software engineering MCQs – Page 18

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

341. Java packages and Fortran subroutine are examples of__________________________?
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A. Modules

B. Sub procedures

C. Functions

D. Classes

342. Which metric gives the idea about the contents on a web page ?
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A. Word Count

B. Word Size

C. Word Length

D. Word Token

343. What is a software patch ?
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A. None of the mentioned

B. Emergency Fix

C. Required or Critical Fix

D. Daily or routine Fix

344. What is the product of the probability of incurring a loss due to the risk and the potential magnitude of that loss ?
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A. Risk exposure

B. Risk prioritization

C. All of the mentioned

D. Risk analysis

345. There are _______________ overlapping stages in the lifetime of large and complex sociotechnical systems?
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A. five

B. two

C. four

D. three
346. Which is the first step in the software development life cycle ?
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A. Problem/Opportunity Identification

B. Analysis

C. Design

D. Development and Documentation

347. COCOMO-II was developed at _____________________?
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A. IIT-Kanpur

B. University of Southern California

C. MIT

D. University of Texas

348. What describes the data and control to be processed ?
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A. Project complexity

B. External hardware

C. Planning process

D. Software scope
349. Cost and schedule are a part of_________________________?
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A. All of the mentioned

B. Process Metrics

C. Product Metrics

D. Project Metrics
350. Human and organizational factors such as organizational structure and politics have a significant effect on the operation of sociotechnical systems ?
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A. FALSE

B. True
351. Number of dynamic web pages provides an idea about____________ for a web page that is to be built?
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A. effort

B. complexity

C. all of the mentioned

D. size

352. What is often undefined and is left to the ingenuity of the project managers and engineers ?
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A. Activity

B. Exception

C. Process

D. Role

353. Which of the following uses empirically derived formulas to predict effort as a function of LOC or FP ?
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A. FP-Based Estimation

B. Process-Based Estimation

C. COCOMO

D. Both FP-Based Estimation and COCOMO
354. The project planner examines the statement of scope and extracts all important software functions which is known as___________________?
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A. Association

B. All of the mentioned

C. Planning process

D. Decomposition
355. Which of the following is the best type of module coupling ?
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A. Control Coupling

B. Data Coupling

C. Content Coupling

D. Stamp Coupling

356. The process of transforming a model into source code is known as___________________?
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A. Reverse engineering

B. Forward engineering

C. Re-engineering

D. Reconstructing

357. Which of the following points related to Object-oriented development (OOD. is true ?
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A. OOD is concerned with developing an object-oriented system model to implement requirements

B. None of the mentioned

C. OOA is concerned with developing an object model of the application domain

D. All of the mentioned
358. A _______________ is developed using historical cost information that relates some software metric to the project cost ?
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A. Algorithmic cost modelling

B. Expert judgement

C. Estimation by analogy

D. Parkinsons Law

359. A design description of an object is known as a class__________________?
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A. instance

B. object

C. case

D. both instance and object
360. Which of the following is a complementary approach to function-oriented approach ?
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A. Object oriented analysis

B. Object oriented design

C. Structured approach

D. Both Object oriented analysis and design