Software Configuration Management - questions
Q.1 The mail aim of Software configuration management (SCM) is/are?
A) Identify change
B) Control change
C) Ensure that change is being properly implemented,
D) All of the above.
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Q.2 Software configuration management (SCM) is an umbrella activity. True or False?
A) True
B) False
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Q.3 Which of the following is/are the output of the software process?
A) Computer programs
B) Documents that describe the computer programs.
C) Data (contained within the program or external to it).
D) All of the above.
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Q.4 _______ is a software configuration management concept that helps us to control change.
A) Baseline
B) Procedure.
C) Audit.
D) None of the above.
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Q.5 The primary purpose of configuration status reporting (CSR)/ status accounting is to
A) Evaluate the performance of software developers.
B) Make sure that change information is communicated among all people involved.
C) Make sure that the third party control is implemented.
D) None of the above.
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Q.6 Which of the following tasks is not part of software configuration management (SCM)?
A) Change control
B) Version control
C) Configuration status reporting
D) None of the above.
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Q.7 Which of the following is/are software configuration items?
A) Software Requirements
B) Design Specification
C) Source Code
D) All of the above.
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Q.8 ________combines procedures and tools to manage different versions of configuration objects that are created during the software process.
A) Configuration status reporting.
B) Change control
C) Version control
D) None of the above
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Q.9 As the reliability increases, failure intensity
(A) Decreases
(B) Increases
(C) No effect
(D) None of the above
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Q.10 Which of the following is\are types of software maintenance?
A) Corrective
B) Adaptive
C) Perfective
D) All of the above.
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Which of these are valid software configuration items?
Which of the following is not considered one of the four important elements that should exist when a configuration management system is developed?
Once a software engineering work product becomes a baseline it cannot be changed again.
Which configuration objects would not typically be found in the project database?
Modern software engineering practices usually attempt to maintain SCI’s in a project database or repository.
A data repository meta model is used to determine how
Many data repository requirements are the same as those for a typical database application.
The ability to track relationships and changes to configuration objects is one of the most important features of the SCM repository.
Which of the following tasks is not part of software configuration management?
A basic configuration object is a __________ created by a software engineer during some phase of the software development process.
Version control systems establish a change set as part of their primary functionality.
Change control is not necessary if a development group is making use of an automated project database tool.
When software configuration management is a formal activity the software configuration audit is conducted by the
The primary purpose of configuration status reporting is to
Configuration issues that need to be considered when developing Web and Mobile Apps include:
Web and Mobile App configuration objects can be managed in much the same way as conventional software configuration objects except for:
Content management establishes a process by which Web content is rendered on the user’s display screen.
Change management for Web and Mobile Apps is best handled in agile manner.
One reason that version control is difficult for WebApps is that in an uncontrolled environment, you can have multiple authors making changes to the same files from multiple locations without any realizing it.
Requiring developers to check Web configuration items in and out and sending affected stakeholders e-mail messages automatically are good ways to deal with configuration auditing and reporting for WebApps.