SWE201c - SP21 (Software Development
Processes and Methodologies) Solved
Correctly To Score A+ | 2025 Verified
d CORRECT ANSWERS 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 CORRECT ANSWERS 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 CORRECT ANSWERS 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 CORRECT ANSWERS 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 CORRECT ANSWERS 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 CORRECT ANSWERS 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 CORRECT ANSWERS 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 CORRECT ANSWERS 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 CORRECT ANSWERS 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
Processes and Methodologies) Solved
Correctly To Score A+ | 2025 Verified
d CORRECT ANSWERS 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 CORRECT ANSWERS 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 CORRECT ANSWERS 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 CORRECT ANSWERS 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 CORRECT ANSWERS 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 CORRECT ANSWERS 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 CORRECT ANSWERS 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 CORRECT ANSWERS 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 CORRECT ANSWERS 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
