ESSENTIALS OF SOFTWARE
ENGINEERING CH. 4 ACCURATE
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH
SOLUTIONS 2024
(Ch. 4) Defining all the software development processes to be completed in a project can be very time-
consuming. - ANSWER True
(Ch. 4) Programmers left alone will often think the single most important task in the development of
software is... - ANSWER Coding
(Ch. 4) What things are defined in a software process model? - ANSWER The tasks to be performed, the
task's input and output, and the task's preconditions and postconditions
(Ch. 4) process models define the: - ANSWER tasks to be performed
task's input and output
task's preconditions and post conditions
→ All of these are correct
(Ch. 4) Projects take a longer time with poor end products and, in worse situations, total project failure
because of inconsistency in the: - ANSWER tasks to be performed and order to perform that tasks.
(Ch. 4) One advantage of the waterfall process is: - ANSWER it provides a clear way to track the stages of
development for the project managers.
(Ch. 4) Which model gave project managers a way to describe the "actual status" versus "almost
complete"? - ANSWER Waterfall model
(Ch. 4) The disadvantage of the waterfall process for software development is: - ANSWER Very little
overlapping of the tasks
It is a single iteration
, Sequential order of tasks
→ All of these are correct
(Ch. 4) Which model has the disadvantage of very little task overlap, a sequential process, and a single
iteration? - ANSWER Waterfall
(Ch. 4) Which of the following could improve the waterfall model? - ANSWER Develop multiple
components
Overlap the development
Be more evolutionary
→ All of these are correct
(Ch. 4) The need to develop multiple components, to overlap the development, and to be more
evolutionary leads to the... - ANSWER Incremental Model
Spiral Model
(Ch. 4) What concepts drive the RUP framework? - ANSWER Use-cases and requirements
architecture centric
iterative and incremental development
(Ch. 4) The RUP framework is driven by which of the following major concepts? - ANSWER Use-case and
requirements
Architecture centric
Iterative and incremental
→ All of these are correct.
(Ch. 4) RUP may go through several iterations of all of the phases. - ANSWER True
(Ch. 4) As a software product is developed using RUP, it may go through several iterations during which
of the following? - ANSWER Inception
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