software engineering MCQs – Page 102

Practise multiple-choice questions from software engineering for competitive examinations and subject revision. Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

2021. Decision making process has been proposed by _______ in _______?
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A. Herbert Simon, 1960

B. Blake Lves, 1955

C. Michael Hammer, 1975

D. Henry Mintzberg, 1973

2022. The cost of information can be ___________________?
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A. None of the above

B. Valuable

C. Costly

D. Processing

2023. Monitoring the legal constraints which a company operates under requires review of_______________?
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A. a companys customers

B. a companys outputs

C. a companys macro-environment

D. a companys micro-environment

2024. Cause-and-effect analysis is performed in the following phase of systems analysis________________?
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A. logical design phase

B. requirements analysis phase

C. problem analysis phase

D. scope definition phase

2025. The person generally responsible for the program design strategy, standards, and construction is called a(n) ?
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A. network designer

B. backup chief programmer

C. program librarian

D. chief programmer
2026. Telecommunications means multiple computer interconnected into networks is called __________________?
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A. Central processing

B. Distributed processing

C. Distributed database

D. None of these

2027. MRS stands for ____________________?
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A. Management reporting system

B. None of these

C. Management retrieve system

D. Management resource system

2028. Which of the following advanced input controls provides a nonnumeric means of selecting a value ?
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A. ellipsis control

B. slider edit calendar

C. check list box

D. Internet hyperlink

2029. All of the following are phases of systems analysis, except ?
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A. requirements analysis phase

B. design analysis phase

C. problem analysis phase

D. decision analysis phase

2030. Which one is NOT a phase of the systems development life cycle ?
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A. scope definition

B. problem analysis

C. requirements analysis

D. post-implementation review
2031. A language in which a program is written on the basic of object?
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A. Object-Oriented language

B. All of these

C. C++

D. Machine language

2032. Which of the following steps is/are the implementation plans involved in MIS ?
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A. Planning of work flow

B. Training of personnel

C. Preparing organizational plans

D. All of the above
2033. The process of requirements discovery consists of the following activities, except_______________?
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A. requirements management

B. requirements discovery

C. problem discovery and analysis

D. sampling of existing documentation, forms and files
2034. Remote batch processing has the following characteristic(s)_______________?
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A. Data is entered online.

B. Data is processed at a later time.

C. Data is collected in batches.

D. All of the above
2035. Which of the following is not a class of information system applications ?
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A. decision support system

B. expert system

C. database management system

D. management information system

2036. Optical character recognition ?
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A. is less prevalent than optical mark recognition

B. requires the user to carefully handwrite input data on a business form

C. both A and B

D. none

2038. Which one of the tests is performed on a subset of a program ?
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A. unit test

B. program test

C. stub test

D. subset test

2039. Which one of the following is used to define the structure of the relation, deleting relations and relating schemas?
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A. DML(Data Manipulation Langauge)

B. Query

C. DDL(Data Definition Langauge)

D. Relational Schema