software engineering MCQs – Page 6

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

101. Choose the incorrect statement with respect to Non-Functional Requirement(NFR) ?
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A. Process-oriented Approach Focus on how NFRs can be used in the design process

B. Product-oriented Approach Focus on system (or softwarE. quality

C. Qualitative Approach Study various relationships between quality goals

D. Quantitative Approach Find measurable scales for the functionality attributes
102. A company is developing an advance version of their current software available in the market, what model approach would they prefer ?
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A. RAD

B. Iterative Enhancement

C. Both RAD & Iterative Enhancement

D. Spiral

103. Which of the following is not a diagram studied in Requirement Analysis ?
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A. Activity Diagram

B. Entity Relationship Diagram

C. State Transition Diagram

D. Use Cases

104. In XP an automated unit test framework is used to write tests for a new piece of functionality before that functionality itself is implemented ____________________?
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A. True

B. FALSE

105. The work associated with software engineering can be categorized into three generic phases,regardless of application area, project size, or complexity namely the_____________ phase which focuses on what, the______________ phase which focuses on how and the_____________ phase which focuses on change ? i. support ii. development iii. definition
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A. 3, 2, 1

B. 3, 1, 2

C. 1, 2, 3

D. 2, 1, 3

106. Four types of change are encountered during the support phase . Which one of the following is not one that falls into such category ?
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A. Correction

B. Prevention

C. Translation

D. Adaptation

107. How is brainstorming different from JAD ? Brainstorming sessions ?
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A. cover the technology used for the development

B. all of the mentioned

C. last for about 2-3 hours

D. last for about 2-3 days

108. FAST stands for___________________?
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A. Facilitated Application Specification Technique

B. Functional Application Specification Technique

C. None of the mentioned

D. Fast Application Specification Technique

109. What functionality of Requirement Management Tool (RMT) is depicted by the statement: the tool should be able to automatically detect relations between artifacts. For example information retrieval techniques, monitoring of change history, naming schemas or model transformations________________________?
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A. Graphical Representation

B. Automatic Link Creation and Change

C. Documentation Support

D. Automatic Link Detection
110. What requirement gathering method developed at IBM in 1970s is used for managing requirement elicitation ?
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A. JAD

B. Traceability

C. FAST

D. Both JAD and Traceability
111. Consider the following Statement: The output of a program shall be given within 10 secs of event X 10% of the time.What characteristic of SRS is being depicted here ?
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A. Consistent

B. Verifiable

C. Non-verifiable

D. Correct

112. IBIS is a more structured approach than CORE ?
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A. True

B. FALSE

113. Arrange the tasks involved in requirements elicitation in an appropriate manner ?
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A. . Requirements Gathering

B. Consolidation

C. Evaluation</strong>

D. Prioritization

114. The spiral model has two dimensions namely _______________ and _______________?
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A. radial, perpendicular

B. radial, angular

C. diagonal, angular

D. diagonal, perpendicular

115. Which four framework activities are found in the Extreme Programming(XP) ?
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A. planning, analysis, coding, testing

B. planning, analysis, design, coding

C. analysis, design, coding, testing

D. planning, design, coding, testing
116. Which one of the following is not an application of embedded software product ?
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A. none of the mentioned

B. keypad control of a security system

C. pattern recognition game playing

D. digital function of dashboard display in a car

117. Which one of the following is not a phase of Prototyping Model ?
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A. Prototype Refinement

B. Coding

C. Engineer Product

D. Quick Design

118. In terms of Issues related to professional responsibility____________________?
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A. Confidentiality

B. Intellectual property rights

C. Both Confidentiality & Intellectual property rights

D. Managing Client Relationships

119. Arrange the given sequence to form a SRS Prototype outline as per IEEE SRS Standard?
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A. ii, i, v, iv, iii

B. iii, i, ii

C. Appendices</strong>

D. General description

E. . Index

F. Introduction

120. Choose a framework that corresponds to Issue Based Information System (IBIS) ?
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A. Idea -> Question -> Argument

B. Question -> Idea -> Argument

C. Issue -> Position -> Justification

D. Both Question -> Idea -> Argument and Issue -> Position -> Justification