software engineering MCQs – Page 23

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

441. What incorporates data, architectural, interface, and procedural representations of the software ?
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A. mental image

B. design model

C. system image

D. users model

442. Which of these following sensor is a useful as part of a burglar alarm system for commercial buildings ?
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A. Movement detector

B. Door sensor

C. Window sensor

D. All of the mentioned
443. Which of the following is not an adaptation criteria for software projects ?
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A. Project staff

B. Mission criticality

C. Size of the project

D. Customers Complaints
444. Which of the following term is best defined by the statement: There will be a change of organizational management with different priorities.?
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A. Technology change

B. Management change

C. Staff turnover

D. Product competition

445. Why is decomposition technique required ?
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A. All of the mentioned

B. Developing a cost and effort estimate for a software project is too complex

C. Software project estimation is a form of problem solving

D. None of the mentioned

446. A component model defines standards for_________________?
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A. properties

B. mechanisms

C. all of the mentioned

D. methods

447. A language-processing systems may translate an XML data description into__________________?
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A. machine code and alternative XML representation

B. a software module

C. a machine code

D. an alternative XML representation

448. Which of the following term is best defined by the statement:The operations on each side of the interface have the same name but their parameter types or the number of parameters are different. ?
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A. Parameter incompatibility

B. None of the mentioned

C. Operation incompleteness

D. Operation incompatibility

449. The UML was designed for describing _______________________?
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A. object-oriented systems

B. architectural design

C. SRS

D. Both object-oriented systems and Architectural design
450. You want to avoid multiple inheritance. Which design pattern would you choose ?
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A. Singleton Pattern

B. Player-Role Pattern

C. Abstraction-Occurrence Pattern

D. General Hierarchy Pattern

451. Software Configuration Management can be administered in several ways. These include __________________?
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A. All of the mentioned

B. A separate configuration management team for each project

C. A single software configuration management team for the whole organization

D. Software Configuration Management distributed among the project members

452. Which of the following is not a user interface design process ?
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A. User, task, and environment analysis and modeling

B. Interface design

C. Interface validation

D. Knowledgeable, frequent users
453. A software ______________ provides the framework from which a comprehensive plan for software development can be established?
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A. product

B. process

C. people

D. none of the mentioned

454. Which of the following is not a Version management feature ?
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A. Change history recording

B. Build script generation

C. Project support

D. Version and release identification

455. Which test do you infer from the following statement: The coordination and data management functions of the server are tested. ?
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A. Transaction tests

B. Application function tests

C. Server tests

D. Network communication tests

456. Which of the following is not a characteristics of box diagram ?
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A. arbitrary transfer of control is impossible

B. recursion is easy to represent

C. providing a notation that translates actions and conditions

D. functional domain

457. Interaction Diagram is a combined term for_____________________?
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A. Sequence Diagram + Collaboration Diagram

B. Deployment Diagram + Collaboration Diagram

C. None of the mentioned

D. Activity Diagram + State Chart Diagram

458. Which of the following is not an effective project manager trait ?
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A. Problem solving

B. Influence and team building

C. Managerial identity

D. None of the mentioned
459. ________________ depend on there being a clear separation between the presentation of information and the computations that create and process that information?
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A. Master-slave architectures

B. Clientserver systems

C. Two-tier clientserver architecture

D. Both Master-slave architectures AND Clientserver systems

460. The expected value for the estimation variable (size), S, can be computed as a weighted average of the optimistic(Sopt), most likely (Sm), and pessimistic (Spess) estimates given as___________________?
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A. EV = (Sopt + 2Sm + Spess)/6

B. EV = (Sopt + 2Sm + Spess)/4

C. EV = (Sopt + 4Sm + Spess)/4

D. EV = (Sopt + 4Sm + Spess)/6