Software Engineering · Question 28 · Hard

Software Engineering question 28

Using Basic COCOMO in organic mode, Effort = 2.4 × (KLOC)^1.05 person-months. What is the estimated effort for a 32 KLOC project, approximately?

  1. 77 person-months
  2. 38 person-months
  3. 91 person-months
  4. 146 person-months
Answer and explanation

Answer: C. 91 person-months

Explanation: 32^1.05 ≈ 38.05, and 2.4 × 38.05 ≈ 91.3 person-months. 77 comes from wrongly using an exponent of 1 (2.4 × 32).

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