ibps-so 2016 · Question 33 of 394

The board of Chandrabhaga Urban Bank has resolved that no application shall in future be outsourced to a supplier whose software process has not been assessed against a recognised framework. The framework put before the board describes an ordered set of ve stages through which the software process of an organisation is said to evolve: from one at which the process is ad hoc and success depends upon individuals, through stages at which basic project management is established, at which a standard process is documented across the organisation, and at which the process and the product are quantitatively measured and controlled, to one at which the organisation improves the process continuously from that measurement. The framework so described is the Capability Maturity Model, which is correctly characterised as:

1. AA life-cycle model that prescribes the order in which the phases of a single software project must be executed
2. BA method of estimating the e ort and the duration of a project from the number of lines of code it is expected to contain
3. CA framework of ve maturity levels — Initial, Repeatable, De ned, Managed and Optimizing — against which the maturity of an organisation's software process is assessed and by which its improvement is guidedCorrect
4. DA standard that certi es the functional correctness of a delivered software product against its requirement speci cation
5. EA technique of measuring the productivity of individual programmers so that their appraisals may be graded