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4.

A component

 (a) is any collection of modules  (b) is a cohesive set of preexisting lines of code with defined interface and behavior  (c) renders ideas of coupling and cohesion obsolete  (d) must always exist when a design is contemplated

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(b)

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5.

Requirements creep can be addressed by

 (a) demonstration-based review  (b) early architecture performance feedback  (c) incremental releases  (d) component-based development

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(a)

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6.

Attrition of key personnel can be addressed by

 (a) successful early iterations and trustworthy management  (b) giving most of the responsibility to a project's average performers  (c) a very structured environment  (d) hiring the best candidates

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(a)

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7.

Round-trip engineering

 (a) requires automation  (b) is necessary for an integrated environment  (c) discourages change  (d) eliminates the need for change management

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(a)

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8.

Intermediate releases in groups of usage scenarios

 (a) eliminate the need for use cases  (b) are only required for baselines  (c) demonstrate an evolving understanding of system requirements  (d) have nothing to do with use cases

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(c)

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9.

The architecture-first approach

 (a) implies that balance must be achieved among driving design requirements, design decisions, and life-cycle plans before resources are committed for full-scale development  (b) keeps projects from being done concurrently  (c) has little impact on project planning  (d) only applies to the first two iterations of a project

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(a)

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10.

Obsolete principles of conventional project management include

 (a) "Design without documentation is not design."  (b) "People and time are not interchangeable."  (c) "Realize that software's entropy increases."  (d) "Expect mediocrity."

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(a)

Component-based development

 (a) requires code generators  (b) is necessary to reduce the amount of human-generated code  (c) eliminates source lines of code (SLOC) as a metric  (d) can be used any time there is a code library available

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(b)

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2.

Configurable processes that are economically scalable

 (a) mean that the process chosen must work for all contemplated projects  (b) violate the 80/20 rule  (c) hardly ever yield a return on the effort expended  (d) mean that a common process spirit, extensive process automation, and architectural patterns and components can be reused

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(d)

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3.

Iterative life-cycle processes that confront risk early

 (a) increase predictability and avoid expensive downstream scrap and rework  (b) put priority on early delivery to increase stakeholder confidence  (c) cannot address all stakeholder concerns  (d) are easier for inexperienced managers to apply

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(a)

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4.

Model-based development

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

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(b)

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5.

A demonstration-based approach

 (a) allows for early elimination of architectural defects  (b) requires architectural defects to be tolerated for early releases  (c) makes architectural defects inevitable  (d) eliminates the need for a beta test

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(a)

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Objective quality control

 (a) is independent of process and is applied directly to evolving artifacts  (b) only applies to project management  (c) requires well-defined measures derived directly from evolving artifacts  (d) is only important at baselines

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(c)

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7.

The architecture-first approach

 (a) keeps projects from being done concurrently  (b) implies that balance must be achieved among driving design requirements, design decisions, and life-cycle plans before resources are committed for full-scale development  (c) only applies to the first two iterations of a project  (d) has little impact on project planning

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(b)

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8.

All of the following are true except

 (a) The iterative life-cycle process addresses risk management.  (b) The architecture-first approach addresses the central design element of the spiral method.  (c) Change management is the manual element of modern process.  (d) Component-based development addresses technology elements of the spiral method.

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(c)

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9.

Change-management environments

 (a) require objectively controlled baselines  (b) are too expensive for small projects  (c) rely on guidelines derived from the experience of experts  (d) are only important for baselines

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(a)

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10.

The author's top 10 principles

 (a) map directly to cost model parameters  (b) have no economic implications for software development costs  (c) have a one-to-one relationship with cost model parameters  (d) have no relationship with cost model parameters

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(a)

Unsuccessful projects are typically characterized by

 (a) a jump right to coding  (b) too much analysis  (c) a failure to find a balance between research and production  (d) conventional software processes

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(c)

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2.

The elaboration phase

 (a) is the second phase of a life cycle and focuses on the elaboration of an architecture baseline consistent with a production plan and a requirements vision  (b) concentrates on research aspects of a project in every iteration of a project's life cycle  (c) happens only once in the lifetime of a software project—during the first life-cycle iteration  (d) cannot be started before the inception phase is complete

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(a)

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3.

In iterative processes, which of the following are true?

1. Each phase includes requirements, analysis, design, coding, unit test, integration test, and system test.

2. The proportion of activities varies during the four phases of inception, elaboration, construction, and transition.

3. Architecture is usually stabilized by the first phase.

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

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(a)

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