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Leaving Cert Computer Science: Roles, teams & stakeholders

How often Roles, teams & stakeholders comes up on the Computer Science papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

HL Asked on 4 of the last 5 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years

OL Asked on 4 of the last 5 Ordinary Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years

Roles, teams & stakeholders, Higher Level(6 marks)

Quick ones on Roles, teams & stakeholders.

(a)Which role plans the schedule and budget and leads the team on a software project?
  1. Tester
  2. Project manager
  3. UX designer
(b)Who works with a client to turn business needs into system requirements?
  1. Data entry clerk
  2. Network engineer
  3. Business analyst
(c)What is a stakeholder in a software project?
  1. Anyone affected by or interested in the project
  2. Only the customer who pays
  3. Only the programmer who writes the code
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(a) Project manager

(b) Business analyst

(c) Anyone affected by or interested in the project

Your turn: Higher Level questions on Roles, teams & stakeholders.

Higher Level

Asked on 4 of the last 5 Higher Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2025B13
2024Not asked
2023B14
2022B13
2021A10

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Roles, teams & stakeholders questions

Roles, teams & stakeholders, 3 marks

Why should a team agree coding standards, such as naming and commenting rules?

  1. The code runs faster once it is compiled or run
  2. Testing is no longer needed if the rules are followed
  3. Everyone's code is consistent and easy for others to read
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Everyone's code is consistent and easy for others to read

Consistent names and comments make code easier to read, review and maintain, especially when people join or leave the team.

Ordinary Level

Asked on 4 of the last 5 Ordinary Level papers, most recently in 2025. most years

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2025B13, B15
2024A7
2023B14
2022Not asked
2021B13

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Roles, teams & stakeholders questions

Roles, teams & stakeholders, 2 marks

Who plans a software project, sets deadlines and manages the budget?

  1. Tester
  2. UX designer
  3. Project manager
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Project manager

The project manager keeps the team on time and on budget, shares out the work and reports progress to the client.

Roles, teams & stakeholders, 2 marks

Whose job is to find faults in software before it is released?

  1. Business analyst
  2. Tester
  3. Project manager
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Tester

Testers run planned tests with normal, boundary and invalid data and report bugs to the developers to fix.

Roles, teams & stakeholders, 2 marks

Who finds out what the client needs and writes it up as requirements?

  1. Business analyst
  2. Tester
  3. Developer
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Business analyst

The business analyst talks to the client and users and writes down what the system must do, so the team builds the right thing.

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