Software Engineering Mcqs Practice Test

Question 1

Who delivers the technical skills that are necessary to engineer a product or an application ?

Accepted Answer

A. Practitioners

Question 2

Which of the following is a people-intensive activity  ?

Accepted Answer

D. Project management

Question 3

Which software engineering team has no permanent leader ?

Accepted Answer

B. Democratic decentralized (DD)

Question 4

SPMP stands for__________________?

Accepted Answer

B. Software Project Management Plan

Question 5

Which of the following is an activity that distributes estimated effort across the planned project duration by allocating the effort to specific software engineering tasks ?

Accepted Answer

B. Software Project scheduling

Question 6

Which of the following is not a project factor that should be considered when planning the structure of software engineering teams ?

Accepted Answer

C. The degree of sociability required for the project

Question 7

Which type of software engineering team has a defined leader who coordinates specific tasks and secondary leaders that have responsibility for sub tasks ?

Accepted Answer

A. Controlled decentralized (CD)

Question 8

Who interacts with the software once it is released for production use ?

Accepted Answer

A. End-users

Question 9

Which of the following paradigm attempts to structure a team in a manner that achieves some of the controls associated with the closed paradigm but also much of the innovation that occurs when using the random paradigm ?

Accepted Answer

B. open paradigm

Question 10

Which paradigm structures a team loosely and depends on individual initiative of the team members ?

Accepted Answer

D. synchronous paradigm

Question 11

Which paradigm relies on the natural compartmentalization of a problem and organizes team members to work on pieces of the problem with little active communication among themselves ?

Accepted Answer

C. closed paradigm

Question 12

Which of the following is not an effective project manager trait ?

Accepted Answer

D. None of the mentioned

Question 13

Which of the following is not an approach to software cost estimation ?

Accepted Answer

D. Critical

Question 14

A software ______________ provides the framework from which a comprehensive plan for software development can be established?

Accepted Answer

C. process

Question 15

Which of the following is not an effective software project management focus ?

Accepted Answer

C. popularity

Question 16

If an Indirect approach is taken, then the sizing approach is represented as_______________?

Accepted Answer

B. FP

Question 17

The expected value for the estimation variable (size), S, can be computed as a weighted average of the optimistic(Sopt), most likely (Sm), and pessimistic (Spess) estimates given as___________________?

Accepted Answer

B. EV = (Sopt + 4Sm + Spess)/6

Question 18

If a Direct approach to software project sizing is taken, size can be measured in__________________?

Accepted Answer

A. LOC

Question 19

How many forms exists of Barry Boehm’s COCOMO Model ?

Accepted Answer

B. Three

Question 20

Which software project sizing approach develop estimates of the information domain characteristics ?

Accepted Answer

A. Function point sizing