Rapid Application Development

2013-(1) past paper questions with answers

Questions

1. State what are classic mistakes in RAD. 
2. Differentiate SCRUM framework and the Extreme Programming. 
3. List all four values of Agile Manifesto. 
4. Explain how you can improve the input validation of web applications with the aid of two valid points. 
5. Product owner, development team member and scrum master are three important roles specified in scrum framework. List three responsibilities of the product owner. 
6. Sprint planning meeting, daily scrum, sprint review meeting, sprint retrospective meeting and back-log refinement meeting are key meetings specified in SCRUM framework.Describe briefly about two of these meetings. 
7. Differentiate software architectural patterns and software design patterns. 
8. Describe briefly about two software design patterns. 
9. Differentiate incremental development and throw-away prototyping. 
10. Briefly describe the copy-left licenses. 
11. State what are schedule-risk oriented practices and visibility oriented practices. 
12. Describe what are pair-programming and refactoring in Extreme Programming. 
13. Describe briefly the importance of software version control systems.
14.  Justify why distributed version control systems are better than the centralized version control systems.
15.  State two advantages of each phase of JAD namely the JAD planning and JAD design.

 Answers