Question 1
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Most issues/problems require more than one measurement to characterize and
understand. Is this sentence True or False?
Question 2
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The number of re-work is an example of the following project metrics:
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Quality metrics
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Schedule metrics
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Risk metrics
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Resources metrics
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Cost metrics
Question 3
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In Configuration Management Tasks what mean “Identification”
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Ensure changes are made properly
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Authority to approve and prioritize changes
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Controlling changes before and after customer release
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Tracking changes to multiple SCI versions
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Tell others about changes made
Question 4
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In Configuration Management Tasks what mean “Change control”
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Ensure changes are made properly
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Authority to approve and prioritize changes
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Controlling changes before and after customer release
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Tracking changes to multiple SCI versions
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Tell others about changes made
Question 5
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In Configuration Management Tasks what mean “Configuration auditing”
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Ensure changes are made properly
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Authority to approve and prioritize changes
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Controlling changes before and after customer release
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Tracking changes to multiple SCI versions
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Tell others about changes made
Question 6
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In Configuration Management Tasks what mean “Version control”
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Authority to approve and prioritize changes
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Tell others about changes made
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Controlling changes before and after customer release
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Tracking changes to multiple SCI versions
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Ensure changes are made properly
Question 7
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In Configuration Management Tasks what mean “Reporting”
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Authority to approve and prioritize changes
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Tell others about changes made
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Controlling changes before and after customer release
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Tracking changes to multiple SCI versions
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Ensure changes are made properly
Question 8
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Which one of the above risk areas must be done well on a project and why?
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All areas ?
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Risk Mitigation - Requires the team to setup a plan for ...
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Risk Identification - Requires the team to produce a ToS
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Risk prioritization - Requires the team to evaluate ToS
Question 9
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Metrics should augment and replace, good management judgment. Is this sentence True or False?
Question 10
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If we have 5 key stakeholder, how many channel of communication we need to
consider?
Question 11
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Business reorganization canNOT cause changes in current projects (for the same organization).
True/False?
Question 12
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The schedule is a good way to track a project.
Question 13
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The schedule ties all parts of the project together.
Question 14
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User manual is an example of Configuration Item?
Question 15
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If you are given the rime of a co-worker to help you for the three days and the tasks have the following dependencies. Task B must follow Task A and Task E must follow Task D. How long will the project take?
Task A 2 days | Task B 3 days
Task C 5 days| Task D 2 days
Task E 5 days | Task F 1 day
(Given that you are working only 5 days in a week)
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2 weeks 4 days
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3 weeks
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3 weeks 3 days
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4 weeks
Question 16
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In SCM Processes “Configuration audit”
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Independent review or examination to assess if a product or process is in compliance with specification, standards, contractual agreement, or other criteria
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Used to ensure that changes to a product or system are introduced in a controlled and coordinated manner
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Administrative tracking and reporting of Cis in CM system
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Creation and availability of a new version of software to the public
Question 17
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In SCM Processes “Release management”
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Independent review or examination to assess if a product or process is in compliance with specification, standards, contractual agreement, or other criteria
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Used to ensure that changes to a product or system are introduced in a controlled and coordinated manner
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Administrative tracking and reporting of Cis in CM system
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Creation and availability of a new version of software to the public
Question 18
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In SCM Processes “Status Accounting”
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Independent review or examination to assess if a product or process is in compliance with specification, standards, contractual agreement, or other criteria
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Used to ensure that changes to a product or system are introduced in a controlled and coordinated manner
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Administrative tracking and reporting of Cis in CM system
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Creation and availability of a new version of software to the public
Question 19
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Which sequence is the correct to testing structure (organization)?
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Functional Test-> Unit test-> Component test->Regression test
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Unit test-> Component test-> Regression test ->Functional Test
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Functional Test-> Unit test-> Regression test-> Component test
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Unit test-> Functional Test-> Component test-> Regression test
Question 20
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While measuring the SV (Schedule Variance) we will get the Positive value, what does it mean?
Question 21
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When considering making the schedule for a project, which of the following items is critical to know?
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All of the given
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The estimates for the project
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The scope for the project
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The risks associated with the project
Question 22
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Critical path method is used in which of the following processes:
Question 23
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Provide a definition for the following terms:
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Metrics - A use of measure to evaluate the state of a process or tasks that are being completed
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Quality - The process of ensuring that the product or goal is met with certain expectations and abilities meeting what the customer or user wants from the product.
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Configuration Management - The product that mechanism to ensure that as developed is under control to the point that any version of the product along its lifecycle can be produced.
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Lifecycle - The understanding of the total existence of a project or product from its first inception to the point at which it is stopped and never acted upon. For the living creatures it is birth to death.
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Process Model - A representation of the methods that will be used to achieve a goal.
Question 24
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Please provide a proper description of the notion below:
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Metrics - provides measuring units to depict values, threshold, constraints, scope, duration, maximums, minimums, and average, etc
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Measures - represents information to establish a common understanding of status, condition and position of something.
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Software Project Metrics - Tools for anyone involved in software engineering to understand varying aspects of the code base, and the project progress.
Question 25
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Match the abbreviations with the correct definitions:
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The amount of budget deficit or surplus at a given point in time, expressed as the difference between the earned value and the actual cost - CV(cost variance)
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The amount by which the project is ahead or behind the planned delivery date, at a given point in time, expressed as the difference between the earned value and the planned value - SV(Schedule variance)
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The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work - PV(Planned value)
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The realization cost incurred for the work performed on an activity during a specific time period - AC (Actual cost)
Question 26
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If the students had the lecture 2 days ago how much information they can recall?
Question 27
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Please provide a definition of a critical path of the project schedule
Question 28
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It is best to represent risks in an IF-Then format
Question 29
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Leadership is primarily dealing with:
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Change Management
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Situation analysis
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Attention getting
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Approval provision
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Complexity Management
Question 30
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Configuration management is all about
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budget control
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human resource control
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change control
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quality control
Question 31
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Budgetary or scheduling constraints can cause changes
Question 32
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Every software engineer has to be concerned how changes are made
Question 33
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Not an example of Stakeholder:
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approving manager
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external customer
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project manager
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3rd-party supplier
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internal customer
Question 34
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What organizational structure is most project focused?
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Functional
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Strong Matrix
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Weak Matrix
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Balanced Matrix
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Projectized
Question 35
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The ___ is key to the definition of a project?
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project has a fixed amount of resources to complete it.
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manager is needed for a project to exist.
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project time is unchangeable.
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number of requirements divided by the resources times the hours does not exceed three the scope development time.
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goal is clear and singular.
Question 36
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Data used in project can be CI
Question 37
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What is risk? Choose False
Question 38
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What is risk? Choose True
Question 39
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Intangible assets are include:
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Franchises
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Patents
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Copyrights
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Inventory
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Securities like stocks
Question 40
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New market conditions usually never trigger changes
Question 41
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Metrics cannot identify, explain or predict everything
Question 42
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List the set of tasks which if completed will get the project exactly 75% complete?
Task N 10 hours, Task O 5 hours, Task P 7 hours, Task Q 4 hours, Task R 20 hours,
Task S 12 hours, Task T 19 hours, Task U 15 hours, Task V 8 hours.
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N,O,P,Q,R
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N,Q,T,O,R,U,P
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O,Q,R,T,U,S
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S,T,U,V
Question 43
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Configuration Management Maturity
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5 Levels
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4 Levels
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6 Levels
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2 Levels
Question 44
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CPI = EV / actual cost
Question 45
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Which one of the above risk areas must be done well on a project and why
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ALL areas
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Risk mitigation
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Risk identification
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Risk Prioritization
Question 46
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Are drown up early on a project's life cycle – Project Charter
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Are groups of individuals who have an interest – Stakeholder
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Splits large project tasks into more manageable – WBS
Question 47
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What is meant by the term “project network diagram”?
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Detailed description of work packages
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Graphical representation of activities or nodes and the dependencies between them
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Definition of tasks
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Protection of the necessary resources
Question 48
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In the PEAK decision model, risk is one of the outputs of decisions made for project
Question 49
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Project manager should only at the beginning of the project identify and analyze the risk faced by their project. True or False?
Question 50
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Gannt chart is used to show project timeline
Question 51
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Who conduct the beta testing
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Developers
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Testers
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Customers
Question 52
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Parkinson’s Law in Project Management Estimation
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it is never to reach absolute
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80% effects from 20% causes
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work will grow to fill time allocated
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bad defined project causes failure
Question 53
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To understand clearly what a project is requires elicitation techniques that work well. How can we best tell if the elicitation techniques we are using work well?
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The customer agrees
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The developers says
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The requirements are testable
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The project team is using effort on the project
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The project management states that they are
Question 54
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What are the control mechanisms ? Please find TRUE statement
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Processes contain lifecycles
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You cannot control something if you are monitoring it
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The control mechanism (management) process for a development project should be defined
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Monitoring and Tracking are the same thing
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Control and Status are the same thing
Question 55
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Why do we need teams?
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all people are social and work better in social environment
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a well setup team can better utilize the skills of people
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everyone knows that a team can do more than individual
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teams are always fun…
Question 56
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What type of Stakeholder do you know?
Question 57
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SRS acronym is stand for Software Requirements Specification
Question 58
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What types of software testing can involve Users?
Question 59
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The problem stated as “Can the project be done at the specified cost with the available resources?” is relates to
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Project schedule
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Project quality
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Project cost
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Project scope
Question 60
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How can I identify a clear scope for a project?
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There are a clear set of wants from all the stakeholders written up for the scope
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The customers approves of what is written up as the scope for the project
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All statements about what needs to be done are well written
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The development team agrees with what is written up as the scope of the project.
Question 61
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What does EV metric measure?
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Estimated Value - The authorized budget assigned to scheduled work.
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Elaborative Value - The expected cost to finish all the remaining project work.
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Executive Value - The sum of all budgets established for the work to be performed.
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Earned Value - The measure of work performed expressed in terms of the budget authorized for that work.
Question 62
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What is not an example of Stakeholder?
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External customer
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Third-party supplier
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Neighbours
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Approving manager
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Internal customer
Question 63
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What is NOT an input for Quality Control Process?
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Quality metrics
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Quality checklists
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Process flowcharts
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Validated deliverables
Question 64
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How many steps are in 'Metrics & Measures - Roadmap' ?
Question 65
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Tangible assets are include:
Question 66
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What is an example of Requirements metrics?
Question 67
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For the basic estimation techniques,you have learned about please select a proper description
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Bottom Up - Have an understanding of bottom pieces of the project and then builds the full picture of project estimate
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Estimation by analogy - Requires a local,idiosyncratic,database
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Top Down - Generate the top parts and then cost smaller and smaller pieces and add them up
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Wideband Delphi - Using a group of people to improve an estimate
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Algorithmic/Parametric - Using computer models to enter values and generate an estimate for a project