Computer Knowledge

Software Development and Management

2,312 Questions

Software development and management focuses on the system development life cycle, enterprise architecture, and configuration management. It tests your familiarity with system analysis, design models, and IT project planning. This subject is essential for specialist and banking officer scale examinations.

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Software Development and Management Questions

Multiple choice

The RAD model used for software development emphasises on

  1. build cycle

  2. short development cycle

  3. integration cycle

  4. deployment cycle

  5. testing cycle
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Rapid application development (RAD) emphasises on short development cycle. It is employed when there is a tight timeline for completing a project.

Multiple choice

A discipline applying technical and administrative direction and surrounding veilance to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a configuration item is

  1. configuration management

  2. defect prevention

  3. version control

  4. process analysis

  5. configuration quality management
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Configuration management is a discipline applying technical and administrative direction and surrounding veilance to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a configuration item.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is/are software quality factor(s)?

  1. Correctness

  2. Maintainability

  3. Reliability

  4. Reusability

  5. All of the above
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
E Correct answer
Explanation

Software quality factors are the measures to check whether the software created is efficient as well as economic. Some of these factors are: Correctness, Maintainability, Reliability, Reusability, Usability and Portability.

Multiple choice

Which of the following phases of waterfall model deals with integration testing?

  1. Build phase

  2. Test phase

  3. Design phase

  4. Deployment phase

  5. System engineering phase
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Waterfall method is a software model used for software development. It consists of many phases of software development. Build phase includes translation of program specifications into machine-readable form. Integration testing is done in this phase.

Multiple choice

Which of the following tools in configuration management involves managing large quantum of information and for ensuring that system changes are recorded and controlled?

  1. Version management tools

  2. Release management

  3. Version identification

  4. Bottom-up testing

  5. Top-down testing
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

 This tool in configuration management involves managing large pool of information and for ensuring that system changes are recorded and controlled.

Multiple choice

Which of the following is used to refine the initial requirements, refine the architecture, monitor the risks, refine their properties and produce the project management plan?

  1. Construction phase

  2. Inception phase

  3. Elaboration phase

  4. Software verification review

  5. Both 1 and 2
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Its aim is to refine the initial requirements, refine the architecture, monitor the risks, refine their priorities and produce the project management plan.