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Software Engineering Fundamentals

Covers software engineering concepts including development models, design methods, testing, requirements, and project management techniques.

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Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

How many task regions have been included in the spiral model?

  1. 7
  2. 6
  3. 8
  4. 10
  5. None of these
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is/are design methods in software engineering?

  1. Object models
  2. Object models and data flow models
  3. Data flow models only
  4. Entity-relation-attribute models
  5. All of the above
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not true about data dictionary in software engineering?

  1. It describes the database or collection of databases.
  2. It contains the representation and definition of the data elements.
  3. It provides the relationship between the entities.
  4. It is created during the requirement analysis phase in SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).
  5. None of these
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Device drivers are an example of

  1. workshops
  2. system software
  3. application software
  4. real time software
  5. business software
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following categories of errors is checked in black box testing?

  1. Errors in external database
  2. Behavioural or performance errors
  3. Errors in data structure
  4. Interface errors
  5. All of the above
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not included in requirement elicitation in software engineering?

  1. Prototyping
  2. Use cases
  3. Interviews and questionnaire with users, customers and stakeholders
  4. Workshops
  5. None of these
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following systems involves no uncertainty in defining the outputs of the system knowing the inputs?

  1. Review system
  2. Open system
  3. Closed system
  4. Deterministic system
  5. Abstract system
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is an industry standard method of measuring a project progress at any given point in time and forecasting its completion date and final cost?

  1. Accomplishment
  2. Planned value
  3. Actual cost
  4. Objective statement
  5. Earned value analysis
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following refers to the use of prototyping as a technique for gathering and clarifying requirements?

  1. Increment development model
  2. Horizontal prototyping
  3. Exploratory prototyping
  4. Vertical prototyping
  5. Waterfall model
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What is the ratio between earned value and actual cost called?

  1. Planned value
  2. Schedule variance
  3. Cost performance index
  4. Cost variance
  5. Actual cost
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following systems is based on comparative analysis and use of a formula or an algorithm?

  1. Probabilistic system
  2. Strategic information system
  3. Data analysis system
  4. Tactical information system
  5. Deterministic system
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In which of the following models are certain elements hidden to simplify the view?

  1. Inconsistent model
  2. Incomplete model
  3. Elided model
  4. Class diagram
  5. Association
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is important in modeling the behaviour of an interface, class or collaboration and emphasising the event ordered behaviour of an object?

  1. Sequence diagram
  2. State chart diagram
  3. Class diagram
  4. Object diagram
  5. Interface
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a hierarchic decomposition of a project or major activity into successive levels?

  1. PERT chart
  2. Manageable task
  3. Work breakdown structure
  4. Interoperability
  5. Controlling
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following, when calculated at a given point in time, means that the project is ______________.

  1. negative schedule variance
  2. tactical information system
  3. information system
  4. system
  5. probabilistic system
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