NIELIT 2017 July Scientist B (CS) - Section B: 52

Question

A company needs to develop digital signal processing software for one of its newest inventions. The software is expected to have $40000$ lines of code. The company needs to determine the effort in person-months needed to develop this software using the basic COCOMO model. The multiplicative factor for this model is given as $2.8$ for the software development on embedded systems, while the exponentiation factor is given as $1.20$. What is the estimated effort in person-months?

• A. $234.25$
• B. $932.50$
• C. $287.80$
• D. $122.40$

Comments

How do we suppose to solve such questions in NIELIT as we are not allowed to use calculator ?

Answer 1

Explanation:

"Effort = a1 × ( KLOC )^a2"

KLOC = LOC/1000 = 40000/1000 = 40

Effort = 2.8 × 40^1.2 = 234.25

Comments

You are not allowed to use calci in NIELIT exam, so how you are gonna do it ??