XCS592 Software Project Management M.Sc Question Bank : niceindia.com
Name of the College : Noorul Islam College of Engineering
University : Anna University
Degree : M.Sc
Department : Software Engineering
Subject Code/Name : XCS 592 – Software Project Management
Year : 5th
Semester : 9th
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1. What is the principle of prototype model? :
A prototype is built to quickly demonstrate to the customer what the product would look like. Only minimal functionality of the actual product is provided during the prototyping phase.
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2. What is RAD model? :
RAD model stands for Rapid application Development model. The RAD model combines the features of the waterfall model and the prototyping model.
3. What is the advantage of Spiral model? :
The main advantages of spiral model is , it is realistic and typifies most software development products/projects. It combines the best features of most of the earlier models. It strikes a good balance mechanism for early problem identification and correction while not missing out proactive problem prevention.
4. Name any two process models.
The ISO-9001 model.
The capability maturity model.
5. What is Metrics? :
Metrics in a project management context is about measurements,. Measuring your progress in order to know where you are and what mid course corrections you need to take to achieve your goals.
6.What does SMART criteria stand for? :
Specific, Measurable, Aggressive yet achievable, Result oriented, Time-bound.
7. What is configuration management? :
Configuration management is the combination of software, services, and process that enable each developer to recreate and use the exact set of files and environment for a specific software product, version, and platform.
8. What is configuration? :
A configuration is a set of related items identifiable by id.
9. What is a configuration item? :
It is an elementary part of the configuration that must be identified or versioned., tracked and controlled.
10. What are the steps that constitutes configuration management? :
Initial working, Base lining, Change management, management of workspaces, configuration status accounting, configuration audit.
11. Who reviews or approves the change request? :
The configuration control board review and approves the change request.
12. What is workspace? :
The workspace replicates the environment in which the developer can build the product under the same conditions in which the corresponding base line is built.
13 . Define configuration Audit.
A Configuration audit means ensuring that configuration management is being followed as per stated guidelines and that all the quality records are in place.
14. Define Quality.
Quality is about transforming as many of the implied requirements of the customer into stated requirements and meeting all the stated requirements.
15. What is Quality control? :
Quality control refers to testing a product after a given phase to find out if it has any defects.
16. Define Quality Assurance.
Quality Assurance focuses on prevention of defects from the very start, and it is pro-active.
17. What are the five major areas of SQA? :
Requirements fidelity, Process compliance, change control, minimizing the gap between defect injection and detection, and product quality.
18. Name some tools of software quality assurance? :
Inspection and review, Audits, Cross SQAs information sharing, Defect classification and Analysis tools.
19. What is pareto Analysis? :
The 80-20 rule is probably one of the most widely observed laws of nature. 80% of the productivity of an organization is contributed by 20% of its people.
20. what is fish-bone diagram? :
Fish-Bone diagram is another common tools that is used for getting to the root cause of the defects.