Skill Development Lab (AL-705) - Important Questions
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Unit 214 Marks Low Priority
Explain the phases of the software product life cycle and indicate deliverables for each phase.
Core topic in Unit 2: Identify and describe phases and deliverables in the software product life cycle.
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Unit 210 Marks Low Priority
Discuss the importance of software development standards and describe how to apply one standard to a project.
Core derivation from Unit 2: Importance and application of software development standards to projects.
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Unit 210 Marks Low Priority
Describe the key software engineering standards relevant to product development (for example ISO/IEC 12207, ISO/IEC 25010, IEEE 730). Explain the scope of each standard and list typical artifacts or deliverables associated with them.
Unit 2 coverage of industry standards: Identification and explanation of relevant ISO/IEEE standards and their artifacts.
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Unit 27 Marks Low Priority
Explain the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) maturity levels and discuss how an organization can use CMMI to improve its software development processes.
Unit 2 process improvement topic: CMMI levels and usage in organizations.
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Unit 214 Marks Low Priority
Outline a Software Quality Assurance (SQA) plan for a medium-sized software project. Include SQA activities, typical deliverables, roles involved, and metrics to monitor quality.
Core Unit 2 skill: Preparing SQA plans including activities, deliverables and metrics.
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Unit 210 Marks Low Priority
Describe the configuration management process for a software product. Explain version control, change control, baselines, and release management along with typical tools used.
Configuration management is central to Unit 2 standards: versioning, baselines, and release control.
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Unit 210 Marks Low Priority
List the standard documents produced during software product development (for example SRS, SDD, Test Plan, User Manual, Maintenance Manual). For each document, describe its purpose and key sections.
Documentation standards and expected contents of main software documents—core Unit 2 topic.
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Unit 27 Marks Low Priority
Explain the differences between peer reviews, formal inspections, and audits in software development. Discuss when each should be used and the benefits they provide.
Unit 2 coverage of verification techniques: reviews, inspections and audits and their benefits.
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Unit 214 Marks Low Priority
Perform effort estimation and schedule planning for a given project using the basic COCOMO model. (State assumptions, show calculations and present the resulting effort and development time estimates.)
Applied Unit 2 skill: estimation and scheduling using a standard model (COCOMO) — common exam task.
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Unit 27 Marks Low Priority
Compare and contrast traditional (waterfall) and iterative/agile software process models. Discuss how software development standards and documentation requirements differ when using each model.
Unit 2 comparison of process models and applicability of standards across models.
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