Unit 3 soft engg

Which of the following are parameters involved in computing the total cost of a software development project?

• Hardware and software costs

• Effort costs

• Travel and training costs

• All of the mentioned

A _________ is developed using historical cost information that relates some software metric to the project cost.

• Algorithmic cost modelling

• Expert judgement

• Estimation by analogy

• Parkinson’s Law

Which model is used to compute the effort required to integrate reusable components or program code that is automatically generated by design or program translation tools?

•  An application-composition model

•  A post-architecture model

•  A reuse model

• An early design model

The importance of software design can be summarized in a single word which is:

• Efficiency

• Accuracy

• Quality

• Complexity

Function-oriented design techniques starts with functional requirements specified in

• SDD

• SRS

• All of the mentioned

• None of the mentioned

What DFD notation is represented by the Rectangle?

• Transform

• Data Store

• Function

• None of the mentioned

Software feasibility is based on which if the following

• business and marketing concerns

• scope, constraints, market

• technology, finance, time, resources

• techical prowess of the developers

COCOMO II is an example of asuite of modern empirical estimation model that require sizing information expressed as 

• function points

• line of code

• object points

• All of the above

A task set is a collection of  

• engineering work tasks, milestones, deliverables

• task assignments, cost estimates, metrics

• milestones, deliverables, metrics

• responsibilities, milestones, documents

The task (activity) network is a useful mechanism for   

• computing the overall effort estimates

• detecting intertask dependencies

• determining the critical path

• option 2 and 3