Software Engineering Set 1

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This set of Software Engineering Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Software Engineering Set 1

Q1 | Software Engineering:

is a set of rules about developing software products

has been around as a discipline since the early 50’s

started as a response to the so-called ‘software crisis’ of the late 90’s

is an engineering discipline concerned with all the aspects of software production

Q2 | While orientating yourselves to the company’s work practices, you observe that they in fact do not conduct a few tests that they should in order to comply with the relevant safety standard. When you inquire about this from the project manager, he dismisses it saying that those tests are really unnecessary (and takes an unreasonably long time to conduct, as well as being superfluous) and that they have managed with the other tests for so long, without any problems.”

you should immediately resign from the company and file a complaint with the relevant standard institution

you should do nothing and let the matter slide

although you are new to the company, and you hardly know anything about the internal processes and politics, you should insist on the company changing its work practices immediately; failing which you threaten to report the matter

since you are new to the company, and you are unfamiliar with the internal processes and politics, you should first find-out more about the issue and its background

Q3 | With regard to Evolutionary development, identify the correct statement.

evolutionary development usually comes in two flavors; exploratory development, and throw-away prototyping

very large projects are natural candidates for an evolutionary development based approach

exploratory development is used in situations where most of the requirements are well understood in advance

one of the strong points of evolutionary development is that it facilitates easy project management, through the high volume of documentation it generates

Q4 | The software life cycle can be said to consist of a series of phases. The classical model is referred to as the waterfall model. Which phase may be defined as “The concept is explored and refined, and the client’s requirements are elicited?”

requirements

specification

design

implementation

Q5 | Which property of the rapid prototype is not important?

the speed with which it can be developed

the speed with which it can be modified

its ability to determine the client’s real needs

the insights that the design team can gain from it, even if they are of the ‘how not to do it’ variety

Q6 | The degree of interaction between two modules is known as

cohesion

strength

inheritance

coupling

Q7 | The relationship between a derived class (or subclass) and base class is referred to as

association

inheritance

polymorphism

instantiation

Q8 | Myers (1978) identifies seven levels of cohesion. Which level of cohesion may be defined as followed; “the output from one element in the component serves as input for some other element”?

communicational cohesion

functional cohesion

communicational cohesion

temporal cohesion

Q9 | If a control switch is passed as an argument this is an example of _______ coupling.

content

common

control

stamp

Q10 | Which of the following is a type of abstraction?

data

procedural

iteration

all of the above

Q11 | In the classical chief programmer team approach, the team member responsible for maintaining the detailed design and coding is

the chief programmer

the programming secretary

a specialized function that exists outside ‘the team’

the individual coder (i.e. programmer)

Q12 | Internal costs include

developers salaries

managers and support personnel salaries

the cost of overheads such as utilities, rent and senior managers

materials (such as manuals) and services such as travel

Q13 | Software Science bases its estimation of the size of a product on

files (fi), flows (fl) and processes (pr)

lines of code (kloc)

function points (fp)

operands and operators

Q14 | In Intermediate COCOMO the mode that represents complex products is referred to as

embedded

semidetached

organic

multiplicative

Q15 | Work that continues throughout the project and does not relate to any specific phase of software development is termed a(n)

milestone

project function

activity

task

Q16 | The best way to test the Software Project Management Plan (SPMP) is by

prototyping

inspection

simulation

compilation

Q17 | Brooks’ view of the essence of software included

people, quality, process and productivity

performance, robustness, maintainability and reusability

complexity, conformity, changeability and invisibility

efficiency, reliability, usability and robustness

Q18 | What is the essence of software engineering?

requirements definition, design representation, knowledge capture and quality factors

maintaining configurations, organizing teams, channeling creativity and planning resource use

time/space tradeoffs, optimizing process, minimizing communication and problem decomposition

managing complexity, managing personnel resources, managing time and money and producing useful products

Q19 | Which of the following is a life-cycle concern?

testing

portability

programming

planning

Q20 | Which best captures the nature of the quality paradigm?

the nature of quality, a process perspective, defect elimination

process, product, people, problem

measurement, quality control, validation

feasibility, requirements, economics, customer’s needs

Q21 | What are the major activities of the spiral model of software engineering?

planning, risk analysis, engineering, customer evaluation

defining, prototyping, testing, delivery

requirements

quick design, build prototype, evaluate prototype, refine prototype

Q22 | In choosing a development life-cycle model, one would consider the

development group expertise, problem characteristics, user expectations

languages, development schedule, competition

system context, user population, platforms

organizational structure, user tasks, performance criteria

Q23 | What are the factors to be considered when planning a software development effort?

performance, problem, product, planning

people, problem, product, process

people, problem, productivity, performance

people, problem, product, portability

Q24 | Views of quality software would not include

optimizing price and performance

minimizing the execution errors

conformance to specification

establishing valid requirements

Q25 | Software configuration activities would not include

identify change

control change

ensure improper implementation of change

report change to interested parties