SWE201C - SP21 (SOFTWARE
DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES AND
METHODOLOGIES) EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
d - ANSWER - Which of the following is considered the most difficult in the software
development process?
a. Determining the accurate market price for the finished product
b.Developing a Java program to meet the designed solution
c. Testing the solution with users
d. Accurately identifying user need
c - ANSWER - What is a Requirements Specification?
a. A process, how the requirements are written (specified)
b. A product, a written specification of the requirements
c. Both
d. Neither
b - ANSWER - Based on the NASA statistics on budget and schedule overrun vs. time
spent on requirements process, what is the recommended amount of time to spend on
the requirements stage?
a. 0% of the total time spent on the project
b. 5-10% of the total time spent on the project
c. 20% of the total time spent on the project
d. The same amount as you expect to spend on testing.
a - ANSWER - Which of the following matches the terms to the correct definition?
a. Requirements - user needs in user language; Specification - solution properties
designed to solve problem
b. Requirements - solution properties designed to solve problem; Specification - user
needs in user language
a - ANSWER - Which of these is a user requirement?
a. Allow the user to post a message to Facebook
b. Allow an authorized user to post a message of no more than 136 characters to the
Facebook POST API
, c. Retry posting the message up to 3 times every 5 minutes if the post is rejected by the
server
d.Use the MariaDB database for internal data persistance
c - ANSWER - Which of the following is NOT an example of a non-functional
requirement.
a. The developing team shall use the spiral model of software development lifecycle.
b. Communication between the client and server will be expressed in EBCDIC
endoding.
c. The user shall be able to select the course number.
d. The messages between the client and server shall be in YAML 1.2 format.
c - ANSWER - What element(s) of the WRSPM model belong in the environment
(including the overlap between environment and system)?
a. W
b. W,R
c. W,R,S
d. R,S
e. R,S,P
f. S
g.S,P
h. S,P,M
i. P,M
j. M
b - ANSWER - Which of these is proper definition of software architecture?
a. integrating small systems with no individual business value into larger ones
b. partitioning large systems into smaller ones that can be created seperately, have
individual business value, and can be easily integrated
c. planning and pricing the resources involved with developing a large-scale software
system, including presenting such plans and budgets to senior level executives for
funding
d. all of the above
b - ANSWER - Which of the following models is best suited for a system with significant
shared data that needs to be shared across a variety of components or sub-systems,
somewhat like global variables, but with better data integrity?
a. client-server
b. blackboard
c. event-based
d. pipe-and-filter
e. layered
DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES AND
METHODOLOGIES) EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
d - ANSWER - Which of the following is considered the most difficult in the software
development process?
a. Determining the accurate market price for the finished product
b.Developing a Java program to meet the designed solution
c. Testing the solution with users
d. Accurately identifying user need
c - ANSWER - What is a Requirements Specification?
a. A process, how the requirements are written (specified)
b. A product, a written specification of the requirements
c. Both
d. Neither
b - ANSWER - Based on the NASA statistics on budget and schedule overrun vs. time
spent on requirements process, what is the recommended amount of time to spend on
the requirements stage?
a. 0% of the total time spent on the project
b. 5-10% of the total time spent on the project
c. 20% of the total time spent on the project
d. The same amount as you expect to spend on testing.
a - ANSWER - Which of the following matches the terms to the correct definition?
a. Requirements - user needs in user language; Specification - solution properties
designed to solve problem
b. Requirements - solution properties designed to solve problem; Specification - user
needs in user language
a - ANSWER - Which of these is a user requirement?
a. Allow the user to post a message to Facebook
b. Allow an authorized user to post a message of no more than 136 characters to the
Facebook POST API
, c. Retry posting the message up to 3 times every 5 minutes if the post is rejected by the
server
d.Use the MariaDB database for internal data persistance
c - ANSWER - Which of the following is NOT an example of a non-functional
requirement.
a. The developing team shall use the spiral model of software development lifecycle.
b. Communication between the client and server will be expressed in EBCDIC
endoding.
c. The user shall be able to select the course number.
d. The messages between the client and server shall be in YAML 1.2 format.
c - ANSWER - What element(s) of the WRSPM model belong in the environment
(including the overlap between environment and system)?
a. W
b. W,R
c. W,R,S
d. R,S
e. R,S,P
f. S
g.S,P
h. S,P,M
i. P,M
j. M
b - ANSWER - Which of these is proper definition of software architecture?
a. integrating small systems with no individual business value into larger ones
b. partitioning large systems into smaller ones that can be created seperately, have
individual business value, and can be easily integrated
c. planning and pricing the resources involved with developing a large-scale software
system, including presenting such plans and budgets to senior level executives for
funding
d. all of the above
b - ANSWER - Which of the following models is best suited for a system with significant
shared data that needs to be shared across a variety of components or sub-systems,
somewhat like global variables, but with better data integrity?
a. client-server
b. blackboard
c. event-based
d. pipe-and-filter
e. layered
