SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (MCQ1)

1) What is the first step in the software development lifecycle?

• System Design
• Coding
• System Testing
• Preliminary Investigation and Analysis

2) Third-Party Certification for software standards is based on __________.

• Ul 1996, Second Edition
• Ul 1998, Second Edition
• Ul 1992, Second Edition
• UT 1998, Second Edition

3) Which of the following is used to predict the effort as a function of LOC or FP?

• COCOMO
• FP-based estimation
• Both COCOMO and FP-based estimation
• Process-based estimation

4)__________ is not a direct measure of SE process.

• Effort
• Cost
• Efficiency
• All of the above

5) Which of the following is an example of Black Box and Functional Processing?

• First Generation Language
• Second Generation Language
• Third Generation Language
• Fourth Generation Language

6)Which of the following refers to internal software equality?

• Scalability
• Re usability
• Reliability
• Usability

7)The agile software development model is built based on __________.

• Linear Development
• Incremental Development
• Iterative Development
• Both Incremental and Iterative Development

8)The __________ and __________ are the two major dimensions encompassed in the Spiral model.

• Diagonal, Perpendicular
• Perpendicular, Radial
• Angular, diagonal
• Radial, Angular

9)Which of the following word correctly summarized the importance of software design?

• Quality
• Complexity
• Efficiency
• Accuracy

10)Which of the following methodology results in SA/SD features?

• Gane and Sarson methodology
• DeMarco and Yourdon methodology
• Constantine and Yourdon methodology
• All of the above

11)Which of the following is not included in the total effort cost?

• Costs of lunch time food
• Costs of support staff
• Costs of networking and communications
• Costs of air conditioning and lighting in the office space

12)What is the first step in the software development life cycle?

• System Design
• Coding
• System Testing
• Preliminary Investigation and Analysis

13)What is the major drawback of the Spiral Model?

• Higher amount of risk analysis
• Doesn't work well for smaller projects
• Additional functionalities are added later on
• Strong approval and documentation control

14) An erroneous system state that results in an unexpected system behavior is acknowledged as?

• System failure
• Human error or mistake
• System error
• System fault