software engineering MCQs – Page 24

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

461. Specifying a set of test cases or test paths for each item to be tested at that level is known as__________________?
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A. Test case design

B. ALL of the mentioned

C. Test case generation

D. None of the mentioned

462. Consider the example and categorize it accordingly, A pattern-matching system developed as part of a text-processing system may be reused in a database management system?
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A. Component reuse

B. Object and function reuse

C. Application system reuse

D. None of the mentioned

463. If a Direct approach to software project sizing is taken, size can be measured in__________________?
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A. LOC

B. LOC and FP

C. None of the mentioned

D. FP

464. What is an abstract class ?
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A. A class that has no direct instances, but whose descendants may have direct instances

B. A class that has direct instances, but whose descendants may have direct instances

C. A class that has direct instances, but whose descendants may not have direct instances

D. All of the mentioned

465. Which of the following examples is/are models of application architectures ?
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A. all of the mentioned

B. a vocabulary for talking about types of applications

C. a means of assessing components for reuse

D. a design checklist

466. Which of the following view shows that the system is composed of interacting processes at run time ?
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A. process

B. development

C. physical

D. logical

467. Which of the following is not an approach to software cost estimation ?
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A. Heuristic

B. Critical

C. Analytical

D. Empirical

468. Which of the following option is not provided by formal methods ?
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A. providing frameworks

B. verifying systems

C. provide investors

D. both providing frameworks and verifying systems
469. Who delivers the technical skills that are necessary to engineer a product or an application ?
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A. Practitioners

B. Senior managers

C. Project managers

D. None of the mentioned

470. The ______________ of a relationship is 0 if there is no explicit need for the relationship to occur or the relationship is optional ?
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A. structured analysis

B. cardinality

C. modality

D. entity

471. You want to minimize development cost by reusing methods? Which design pattern would you choose ?
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A. Adapter Pattern

B. Delegation pattern

C. Singleton Pattern

D. Immutable Pattern

472. Which of the following term is best defined by the statement:a structural relationship that specifies that objects of one thing are connected to objects of another ?
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A. Association

B. Realization

C. Generalization

D. Aggregation

473. Which of the following utilities is not a part of Business Service Layer ?
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A. Get account info

B. Entity centric service

C. Task centric service

D. Wrapper Services
474. Which of the following is the process of assembling program components, data, and libraries, and then compiling and linking these to create an executable system ?
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A. Change management

B. Release management

C. System building

D. Version management

475. Which category the following statement belongs,Frameworks dont usually include a database but rather assume that a separate database such as MySQl?
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A. Session management

B. Database support

C. User interaction

D. Security

476. Which of the following option is not tracked by configuration management tools ?
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A. None of the mentioned

B. Tracking the releases of system versions to customers

C. Tracking of change proposals

D. Storing versions of system components

477. Which paradigm relies on the natural compartmentalization of a problem and organizes team members to work on pieces of the problem with little active communication among themselves ?
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A. random paradigm

B. open paradigm

C. closed paradigm

D. synchronous paradigm

478. Which of the following process is concerned with analyzing the costs and benefits of proposed changes ?
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A. Change management

B. Version management

C. Release management

D. System building

479. What are generic application systems that may be designed to support a particular business type, activity, or sometimes a complete enterprise ?
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A. COTS-solution systems

B. COTS-integrated systems

C. ERP systems

D. Both COTS-solution and COTS-integrated systems

480. Which of the following term is best defined by the statement: The names of the operations in the provides and requires interfaces are different. ?
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A. Operation incompatibility

B. Parameter incompatibility

C. Operation incompleteness

D. None of the mentioned