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Which of the following costs is not part of the total effort cost ?

• (A)  Costs of networking and communications
• (B)  Costs of providing heating and lighting office space
• (C)  Costs of lunch time food
• (D)  Costs of support staff

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A _______________ is developed using historical cost information that relates some software metric to the project cost ?

• (A)  Algorithmic cost modelling
• (B)  Expert judgement
• (C)  Estimation by analogy
• (D)  Parkinson’s Law

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A number of independent investigators have developed a team-oriented approach to requirements gathering that can be applied to establish the scope of a project called ?

• (A)  JAD
• (B)  CLASS
• (C)  FAST
• (D)  None of the mentioned

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What is the product of the probability of incurring a loss due to the risk and the potential magnitude of that loss ?

• (A)  Risk exposure
• (B)  Risk prioritization
• (C)  Risk analysis
• (D)  All of the mentioned

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COCOMO stands for____________________?

• (A)  Constructive cost model
• (B)  Comprehensive cost model
• (C)  Constructive cost estimation model
• (D)  Complete cost estimation model

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Which one is not a risk management activity ?

• (A)  Risk assessment
• (B)  Risk generation
• (C)  Risk control
• (D)  None of the mentioned

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Which of the following uses empirically derived formulas to predict effort as a function of LOC or FP ?

• (A)  FP-Based Estimation
• (B)  Process-Based Estimation
• (C)  COCOMO
• (D)  Both FP-Based Estimation and COCOMO

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Which version of COCOMO states that once requirements have been stabilized, the basic software architecture has been established ?

• (A)  Early design stage model
• (B)  Post-architecture-stage model
• (C)  Application composition model
• (D)  All of the mentioned

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Which model was used during the early stages of software engineering, when prototyping of user interfaces, consideration of software and system interaction, assessment of performance, and evaluation of technology maturity were paramount ?

• (A)  Early design stage model
• (B)  Post-architecture-stage model
• (C)  Application composition model
• (D)  All of the mentioned

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COCOMO-II was developed at _____________________?

• (A)  University of Texas
• (B)  University of Southern California
• (C)  MIT
• (D)  IIT-Kanpur

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