A. CASE tools
B. Pricing to win
C. Parkinson’s Law
D. Expert judgement
Explanation: The cost is determined by available resources rather than by objective assessment. If the software has to be delivered in 12 months and 5 people are available, the effort required is estimated to be 60 person-months.
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - What is a collection of software engineering work tasks, milestones, and deliverables that must be accomplished to complete a particular project ?
A. Task set
B. Degree of milestone
C. Adaptation criteria
D. All of the mentioned - Which version of COCOMO states that once requirements have been stabilized, the basic software architecture has been established ?
A. Early design stage model
B. Post-architecture-stage model
C. Application composition model
D. All of the mentioned - Which of the following is not project management goal ?
A. Keeping overall costs within budget
B. Delivering the software to the customer at the agreed time
C. Maintaining a happy and well-functioning development team
D. Avoiding customer complaints - Which of the following is/are main parameters that you should use when computing the costs of a software development project ?
A. travel and training costs
B. hardware and software costs
C. effort costs (the costs of paying software engineers and managers)
D. all of the mentioned - Which of the following is not an option to achieve reliable cost and effort estimate ?
A. Base estimates on similar projects that have already been completed
B. Use one or more empirical models for software cost and effort estimation
C. Use relatively simple decomposition techniques to generate project cost and effort estimates
D. The ability to translate the size estimate into human effort, calendar time, and dollars - Which of the following term is best defined by the statement: “The underlying technology on which the system is built is superseded by new technology.” ?
A. Technology change
B. Product competition
C. Requirements change
D. None of the mentioned - Which of the following is a part of system release ?
A. electronic and paper documentation describing the system
B. packaging and associated publicity that have been designed for that release
C. an installation program that is used to help install the system on target hardware
D. all of the mentioned - Which of the following process is concerned with analyzing the costs and benefits of proposed changes ?
A. Change management
B. Version management
C. System building
D. Release management - Which of the following is not a Software Configuration Management Activity ?
A. Configuration item identification
B. Risk management
C. Release management
D. Branch management
