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This section includes 68 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Software Engineering knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Which one of the following is not a maintenance model ? |
| A. | Waterfall model |
| B. | Reuse-oriented model |
| C. | Iterative enhancement model |
| D. | Quick fix model |
| Answer» B. Reuse-oriented model | |
| 2. |
Which property of a sociotechnical system depends on the technical system components, its operators, and its operating environment ? |
| A. | security |
| B. | usability |
| C. | volume |
| D. | reliability |
| Answer» C. volume | |
| 3. |
Which property of a sociotechnical system varies depending on how the component assemblies are arranged and connected ? |
| A. | security |
| B. | security |
| C. | volume |
| D. | reliability |
| Answer» D. reliability | |
| 4. |
Which regression test selection technique exposes faults caused by modifications ? |
| A. | Efficiency |
| B. | Precision |
| C. | Generality |
| D. | Inclusiveness |
| Answer» E. | |
| 5. |
Which requirements are the foundation from which quality is measured ? |
| A. | Hardware |
| B. | Software |
| C. | Programmers |
| D. | None of the mentioned |
| Answer» C. Programmers | |
| 6. |
Who identifies, documents, and verifies that corrections have been made to the software ? |
| A. | Project manager |
| B. | Project team |
| C. | SQA group |
| D. | All of the mentioned |
| Answer» D. All of the mentioned | |
| 7. |
Which of the following requires design control measures, such as holding and recording design reviews and qualification tests ? |
| A. | CMM |
| B. | ISO 9001 |
| C. | ISO 9000-3 |
| D. | None of the mentioned |
| Answer» D. None of the mentioned | |
| 8. |
Which of the following manuals is not a user documentation ? |
| A. | Beginner’s Guide |
| B. | Installation guide |
| C. | Reference Guide |
| D. | SRS |
| Answer» E. | |
| 9. |
Which of the following manuals is a user documentation ? |
| A. | SRS -Software Requirement Specification |
| B. | SDD -Software Design Document |
| C. | System Overview |
| D. | None of the mentioned |
| Answer» D. None of the mentioned | |
| 10. |
Which of the following is not included in failure costs ? |
| A. | rework |
| B. | repair |
| C. | failure mode analysis |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» E. | |
| 11. |
Which of the following is not included in External failure costs ? |
| A. | testing |
| B. | help line support |
| C. | warranty work |
| D. | complaint resolution |
| Answer» B. help line support | |
| 12. |
Which of the following is not an appraisal cost in SQA ? |
| A. | inter-process inspection |
| B. | maintenance |
| C. | quality planning |
| D. | testing |
| Answer» D. testing | |
| 13. |
Which of the following is not a SQA plan for a project ? |
| A. | evaluations to be performed |
| B. | amount of technical work |
| C. | audits and reviews to be performed |
| D. | documents to be produced by the SQA group |
| Answer» C. audits and reviews to be performed | |
| 14. |
Which of the following is not a part of process change ? |
| A. | Introducing new practices, methods or processes |
| B. | Introducing new team members to existing project |
| C. | Introducing or removing deliverable |
| D. | Introducing new roles or responsibilities |
| Answer» C. Introducing or removing deliverable | |
| 15. |
Which of the following is not a maturity level in CMM ? |
| A. | Design |
| B. | Repeatable |
| C. | Managed |
| D. | Optimizing |
| Answer» D. Optimizing | |
| 16. |
Which of the following companies provide certifications for their own products ? |
| A. | CISCO |
| B. | ORACLE |
| C. | Microsoft |
| D. | All of the mentioned |
| Answer» E. | |
| 17. |
What type of software testing is generally used in Software Maintenance ? |
| A. | Regression Testing |
| B. | System Testing |
| C. | Integration Testing |
| D. | Unit Testing |
| Answer» B. System Testing | |
| 18. |
What is often undefined and is left to the ingenuity of the project managers and engineers ? |
| A. | Role |
| B. | Exception |
| C. | Activity |
| D. | Process |
| Answer» C. Activity | |
| 19. |
What is not included in prevention costs ? |
| A. | quality planning |
| B. | formal technical reviews |
| C. | test equipment |
| D. | equipment calibration and maintenance |
| Answer» E. | |
| 20. |
What is a tangible output of an activity that is predicted in a project plan ? |
| A. | Deliverable |
| B. | Activity |
| C. | Condition |
| D. | Process |
| Answer» B. Activity | |
| 21. |
What is a software patch ? |
| A. | Required or Critical Fix |
| B. | Emergency Fix |
| C. | Daily or routine Fix |
| D. | None of the mentioned |
| Answer» C. Daily or routine Fix | |
| 22. |
What does ACT stands for in In Boehm model for software maintenance ? |
| A. | Actual change track |
| B. | Annual change track |
| C. | Annual change traffic |
| D. | Actual change traffic |
| Answer» D. Actual change traffic | |
| 23. |
What are the two ways to view the human error of a sociotechnical system ? |
| A. | hardware and software approach |
| B. | management and users approach |
| C. | person and systems approach |
| D. | all of the mentioned |
| Answer» D. all of the mentioned | |
| 24. |
What are legacy systems ? |
| A. | new systems |
| B. | old systems |
| C. | under-developed systems |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» C. under-developed systems | |
| 25. |
“Understandability” answers which of the following description ? |
| A. | The extent to which the process is explicitly defined |
| B. | Process errors are avoided or trapped before they result in product errors |
| C. | Defined process is acceptable and usable by the engineers responsible for producing the software product |
| D. | Process continues in spite of unexpected problems |
| Answer» B. Process errors are avoided or trapped before they result in product errors | |
| 26. |
Third Party Certification for software standards is based on ___________________? |
| A. | Ul 1998, Second Edition |
| B. | UT 1998, Second Edition |
| C. | Ul 1992, Second Edition |
| D. | Ul 1996, Second Edition |
| Answer» B. UT 1998, Second Edition | |
| 27. |
There are _______________ overlapping stages in the lifetime of large and complex sociotechnical systems? |
| A. | two |
| B. | three |
| C. | four |
| D. | five |
| Answer» C. four | |
| 28. |
The two dimensions of spiral model are ______________________? |
| A. | diagonal, angular |
| B. | radial, perpendicular |
| C. | radial, angular |
| D. | diagonal, perpendicular |
| Answer» D. diagonal, perpendicular | |
| 29. |
The process of transforming a model into source code is known as___________________? |
| A. | Forward engineering |
| B. | Reverse engineering |
| C. | Re-engineering |
| D. | Reconstructing |
| Answer» B. Reverse engineering | |
| 30. |
The process of generating analysis and design documents is known as ___________________? |
| A. | Software engineering |
| B. | Software re-engineering |
| C. | Reverse engineering |
| D. | Re-engineering |
| Answer» D. Re-engineering | |
| 31. |
The primary objective of formal technical reviews is to find _________________ during the process so that they do not become defects after release of the software? |
| A. | errors |
| B. | equivalent faults |
| C. | failure cause |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» B. equivalent faults | |
| 32. |
The modification of the software to match changes in the ever changing environment, falls under which category of software maintenance ? |
| A. | Corrective |
| B. | Adaptive |
| C. | Perfective |
| D. | Preventive |
| Answer» C. Perfective | |
| 33. |
The ISO 9000 series of standards is a program that can be used for external quality assurance purposes ? |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| Answer» C. | |
| 34. |
The Incremental Model is combination of elements of_____________________? |
| A. | Build & FIX Model & Waterfall Model |
| B. | Linear Model & RAD Model |
| C. | Linear Model & Prototyping Model |
| D. | Waterfall Model & RAD Model |
| Answer» D. Waterfall Model & RAD Model | |
| 35. |
The documentation of a process which records the tasks, the roles and the entities used is called__________________? |
| A. | Process metric |
| B. | Process analysis |
| C. | Process modelling |
| D. | None of the mentioned |
| Answer» D. None of the mentioned | |
| 36. |
The cost of re-engineering is often significantly less than the costs of developing new software ? |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 37. |
The CMM emphasizes____________________? |
| A. | continuous process improvement |
| B. | the need to record information |
| C. | the need to accept quality system |
| D. | none of the mentioned |
| Answer» C. the need to accept quality system | |
| 38. |
The CMMI assessment is based on a x-point scale. What is the value of x ? |
| A. | 0 |
| B. | 2 |
| C. | 4 |
| D. | 6 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 39. |
The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is a continuous model ? |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| Answer» C. | |
| 40. |
Robustness” answers which of the following description ? |
| A. | CASE tools be used to support the process activities |
| B. | Process errors are avoided or trapped before they result in product errors |
| C. | Defined process is acceptable and usable by the engineers responsible for producing the software |
| D. | Process continues in spite of unexpected problems |
| Answer» E. | |
| 41. |
Reverse engineering is the last activity in a re-engineering project _____________________? |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| Answer» C. | |
| 42. |
Regression testing is a very expensive activity? |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| Answer» B. False | |
| 43. |
Prototypes and 4GL business systems are categorized under which process ? |
| A. | Informal |
| B. | Managed |
| C. | Methodical |
| D. | Supported |
| Answer» B. Managed | |
| 44. |
Program modularization and Source code translation are the activities of ____________________? |
| A. | Forward engineering |
| B. | Reverse Engineering |
| C. | Reengineering |
| D. | Reverse Engineering and Reengineering |
| Answer» D. Reverse Engineering and Reengineering | |
| 45. |
Processes for evolving a software product depend on __________________? |
| A. | Type of software to be maintained |
| B. | Development processes used |
| C. | Skills and experience of the people involved |
| D. | All of the mentioned |
| Answer» E. | |
| 46. |
Process improvement is the set of activities, methods, and transformations that developers use to develop and maintain information systems ? |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| Answer» C. | |
| 47. |
National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program approve accreditation in ___________________? |
| A. | Environmental standards |
| B. | Computers and electronics |
| C. | Product testing |
| D. | All of the mentioned |
| Answer» E. | |
| 48. |
Model preferred to create client/server applications is _______________________? |
| A. | WINWIN Spiral Model |
| B. | Spiral Model |
| C. | Concurrent Model |
| D. | Incremental Model |
| Answer» D. Incremental Model | |
| 49. |
_______________ measures the ability of a regression test selection technique to handle realistic applications ? |
| A. | Efficiency |
| B. | Precision |
| C. | Generality |
| D. | Inclusiveness |
| Answer» D. Inclusiveness | |
| 50. |
It is always best to start process analysis with a new test model ? |
| A. | True |
| B. | False |
| Answer» C. | |