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Software Project Management → Introduction to SPM 4

What is the major drawback of using RAD Model?
increases reusability of components, highly specialized & skilled developers/designers are required
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Which four framework activities are found in the Extreme Programming(XP) ?
planning, design, coding, testing
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To enable a process to wait within the monitor                      
a condition variable must be declared as condition
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Which of the following is not a metric for design model?
complexity metrics
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Software Project Management → Project Planning 4

SDLC stands for
software development life cycle
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Which process can be affected by other processes executing in the system?
cooperating process
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Which of the following are parameters involved in computing the total cost of a software development project?
all of the mentioned
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Statement and branch coverage metrics are part of
testing
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Software Project Management → Project Scheduling 4

Which model can be selected if user is involved in all the phases of SDLC?
rad model
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When several processes access the same data concurrently and the outcome of the execution depends on the particular order in which the access takes place, is called?
race condition
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Which of the following costs is not part of the total effort cost?
costs of lunch time food
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Function Points in software engineering was first proposed by
albrecht
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Software Project Management → Risk Management 4

Agile Software Development is based on
both incremental and iterative development
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If a process is executing in its critical section, then no other processes can be executing in their critical section. This condition is called?
mutual exclusion
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What is related to the overall functionality of the delivered software?
function-related metrics
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How many Information Domain Values are used for Function Point Computation?
five
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Software Project Management → Cost Estimation 4

Which on of the following is not an agile method?
4gt
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Which one of the following is a synchronization tool?
semaphore
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A                    is developed using historical cost information that relates some software metric to the project cost.
algorithmic cost modelling
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Function Point Computation is given by the formula
fp = count total * [0.65 + 0.01 * sum(fi)].
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Software Project Management → PERT and CPM 4

How is plan driven development different from agile development ?
iteration occurs within activities
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A semaphore is a shared integer variable
that can not drop below zero
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Which technique is applicable when other projects in the same analogy application domain have been completed?
estimation by analogy
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Structural complexity of a module i is given as S(i) = f*f (i). What does f symbolizes here?
“fan out” of module i
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Software Project Management → Resource Management 4

How many phases are there in Scrum ?
three
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Mutual exclusion can be provided by the
both mutex locks and binary semaphores
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Which model assumes that systems are created from reusable components, scripting or database programming?
an application-composition model
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SMI stands for
software maturity index
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Software Project Management → Software Metrics 4

Which one of the following models is not suitable for accommodating any change?
waterfall model
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When high priority task is indirectly preempted by medium priority task effectively inverting the relative priority of the two tasks, the scenario is called
priority inversion
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Which of the following states that work expands to fill the time available.
parkinson’s law
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SMI = [Mt – (Fa + Fc + Fd)]/Mt. Here Mt is the number of modules
in the current release
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Software Project Management → Quality Assurance 4

In XP Increments are delivered to customers every                weeks.
two
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Process synchronization can be done on
both hardware and software level
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Which model is used during early stages of the system design after the requirements have been established?
an early design model
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The amount of time that the software is available for use is known as
reliability
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Software Project Management → Project Monitoring 4

Is a customer involved test development and validation in XP ?
it may vary from customer to customer
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7 INTERACTIVE PROCESSES
all of the mentioned
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Which model is used to compute the effort required to integrate reusable components or program code that is automatically generated by design or program translation tools?
a reuse model
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Usability in metric analysis is defined as the degree to which the software
is easy to use
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