May 2015
Coventry University
Faculty of Engineering & Computing
321COM Rapid Application Development
Instructions to candidates
Time allowed: 2 hours 00 minutes
This is a Closed Book Examination
Answer: All questions
The total number of questions in this paper: 4
Each question is worth 25 marks.
Start each question on a new page and carefully identify your answers with the correct question number.
For this examination you will be supplied with the following
1 Answer Book(s)
You must hand this question paper in at the end of the examination.
- The 4 principles of the Agile manifesto state:
- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
- Working software over comprehensive documentation
- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
- Responding to change over following a plan
- Critically discuss the application of these principles in the Extreme Programming development approach. (20 marks)
- What does refactoring mean? Give a specific example of refactoring. (5 marks)
(Total 25 marks)
- Discuss the three main levels of cloud computing services: IaaS, PaaS and SaaS. Provide specific examples of such services from your experience. (15 marks)
(Total 15 marks)