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What is the major advantage of using Incremental Model?

1. Customer can respond to each increment
2. Easier to test and debug
3. It is used when there is a need to get a product to the market early
4. Easier to test and debug & It is used when there is a need to get a product to the market early

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The spiral model was originally proposed by

1. IBM
2. Barry Boehm
3. Pressman
4. Royce

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The spiral model has two dimensions namely _____________ and ____________

1. diagonal, angular
2. radial, perpendicular
3. radial, angular
4. diagonal, perpendicular

✅ Correct Answer: 3

How is WINWIN Spiral Model different from Spiral Model?

1. It defines tasks required to define resources, timelines, and other project related information
2. It defines a set of negotiation activities at the beginning of each pass around the spiral
3. It defines tasks required to assess both technical and management risks
4. It defines tasks required to construct, test, install, and provide user support

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Identify the disadvantage of Spiral Model.

1. Doesn’t work well for smaller projects
2. High amount of risk analysis
3. Strong approval and documentation control
4. Additional Functionality can be added at a later date

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Spiral Model has user involvement in all its phases.

1. True
2. False
3. all
4. none

✅ Correct Answer: 2

How is Incremental Model different from Spiral Model?

1. Progress can be measured for Incremental Model
2. Changing requirements can be accommodated in Incremental Model
3. Users can see the system early in Incremental Model
4. All of the mentioned

✅ Correct Answer: 1

If you were to create client/server applications, which model would you go for?

1. WINWIN Spiral Model
2. Spiral Model
3. Concurrent Model
4. Incremental Model

✅ Correct Answer: 3

A company is developing an advance version of their current software available in themarket, what model approach would they prefer ?

1. RAD
2. Iterative Enhancement
3. Both RAD & Iterative Enhancement
4. Spiral

✅ Correct Answer: 3

One can choose Waterfall Model if the project development schedule is tight.

1. True
2. False
3. all
4. none

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Spiral Model has high reliability requirements.

1. True
2. False
3. all
4. none

✅ Correct Answer: 1

RAD Model has high reliability requirements.

1. True
2. False
3. all
4. none

✅ Correct Answer: 2

If you were a lead developer of a software company and you are asked to submit aproject/product within a stipulated time-frame with no cost barriers, which model would you select?

1. Waterfall
2. Spiral
3. RAD
4. Incremental

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following life cycle model can be chosen if the development team has less experience on similar projects?

1. Spiral
2. Waterfall
3. RAD
4. Iterative Enhancement Model

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Selection of a model is based on

1. Requirements
2. Development team & Users
3. Project type and associated risk
4. All of the mentioned

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following life cycle model can be chosen if the development team has lessexperience on similar projects?

1. Spiral
2. Waterfall
3. RAD
4. Iterative Enhancement Model

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which two models doesn’t allow defining requirements early in the cycle?

1. Waterfall & RAD
2. Prototyping & Spiral
3. Prototyping & RAD
4. Waterfall & Spiral

✅ Correct Answer: 2

A model that is the demo implementation of the system.

1. waterfall
2. prototype
3. incremental
4. agile

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Maintenance is the final phase in waterfall model.

1. True
2. False
3. all
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A stage in which individual components are integrated and ensured that they are error-freeto meet customer requirements.

1. Coding
2. Testing
3. Design
4. Implementation

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Methodology in which project management processes were step-by step.

1. Incremental
2. Waterfall
3. Spiral
4. Prototyping

✅ Correct Answer: 2

ER diagram is a ------------t

1. Design
2. Coding
3. Testing
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

ER diagram is a ________of the database system which provides high level conceptualdata model and supports the users perception of the data.

1. Graphical representation
2. Hierarchical representation
3. Both of these
4. None above these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

_____ is an object in to real world that is distinguishable from all other objects

1. A. Entity
2. Attribute
3. Both
4. None of These

✅ Correct Answer: 1

_____ is set of entities of the same type that share the same properties attributes.

1. Entity
2. Attribute
3. Both
4. None of These

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Each entity has a set of _____________

1. Entity
2. Attribute
3. Row
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

____ attributes cannot be divided into subparts

1. Simple
2. Composite
3. Single valued
4. Multivalued

✅ Correct Answer: 1

_____ attributes can be divided into subparts.

1. Simple
2. Composite
3. Single valued
4. Multivalued

✅ Correct Answer: 2

________entity does not have a value for an attribute.

1. Null
2. Composite
3. Single valued
4. multivalued

✅ Correct Answer: 1

_____ represent entity set.

1. Ellipses
2. Rectangles
3. Diamonds
4. Lines

✅ Correct Answer: 2

_______ represent attributes

1. Ellipses
2. Rectangles
3. Diamonds
4. Lines

✅ Correct Answer: 1

________represent relationship set.

1. Ellipses
2. Rectangles
3. Diamonds
4. Lines

✅ Correct Answer: 3

_______represent multi-valued attribute.

1. Double ellipse
2. Dashed ellipse
3. Diamonds
4. Lines

✅ Correct Answer: 1

_______ represent derived attribute.

1. Double ellipse
2. Dashed ellipse
3. Diamonds
4. Lines

✅ Correct Answer: 2

___represent weak entity set.

1. Double ellipse
2. Dashed ellipse
3. Double rectangle
4. Lines

✅ Correct Answer: 3

A _________ is a decision support tool that uses a tree-like graph or model of decisionsand their possible consequences, including chance event outcomes, resource costs, and utility.

1. Decision tree
2. Graphs
3. Trees
4. Neural Networks

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Decision Tree is a display of an algorithm.

1. True
2. False
3. all
4. none

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Choose from the following that are Decision Tree nodes?

1. Decision Nodes
2. End Nodes
3. Chance Nodes
4. All of the mentioned

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Decision Nodes are represented by _________

1. Disks
2. Squares
3. Circles
4. Triangles

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Chance Nodes are represented by __________

1. Disks
2. Squares
3. Circles
4. Triangles

✅ Correct Answer: 3

End Nodes are represented by __________

1. Disks
2. Squares
3. Circles
4. Triangles

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following are the advantage/s of Decision Trees?

1. Possible Scenarios can be added
2. Use a white box model, If given result is provided by a model
3. Worst, best and expected values can be determined for different scenarios
4. All of the mentioned

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Decision table made up of section.

1. Condition statement
2. Condition statements
3. Action statements
4. All of these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

________ is a graphic representation of system that shows data flows to from and within system, processing functions that change the data in some manner and storage of tis data.

1. DFD
2. ER model
3. Decision table
4. Decision Tree

✅ Correct Answer: 1

DFD shows how things happen or the physical component is called ------------

1. Logical DFD
2. Physical DFD
3. Data dictionary
4. None of These

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A relational database system needs to maintain data about the relations, such as the schema of the relations. This is called

1. Metadata
2. Catalog
3. Log
4. Dictionary

✅ Correct Answer: 1