Introduction to IT & Telecoms Systems Development – Outcome 3

Question 1 of 8

1. Question

Category: The advantages and disadvantages of different solution types

Choose two advantages of the ‘Waterfall’ model.

Easily adaptable (allows for reflection of revision)
Easy to explain to the user
Helps to plan and schedule the project
It's complicated and should be used for big projects

Question 2 of 8

2. Question

Category: The advantages and disadvantages of different solution types

Choose two advantages of the ‘Prototyping’ model.

Users are actively involved in the development
This method always keeps things nice and simple and never gets overly complex
Users are not involved in this system at all
the users get a better understanding of the system being developed

Question 3 of 8

3. Question

Category: The advantages and disadvantages of different solution types

Choose two correct statements about the ‘Iterative’ method.

It should be developed in increments
It should be developed all at once
it can result in better testing
it can result in worse testing

Question 4 of 8

4. Question

Category: The advantages and disadvantages of different solution types

Choose two correct statements about ‘The Spiral’ method.

It's nice and simple
it can often be too complicated or demanding for smaller projects
Once the system is released there's no going back
it can be used with very large, complicated, expensive and continually changing systems

Question 5 of 8

5. Question

Category: The advantages and disadvantages of different solution types

Choose two correct statements about the ‘Object Oriented’ method.

Difficult to understand
Difficult to produce
New applications can use the existing modules so it's much faster and cheaper
Provides easy structure and leads to modular design

Question 6 of 8

6. Question

Category: Quality Assurance in the SDLC

Why is Quality Assurance important? Two statements are correct…

It isn't
If there's no QA then the outcome can be different from the customer requirements
If there's no QA then the outcome can be released with bugs
QA speeds up the development process

Question 7 of 8

7. Question

Category: Quality Assurance in the SDLC

What is one way to achieve the customer’s requirements?

Convert the requirements and design into a test plan.
Have the customers test it themselves
Don't test the system at all
Use a generic test plan based on a standard requirement templates

Question 8 of 8

8. Question

Category: Information Gathering

Choose two ways of gathering evidence for the development team.

Search the internet for information on similar systems
Ask a friend to look at the system and see what he thinks
Surveys
Verbal discussion or interview