PAAVAI COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING

DEPT OF CSE
MODEL II
SUB: SPM
DATE : 4.11.20
PART A (30X1=30)

1. A unique, planned, scheduled activity with one or more objectives referred as___
a. Project
b. Job
c. Process
d. Task
2. Which of the following activity is undertaken immediately after feasibility study and before
the requirement analysis and specification phase?
a. Project Planning
b. Project Monitoring
c. Project Control
d. Project Scheduling
3. The Stepwise Project Planning has 0-____ steps
a. 9
b. 10
c. 8
d. 11
4. Projects may be distinguished by whether their aim is to produce a ________ or meet certain
_______.
a. product, objective
b. product, tasks
c. tasks, objective
d. tasks and null objects
5.__________ is the result of an activity.
a. Software.
b. System.
c. Control.
d. Product.
6. The products handed over to the clients at the end of projects are called as __________.
a. software
b. application program
c. deliverables
b. intermediate products

7.________ defines what the end product of the project is to do.

a. Product perspective.
b. Non-functional requirements.
c. Quality requirements.
d. Functional requirements.
8. Project planning is a _________ process.
 a. Continuous.
b. Iterative.
c. Time consuming.
d. conventional

9. Which one of the following is NOT an agile method?

a. SCRUM
b. Extreme Programming (XP)
c. DSDM
d. Waterfall
10.______ model is not suitable for accommodating any change Select one:
a. Waterfall Model
b. Prototyping Model
c. Build & Fix Model
d. RAD Model
11. RAD is _______.
a. Resource Application Development.
b. Resource Allocation Development.
c. Rapid Application Development.
d. Rapid Action Development.
12. The standard way of evaluating the economic benefits of any projects is to carry out a
________ analysis.
a. Price-benefit.
b. Cost-benefit.
c. Cash flow.
d. Fund flow.
13._________ is the time taken to break even or pay back the initial investment.
a. Back period.
b. Payback period.
c. Cash back period.
d. Rate of Return.
14. Which of the following serves as metrics for project size estimation?
a. Lines of codes
b. function point
c. Number of persons
d. Only A & B
15. Lines of Code measures the size of project by counting
a. the number of source instructions
b. the comments in the code
c. the header lines
d. All of the above
16. KLOC indicates ___________.
a. Hundred lines of code.
b. Source lines of code.
 c. Thousand lines of code.
d. Million lines of code.
17. Effort = __________.
a. System size x productivity rate.
b. System size x KLOC.
c. Person in months / SLOC.
d. Person in months x productivity rate.
18. Which of the following technique overcomes drawback related to LOC?
a. Project Planning Sheet
b. Function Point Metric
c. COCOMO
d. COCOMO2
19. PERT is _________.
a. Process Evaluation and Review Technique.
b. Product Evaluation and Review Technique.
c. Program Evaluation and Review Technique.
d. Project Evaluation and Review Technique.
20. Resource allocated is done using
a. PERT chart
b. Gantt chart
c. UML
d. pi-chart
21.___________ talks about how to match the activity plan to the available resources.
a. Risk management.
b. Allocation management.
c. Activity management.
d. Resource management
22.______ is the selection of individuals in which the final shape of the project team is taken into
account
a. Independent building.
b. Construction building.
c. Team building.
d. Recruitment.
23. To know whether a particular individual is available when required is known as _____.
a. Reliability.
b. Consistency.
c. Availability.
d. Portability.
24. The total value credited to a project at any point is known as _______.
a. Earned value.
b. Moral value.
c. Money value.
d. recurred value
25.___________ is building a software product.
a. Acquirer.
b. Developers.
 c. Independent evaluators.
b. All the above
26. Check points of a project plan must be _____.
a. Regular.
b. Irregular.
c. random
d. Fixed.
27. Activity plans can be illustrated using _______.
a. activity bar charts
b. Activity pie charts.
c. activity ball charts
d. activity flow charts
28.______ is one of the objectives of activity planning.
a. Designing.
b. Detailed costing.
c. Cooperation.
d. Team work.
29.__________ relates to the physical resources used when the software is executed.
a. Functionality.
b. Maintainability.
c. Reliability.
d. Efficiency
30. Effective software project management focuses on four P's which are
a. people, performance, payoff, product
b. people, product, performance, process
c. people, product, process, project
d. People ,process ,Payoff, Product
PART 2 (15X2=30)

1. 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
2. Project managers have to assess the risks that may affect a project.
a) True
b) False
3. The process each manager follows during the life of a project is known as
a) Project Management
b) Manager life cycle
c) Project Management Life Cycle
d) All of the mentioned
4. Project has uncertainties on some functionality at the beginning which will improve over time.
Which software development model is suitable? Select one:
a. None of the above
b. Waterfall
c. Iterative
d. Incremental
5. A ____ is the sequence of processing steps that completely handles one business transaction or
customer request:
a. Model
b. Workflow
c. Prototype
d. Mock-up
6. The costs that include the salaries and other employment costs of the staff involved in the
development project and all associated costs are____________.
a. Operational cost.
b. Development cost.
c. setup cost
d. Direct cost.
7. Which of the following technique overcomes drawback related to LOC?
a. Project Planning Sheet
b. Function Point Metric
c. COCOMO
d. COCOMO2
8. The shortest time in which we could expect to complete the activity, barring outright miracles
called ________.
a. Optimistic Time
 b. Pessimistic Time
c. Most Likely Time
d. Shortest Time

9. Number of interrelated activities can be organized in different ways are called ______.
a. Activity model.
b. Network model.
c. Hierarchical model.
d. Process model.
10. A _________ is an event that might occur and if it occurs, create a problem for the successful
completion of the project.
a. Planning.
b. Hazard.
c. Safety.
d. start
11. The impact of some risks can be transferred away from the project by _______.
a. Risk analysis.
b. Risk control.
c. Risk transfer.
d. Risk evaluation.
12._______ is an activity bar chart indicating scheduled activity dates and durations frequently
augmented with activity floats. .
a. Bar chart.
b. Ball chart.
c. Slip Chart.
d. Gantt chart
13. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a good software engineer?
a. Ability to work in different team
b. Good Domain Knowledge
c. Weak programming knowledge
d. Good Communication Skills
14. Which of the following are important activities of Risk Management?
a. Risk identification
b. Risk Assessment
c. Risk Containment
d. All of the above
15. Which of the following are not strategies for containment?
a. Risk avoiding
b. Transfer risk
c. Risk identification
d. Risk reduction