Software Engineering Nptel Week 2 Assignment Answers
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Software Engineering Nptel Week 2 Assignment Answers
Session: JULY-DEC 2024
Q1. Which one of the following activities would span all stages of a software development life cycle (SDLC) in waterfall-based software development?
a. Coding
b. Testing
c. Project management
d. Design
e. Requirements specification
Answer: c. Project management
Q2. In waterfall model of software development, unit testing is carried out during which phase of the waterfall model?
a. Implementation phase
b. Testing phase
c. Maintenance phase
d. Design phase
e. Requirements specification phase
Answer:a. Implementation phase
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Q3. In waterfall-based development, which one of the following phases accounts for the maximum effort during development of a typical software?
a. Implementation
b. Testing
c. Designing
d. Specification
e. Feasibility study
Answer: b. Testing
Q4. Which of the following advantages can be expected to accrue when iterative waterfall model is used for a project?
a. Easy to understand, easy to use, especially by inexperienced staff
b. Milestones are well understood by the team
c. Provides requirements stability during development
d. Strong management control (planning, staffing, tracking etc) on the project
e. Project progress can be accurately monitored by the project manager, as a result schedule slippages are rare
f. Continual integration of the developed code occurs throughout the life cycle
g. Continual customer interactions
Answer: a. Easy to understand, easy to use, especially by inexperienced staff
b. Milestones are well understood by the team
c. Provides requirements stability during development
d. Strong management control (planning, staffing, tracking etc) on the project
e. Project progress can be accurately monitored by the project manager, as a result schedule slippages are rare
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Q5. Which of the following project characteristics would suggest that a waterfall model-based development would be appropriate?
a. Requirements are well defined and stable
b. Technology is understood
c. Development team have experience with similar projects
d. Delivery date has been aggressively set
e. Substantial reuse of code is targeted
Answera. Requirements are well defined and stable
b. Technology is understood
c. Development team have experience with similar projects
Q6.Which of the following are not known shortcomings of the iterative waterfall model of software development?
a. All requirements must be known upfront
b. Can give a false impression of progress
c. Integration is one big bang at the end
d. Little opportunity for customer to pre-view the system.
e. Inadequate documentation produced as part of the process
f. Number of phases in the model is ill defined
Answer: e. Inadequate documentation produced as part of the process
f. Number of phases in the model is ill defined
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Q7. Which one of the following may be experienced by a software development team when it adopts a systematic development process model in preference to a build-and-fix style of development?
a. Increased documentation overhead
b. Increased development cost
c. Increased maintainability
d. Increased development time
e. Increased code size
f. Increased code efficiency
Answer: a. Increased documentation overhead
Q8. Prototyping life cycle model is appropriate when a project suffers from which one of the following risks?
a. Schedule slippage
b. Manpower turnover
c. Incomplete and uncertain requirements
d. Poor quality of outsourced work
e. Technological obsolescence
Answer: c. Incomplete and uncertain requirements
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Q9. Which of the following sections are not important to an effective business case document and can be omitted?
a. Cost
b. Benefit
c. Risk
d. Configuration management
e. Team structure
Answer: d. Configuration management
e. Team structure
Q10. The operation phase of the waterfall model is a synonym for which one of the following phases?
a. Coding and unit testing phase ?
b. Integration and system testing phase
c. Maintenance phase
d. Design phase
e. Requirements specification phase
Answer: c. Maintenance phase
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