SWE 3313 Practice Exam 2 Questions and
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Which of the following is not an example of a pragmatic estimating technique?
a. Rule of Thumb
b. Analogy
c. Expert Judgment
d. SLIM - ANSWER>>d. SLIM
Who is responsible for approving the Work Breakdown Structure?
a. Senior Management
b. Technical Division
c. Project Manager
d. Customer
e. Product Assurance Manager - ANSWER>>c. Project Manager
Who has the cost risk in a fixed price contract?
a. The team
b. Buyer
c. Seller
d. Management - ANSWER>>c. Seller
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 - January 1, 1992) was an American
computer scientist and United States Navy officer and is known as "The First Lady of Software".
A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I calculator,
,and she developed the first compiler for a computer programming language. She often pointed
out the "softer side" of software development in some her famous quotations "It's easier to ask
forgiveness then it is to get permission" and "If you ever say that the reason we are going this
way in development of software is because that is the way have always done it before, I will
materialize in front of you and haunt you for a year or until you get that silly notion out of your
head."
a. True
b. False - ANSWER>>a. True
When a product or service completely meets a customer's requirements:
a. Quality is achieved
b. The cost of quality is high
c. The cost of quality is low
d. The customer pays the minimum price - ANSWER>>a. Quality is achieved
Primary responsibility for quality management in the project rests with the:
a. Project engineer
b. Purchasing agent
c. Quality manager
d. Project manager - ANSWER>>a. Project engineer
In project management, the importance of quality compared to cost and schedule is:
a. Cost is most important; quality is next and than schedule
b. Quality is more important than either
c. Schedule is most important, quality next and then cost
d. All three are equal - ANSWER>>d. All three are equal
Most of the participants in the current SWE 625 class are part of the:
,a. Y-generation
b. X-generation
c. Baby-boomers
d. Pre X-generation - ANSWER>>a. Y-generation
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality questionnaire designed to identify
certain psychological differences according to the typological theories of Carl Jung as published
in his 1921 book Psychological Types.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER>>a. True
Software engineers tend to have which of the following Myers-Briggs Type Indicators?
a. INTJ
b. INTP
c. ESTJ
d. ESFP - ANSWER>>a. INTJ
The Project Management Standard for project plans is:
a. Mil Std 1058
b. IEEE Std. 1058
c. ISO 12207 Std.
d. CMMI-DEV Std. - ANSWER>>b. IEEE Std. 1058
COCOMO effort equations can be classified as:
a. Economy of scale
b. Dis-economy of scale - ANSWER>>b. Dis-economy of scale
, If a risk has a 20% chance of happening in any given month, and if the project is expected last
five months, the probably that this risk event will occur during the last month of the project is:
a. 20%
b. 40%
c. 60%
d. 100% - ANSWER>>a. 20%
Risk will be identified during which phase of the project management life cycle?
a. Requirements definition
b. Design
c. Construction
d. Sustainment/Post Deployment Support
e. All phases - ANSWER>>e. All phases
During project execution a team member identifies a risk that is not in the risk management
plan, as the program manager you should:
a. Analyze the risk
b. Ignore the risk because you already performed a detailed analysis
c. Ignore the risk because risks were identified during planning
d. Tell the customer about the risk - ANSWER>>a. Analyze the risk
Who has the MOST power in a projectized organization?
a. The project manager
b. The functional manager
c. The team
d. They all share power - ANSWER>>a. The project manager
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Which of the following is not an example of a pragmatic estimating technique?
a. Rule of Thumb
b. Analogy
c. Expert Judgment
d. SLIM - ANSWER>>d. SLIM
Who is responsible for approving the Work Breakdown Structure?
a. Senior Management
b. Technical Division
c. Project Manager
d. Customer
e. Product Assurance Manager - ANSWER>>c. Project Manager
Who has the cost risk in a fixed price contract?
a. The team
b. Buyer
c. Seller
d. Management - ANSWER>>c. Seller
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 - January 1, 1992) was an American
computer scientist and United States Navy officer and is known as "The First Lady of Software".
A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I calculator,
,and she developed the first compiler for a computer programming language. She often pointed
out the "softer side" of software development in some her famous quotations "It's easier to ask
forgiveness then it is to get permission" and "If you ever say that the reason we are going this
way in development of software is because that is the way have always done it before, I will
materialize in front of you and haunt you for a year or until you get that silly notion out of your
head."
a. True
b. False - ANSWER>>a. True
When a product or service completely meets a customer's requirements:
a. Quality is achieved
b. The cost of quality is high
c. The cost of quality is low
d. The customer pays the minimum price - ANSWER>>a. Quality is achieved
Primary responsibility for quality management in the project rests with the:
a. Project engineer
b. Purchasing agent
c. Quality manager
d. Project manager - ANSWER>>a. Project engineer
In project management, the importance of quality compared to cost and schedule is:
a. Cost is most important; quality is next and than schedule
b. Quality is more important than either
c. Schedule is most important, quality next and then cost
d. All three are equal - ANSWER>>d. All three are equal
Most of the participants in the current SWE 625 class are part of the:
,a. Y-generation
b. X-generation
c. Baby-boomers
d. Pre X-generation - ANSWER>>a. Y-generation
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is a personality questionnaire designed to identify
certain psychological differences according to the typological theories of Carl Jung as published
in his 1921 book Psychological Types.
a. True
b. False - ANSWER>>a. True
Software engineers tend to have which of the following Myers-Briggs Type Indicators?
a. INTJ
b. INTP
c. ESTJ
d. ESFP - ANSWER>>a. INTJ
The Project Management Standard for project plans is:
a. Mil Std 1058
b. IEEE Std. 1058
c. ISO 12207 Std.
d. CMMI-DEV Std. - ANSWER>>b. IEEE Std. 1058
COCOMO effort equations can be classified as:
a. Economy of scale
b. Dis-economy of scale - ANSWER>>b. Dis-economy of scale
, If a risk has a 20% chance of happening in any given month, and if the project is expected last
five months, the probably that this risk event will occur during the last month of the project is:
a. 20%
b. 40%
c. 60%
d. 100% - ANSWER>>a. 20%
Risk will be identified during which phase of the project management life cycle?
a. Requirements definition
b. Design
c. Construction
d. Sustainment/Post Deployment Support
e. All phases - ANSWER>>e. All phases
During project execution a team member identifies a risk that is not in the risk management
plan, as the program manager you should:
a. Analyze the risk
b. Ignore the risk because you already performed a detailed analysis
c. Ignore the risk because risks were identified during planning
d. Tell the customer about the risk - ANSWER>>a. Analyze the risk
Who has the MOST power in a projectized organization?
a. The project manager
b. The functional manager
c. The team
d. They all share power - ANSWER>>a. The project manager
