Software Engineering 1 CS-6209 exam answers

___________ is probably the most important phase forlong-term support as well as for the reputation of the company.

Testing Correct

______________ measures the ability of a regression test selection technique to handle realistic applications.

Generality Correct

________________ is the ability to encourage by "push or pull" technical people to produce to their best ability.

Motivation Correct

__________________ documents show the behavior or functionality of a software product on an abstract level.

Functional specification Correct

.NET are specific to which platform?

Microsoft Correct

“An ordering system may be adapted to cope with a centralized ordering process in one company and a distributed process in another.” Which category the example belong to?

Process specialization Correct

“Software engineers should not use their technical skills to other people’s computers.”Here the term refers to:

All of the mentioned Correct

“Software engineers should not use their technical skills tomisuseother people’s computers.” Here the termmisuserefers to:

All of the mentioned Correct

A ___________is an executable instruction. It may have one ormore parameters.

Command Prompt , Command Correct

A 66.6% risk is considered as

high Correct

A company is developing an advance version of their current software available in the market, what model approach would they prefer ?

Both RAD & Iterative Enhancement Correct

A field studying computers and algorithmic processes, including their principles, their software and hardware designs, their applications, and their impact on society, whereas IS emphasizes functionality over design.

Computer information system Correct

A good decomposition of a problem shouldinteractions among various components.

FALSE Correct

A project’s duration might be just one week or it might go on for years, but every project has an end date.

A project is temporary Correct

A research title must not come from personal experience, an article read, a scene witnessed or news heard for it will invalidate the study.

False Correct

A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service, or result.

Project Correct

Acceptance testing is also known as

Beta testing Correct

Acknowledgement sheet should be placed immediately after the title page. Generally, it contains statements of recommendation and acceptance.

False Correct

After defining architecture, software components and their interfaces, the next phase of development is the creation of __________________.

design documents Correct

Age is considered as what type of research question.

Factor-Isolating Questions Correct

Allentities involved in the solution design are known as __________.For example, person, banks, company,and customers are treated as objects.

Objects Correct

Alpha testing is done at

Developer’s end Correct

An ________________ process simplifies verification. If you develop software by adding small increments of functionality, then, for verification, you only need to deal with the added portion

Incremental Development Correct

An independent relationship must exist between the attribute that can be measured and the external quality attribute

False Correct

areabsolutely necessary to achieve a good quality software cost effectively.

FALSE Correct

Arrange the given sequence to form a SRS Prototype outline as per IEEE SRS Standard.

ii, i, v, iv, iii Correct

Arrange the given sequence to form a SRS Prototype outline as per IEEE SRS Standard. i. General description ii. Introduction iii. Index iv. Appendices v. Specific Requirements

ii, i, v, iv, iii Correct

As per an IBM report, “31%of the project get cancelled before they are completed, 53% overrun their cost estimates by an average of 189% and for every 100 projects, there are 94 restarts”.What is the reason for these statistics ?

Lack of adequate training in software engineering Correct

Asking the level of performance is considered as?

Factor-relating questions Correct

Asoftware is always made to perform some rationalwork. This rational work is known as problem in the softwareparlance.

Top-down analysis Correct

Before you start selling any software product,it is officially released. This means that you create a state of the softwarein your repository, make sure that it has been tested for functionality andfreeze the code.

Software Releases Correct

Behavioral testing is

Black box testing Correct

Beta testing is done at

User’s end Correct

Boundary value analysis belong to?

Black Box Testing Correct

Build & Fix Model is suitable for programming exercises of ___________ LOC (Line of Code).

100-200 Correct

Characteristics of a good software: (select all correct answers)

Operational, Maintenance, Transitional Correct

Choice of a particularoperating system may be made depending upon, except:

Development type Correct

Choose the correct option from given below:

Both RAD & Prototyping Model facilitates reusability of components Correct

Choose the correct option in terms of Issues related to professional responsibility

Both Confidentiality & Intellectual property rights Correct

Company has latest computers and state-of the- art software tools, so we shouldn’t worry about the quality of the product.

False Correct

Consider the example and categorize it accordingly, “A pattern-matching system developed as part of a text-processing system may be reused in a database management system”.

Component reuse Correct

Consider the following Statement: “The data set will contain an end of file character.”What characteristic of SRS is being depicted here ?

Non-verifiable Correct

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 ?

Verifiable Correct

Consider the following Statement: “The product should have a good human interface.”What characteristic of SRS is being depicted here ?

Non-Verifiable Correct

considered to be a collection of executable programming code,associated libraries and documentations.

software Correct

COTS product reuse means

Systems are developed by configuring and integrating existing application systems Correct

COTS stands for

Commercial Off-The-Shelf systems Correct

During the Defense which of the following must be done last?

Evaluation Correct

During the Defense which of the following the researchers must do first?

Orientation from the chairman of the panel Correct

During the implementation process, developers must write enough comments inside the code so that if anybody starts working on the code later on, he/she is able to understand what has already been written.

True Correct

Duringthis stage, the software design is realized as a set of programs or programunits

Implementation and unit testing Correct

Editors are the core development tools because they convert source code to executable form.

False Correct

Efficiency in a software product does not include ________

licensing Correct

Every project should have awell-defined objective. For example, many people hire firms to design and build a new house, but each house, like each person, is unique.

A project has a unique purpose. Correct

Every time a new software is issued to the customer, developers have to maintain version and configuration related documentation.

Version Management Correct

Exhaustive testing is

impractical but possible Correct

Explain what is meant by with reference to one of the eight principles as per the ACM/IEEE Code of Ethics ?

Software engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible Correct

Explain what is meant byPRODUCTwith reference to one of the eight principles as per the ACM/IEEE Code of Ethics

software engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the highest professional standards possible Correct

he most significant factorin determining which software engineering methods and techniques are mostimportant is the that is being developed.

TRUE Correct

How is Incremental Model different from Spiral Model?

Progress can be measured for Incremental Model Correct

How is WINWIN Spiral Model different from Spiral Model?

It defines a set of negotiation activities at the beginning of each pass around the spiral Correct

Identify an ethical dilemma from the situations mentioned below:

Your employer releases a safety-critical system without finishing the testing of the system Correct

Identify the correct statement with respect to Evolutionary development:

Evolutionary development usually has two flavors; exploratory development, and throw-away prototyping Correct

Identify the correct statement: “Software engineers shall

act consistently with the public interest.” Correct

Identify the disadvantage of Spiral Model.

Doesn’t work well for smaller projects Correct

Identify the sub-process of process improvement

Process analysis Correct

If the different sub components are interrelated, thenthe different components cannot be solved separately and the desiredin complexity will not be realized.

TRUE Correct

If the were not based onscientific and engineering concepts, it would be easier to re-create newsoftware than to scale an existing one.

TRUE Correct

If you were a lead developer of a software company and you are asked to submit a project/product within a stipulated time-frame with no cost barriers, which model would you select?

RAD Correct

If you were to create client/server applications, which model would you go for?

Concurrent Model Correct

If you were to create client/server applications, which model would you go for? a) WINWIN Spiral Model

Concurrent Model Correct

Ifany of the hardware and/or platform (such asoperating system) of the target host changes, software changes areneeded to keep adaptability.

Host Modifications Correct

Ifthere is any business level change at clientend, such as reduction of organization strength, acquiring anothercompany, organization venturing into new business, need to modify in the originalsoftware may arise.

Organization Changes Correct

implies that a problem can be simplified by omitting irrelevant details.

abstraction Correct

In ________________, the system comprises of many smaller sub-systems known as functions.

function-oriented design Correct

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