Free Software Project Management MCQs with Answers

171 Software Project Management MCQs from Software Engineering, each with the correct answer and a written explanation of why it is correct. Free and unlimited, with no account needed.

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  • A. Allowable use of systems
  • B. Legal obligations
  • C. Encryption policies
  • D. User responsibilities

Explanation: An acceptable use policy normally defines permitted system use, legal obligations, and user responsibilities.

Correct answer: Encryption policies
  • A. middle managers
  • B. executive managers
  • C. supervisors
  • D. mobile managers

Explanation: Middle managers make tactical decisions that translate strategic plans into short-term operational actions.

Correct answer: middle managers
  • A. a document that compares business and technical requirements of a commercial application package against the capabilities and features of a specific commercial application package
  • B. a document that communicates business, technical, and support requirements for an application software package to vendors that wish to compete for the sale of that application package and services
  • C. a document that communicates business, technical, and support requirements for an application software package to a single vendor that has been determined as being able to supply that application package and service
  • D. a contract with management and the user community to develop or enhance an information system

Explanation: An RFQ is commonly directed to a known supplier to obtain a price for a specified package or service, matching option c.

Correct answer: a document that communicates business, technical, and support requirements for an application software package to a single vendor that has been determined as being able to supply that application package and service
  • A. what if analysis
  • B. optimization
  • C. Goal seeking analysis
  • D. None of the above

Explanation: Optimization analysis searches for the best value of one or more target variables while obeying specified constraints.

Correct answer: optimization
  • A. Service sector
  • B. Banking sector
  • C. Agriculture sector
  • D. All of the above

Explanation: A manufacturing MIS is designed around production, inventory, and factory operations, so its structure does not directly fit a service…

Correct answer: Service sector
  • A. technical feasibility
  • B. schedule feasibility
  • C. operational feasibility
  • D. resource feasibility

Explanation: The commonly recognised feasibility criteria are technical, economic, operational, and schedule feasibility.

Correct answer: resource feasibility
  • A. Google
  • B. Apple Inc
  • C. France as its Foreign Secretary
  • D. Microsoft

Explanation: Tim Cook is the chief executive associated with Apple Inc., succeeding Steve Jobs in 2011.

Correct answer: Apple Inc
  • A. Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale
  • B. Jagadip Narayan Singh
  • C. Ajay Kumar Mittal
  • D. D.Y. Chandrachud

Explanation: Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court in 2016.

Correct answer: Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale
  • A. Version Control
  • B. Access control
  • C. CM Process
  • D. Version Control and Access control

Explanation: Version control lets multiple projects access and manage common source files while preserving versions and coordinating changes.

Correct answer: Version Control
  • A. Log the changes
  • B. Estimate impact on effort and schedule
  • C. Review impact with stakeholders
  • D. None of the mentioned

Explanation: Logging a requested change, estimating its effect on cost and schedule, and reviewing that effect with stakeholders are all normal…

Correct answer: None of the mentioned
  • A. hard drive
  • B. access-controlled library
  • C. servers
  • D. access control

Explanation: A controlled library stores released or shared code so that authorised users can access approved versions while changes remain traceable.

Correct answer: access-controlled library
  • A. CM Planning
  • B. Executing the CM process
  • C. CM audits
  • D. None of the mentioned

Explanation: CM planning, execution, and CM audits are all recognised activities or phases of a configuration-management process.

Correct answer: None of the mentioned
  • A. Software Control Management
  • B. Software Configuration Management
  • C. Software Concept Management
  • D. None of the mentioned

Explanation: SCM is the standard abbreviation for Software Configuration Management, the discipline that controls versions, baselines, and changes to…

Correct answer: Software Configuration Management
  • A. Identification
  • B. Software
  • C. Auditing and Reviewing
  • D. Status Accounting

Explanation: Auditing and reviewing checks whether a product is complete, consistent, and compliant with its requirements and configuration records.

Correct answer: Auditing and Reviewing
  • A. Software Configuration Item
  • B. Baseline
  • C. Configuration
  • D. Configuration Control Board

Explanation: A software configuration item is a software element, or an aggregate treated as one unit, that is placed under configuration management.

Correct answer: Software Configuration Item
  • A. Configuration
  • B. Baseline
  • C. Software
  • D. All of the mentioned

Explanation: A baseline is one or more configuration items that have been formally reviewed and approved, after which it provides a controlled basis…

Correct answer: Baseline
  • A. Software Configuration Item
  • B. Baseline
  • C. Configuration
  • D. Configuration Control Board

Explanation: The Configuration Control Board reviews and approves proposed changes to established baselines.

Correct answer: Configuration Control Board
  • A. Software
  • B. Configuration
  • C. Version
  • D. Status Accounting

Explanation: A version is a specific, identifiable state of a software configuration item, while a baseline is a formally approved version or set of…

Correct answer: Version
  • A. Identification
  • B. Version
  • C. Auditing and Reviewing
  • D. Status Accounting

Explanation: SCM basics include configuration identification, status accounting, and auditing or reviewing.

Correct answer: Version
  • A. Issues gathered the day before
  • B. Regular schedule of meeting
  • C. Discussion with business
  • D. Attendance

Explanation: An issues meeting normally reviews previously collected issues on a regular schedule with the relevant attendees.

Correct answer: Discussion with business