SAD Exam Practice

Which of the following is NOT one of the shortcomings of the waterfall method?

• training of staff

• detachment from the profession

• inflexibility

• over-reliance on documentation

The spiral model starts as a small project that spawns other small projects as it moves forward through a spiral iteration. Which of the following is NOT one of the iteration steps?

• determine objectives

• identify and resolve risks

• evaluate alternatives

• estimate additional costs

In the context of the Agile Development methodology, choose a word below which relates best to Scrum.

• Concept

• Principle

• Philosophy

• Process

XP views itself as being in opposition to processes that make extensive use of ______ and __________ in software development.

• methods, techniques

• methods, UML diagrams

• models, explicit processes

• models, iterations

Identifying one of the following characteristics that is not a feature of Unified Process.

• Iterative and incremental

• Function-based

• Architecture-centric

• Use Case Driven

The waterfall method views development activities as predefined stage(s) of software development such as ________.

• a feasibility study

• system investigation

• system analysis and design

• all of the above

The waterfall model has been widely criticized for its inflexible approach to an undertaking that is extremely ________.

• iterative

• expensive

• difficult to learn

• none of the above

Agile methodologies aim at being predictive rather than adaptive.

• True

• False

The spiral model combines the waterfall model with prototyping and iteration.

• True

• False

A better-known example of agile methods, and one of the earliest ones, is Extreme Programming (XP).

• True

• False