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1.

The waterfall model

 (a) made project managers look successful at the end of a project  (b) was very cost effective  (c) incorporated reviews to make stakeholders feel secure  (d) created stakeholder suspicion and distrust

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(d)

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   See section 1.1.2, page 15 in the textboo

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1.

With modern software project management, if a project is behind schedule, managers can

 (a) add as many programmers as necessary to speed the project up  (b) add programmers to compress the schedule by about a quarter of the estimate  (c) make everyone work overtime  (d) hurt the project by extending the target date

Correct answer is

(b)

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   See section 1.2, page 18 in the textbook.    

2.

Contemporary cost models

 (a) are currently difficult to use successfully  (b) are based mostly on historical project databases using older processes  (c) allow estimates to be obtained easily  (d) reflect a more production-intensive approach than they once did

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(b)

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   See chapter 2, page 21, Key Points in the textbook.    

3.

Universal function points

 (a) are inferior to source lines of code for cost estimation at the beginning of a project  (b) allow the implementation of commercial components  (c) describe the size of a problem instead of it's language-based solution  (d) usually indicate Java as the preferred language

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(c)

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   See section 3.1.1, page 35 in the textbook.    

4.

Model-based development

 (a) requires visual modeling and risk control  (b) requires complementary tools and integrated environments  (c) requires object-oriented methods and rigorous notation  (d) requires visual modeling and round-trip engineering

Correct answer is

(c)

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   See section 4.3, page 68 in the textbook.    

5.

An architecture baseline

 (a) is a paper document  (b) is extracted from requirements models  (c) is a collection of information across all the engineering sets  (d) is the ultimate goal of the construction phase

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(c)

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   See chapter 7, page 9, Key Points in the textbook.    

6.

A design set

 (a) contains more text than visual models  (b) is in the language of the user  (c) is linearly traceable from the requirements set  (d) includes models of the solution space

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(d)

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   See Glossary, page 392 in the textbook.    

7.

For most iterations that last between one and six months, only two minor milestones are needed:

1. Iteration Assessment Review

2. Iteration Planning Review

3. Iteration Testing Review

 (a) I and III only  (b) I and II only  (c) II and III only  (d) I, II, and III

Correct answer is

(a)

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   See section 9.2, page 132 in the textbook.    

8.

The following are essential activities of which phase?

• synchronization and integration of concurrent construction increments into consistent deployment baselines

• deployment-specific engineering (cutover, commercial packaging and production, sales rollout kit development, field personnel training)

• assessment of deployment baselines against the complete vision and acceptance criteria in the requirements set

 (a) the elaboration phase  (b) the construction phase  (c) the transition phase  (d) the inception phase

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(c)

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   See section 5.5, pages 80-1 in the textbook.    

9.

What activities are omitted in the modern process because they are considered a part of or by-products of the workflows?

 (a) Documentation and quality assurance  (b) Testing and quality assurance  (c) Documentation and maintenance  (d) Testing and maintenance

Correct answer is

(a)

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   See section 8.1, page 119 in the textbook.    

10.

What is considered in the environment workflow?

 (a) Installation of the programming environment  (b) Evolution of the maintenance environment and automation of the production of the artifact sets  (c) Definition of the architecture objectives  (d) Planning and control of the external conditions that could affect the project

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(b)

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   See section 8.1, page 120, and Glossary, page 393 in the textbook.    

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