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This set of Usability Engineering Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Usability Engineering Set 12

Q1 | Where would a card- based prototype best fit in the design process?
  • after conceptual design, before scenario design
  • after scenario design, before storyboarding.
  • after storyboarding, before low-level prototyping.
  • after low-level prototyping, before high-level prototyping.
Q2 | Regarding user interface components:
  • vertically scrolling lists support single-item scrolling
  • a single row of tabs (property sheets) is a good user interface design.
  • . on the macintosh, the trash can was used to eject a diskette.
  • all of the above.
Q3 | You are running a user test session and your participant wants to leave half way through
  • ask them to stay until the end as planned, so
  • after ensuring they do not need medical help, let them leave, with
  • offer them an incentive payment to encourage them to finish the
  • none of the above.
Q4 | Which professional groups are most appropriately involved
  • end users and designers
  • designers and usability experts
  • usability experts and marketing personnel
  • designers and marketing personnel.
Q5 | Pressing the mouse button in the       ?        object allows you to drag the document within the window boundaries.
  • button
  • text
  • label
  • header
Q6 | In general, a pilot test is intended to:
  • discover gear- up accidents with aircraft landing gear.
  • discover unrealistic time estimates for tasks.
  • discover effective equipment.
  • determine an alternative set of tasks for testing
Q7 | Browser Title always contains the word‘              ’.
  • home
  • default
  • error
  • browser
Q8 | Conventional wisdom says that…………….. tell the user when he has made some mistake.
  • program crash
  • system stuck
  • error messages
  • metadata
Q9 | In a heuristic evaluation……………………
  • a group of usability expert judges an interface with a detailed checklist of guidelines
  • a group of test users conducts a formal experiment
  • a group of psychologists administers a questionnaire
  • a group of usability experts reviews a user interface according to a small set of general principles
Q10 | & are the main
  • pointing &
  • selecting &
  • pointing & editing
  • none of these
Q11 | is an intermediate between users and computer.
  • keyboard
  • monitor
  • both a & b
  • mouse
Q12 | People frequently counter the idea offeedback
  • audible
  • video
  • walkthroughs
  • questions
Q13 | with arguments that Users don't like it Which of the following is the comparison of what happened in the world with what we wanted to happen?
  • action
  • evaluation
  • execution
  • none of these
Q14 | When users are involved in complex tasks, the demand oncan be
  • short-term memory
  • shortcuts
  • objects that appear on the screen
  • all of the mentioned
Q15 | Which of the following option is not considered by the Interface design?
  • the design of interfaces between software components
  • the design of interfaces between the software and human producers and consumers of information
  • the design of the interface between two computers
  • all of the mentioned
Q16 | The reading speed and
  • word shape
  • word color
  • word as single
  • word as
Q17 | The field of HCI
  • is a brunch of computer engineering
  • involves very little applied knowledge
  • focuses on the study of human behavior on the basis of pschology
  • attempts to understand and shape the way people interact with computers
Q18 | Unlike traditional observation, guided observation………………..
  • set a strict guidelines for session activities
  • reduces error introduced by the experimenter
  • sets strict guidelines for session length
  • includes some interaction with participants
Q19 | The name of the document should be shown on the application’s………………
  • menu bar
  • title bar
  • tool bar
  • status bar
Q20 | What do you enjoy most about your job (or lifestyle) is an example of                  .
  • avoidance
  • motivation
  • exceptions
  • attitude-oriented questions
Q21 | Waterfall model is basically a                     model in which each step must be completed before the next step can be started
  • incremental
  • linear
  • iterative
  • analytical
Q22 | Choose THREE (3) senses in Multi-modal Technologyi. Touchii. Smelliii. Soundiv. Instinct
  • i, ii and iii
  • i, iii and iv
  • i, ii and iv
  • ii, iii and iv
Q23 | When users are
  • short-term
  • shortcuts
  • objects that appear
  • all of the
Q24 | There can only be onepersona per interface for aproduct
  • primary
  • secondary
  • supplemental
  • customer
Q25 | Select the best way of analysing qualitative user comments collected during a user
  • classify the comments into categories and
  • find the average and the standard deviation of the data and report
  • use a scatterplot to graph users on the x axis and comments on the y
  • look for critical incidents to report.