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2.

Cost models

 (a) are now obsolete but are still in use  (b) should always be cross-checked with other types of estimates  (c) can be mechanically produced with good success  (d) are better than any other type of estimate

Correct answer is

(b)

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   See section 2.2, page 27 in the textbook.    

3.

Cost estimates

 (a) must be defined in enough detail so that key risk areas are understood  (b) are independent of software process  (c) are only useful in the managing of very large projects  (d) can only be done in detail after several iterations

Correct answer is

(a)

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   See section 2.2, page 29 in the textbook.    

4.

Contemporary cost models

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

Correct answer is

(c)

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

5.

Team effectiveness

 (a) doesn't depend on the project manager  (b) comes from balance and coverage in the skill of the team  (c) is diminished when team members are average performers  (d) is better when all members of the team have superior programming skills

Correct answer is

(b)

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   See section 3.3, page 43 in the textbook.    

6.

Software environments without round-trip engineering

 (a) have difficulty keeping artifacts synchronized as changes occur  (b) do not suffer much since early artifacts are rarely referred to as a project enters later stages  (c) are less expensive  (d) reap the benefit of having simpler tools

Correct answer is

(a)

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   See section 3.4, page 47 in the textbook.    

7.

Peer inspections

 (a) always yield high returns in terms of errors detected for time expended  (b) are over-rated as primary mechanisms  (c) catch important errors  (d) are helpful to senior engineers

Correct answer is

(b)

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   See section 3.6, page 51 in the textbook.    

8.

Successful object-oriented projects

 (a) don't require a particular process  (b) are independent of organizational culture  (c) require a strong architectural vision  (d) are not dependent on modeling

Correct answer is

(c)

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   See Section 3.1.2, page 37 in the textbook.    

9.

Improvements in software development have been hard to prove since

 (a) no one agrees on measurements and everyone exaggerates his or her own bias  (b) software technology keeps changing  (c) software systems are each unique  (d) software professionals have different backgrounds and education

Correct answer is

(a)

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   See chapter 3, page 31 in the textbook.    

10.

An organization can make substantial improvement through

 (a) improving the development process  (b) just concentrating on size or complexity  (c) using more skilled personnel and better teams  (d) balancing its attack across the five parameters or drivers of the cost model

Correct answer is

Cost estimates

 (a) are independent of software process  (b) must be defined in enough detail so that key risk areas are understood  (c) can only be done in detail after several iterations  (d) are only useful in the managing of very large projects

Correct answer is

(b)

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   See section 2.2, page 29 in the textbook.    

2.

Cost models

 (a) are now obsolete but are still in use  (b) can be mechanically produced with good success  (c) should always be cross-checked with other types of estimates  (d) are better than any other type of estimate

Correct answer is

(c)

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   See section 2.2, page 27 in the textbook.    

3.

Cost models

 (a) are too inaccurate to be useful except in the most extreme cases  (b) produce inaccurate but consistent predictions that can be adjusted to make them useful  (c) produce such high estimates that teams are not motivated to work hard  (d) are generally less accurate than an individual manager's estimate

Correct answer is

(b)

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   See section 2.2, page 27 in the textbook.    

4.

Function points

 (a) are easy for most organizations to learn  (b) are incompatible with most modern cost models  (c) are usually inferior to subjective cost estimates  (d) eliminate language differences in cost estimation

Correct answer is

(d)

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   See section 2.2, page 26 in the textbook.    

5.

Improvements in software productivity have definitely occurred because

 (a) projects cost less than they used to  (b) modern languages are less labor intensive  (c) fewer lines of human-generated code are required to solve problems nowadays than were required 20 years ago  (d) development environments are more sophisticated

Correct answer is

(c)

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   See chapter 3, page 31 in the textbook.    

6.

Object-oriented methods

 (a) can degrade performance and consume bandwidth because of abstraction  (b) are clearly more cost effective  (c) are more effective in embedded platforms  (d) are always better because they are simpler

Correct answer is

(a)

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   See section 3.1.2, page 36 in the textbook.    

7.

In modern practice, the automation of process is a first class workflow and a focus of project management attention and project resources because

 (a) it allows areas of the life cycle to be improved that couldn't be improved otherwise  (b) some tools have an extremely high payback  (c) iterative development means each iteration will be completely independent  (d) all software development activities and tools are interrelated

Correct answer is

(d)

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   See section 3.4, page 47 in the textbook.    

8.

Process advances

 (a) show that the five cost parameters of cost estimation are related  (b) eliminate the need for skilled people  (c) depend on iterative development  (d) don't have much to do with development of tools

Correct answer is

(a)

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   See chapter 3, page 33 in the textbook.    

9.

Team effectiveness

 (a) doesn't depend on the project manager  (b) is diminished when team members are average performers  (c) comes from balance and coverage in the skill of the team  (d) is better when all members of the team have superior programming skills

Correct answer is

(c)

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10.00

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   See section 3.3, page 43 in the textbook.    

10.

Peer inspections

 (a) always yield high returns in terms of errors detected for time expended  (b) are helpful to senior engineers  (c) are over-rated as primary mechanisms  (d) catch important errors

Correct answer is

(c)

The factor that affects the cost of a project the most is

 (a) project size  (b) quality of the software product  (c) management process  (d) project personnel

Correct answer is

(a)

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   See section 2.1, page 22 in the textbook.    

2.

Cost estimates

 (a) are only useful in the managing of very large projects  (b) can only be done in detail after several iterations  (c) are independent of software process  (d) must be defined in enough detail so that key risk areas are understood

Correct answer is

(d)