This set of Software Engineering Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Managing Software Projects – 2”.
1. 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?
a) random paradigm
b) open paradigm
c) closed paradigm
d) synchronous paradigm
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Explanation: None.
2. Who interacts with the software once it is released for production use?
a) End-users
b) Client
c) Project (technical) managers
d) Senior managers
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Explanation: A product is always built to satisfy an end-user.
3. Which of the following is not an effective project manager trait?
a) Problem solving
b) Managerial identity
c) Influence and team building
d) None of the mentioned
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Explanation: All are key traits of an effective project manager.
4. Which type of software engineering team has a defined leader who coordinates specific tasks and secondary leaders that have responsibility for sub tasks?
a) Controlled decentralized (CD)
b) Democratic decentralized (DD)
c) Controlled centralized (CC)
d) None of the mentioned
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Explanation: Problem solving remains a group activity, but implementation of solutions is partitioned among subgroups by the team leader.
5. Commitments to unrealistic time and resource estimates may result in
a) project delay
b) poor quality work
c) project failure
d) all of the mentioned
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Explanation: None.
6. Which software engineering team has no permanent leader?
a) Controlled decentralized (CD)
b) Democratic decentralized (DD)
c) Controlled Centralized (CC)
d) None of the mentioned
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Explanation: Here Communication among team members is horizontal.
7. Which of the following is not a project factor that should be considered when planning the structure of software engineering teams?
a) The difficulty of the problem to be solved
b) High frustration caused by personal, business, or technological factors that causes friction among team members
c) The degree of sociability required for the project
d) The rigidity of the delivery date
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Explanation: Development is irrelevant of social quotient.
8. Which of the following is a collection of project coordination technique?
a) Formal approaches
b) Formal, interpersonal procedures
c) Informal, interpersonal procedures
d) All of the mentioned
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Explanation: None.
9. Which activity sits at the core of software requirements analysis?
a) Problem decomposition
b) Partitioning
c) Problem elaboration
d) All of the mentioned
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Explanation: During the scoping activity decomposition is applied in two major areas: the functionality that must be delivered and the process that will be used to deliver it.
10. Which of the following is not a sign that indicates that an information systems project is in jeopardy?
a) Software people don’t understand their customers needs
b) Changes are managed poorly
c) Sponsorship is gained
d) Users are resistant
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Explanation: Other options are contradictory to the question.
11. SPMP stands for
a) Software Project Manager’s Plan
b) Software Project Management Plan
c) Software Product Management Plan
d) Software Product Manager’s Plan
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Explanation: After planning is complete, documenting of the plans is done in a Software Project Management Plan(SPMP) document.
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