SWE201C - SP21 (SOFTWARE
DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES AND
METHODOLOGIES) EXAM 2025
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
D - ANS Which of the following is considered the most difficult in the software development
process?
a. Determining the accurate market price for the finished product
b.Developing a Java program to meet the designed solution
c. Testing the solution with users
d. Accurately identifying user need
c - ANS What is a Requirements Specification?
a. A process, how the requirements are written (specified)
b. A product, a written specification of the requirements
c. Both
d. Neither
b - ANS Based on the NASA statistics on budget and schedule overrun vs. time spent on
requirements process, what is the recommended amount of time to spend on the requirements
stage?
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, a. 0% of the total time spent on the project
b. 5-10% of the total time spent on the project
c. 20% of the total time spent on the project
d. The same amount as you expect to spend on testing.
a - ANS Which of the following matches the terms to the correct definition?
a. Requirements - user needs in user language; Specification - solution properties designed to
solve problem
b. Requirements - solution properties designed to solve problem; Specification - user needs in
user language
a - ANS Which of these is a user requirement?
a. Allow the user to post a message to Facebook
b. Allow an authorized user to post a message of no more than 136 characters to the Facebook
POST API
c. Retry posting the message up to 3 times every 5 minutes if the post is rejected by the server
d.Use the MariaDB database for internal data persistance
c - ANS Which of the following is NOT an example of a non-functional requirement.
a. The developing team shall use the spiral model of software development lifecycle.
b. Communication between the client and server will be expressed in EBCDIC endoding.
c. The user shall be able to select the course number.
d. The messages between the client and server shall be in YAML 1.2 format.
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, c - ANS What element(s) of the WRSPM model belong in the environment (including the
overlap between environment and system)?
a. W
b. W,R
c. W,R,S
d. R,S
e. R,S,P
f. S
g.S,P
h. S,P,M
i. P,M
j. M
b - ANS Which of these is proper definition of software architecture?
a. integrating small systems with no individual business value into larger ones
b. partitioning large systems into smaller ones that can be created seperately, have individual
business value, and can be easily integrated
c. planning and pricing the resources involved with developing a large-scale software system,
including presenting such plans and budgets to senior level executives for funding
d. all of the above
b - ANS Which of the following models is best suited for a system with significant shared data
that needs to be shared across a variety of components or sub-systems, somewhat like global
variables, but with better data integrity?
a. client-server
b. blackboard
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DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES AND
METHODOLOGIES) EXAM 2025
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
D - ANS Which of the following is considered the most difficult in the software development
process?
a. Determining the accurate market price for the finished product
b.Developing a Java program to meet the designed solution
c. Testing the solution with users
d. Accurately identifying user need
c - ANS What is a Requirements Specification?
a. A process, how the requirements are written (specified)
b. A product, a written specification of the requirements
c. Both
d. Neither
b - ANS Based on the NASA statistics on budget and schedule overrun vs. time spent on
requirements process, what is the recommended amount of time to spend on the requirements
stage?
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, a. 0% of the total time spent on the project
b. 5-10% of the total time spent on the project
c. 20% of the total time spent on the project
d. The same amount as you expect to spend on testing.
a - ANS Which of the following matches the terms to the correct definition?
a. Requirements - user needs in user language; Specification - solution properties designed to
solve problem
b. Requirements - solution properties designed to solve problem; Specification - user needs in
user language
a - ANS Which of these is a user requirement?
a. Allow the user to post a message to Facebook
b. Allow an authorized user to post a message of no more than 136 characters to the Facebook
POST API
c. Retry posting the message up to 3 times every 5 minutes if the post is rejected by the server
d.Use the MariaDB database for internal data persistance
c - ANS Which of the following is NOT an example of a non-functional requirement.
a. The developing team shall use the spiral model of software development lifecycle.
b. Communication between the client and server will be expressed in EBCDIC endoding.
c. The user shall be able to select the course number.
d. The messages between the client and server shall be in YAML 1.2 format.
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, c - ANS What element(s) of the WRSPM model belong in the environment (including the
overlap between environment and system)?
a. W
b. W,R
c. W,R,S
d. R,S
e. R,S,P
f. S
g.S,P
h. S,P,M
i. P,M
j. M
b - ANS Which of these is proper definition of software architecture?
a. integrating small systems with no individual business value into larger ones
b. partitioning large systems into smaller ones that can be created seperately, have individual
business value, and can be easily integrated
c. planning and pricing the resources involved with developing a large-scale software system,
including presenting such plans and budgets to senior level executives for funding
d. all of the above
b - ANS Which of the following models is best suited for a system with significant shared data
that needs to be shared across a variety of components or sub-systems, somewhat like global
variables, but with better data integrity?
a. client-server
b. blackboard
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