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SEPA stands for
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Software Engineering Process Authority
☑ MCQ PRACTICE
Software Process & Project Management Unit 4
Practice objective questions for quick revision and examination preparation. Try answering each question before revealing the answer.
Software Process & Project Management MCQs - Unit 4
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The organisation responsible for process definition and improvement across a line of business is the
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SEPA
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PRA stands for
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Project Review Authority
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SEEA stands for
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Software Engineering Environment Authority
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A project organisation typically consists of which four teams?
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Management, architecture, development and assessment
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The team that plays the leading role in the inception and elaboration phases is the
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architecture team
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The team that is largest and most dominant in the construction phase is the
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development team
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In the transition phase, the dominant team is the
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assessment (test and deployment) team
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The number of management indicators among the seven core metrics is
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three
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The number of quality indicators among the seven core metrics is
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four
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Which of the following is a management indicator?
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Work and progress
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Which of the following is also a management indicator?
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Staffing and team dynamics
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Which of the following is a quality indicator?
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Change traffic and stability
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Which of the following is also a quality indicator?
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MTBF and maturity
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Breakage and modularity measure
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the average extent of change caused by modifications
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Rework and adaptability measure
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the cost and effort of changes (how easily the software adapts)
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MTBF stands for
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Mean Time Between Failures
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Which of the following is NOT one of the seven core metrics?
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Customer satisfaction survey score
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Round-trip engineering is used in process automation to
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keep models and source code synchronised
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A tool that displays project metrics automatically to the team is the
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Software Project Control Panel (SPCP)
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A good software metric should be
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objective and easy to collect
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Project control and process instrumentation are used to
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monitor progress and quality using metrics
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The organisation that defines environment tools and standards across a line of business is the
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SEEA
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Management indicators mainly measure
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progress, cost and staffing of the project
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Metrics automation means that metrics are
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collected and reported automatically by tools
Fill in the Blanks
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SEPA stands for ______.
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Software Engineering Process Authority
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PRA stands for ______.
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Project Review Authority
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SEEA stands for ______.
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Software Engineering Environment Authority
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The seven core metrics have three management indicators and ______ quality indicators.
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four
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Work and progress, budgeted cost and expenditures, and staffing and ______ dynamics are the management indicators.
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team
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Change traffic and stability, breakage and modularity, rework and adaptability, and ______ and maturity are the quality indicators.
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MTBF
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MTBF stands for ______.
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Mean Time Between Failures
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In the inception and elaboration phases, the ______ team plays the leading role.
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architecture
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In the construction phase, the ______ team is the largest and most dominant.
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development
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In the transition phase, the ______ team is dominant.
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assessment
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______ engineering keeps models and source code synchronised.
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Round-trip
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SPCP stands for Software Project ______ Panel.
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Control
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A good metric should be simple, objective and ______ to collect.
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easy
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Collecting metrics automatically using tools is called metrics ______.
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automation
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A project organisation has management, architecture, development and ______ teams.
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assessment