software engineering MCQs – Page 32

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

621. Which type of software engineering team has a defined leader who coordinates specific tasks and secondary leaders that have responsibility for sub tasks ?
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A. Controlled decentralized (CD)

B. Democratic decentralized (DD)

C. Controlled centralized (CC)

D. None of the mentioned

622. At Conceptual level Class diagrams should include_____________________?
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A. operations only

B. attributes only

C. both operations and attributes

D. none of the mentioned

623. Which diagram indicates the behaviour of the system as a consequence of external events ?
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A. workflow diagram

B. control specification diagram

C. data flow diagram

D. state transition diagram
624. Which of the following term is best defined by the statement The creation of a new codeline from a version in an existing codeline ?
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A. Branching

B. Mainline

C. Codeline

D. Merging

625. Which of the following is not a dimension of scalability ?
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A. Distribution

B. Manageability

C. Size

D. Interception
626. A project usually has a timeline chart which was developed by_________________?
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A. Ivar Jacabson

B. Barry Boehm

C. Henry Gantt

D. None of the mentioned

627. Which of the following is applicable on software radio ?
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A. None of the mentioned

B. Distributed system

C. Environmental Control

D. Process Pipeline
628. Which of the following come under system control ?
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A. Reconfigure

B. Shutdown

C. All of the mentioned

D. Powersave

629. Which of the following occurs often due to the bulkiness of a system specification document ?
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A. Incompleteness

B. Ambiguities

C. Contradictions

D. Vagueness
630. Which diagram evolved from a desire to develop a procedural design representation that would not allow violation of the structured constructs ?
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A. None of the mentioned

B. Box diagram

C. State transition diagram

D. ER diagram

631. Which things in UML are the explanatory parts of UML models ?
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A. Structural things

B. Grouping things

C. Behavioral things

D. Annotational things
632. NET are specific to which platform ?
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A. Microsoft

B. LINUX

C. Mac-OS

D. Java

633. Which of the following is not needed to develop a system design from concept to detailed object-oriented design ?
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A. Designing system architecture

B. Developing a debugging system

C. Developing design models

D. Specifying interfaces

634. A technique for performing quantitative analysis of progress is known as______________________?
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A. CBSE

B. BCWS

C. EVA

D. BAC

635. Which method recommends that very frequent system builds should be carried out with automated testing to discover software problems ?
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A. All of the mentioned

B. Parallel compilation method

C. Large systems method

D. Agile method
636. Which of the following categories is part of the output of software process ?
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A. all of the mentioned

B. documents that describe the computer programs

C. data

D. computer programs

637. PM-CMM stands for___________________?
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A. people management capability maturity model

B. project management capability maturity model

C. product management capability maturity model

D. process management capability maturity model

638. Which of the following is an essential principle of an architecture ?
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A. All of the mentioned

B. Scalability

C. Consistency

D. Reliability

639. In which test design each input is tested at both ends of its valid range and just outside its valid range ?
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A. Boundary value testing AND Equivalence class partitioning

B. Equivalence class partitioning

C. Boundary value testing

D. Decision tables

640. Arrange the following activities in order to build a SOA ____________________?
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A. . Govern, secure and manage the services.

B. Virtualization through mediation.

C. Track services with registries.

D. Design for interoperability through the adoption of standards.</strong>