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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

software engineering Mcqs

1. software metrics 2. software modelling 3. advanced software engineering 4. software processes models software development 5. requirement engineering 6. basics of software engineering 7. software reliability and fault tolerance 8. architectural design 9. software evolution 10. dependability and security 11. software engineering types 12. software design 13. software testing and quality management 14. software management 15. design and implementation

41. Which of the following Requirement Elicitation Techniques removes the poor understanding of application domain and lack of common terminology between the users and the analysts ?
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A. FODA

B. Prototyping

C. CORE

D. IBIS

42. How is Incremental Model different from Spiral Model ?
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A. Changing requirements can be accommodated in Incremental Model

B. All of the mentioned

C. Progress can be measured for Incremental Model

D. Users can see the system early in Incremental Model

43. Requirements Management has a high initial start-up cost but does not need ongoing funding throughout a project ?
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A. False

B. TRUE

44. Keeping the requirements of QFD in mind which of the following is not an example of an Expected Requirement ?
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A. Overall operational correctness and reliability

B. Ease of software installation

C. Quality graphical display

D. Specific system functions

45. What kind of approach was introduced for elicitation and modelling to give a functional view of the system ?
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A. Fusion (by Coleman)

B. Object Oriented Design (by Booch)

C. Use Cases (by Jacobson)

D. Object Modeling Technique (by Rumbaugh)

46. How is plan driven development different from agile development ?
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A. Specification, design, implementation and testing are interleaved

B. All of the mentioned

C. Outputs are decided through a process of negotiation during the software development process

D. Iteration occurs within activities

47. Which of these software engineering activities are not a part of software processes ?
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A. Software validation

B. Software development

C. Software specification

D. Software dependence

48. Select the developer-specific requirement ?
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A. Portability

B. Maintainability

C. Availability

D. Both Portability and Maintainability

49. Program modularization and Source code translation are the activities of ____________________?
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A. Reengineering

B. Reverse Engineering and Reengineering

C. Reverse Engineering

D. Forward engineering

50. 4GL is an example of ________________ processing?
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A. White Box

B. Black Box

C. Functional

D. Both Black Box & Functional

51. Consider the following Statement: The data set will contain an end of file character.What characteristic of SRS is being depicted here ?
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A. Ambiguous

B. Correct

C. Consistent

D. Non-verifiable

52. Starting from least to most important, choose the order of stakeholder ?
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A. Entry level Personnel

B. . Users

C. Middle level stakeholder</strong>

D. Managers

53. According to components of FURPS+, which of the following does not belong to S ?
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A. Installability

B. Testability

C. Speed Efficiency

D. Serviceability

54. ________________ & ________________ diagrams of UML represent Interaction modeling?
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A. Use Case, Sequence

B. All of the mentioned

C. Activity, State Chart

D. Class, Object

55. How many phases are there in Brainstorming ?
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A. Two

B. Three

C. All of the mentioned

D. Four

56. The reason for software bugs and failures is due to _____________________?
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A. Software companies

B. Software Developers

C. Both Software companies and Developers

D. All of the mentioned

57. Which one of the following is a requirement that fits in a developers module ?
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A. Usability

B. Testability

C. Availability

D. Flexibility

58. What is a major advantage of using a 4GT Model for producing small scale products, applications or programs ?
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A. 4GT helped by CASE tools and code generators offers a credible solution to many software problems

B. None of the mentioned

C. Reduction in software development time

D. Improved productivity of software engineers

59. Coad and Yourdon suggested _______________ selection characteristics that should be used as an analyst considers each potential object for inclusion in the requirement analysis model ?
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A. Six

B. Four

C. Three

D. Five

60. Which of these does not account for software failure ?
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A. Less reliable and expensive

B. Low expectation

C. Increasing Supply

D. Increasing Demand

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