CES-4by4CSE-sem1-SPPM-mid2paperDec2023

Descriptive paper

1. Tabulate the apparent results vs. real results of major mile stones in a modern process (p.231, Unit5,Ch15)

2. Tabulate the differences in workflow cost allocation b/w a conventional process and a modern process (p.227,Unit5,Ch15)

3. Enumerate the top 10 software management principles for modern project profiles (p231,Unit5,Ch15)

4. Enumerate the 9 software management best practices for modern project profiles (p.232-235, Unit5,Ch15)

5. Enumerate the 10 modern software economics (p.242, Unit 5,Ch16)

6. Enumerate the 4 modern iterative development process characteristics of denouement(p.252, Unit5, Ch17)

7. Depict by diagram the default roles in a s/w line-of-business organization (p156, Unit4,Ch11)

8. Depict by diagram default project organization and responsibilities (p159, Unit4,Ch11) (too big diagram to award merely 5 marks)

9. Depict by diagram software management team activities over the project lifecycle  (p160, Unit4,Ch11)

10. Depict by diagram software architecture team activities over the project lifecycle  (p161, Unit4,Ch11)

11. Depict by diagram software development team activities over the project lifecycle  (p162, Unit4,Ch11)

12. Depict by diagram software assessment team activities over the project lifecycle  (p164, Unit4,Ch11)

13. Depict by diagram software project team evolution over the project lifecycle  (p165, Unit4,Ch11)

14. Depict by a figure the primitive components of a software change order (p176,Unit4,Ch12)

15. Depict by a figure organization's software policy outline (p183,Unit4,Ch12)

16. Tabulate the overview of the 7 core project metrics, purpose and perspectives (p189,Unit4,Ch13) 

17. Enumerate the 6 basic characteristics of a good pragmatic software metric (p201,Unit4,Ch13)

18. Show in a figure a default evolutionary work breakdown structure (p144,Unit3, Ch10)

19. Tabulate the project planning guideline w.r.t. WBS budgeting defaults:  first-level WBS element Vs. default budget (p148,Unit3,Ch10)

20. Tabulate the project planning guideline  for phase-wise default distributions of  effort and schedule (p148,Unit3,Ch10)

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Objective Question Paper

Unit 3

1.A hierarchy of elements that decomposes the project plan into the discrete work tasks is __ p140

(a) configuration baseline  (b)Line-of-business organization   (c)software change order  (d) WBS

2.First-level WBS elements are the ________ workflows    p143

(a)management  (b)environment  (c)requirements   (d)design   (e)implementation  (f)assessment  (g)deployment  (h)all of these

3.Second-level WBS elements are defined for ____ phase of the lifecycle     p143

(a)inception  (b)elaboration  (c)construction   (d)transition (e)all of these

4.The atomic unit of software work that is authorized to create, modify, or obsolesce components within a configuration baseline is called  __________

(a) configuration baseline  (b)Line-of-business organization   (c)WBS  (d) software change order

5.________ is a named collection of software components and supporting documentation that is subject to change management and is upgraded, maintained, tested, statused, and obsolesced as a unit.

(a) software change order  (b)Line-of-business organization   (c)WBS  (d) configuration baseline

6. _______ is a team of people that functions as the decision authority on the content of configuration baselines. 

(a)software assessment team (b)software management team  (c)software architecture team (d)Configuration control board

7. _______ is average usage time between software faults

(a)MTTR   (b)MTAR   (c)MTAF     (d)MTBF

8. _______ is a category of software errors   p.199

(a)deterministic   (b)nondeterministic   (c)either of these   

9. _______ maintains an online version of the status of evolving artifacts and provides a key advantage   p203

(a)configuration baseline  (b)Line-of-business organization   (c)software change order (e)s/w project control panel

10._______ is defined as the average extent of change, which is the amount of s/w baseline  that needs rework p197

(a)configuration baseline  (b)Line-of-business organization   (c)software change order   (d)breakage

11._____ is the average breakage trend over time   p197

(a)configuration baseline   (b)software change order   (c)breakage   (d)modularity

Answers

1.(d)WBS

2.(h)all of these

3.(e)all of these

(4)(d)SCO

(5)(d) configuration baseline

(6)(d)Configuration control board

Match the following: M1, M2, M2, M4, M5 with the Ma, Mb, Mc, Md, Me(Fill the parenthesis with Ma,Mb,Mc, ...Mi,Mj   matchingly).

Answers:

M1._____ authority facilitates the exchange of information and process guidance both to and from project practitioners   (      )

M2. ________ authority is the single individual responsible for ensuring that a s/w project complies with all organizational and business unit s/w policies, practices and standards.       (      )

M3.______  authority is responsible for automating the organization’s process maintaining the organization’s standard environment, training projects to use the environment, and maintaining the organization-wide reusable assets (   )

M4.The metaprocess automation support is called ______     (       )

M5.The macroprocess automation support is called ______     (       )

M6.The microprocess automation support is called ______     (       )

M7.Management indicator (       )

M8. Quality Indicator    (    )

M9. Maturity    (    )

M10. Rework   (       )

M11. Adaptability   (      )

Ma= Software Engineering Process Authority

Mb= Project Review Authority

Mc=Software Engineering Environment Authority

Md=infrastructure

Me=environment

Mf=tool

Mg=Work and progress(work performed over time)

Mh=Change traffic and stability (Change traffic over time)

Mi=MTBF trend over time

Mj=average cost of change, which is the effort to analyze , resolve and retest all changes to s/w baselines

Mk=the rework trend over time