Software Engineering MCQ Quiz

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

• Unauthorized modification of computer material
• Unauthorized access to computer material
• Dissemination of viruses or other malware
• All of the above

3. What is a Software ?

• Software is documentation and configuration of data
• Software is set of programs
• Software is set of programs, documentation & configuration of data
• None of the mentioned

4. Which of these software engineering activities are not a part of software processes ?

• Software development
• Software dependence
• Software validation
• Software specification

5. The fundamental notions of software engineering does not account for ?

• Software Security
• Software reuse
• Software processes
• Software Validation

6. Which one of the following models is not suitable for accommodating any change?

• Prototyping Model
• RAD Model
• Build & Fix Model
• Waterfall Model

7. SDLC stands for

• System Development Life cycle
• Software Design Life Cycle
• Software Development Life Cycle
• System Design Life Cycle

8. The spiral model was originally proposed by -

• Barry Boehm
• Pressman
• Royce
• Pressman

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

• Concurrent Model
• Spiral Model
• WINWIN Spiral Model
• Incremental Model

10. Infrastructure software are covered under ?

• Customised Products
• Generic and Customised Products
• Generic Products
• None of the above

11. Build and Fix model has?

• 1 Phases
• 2 Phases
• 3 Phases
• 4 Phases

12. White box testing, a software testing technique is sometimes called ?

• Graph Testing
• Basic path
• Glass box testing
• Dataflow

13. Structured programming codes includes ?

• alteration & iteration
• multiple exit from loops
• sequencing
• only 1 and 3

14. The document listing all procedures and regulations that generally govern an organization is the ?

• Organizing manual
• Personal poling bank
• Administration policy manual
• Procedure log

15. Which one of the following is NOT desired in a good Software Requirement Specifications (SRS) document?

• Non-Functional Requirements
• Goals of Implementation
• Functional Requirements
• Algorithms for Software Implementation

16. COCOMO stands for ______ .

• constructive cost Model
• common control Model
• composition cost Model
• consumed cost Model

17. What is the most common measure for correctness?

• Errors per KLOC
• Defects per KLOC
• $ per KLOC
• Pages of documentation per KLOC

18. Line of code(LOC) of the product comes under which type of measures?

• Direct measures
• Coding
• Indirect measures
• None of the above

19. Line of code(LOC) of the product comes under which type of measures?

• Direct measures
• Coding
• Indirect measures
• None of the above

20. How many numbers of maturity levels in CMM are available?

• 6
• 5
• 4
• 3

21. Which of the following is the task of project indicators:

• track potential risk
• help in assessment of status of ongoing project.
• both 1 and 2
• none of the mentioned

22. Which of the following is not a direct measure of SE process?

• Effort Applied
• Efficiency
• Effort Applied
• All of the mentioned

23. In size oriented metrics, metrics are developed based on the ___

• number of user inputs
• number of lines of code
• number of Functions
• amount of memory usage

24. Usability can be measured in terms of:

• Time required to become moderately efficient in system usage
• Net increase in productivity
• Intellectual skill to learn the system
• All of the mentioned