Practice Test

Dear Student,

This is only a practice test to quickly recollect what is learnt in the SDLC session(s)
and will not be considered for any other purposes.

Choose the best & appropriate answers which clearly describes the answer.

Rajashekar Krishnaraj

Trainer

1. What are the SDLC Delivery Models?

➢ Waterfall Model, Agile Model, Spiral Model, V Model …

➢ Waterfall Model, Iterative Model, Excluding Spiral Model, V Model
➢ Waterfall Model, Agile Model, Spiral Model, Excluding V Model

2 What is the Expansion of SDLC?

➢ Solution Development Life Cycle

➢ Software Development Life Cycle
➢ None of the above

3 What are the Phases of SDLC?

➢ Planning Requirements & Feasibility Study, Design, Development, Testing,

Deployment & Maintenance
➢ Requirements, Design, Development, Testing & Maintenance
➢ Planning, Design, Development, Testing & Maintenance

4 What is the Output produced from Requirements Phase of SDLC?

➢ Requirements Specification Document

➢ Design Specification Document
➢ Project Charter
5 What is the Output produced from Design Phase of SDLC?

➢ Software Design Specification Documents containing (Solution Architecture Design,

High Level Design & Low-Level Design (Detailed Design))
➢ Only Detailed Design Document
➢ Only Software Solution Architecture Design

6 One key difference between Waterfall model & Agile Scrum model?

➢ Waterfall model is known as sequential Model – Agile-Scrum model is Iterative and

Incremental
➢ Waterfall model is Iterative and Incremental Model – Agile-Scrum model has phases
which are sequential
➢ Waterfall is a linear Sequential Model

7 Explain 1 Advantage of V Model? When you will Choose V Model?

➢ V model has high focus for Quality System and is a rigid model with specific timelines
for each of the phase. I will choose V model when quality is almost importance.
➢ V model has high focus for Cost and is a highly flexible model for accepting any
requirement modifications anytime. I will choose V model when Cost is almost
importance.
➢ None of the above

8 Explain 2 Advantages of Agile Scrum Model? When you will Choose Agile Model?

➢ Agile Scrum model has high focus for Customers Satisfaction and is highly flexible
model to accommodate changes - I will choose Agile Scrum model when I need to
deliver working software frequently to customer.
➢ Agile Scrum model has high focus for Customers Satisfaction but is rigid model which
doesn’t accommodate changes - I will choose Agile Scrum model when I need not
deliver working software frequently to customer.
➢ Agile Scrum model is Iterative and Incremental - I will have least preference for Agile
model because it is Customer friendly.

9 What is the Core value of Agile Model?

➢ Individuals & Interactions, Frequent delivery of Working Software, Customer

Collaboration, Responding to Changes
➢ Individuals & Interactions, Extensive Documentation, Customer Collaboration,
Following Plan over Responding to changes
➢ None of the above
10 What are the 3 roles in Agile Scrum Model?

➢ Product Owner, Project Manager, Core Team

➢ Product Owner, Scrum Master, Core Team
➢ Core Team, Scrum Master, Customer

11 What are the 3 important Artifacts of Agile Scrum Model?

➢ Epic, User Stories, Product Backlogs

➢ Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Product Increment
➢ Requirements, Sprint Backlog, Product Increment

12 What are the Sprint Ceremonies followed in Agile Scrum Model?

➢ Sprint Planning, Sprint Grooming Session, Daily Stand-up call, Sprint Review/Demo
& Sprint Retro
➢ Sprint Training, Sprint Grooming Session, Daily Stand-up call & Sprint Retro
➢ Sprint Planning, Sprint Weekly Meeting, Daily Stand-up call & Sprint Retro

13 Spiral model is the combination of Waterfall and what another model? Prototyping

➢ Prototyping
➢ V Model
➢ Agile Model

14 What is the Specialty of V Model? Why V model is preferred? One key reason?
Quality

➢ Ideal model for high quality verification & validation - Quality is the key reason for
choosing V model.
➢ Ideal model for cost saving projects - Cost is the key reason for choosing V model.
➢ It is an Iterative & Incremental model - Frequent delivery to customer is the reason for
choosing this model.

15 Triangle of Constraints in Project?

➢ Scope, Time & Cost

➢ Quality, Cost & Scope
➢ Time, Scope & Quality
16 Key Characteristics of Project?

➢ Project is Unique, It is a Temporary Endeavor, It has definite Start & Finish timeline,
At the end, Product delivers a Product/Service/Result
➢ Project is Unique, It is a Temporary Endeavor, It has definite Start date but not Finish
timeline, At the end, Product delivers a Product/Service/Result
➢ Project is Unique, It is a Temporary Endeavor, It has definite Start date but not Finish
timeline

17 Define Program?

➢ Collection of Related Projects managed together to deliver the benefits of Program

➢ Collection of Projects managed together to deliver the benefits of Program
➢ Collection of Projects & Portfolios which are managed together to deliver the benefits
of Program

18 Usage of Recourses will be more in which phase of the project?

➢ Execution Phase of the Project

➢ Planning Phase of the Project
➢ Testing Phase of the Project

19 Stakeholders Influence and Risk will be more in the beginning or end of the
Project?

➢ Beginning of the Project

➢ End of the Project
➢ Planning stage of the Project

20 Cost of Changes/Correcting errors will be more in the beginning/end of the

Project?

➢ Beginning of the Project

➢ End of the Project
➢ Development stage of the Project

21 What is PMO

➢ Project Management Office

➢ Portfolio Management Office
➢ Product Management Office
22 What are the different types of PMO?

➢ Supportive, Controlling, Directive

➢ Supportive, Directive & Slave
➢ None of the above

23 What is Project Charter? When it’s produced? Who Authorizes this? Purpose of it?

➢ Project Charter document is produced during Initiate phase of the Project - Project
Sponsor authorizes - Contains high-level details about the Project and authorizes the
Project.
➢ Project Charter document is produced during Planning phase of the Project - CEO
authorizes - Contains high level details about the Project.
➢ Project Charter document is produced during Requirement phase of the Project -
Contains high level details about the Project.

24 What is Scope baseline?

➢ Scope Management plan, WBS, Data Dictionary

➢ Project Scope Statement, WBS, WBS Dictionary
➢ WBS Dictionary, WBS & Requirements document

25 What is WBS?

➢ It is a Hierarchical decomposing of major deliverable into smaller & more manageable

components - It is known as Work Break Down structure.
➢ It is a decomposition of Major deliverables into Project activities
➢ None of the above

26 What do we do in Sequencing the Activity process?

➢ Defining relationship between activities by identifying their dependency.

➢ Defining relationship between major activities.
➢ None of the above