estimation concepts 51608

1. Which among the following is the major reason one should estimate for? Select the correct
option(s) and click submit.

The customer will not award the projects otherwise

Project profitability will not be enhanced otherwise

Project execution will not have full control otherwise

One should estimate because it is mentioned in the plan

2. Which of the following is not estimated in development projects? Select the correct option(s)
and click submit.

Size

Effort

Schedule

Resource Rate

3. Which of the following parameter is not estimated for support based projects? Select the
correct option(s) and click submit.

Effort

Schedule

FTE

Size

4. It is a method of software estimation that is based on consultation with one or more experts
that have experience with similar projects. What are we talking about?

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Wideband Delphi

COCOMO
SLIM Tool

COCOTS

5. A particular estimation "parameter" is getting calculated through this formula: y* sqr root
PY(square root of effort in Pe Years). The value of y is 2.50 -3.00 for projects of effort <= 180
person months and 2.00 -2.50 for projects of effort > 1 Select the correct option(s) and click
submit.

Size in LOC

Schedule in Months

Effort in Person hours

Cost in USD

Continue

6. NESMA, FISMA, COSMIC and IFPUG publish the variants of one counting practice. Which
counting practice are we refer here?

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Requirement Points

Fundamental Point

Feature Point

Function Point

7. WBS is a heuristic method of

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Size

Effort

Price

Schedule

estimation.
 8. The estimated effort for a project is 500 PH end to end (analysis to pre-implementation).
However, the estimator feels around 50 PH of effort would be needed for development
environment set up. In which category of effort adjustment should it be accounted

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Common Factor

Risk Factors

Project Specific Characteristics

Static Factors

9. What is a Function Point?

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The smallest unit of activity that is meaningful to the user

A unit of measure for functional size

A method of effort estimation through functionality content

A unique, user-recognizable, non-repeated attribute

10. Which of the following documentation is useful when conducting any functional size
measurement? Select the correct option(s) and click submit.

Class diagrams

Data/Object models

Requirements

All options mentioned here

11. Which of the following is not true of a boundary? Select the correct option(s) and click
submit.

Is dependent on technical and/or implementation considerations

Is dependent on the user's external business view of the application

Encloses the logical data maintained by the application (ILFs)

Assists in identifying the logical data referenced by, but not maintained within this application (EIFs)

12. Baseline or installed functional size is synonymous with which of the following? Select the
correct option(s) and click submit.

Application function point count

Development project function point count

Enhancement project function point count

Conversion project function point count

13. Which of the following best describes Elementary Process (EP)?

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Constitutes a complete transaction

Is meaningful to the user

Is self-contained and leaves the business of the application being counted in a consistent state

All options mentioned here

14. When can an elementary process be classified as an EQ? Select the correct option(s) and
click submit.

Has a primary intent of presenting information to the user

References a data function to retrieve data or control information

Does not satisfy the criteria to be classified as an EO

All options mentioned here

15. One can classify each elementary process as an external input (El), external output (EO), or
an external inquiry (EQ) based on:

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The smallest unit of activity that is meaningful to the user

Its primary intent

Its processing logic

None of the options here

16. Which of the following can be a possible FTR? Select the correct option(s) and click submit.

An Internal Logical File read by a transactional function

An Internal Logical File maintained by a transactional function

An External Interface File read by a transactional function

All the options mentioned here

17. Which of the following does the Transactional functions include?

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Internal Logical Files

External Interface Files

External inquiries

Application Boundary

18. Identify the formula for Value Adjustment Factor. Select the correct option(s) and click
submit.

VAF = (TDI 0.01) + 0.65

VAF = TDI + 0.65

VAF = TDI 0.01

VAF = (TDI * 0.65) + 0.01

19. What is Production Support estimation model based on?

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Incoming incidents
Number of applications

Number of users

Ticket tracking Tool

20. Match the following estimation areas with its corresponding unit of measurement. 1. Size a.
Person Days

2. Effort b. Calendar Months

3. Schedule c. $290

4. Cost d. Production Support Point

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1-d, 2-a, 3-b, 4-c

1-a, 2-d, 3-b, 4-c

1-d, 2-b, 3-a, 4-c

None of the above

21. An application in production needs to be supported for a period of two years. Which of the
following estimation mode needs to be used for estimation of effort and FTE for the above
project?

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ADM - Application Development

ADM Production Support

CRM-Siebel

Datawarehouse (Function Point based)

22. An automation testing team wants to determine its productivity for this year. Which of the
following do you think is/are suitable determinator(s) for computing productivity in a testing
team?

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Automation Tool

Number of Test Scripts

Project Type

None of the above

23. For estimation in a maintenance project, for a change request ranging around 100 PD, ECOE
recommends the following estimation model.

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Production Support Model

Change Request Model

FP based model for enhancement

Early Estimation model

24. You are estimating a large bespoke development project using ADM detailed development
model. What is the possible output?

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500 Normalized Components

500 Function Points

500 KLOC

None of the above

25. What is OBP in context of estimation? Select the correct option(s) and click submit.

Overall Benchmark Performance

✔ Organizational Baseline Productivity

Online Base Pointer

Organizational Best Performer

26. Manual Testing estimation model can perform estimation for:

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UAT (User Acceptance Testing)

Security Testing

Performance Testing

SIT (System Integration Testing)

27. Prem is the project manager for a support based project in which he needs at least 10PH for
monitoring the application

a daily basis. How should he include the factor in his estimation?

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Productivity

Common Factors

Project Specific Characteristics

Static Factor

28. What are the primary driving factors for the determination of size for CRs?

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Change Complexity

Program Complexity

Requirement descriptions

Both a and b

29. While performing effort estimation, what is the productivity determinator for Function Point
based Detail Development model?

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Technology

Team Size

Number of SME's

It depends on estimator point of view on Requirements

 30. Statement 1: Static factor doesn't depend on the size of the project.

Statement 2: Common factors and Project specific characteristics doesn't depend on the size of the
project. Which of the above statement(s) is/are correct?

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Statement 1

Statement 2

Both Statement 1 and Statement 2

None