often the most valuable assets owned, used and developed by a software house.

Intellectual property

2. They protect information stored by --------------and all of the paperwork which accompanies a program

Electronic means

3. Great care should be taken to protect, exploit and enforce------------------.

Intellectual property

4. The name under which a product is sold may be registered as a---------------------.

Trade mark

5. The hardware or a process used in its manufacture may be protected by a------------------.

Patent

6. The look of the product may be registered in the -----------------.

Designs Registry

7. Software can be protected by----------------.

Copyright

8. The know-how which goes into the development of the product may be protected as ------

Confidential information

9. -----------------use of intellectual property can be stopped by injunction and damages may be sought for infringement of these rights

Unauthorized

10. The --------------is constantly changing with technological advance.

Law

11. GATT stands by---------------------.

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

12. GATT concerned the protection of ----------------------------in the face of widespread piracy of software products.

Intellectual property rights

13. Information “which is not public property and public knowledge”.

Confidential Information

14. Information will be protected only if it is------------------.

Confidential

15. A government authority conferring a right or title for a set period.

Patents

16. A ---------------- gives to an inventor a monopoly in an invention.

Patents

17. The monopoly granted by ---------------is so strong.

Patent law

18. --------------------merely sets out a number of criteria which must be satisfied before an invention can be patented.

Patent Act

19. The exclusive legal right, given to an originator or an assignee to print, publish, perform material, and to authorize others to do the same.

Copyright

20. -----------------protects more items generated by businesses.

Copyright

21. --------------------- can protect business letters, manuals, diagrams, computer programs.

Copyright

22. Copyright law gives ------------------ exclusive rights to the owner of copyright:

Six

23. Some acts are permitted under the------------- even though they would otherwise amount to breach of copyright.

1988 Act

24. The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own is called ---------------.

Plagiarism

25. Changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit.

By using Plagiarism

26. An agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified as-------------.

Contracts

27. If the ---------------are too harsh or unfair causing any issue between parties to be unresolved

Contracts

28. There is almost never disputes over-------------- which run perfectly.

Contracts

29. Appropriate ways to terminate the -------------required.

Contract-notice

30. Contract should be clear, concise and------------------.

Consistent

31. ----------------must include any document stated like SRS.

Annexes

32. Annexes must include any document stated like-----------.

SRS

33. There are ----------------------- of contractual arrangement which are widely used in connection with the provision of software services.

Four types

34. There are four types of contractual arrangement which are widely used in connection with the provision of software services are as following.

Fixed price  contract hire  time and materials  consultancy

35. The -------------- agrees to provide the services of one or more staff to work for the client.

Supplier

36. The -------------work under the direction of the client.

Staff

37. ---------------- is on the basis of a fixed rate for each man day worked.

Payment

38. --------------------- are typically used to assess some aspect of an organization and to make proposals for improvements.

Consultants

39. ------------------- are usually undertaken for a fixed price but the form of contract is very much simpler.

Consultancy projects

40. It is somewhere between a ---------------------- and a fixed price contract.

Contract hire agreement

41. Use of appropriate--------------- is both a familiar and traditional technique for regulating hazardous activities.

Standards

42. ----------------requires that either the product or the practitioner conforms to some specified standard.

Certification

43. ----------------means that the product cannot go on the market at all, or the practitioner operate.

Licensing

44. Professional and ---------associations should devise codes of practice to govern their members.

Trade

45. The law may exert a regulatory effect either directly or by requiring ------------with other forms of regulation.

Compliance

46. --------------and software engineers may have legal responsibilities under statutes such as the Health and Safety.

System designers

47. Product liability and the Consumer Protection Act -------------------.