MIDTERM EXAMINATION
Spring 2009
CS615- Software Project Management (Session - 3)
Time: 60 min
Marks: 40
Question No: 1 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
________ identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
► Quality Planning
► Communications Planning
► Organization Planning
► Staff Acquisition
Question No: 2 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
These all are outputs of Initiating Process except
► Project Manager Assignments
► Constraints
► Selection Criteria
► Assumptions
Question No: 3 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Project management processes can be organized into _____________ groups
► Four
► Five
► Six
► Seven
Question No: 4 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Product quality depends on its conformance to ______
► Software requirements
► Development standards
► Implicit requirements
► All of given
Question No: 5 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
_______is the technical kernel of software engineering
► Design
► Implementation
► Requirements analysis
► Testing
Question No: 6 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Mode of specification has a great impact on quality of solution. Forcing SWE to work with incomplete, inconsistence, or misleading specifications result in frustration and confusion affecting:
► Quality
► Timeliness and
► Completeness of SW product
► All of given
Question No: 7 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Finally, the specification includes a ________
► Bibliography
► Appendix
► Both Bibliography and Appendix
► Reference
Question No: 8 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Cognitive model describes a system as perceived by its _________
► User community
► Developer
► Top level management
► Manager
Question No: 9 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
A review of the Software Requirements Specification is conducted by ________
► Software developer
► Customer
► Both the software developer and the customer
► Top level management
Question No: 10 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
A meeting is conducted at a _________ and attended by both software engineers and customers.
► Software engineer site
► Neutral site
► Customer site
► Company site
Question No: 11 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
The model serves as the basis for the creation of ________ for the Software.
► Design
► Maintenance
► Testing
► Specifications
Question No: 12 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Throughout evaluation and solution synthesis, the analyst's primary focus is on
► "What, not "how."
► Model
► Evaluation and Synthesis
► Specification
Question No: 13 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
In problem evaluation area of effort, once problems have been identified, the ___________determines what information is to be produced by the new system and what data will be provided to the system.
► Analyst
► Designer
► Coder
► Manager
Question No: 14 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Requirements are refined and analyzed to assess their clarity, completeness, and_______
► Correctness
► Consistency
► Concurrency
► None of given
Question No: 15 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
A software project that meets all the stated objectives is a success of _________
► Project quality
► Project fundamental purpose
► Project management myth @@@@
► Project requirement
Question No: 16 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
All of the following describe the activity list except:
► It's an extension of the WBS
► It include all activities of the project
► It describe the WBS update
► It include a description of project activities
Question No: 17 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Software project are carried out sequentially and that each phase is completed before the next is taken up.
► The Prototyping Model
► The Incremental Model
► The Waterfall model
► The Spiral model
Question No: 18 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Project management is a _________of constant communication and negotiation.
► Process
► Concept
► Practice
► None of given
Question No: 19 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
These all are design phase activities except
► Output Design
► Input Design
► The software test plan
► Software Selection
Question No: 20 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one
Which organization has set the de facto standards for project management techniques?
► PMBOK
► PMI
► PMA
► PMO
Question No: 21 ( Marks: 2 )
Give the name of configuration control tools?
Answer:
Automatic version control and
- Change control tools
- Monitoring, auditing and registration support utilities
- Storage facilities; a safe repository for all approved configuration items, including:
– On-site storage for the day to day development process
– Off-site storage for catastrophe recovery
Question No: 22 ( Marks: 3 )
Software requirements analysis a bridge between system engineering and software design, show it by diagram.
Requirements analysis
Requirements analysis is a software engineering task that bridges the gap
between system level requirements engineering and software design
(Figure 1). Requirements engineering activities result in the specification
of software's operational characteristics (function, data; and behavior),
indicate software's interface with other system elements, and establish
constraints that software must meet. Requirements analysis allows the
software engineer (sometimes called analyst in this. role) to refine the
software allocation and build models of the data, functional, and
behavioral domains that will be treated by software. Requirements
analysis provides the software designer with a representation of
information, function, and behavior that can be translated to data,
architectural, interface, and component-level designs. Finally, the
requirements specification provides the developer and the customer with
the means to assess quality once software is built.
Figure 1: a bridge between system engineering and software design
Question No: 23 ( Marks: 5 )
Write down the software process player's names and their roles in projects.
Answer:
PM Process Groups
Project management processes can be organized into five groups of one or more
processes each:
1. Initiating processes—authorizing the project or phase
2. Planning processes—defining and refining objectives and selecting the best
of the alternative courses of action to attain the objectives that the project
was undertaken to address
3. Executing processes—coordinating people and other resources to carry out
the plan
4. Controlling processes—ensuring that project objectives are met by
monitoring and measuring progress regularly to identify variances from plan
so that corrective action can be taken when necessary
5. Closing processes—formalizing acceptance of the project or phase and
bringing it to an orderly end
Each process is described by:
– Inputs
– Tools & Techniques
– Outputs
Question No: 24 ( Marks: 10 )
Explain the following terms regarding project characteristics and project dimensions.
· Temporary,
· Unique,
· Aims,
· People,
· Process
Answer:
1. Temporary
Temporary means that every project has a definite beginning and a definite end.
The end is reached when the project's objectives have been achieved, or it
becomes clear that the project objectives will not or cannot be met, or the need for
the project no longer exists and the project is terminated. Temporary does not
necessarily mean short in duration; many projects last for several years. In every
case, however, the duration of a project is finite; projects are not ongoing efforts.
2. Unique,
Projects involve creating something that has not been done in exactly the same
way before and which is, therefore, unique and distinct
Aims/Tasks/Purpose
The projects are designed to achieve specific targets defined in terms of aims,
tasks or a purpose. The nature and size of the project depends upon
complexity of the task, realization of the aims and scope of the purpose any
organization wants to achieve. In short project has to be aimed for achieving
certain tasks in a given time frame.
• People must be organized into effective teams, motivated to do high-quality
software work, and coordinated to achieve effective communication.
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