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1

Which of following is not an area that Yourdon felt could be helped with using modelling techniques?
A)The estimation of money, time and people required.
B)Managing the dynamics of the relationships between project team members.
C)Helping to track and manage the tasks and activities carried out by a team of software developers.
2

What is the objective of critical path analysis?
A)The objective of critical path analysis is to identify the dependencies between project tasks and determine that subset of tasks whose timely completion is necessary for the project to complete on time.
B)The objective of critical path analysis is to produce a chart showing the relative positions of tasks against time.
C)The objective of critical path analysis is to identify any faults with the tasks planned for the project.
3

When preparing a CPA chart each task has to be allocated an expected duration. Which of the following is one of the most widely used approach?
A)A formula based upon the most likely time and least likely time.
B)A formula based on the most optimistic time, the most likely time and the most pessimistic time.
C)A formula based upon the most likely time.
4

Which of the following statements best describes the way in which the most pessimistic time for a task may be estimated.
A)The most pessimistic time assumes that some things will go wrong but that some will be ok.
B)The most pessimistic time assumes that everything that can go wrong will go wrong.
C)The most pessimistic time assumes that most things that can go wrong will go wrong and that the completion of the activity will be delayed to the maximum plausible extent.
5

Which of the following statements best describes how critical path analysis finds the critical path?
A)It aims to identify those milestones where the earliest start time is equal to the latest start time.
B)It aims to identify those milestones where the earliest start time is less than the latest start time.
C)It aims to identify those milestones where the earliest start time is greater than the latest start time.
6

Which of the following in not a common style of notation for CPA charts?
A)Activity on node.
B)Milestone on arrow.
C)Activity on arrow.
7

CPA charts may include dummy activities. Which of the following statements is true?
A)Dummy activities are used the details of an activity are not known.
B)Dummy activities are used when the expected duration of an activity is not known.
C)Dummy activities are used to show dependencies between activities when one activity is immediately dependent upon more than activity.
8

Which of the following statements describes how Gantt charts can be used in conjunction with a staffing bar chart?
A)The Gantt chart can be used to show the total resource requirement at a given time.
B)The Gantt chart can be used to highlight resource conflicts.
C)The Gantt chart can be used as an aid to resource smoothing.
9

Which of the following statements best explains what is meant by slack time in Critical Path Analysis?
A)The slack time is the difference between an activity’s earliest start time and its latest start time.
B)Time when no activity is occurring in the project is known as slack time.
C)Slack time is the time remaining when a project finishes earlier than scheduled.
10

Which of the following statements best explains what is meant by resource smoothing?
A)Resource smoothing evens out the resource requirement by reducing the resource allocation for tasks.
B)Resource smoothing removes tasks from the project to get a better resource allocation.
C)Resource smoothing is term used to describe the process of smoothing the resource profile by moving tasks within their slack time to reduce peaks of resource usage.
11

Which of the following statements is not a feature of Gantt charts?
A)A Gantt chart is a time-charting technique for representing project activities.
B)Activities are not allowed to overlap on a Gantt Chart to improve resource smoothing.
C)A Gantt chart shows the overlap of activities clearly.
12

Which of the following objectives would be most effective for an iterative development activity?
A)The iterative development activity should stop when all the users are happy with the interface.
B)The iterative development activity should stop when most of the users are happy with the interface.
C)The iterative development activity should stop after 20 person days work.
13

Which of following is not an example of a process metric?
A)Project cost to date.
B)The number of classes in an analysis class diagram.
C)The amount of time spent so far on the project.
14

Which of the following is not a feature of a useful metric?
A)It is suited for automated evaluation.
B)Project team members can not affect it.
C)It is intuitive.
15

Which of the following statements about process patterns is true?
A)Process patterns are concerned with how processes in operations work.
B)Process patterns are concerned with problems in the software development process.
C)Process patterns are concerned with data processing problems.
16

Object wrappers may be used with heritage systems. Which of the following statements is true?
A)An object wrapper provides an object-oriented interface for a system that is not object-oriented.
B)Developing an object wrapper is likely to be more expensive than redeveloping the heritage system.
C)The use of an object wrapper makes the system more unreliable.
17

Which of the following patterns can be used as the basis for the design of an object wrapper?
A)The Façade Pattern.
B)The Composite Pattern.
C)The Singleton Pattern.
18

Which of the following steps is not helpful when introducing object technology?
A)Identify a suitable pilot project.
B)Monitor the pilot project carefully when it is under way.
C)Stop using other development approaches completely.
19

Which of the following statements accurately describes predictor metrics?
A)Predictor metrics should be evaluated before the project starts.
B)Predictor metrics estimate how satisfied the user will be.
C)Predictor metrics can be used to predict various aspects of a project including the level of reuse possible.
20

The effective use of metrics is most limited by which of the following factors?
A)The need to collect historical data to calibrate the metrics.
B)The availability of suitable CASE tools.
C)The length of time it takes to apply metrics.





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