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Which of these are valid reasons for measuring software processes, products, and resources? |
| | A) | to characterize them |
| | B) | to evaluate them |
| | C) | to price them |
| | D) | to improve them |
| | E) | a, b, and d |
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The terms measure, measurement, and metric all share the same definition according to the IEEE Standard Glossary of Software Engineering Terms. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Process indicators enable a software project manager to |
| | A) | assess the status of an on-going project |
| | B) | track potential risks |
| | C) | adjust work flow or tasks |
| | D) | all of the above |
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Public metrics are used |
| | A) | to evaluate the performance of software development teams. |
| | B) | to appraise the performance of individual team members. |
| | C) | to make strategic changes to the software process. |
| | D) | to make tactical changes during a software project |
| | E) | both c and d |
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Which of the following items are not measured by software project metrics? |
| | A) | inputs |
| | B) | markets |
| | C) | outputs |
| | D) | results |
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Software quality and functionality must be measured indirectly. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Which of following are advantages of using LOC (lines of code) as a size-oriented metric? |
| | A) | LOC is easily computed. |
| | B) | LOC is a language dependent measure. |
| | C) | LOC is a language independent measure. |
| | D) | LOC can be computed before a design is completed. |
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Which of the following are advantages of using function points (FP) as a measure of the functionality delivered by a software application? |
| | A) | FP is easily computed. |
| | B) | FP is a language dependent measure. |
| | C) | FP is a language independent measure. |
| | D) | FP can be computed before a design is completed. |
| | E) | both c and d |
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There is no need to reconcile LOC and FP measures since each is meaningful in its own right as a project measure. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Object-oriented project measures may be combined with historical project data to provide metrics that aid in project estimation. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Use-case oriented metrics are computed directly from UML diagrams and they are often used as normalization measures. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Which of the following is not a measure that can be collected from a Web application project? |
| | A) | Customization index |
| | B) | Number of dynamic objects |
| | C) | Number of internal page links |
| | D) | Number of static web pages |
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Which of the following software quality factors is most likely to be affected by radical changes to computing architectures? |
| | A) | operation |
| | B) | transition |
| | C) | revision |
| | D) | none of the above |
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Which of the following provide useful measures of software quality? |
| | A) | correctness, business relevance, integrity, usability |
| | B) | reliability, maintainability, integrity, sales |
| | C) | correctness, maintainability, size, satisfaction |
| | D) | correctness, maintainability, integrity, usability |
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A software quality metric that can be used at both the process and project levels is defect removal efficiency (DRE). |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Why is it important to measure the process of software engineering and software it produces? |
| | A) | It is really not necessary unless the project is extremely complex. |
| | B) | To determine costs and allow a profit margin to be set. |
| | C) | To determine whether a software group is improving or not. |
| | D) | To make software engineering more like other engineering processes. |
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To be an effective aid in process improvement the baseline data used must be: |
| | A) | based on reasonable guestimates from past projects |
| | B) | measured consistently across projects |
| | C) | drawn from similar projects |
| | D) | based only on successful projects |
| | E) | both b and c |
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Baseline data must be collected in an on-going manner and cannot be computed by formal study of historical project data. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Small software organizations are not likely to see any economic return from establishing software metrics program. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The software metrics chosen by an organization are driven by the business or technical goals an organization wishes to accomplish. |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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