Software Engineering Mcqs

Which of the following states that work expands to fill the time available ?

(A) CASE tools

(B) Pricing to win

(C) Parkinson’s Law

(D) Expert judgement

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Which technique is applicable when other projects in the same analogy application domain have been completed ?

(A) Algorithmic cost modelling

(B) Expert judgement

(C) Estimation by analogy

(D) Parkinson’s Law

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Which of the following costs is not part of the total effort cost ?

(A) Costs of networking and communications

(B) Costs of providing heating and lighting office space

(C) Costs of lunch time food

(D) Costs of support staff

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A _______________ is developed using historical cost information that relates some software metric to the project cost ?

(A) Algorithmic cost modelling

(B) Expert judgement

(C) Estimation by analogy

(D) Parkinson’s Law

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What is the product of the probability of incurring a loss due to the risk and the potential magnitude of that loss ?

(A) Risk exposure

(B) Risk prioritization

(C) Risk analysis

(D) All of the mentioned

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COCOMO stands for____________________?

(A) Constructive cost model

(B) Comprehensive cost model

(C) Constructive cost estimation model

(D) Complete cost estimation model

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Which one is not a risk management activity ?

(A) Risk assessment

(B) Risk generation

(C) Risk control

(D) None of the mentioned

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Which of the following uses empirically derived formulas to predict effort as a function of LOC or FP ?

(A) FP-Based Estimation

(B) Process-Based Estimation

(C) COCOMO

(D) Both FP-Based Estimation and COCOMO

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Which version of COCOMO states that once requirements have been stabilized, the basic software architecture has been established ?

(A) Early design stage model

(B) Post-architecture-stage model

(C) Application composition model

(D) All of the mentioned

Submitted By: Ali Uppal