Question: Bob is selecting a systems analysis and design methodology. What might be the first step?

Answer Options:

Selecting the shortest methodology
Researching the organizations standards and policies for ‘approved’ methodologies
Interviewing senior management as to their suggestions on methodologies
Do a quick ‘cost/benefit’ analysis on which methodology will provide the most benefits at the lowest cost
Do an analysis on which methodology might lessen or eliminate scope creep

Answer: Researching the organizations standards and policies for ‘approved’ methodologies

 

Question: Extreme programming emphasizes:

Answer Options:

Customer satisfaction
Teamwork
Communication as a core value
Simplicity as a core value
All of these

Answer: All of these

 

Question: Interpersonal skills for a project manager might be important when:

Answer Options:

Making assignments for a project
Creating a cost/benefit spreadsheet
Creating the system proposal
Working with a highly controversial project that may have political implications
Using the V-model variation of the Waterfall Methodology

Answer: Working with a highly controversial project that may have political implications

 

Question: Parallel methodology is BEST characterized as:

Answer Options:

A ‘Quick and Dirty’ system
A series of versions
A method for exploring design alternatives
A method for stressing customer satisfaction
More explicit testing

Answer: A series of versions

 

Question: RAD is an acronym for:

Answer Options:

Real Application Development
Rapid Application Design
Rapid Authentic Development
Real Autonomous Development
Rapid Application Development

Answer: Rapid Application Development

 

Question: The science (or art) of project management is in making ____________ of size, time and cost.

Answer Options:

Benchmark comparisons
Analytical and educated estimates
Trade-offs
Maximum calculations
Minimum calculations

Answer: Trade-offs

 

Question: Which of the following methodologies might be most appropriate if you have a system project with somewhat unclear requirements; somewhat unfamiliar technologies; that is complex, reasonably reliable; a short time schedule and high schedule visibility?

Answer Options:

Waterfall
Parallel
Iterative
System prototyping
Throwaway prototyping

Answer: Iterative

 

Question: Which of the following methodologies might be most appropriate if you have a system project with unclear requirements; very familiar technologies; not all that complex; reasonably reliable; a short time schedule and the schedule visibility is somewhat important?

Answer Options:

Waterfall
Parallel
Iterative
System prototyping
Extreme Programming

Answer: Extreme Programming

 

Question: Which of the following methodologies might be most appropriate if you have a system project with clear requirements; very familiar technologies; not all that complex; reasonably reliable; a short time schedule and the schedule visibility is somewhat important?

Answer Options:

Waterfall
Parallel
Iterative
System prototyping
Throwaway prototyping

Answer: Parallel

 

Question: Non-routable addresses are also called

Answer Options:

Public addresses
RFC 1918 addresses
Experimental addresses
Hobby addresses

Answer: RFC 1918 addresses

 

Question: When NAT is used in home networks, RFC 1918 addresses can be reused in neighboring homes

Answer Options:

True
False

Answer: True

 

Question: Two devices from the same home send connection requests to the same web page. To distinguish between these requests, we can use

Answer Options:

Source IP and MAC addresses
Source IP and port addresses
Source IP address and sequence number
Require change in initiating sequence number

Answer: Source IP and port addresses

 

Question: Address resolution protocol (ARP) is used to

Answer Options:

Automate the allocation of IP addresses
Discover the IP address of a host whose MAC address is known
Discover the MAC address of a host whose IP address is known
Define non-routable IP addresses

Answer: Discover the MAC address of a host whose IP address is known

 

Question: _________ authoritatively know(s) the name to IP address mapping of all domain names ending in ‘.com’ (such as www.wufoo.com, news.google.com)

Answer Options:

No single name server
The root name servers
The ‘.com’ name servers
The ‘.edu’ name server

Answer: The ‘.com’ name servers

 

Question: In a typical home network, the router also acts as the

Answer Options:

DNS server
DHCP server
NAT device
All of the above

Answer: All of the above

 

Question: Network address translation is the method of

Answer Options:

Allocating IP addresses automatically
Mapping IP address from one address block to another address block
Translating host names to IP addresses
Allocating IP address blocks to ISPs

Answer: Mapping IP address from one address block to another address block

 

Question: Non-routable addresses are useful because

Answer Options:

They enable IP address reuse
They enable automatic assignment of IP addresses
They enable translation of host names to IP addresses
They are reserved for academic use

Answer: They enable IP address reuse

 

Question: In a typical home network, all computers in the home are assigned IP addresses

Answer Options:

From the RFC 1918 address pool
From the ISP’s allocated address pool

Answer: From the RFC 1918 address pool