MALLA REDDY ENGINEERING COLLEGE

IV B.Tech II Sem(Common for CSE/IT)

Subject: Software Project Management

Faculty:T.Rani

UNIT-I
Questions:1) How the use of good languages and object oriented modeling can reduce the SLOC in software
explain?
2. What are the issues in obtaining re-usable components? What kind of organizations should be chosen
for buying COTS?
3. Briefly explain about pragmatic software cost estimation?
4. List and explain the ten reasons for non performance of s/w management satisfactorily?
5. What are the risks involved in the implementation of water fall mode in the traditional way?
UNIT-II
Questions:1. Discuss in detail about the three generations of s/w development?
2. Elucidate in detail about conventional software management performance.
3. Explain in detail about the principles of conventional software engineering.
4. Describe the important trends in improving software economics.
5. How should the team be balanced in different dimensions of human skills?
UNIT-III
Questions:1. What are the primary objects of the four phases of software life cycle?
2. Write about the essential activity invites in inception and elaboration phases?
3. How do you evaluate the completion of the four phases in s/w life cycle?
4. Explain management artifacts?
5. List various sets artifacts and explain?
UNIT-IV
Questions:1. What is included architectures base line?
2. List the seven workflows in the life cycle and explain each of them briefly?
3. Explain briefly about iteration workflows?
4. Write about the technical and management perspective of s/w architecture?
5. What are the S/w process work flows?

UNIT-1
Fill in the blanks
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The next phase after analysis phase is________________

In _______________ phase gather the requirements
An architecture is the _________________ system
An architecture is described through______________
Risk resolution period can be related to _______________ phase
____________model is called as basic fundamental model
COCOMO stands for______________
The Boehms 10th principle says _________% of contribution come from _______% of

contributors.
9. Most real world usage of cost model is __________________
10. In _____________phase the requirements are gathered.
UNIT-2
Fill in the blanks
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____________ describes concurrency and control thread relationship

The cost of developing software should always be ___________ than cost of maintenance.
Quantification of software can be related to _______________
Conventional software economics provides a bench mark of performance for _______________

management principles.
5. ___________ Months of time scale need to do meta process.
6. ____________and _______________ are features of best team.
7. Risk identification and risk prioritization are components of ____________
8. Risk management period can be related to __________________
9.___________ is the activity of continuously monitoring the development indicators.
10.____________ is the process of identifying possible risks of a project
UNIT-3
Fill in the blanks
1. Risk elaboration period can be related to ____________ phase
2. The program designer assures that the software will not fail because of ____________
3. ROI stands for ____________________
4. ____________ Phase represents the initial idea of the project.
5. The ordinate of the graph refers to ________________ unit cost.
6. Production stage consisting of _____________& _________ phases.
7. Independent of the development team cost estimates are usually _______
8. ___________ Phase represents the production process.
9. In ______________ phase we deliver the product to customer.
10. Engineering stage consisting of _________ & ________ phases.
UNIT-4
Fill in the blanks
1. ________________ is the advantage of commercial components.
2. ________________ is on organizational economics, long term strategy and a software ROI?
3. The principle of top talent is ________________
4. Metrics and indicators used to measure _____________and quality of an architecture
5. MBSE stands for ____________________________
6. __________________ is the disadvantage of custom development.
7. ________________ is a process of evaluating results of iteration and identify rework.

8. Assessment and deployment are in _________________ phase.

9. In ____________workflow the solution is modeled.
10. Simple task sequences are called as _________________
UNIT-I
Multiple choice questions
1. Which of the following are essential steps in development of computer programs
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a) Coding and testing b) analysis and coding c) analysis and testing
d) coding and
testing
2. The best as well as worst thing about software is
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a)development
b)maintainability
c) processing
d)flexibility
3. Modularity means
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a) The average breakage trend over time
b) the average breakage trend over flexibility
c) The average breakage trend over development d) the average breakage trend over maintenance
4. How many analysis are required to study the performance of software engineering industry [ ]
a)one
b)two
c)three
d)four
5. The level of software scrap and rework is indication of
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a) Mature process b) immature process c) development cycle
d) process cycle
6. The software development analysis was started in
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a) In the begin of 1990s
b) in the mid of 1990s c) in the end of 1990s d) in 1990
7. What is the truth about conventional software process management?
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a) Theoretically bad but not practically
b) good in theoretically & practically c)
Theoretically good but not practically
d) can be measured only theoretically
8. Conventional software economics provides a bench mark of performance for
a)s/w management process
b) s/w management principles
c) s/w development principles
d) s/w development process
9. Risk exploration period can be related to __________ phase
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a)requirements
b)design coding
c) integration
d) testing
10.Independent of the development team cost estimates are usually
a)accurate
b)inaccurate
c)low
d)high

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UNIT-II
Multiple choice questions
1. The software development analysis was started in
a) In the begin of 1990s

b) in the mid of 1990s

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c) in the end of 1990s

d) none

2. Only about _____________%of software development effort is developed to programming

a) 15

b) 20

c) 25

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d) 30

3. The contribution comes from contributors should always

a) Less

b) more

c) equal

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d) depends upon the situation

4. Risk elaboration period can be related to phase

a)requirements

b)design - coding

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c)integration

d) testing

5. Which of the following is not a basic step of the waterfall model?

a) Analysis

b) coding

c) developing

d) testing

6 . Which of the following is not a necessary improvement for the waterfall model?
a) Involve the developer
c) Plan, control, and monitor testing

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b) involve the customer

d) do the job twice, if necessary

7. The program designer assures that the software will not fail because of

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a) Storage

b) timing

c) data flux

d) storage, timing, data flux

8. The ordinate of the graph refers to ______________ unit cost

a)hardware

b)software

c)firmware

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d)product

9._________________________ are realized by elements of the design model

a)design

b)use cases

c)implementers

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d)process

10. ___________language is very expensive and powerful in building simple interactive applications
a)java

b)c language

c)c++ d)visual basic

UNIT-III
Multiple choice questions
1. Artifacts can be generally accessed by
a) Stakeholders

b) teams

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c) both stakeholders teams d) developers

2.___________is the advantage of commercial components

a) hardware/software independence

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b) functionality constraints

c) frequent upgrades

d) drain on

expert resources
3. The more custom components are used to estimate construction costs
a)easier

b)harder

c)peculiar

d)task

4. Which of the following is not a generation of software development?

a) Conventional

b) transition

c) transaction

b) architecture

c) blue print

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d) modern practice

5. Most critical technical product of a software project is its

a) Layout

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d) construct

6. The principle of top talent is

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a) Fit the tasks to the skills and motivation of the people available
b) Keeping a misfit on the team does not benefit any one
c.)An organization does best in the long run by helping its people to self- actualize
d)use better and fewer people
7.________________ includes leader and followers, risk takers of conservatives, visionaries
a) Raw skills

b) psychological makeup

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c) objectives d) customer- interface skill

8. The following are the primary objectives of software development

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a) Team balance, career progression

b) Team balance, job matching
c) Career progression, job matching
d) Team balance, phase out
9. ___________________are needed to the software project managers to enhance team
Effectiveness.
a)technical skills b)management skills c) communication skills d)leadership qualities

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10________________ avoiding adversarial relationships among stake holders is a

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Prerequisite for Success

a) Hiring skills

b) customer- interface skills c) team- building skills d) decision making skills

UNIT-IV
Multiple choice questions:1.________is a approach to assess intermediate artifacts
a) Demonstration based

b) regular based

c) deployment based

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d) development based

2. An architecture is described through _______

a) Cases

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b) models c) views d) designs

3.__________________Is used to describe the key capability of environment that support iterative
development
a) Reverse engineering b) forward engineering c) round- trip engineering d) mesh- trip engineering
4. Iteration in the _______phases focus on design, implementation and assessment
a) Transition

b) inception c) elaboration d) construction

5. Qunatification of s/w can be related to______________

a) Cost

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b) time

c) quality

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d) cost, time, quality

6. The flaws in scalability, reliability or interoperability are called

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a) Serious control issues b) architectural weaknesses c) critical issues d) semantic issues

7.________________ Is the generation or modification of a more abstract representation from and
existing artifact

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a) Reverse engineering b) forward engineering c) round- trip engineering d) software engineering

8. ______________supports architectural control, abstraction, reliable programming reuse and selfdocumentation.

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a) Integrated life- cycle environment

c) mid- life- cycle design

b) metrics and indicators

d)visual modeling and higher level languages

9._________________ is frequently over hyped as the key aspect of a quality system

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a) Peer inspection b) conventional process c) environment tools d) hardware tools

10. _________________Is the automation of one engineering artifact from another
a) Forward engineering

b) reverse engineering

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c) round- trip engineering d) software engineering