software engineering MCQs – Page 17

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

321. Which of the following is not a functional reliability requirement for a system ?
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A. Ambiguous requirements

B. Recovery requirements

C. Checking requirements

D. Redundancy requirements

322. Choose the option that does not define Function Oriented Software Design ?
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A. Modules support functional abstraction

B. It consists of module definitions

C. None of the mentioned

D. Modules represent data abstraction
323. Which of the following terms is a measure of the probability that the system will cause an accident ?
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A. Risk

B. Accident

C. Damage

D. Hazard probability

324. Security engineering is only concerned with maintenance of systems such that they can resist malicious attacks ?
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A. TRUE

B. False
325. Which level of Static Analysis allows specific rules that apply to a program to be checked ?
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A. All of the mentioned

B. Assertion checking

C. User-defined error checking

D. Characteristic error checking

326. The ISO 9000 series of standards is a program that can be used for external quality assurance purposes ?
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A. TRUE

B. False
327. National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program approve accreditation in ___________________?
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A. All of the mentioned

B. Computers and electronics

C. Product testing

D. Environmental standards

328. The safety of a system is a system attribute that reflects the systems ability to operate, normally or abnormally, without injury to people or damage to the environment ?
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A. True

B. FALSE

329. POFOD stands for___________________?
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A. Probability of failure on demand

B. Possibility of failure on demand

C. Possibility of failure of data

D. Probability of failure of data

330. Number of errors found per person hours expended is an example of a____________________?
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A. measure

B. all of the mentioned

C. measurement

D. metric
331. What DFD notation is represented by the Rectangle ?
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A. None of the mentioned

B. Data Store

C. Transform

D. Function

332. Select the disadvantage of using Formal methods ___________________?
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A. All of the mentioned

B. They require the use of specialised notations that cannot be understood by domain experts

C. Producing a mathematical specification requires a detailed analysis of the requirements

D. Concurrent systems can be analysed to discover race conditions that might lead to deadlock

333. CSTE stands for ____________________?
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A. Certified Software Trainee

B. None of the mentioned

C. Certified Software Tester

D. Certified Software Technology

334. Which of the following is incorrect activity for the configuration management of a software system ?
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A. Internship management

B. Version management

C. Change management

D. System management

335. In which stage of process improvement bottlenecks and weaknesses are identified ?
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A. Process change

B. None of the mentioned

C. Process analysis

D. Process measurement

336. The use of a well-defined, repeatable process is essential if faults in a system are to be minimized ?
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A. True

B. FALSE

337. Which of the following is not a classification of the web engineering metric, Web Page Similarity ?
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A. Link based

B. Content based

C. Traffic based

D. Usage based

338. Which model assumes that systems are created from reusable components, scripting or database programming ?
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A. A reuse model

B. A post-architecture model

C. An application-composition model

D. An early design model

339. _______________ is the process of translating a task into a series of commands that a computer will use to perform that task ?
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A. Systems analysis

B. Programming

C. Project design

D. Installation

340. What does ACT stands for in In Boehm model for software maintenance ?
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A. Actual change track

B. Annual change track

C. Actual change traffic

D. Annual change traffic