Free Software Engineering Assessment Questions and Answers

Question 1

A specific type software life cycle activity that entails assessing the product's potential market.

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Market analysis

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Domain analysis

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Requirement elicitation

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Feasibility

Question 2

One of the major groups that has supported, promoted, and contributed to the software development processes. This research and development facility is situated on the Carnegie Mellon University campus and is supported by the US Department of Defense. The company's stated main goal is to "assist others in making significant improvements to their software engineering capabilities."

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SEI - Software Engineering Institute

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Microsoft

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ISO - International Standards Organization

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None of the above

Question 3

At this level, the company lacks a formal procedure, thus any significant successes are likely the result of a capable and seasoned leader. This success is unlikely to be repeated.

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Initial

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Repeatable

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Defined

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Optimizing

Question 4

An activity in the software life cycle that involves testing the software in a setting similar to its operating setting.

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System testing

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Acceptance testing

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Unit testing

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Regression testing

Question 5

Which of the following problems with conventional processes led to the development of agile methods?

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Both answers are correct

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Lengthy development times - Project lengths ranging from 1 to 5 years

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Waste/Duplication of effort - Much documentation is mandated, including documentation that may or may not be needed.

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None of the above

Question 6

One of the earliest and most popular agile approaches. For the Chrysler Corporation's C3 project, Kent Beck employed this. For communication to be encouraged, small teams had to work together in the same space.

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XP

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CMMI

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Spiral

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V Model

Question 7

What number of phases does Scrum have?

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3

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2

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Scrum is an agile method which means it does not have phases

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4

Question 8

RAD is short for

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Rapid Application Development

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Rapid Application Document

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Relative Application Development

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None of the above

Question 9

Which model can be chosen if the user participates in every stage of the SDLC?

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RAD Model

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Waterfall Model

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Prototyping Model

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All of the above

Question 10

If the development team has less experience on similar projects, which of the following life cycle models can be chosen?

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Spiral

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Waterfall

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RAD

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None of the above