Software Engineering MCQs Quiz Multiple Choice Questions & Answers

1. The level at which the software uses scarce resources is

1. efficiency
2. portability
3. reliability
4. all of the above

2. The most important feature of spiral model is

1. risk management
2. quality management
3. requirement analysis
4. configuration management

3. Which is not a step of requirement engineering?

1. Requirements analysis
2. Requirements design
3. Requirements elicitation
4. Requirements documentation

4. Structured charts are a product of

1. requirements analysis
2. design
3. requirements gathering
4. coding

5. Modules X and Y operate on the same input and output data, then the cohesion is

1. Communicational
2. Procedural
3. Sequential
4. Logical

6. Site for Alpha Testing is

1. Installation place
2. Any where
3. Software Company
4. None of the above

7. IEEE 830-1993 is a IEEE recommended standard for

1. Software design
2. Testing
3. Software requirement specification
4. Both (A) and (B)

8. SRD stands for

1. Structured requirements definition
2. Software requirements diagram
3. Software requirements definition
4. Structured requirements diagram

9. Output comparators are used in

1. dynamic testing of single module
2. static testing of single and multiple module
3. static testing of single module
4. dynamic testing of single and multiple module

10. ER model shows the

1. Functional view
2. Dynamic view
3. Static view
4. All the above

11. Which of the following quality of SRS document ensures to compare the results of a phase with another phase ?

1. Verifiable
2. Traceable
3. Structured
4. Concise

12. Who writes the Software Requirement Specifications Document(SRS)?

1. System Tester
2. System Analyst
3. System Developer
4. None of these above

13. Requirements can be refined using

1. prototyping model
2. the evolutionary model
3. The waterfall model
4. the spiral model

14. What is the goal of the requirements analysis and specifications phase of software development life cycle ?

1. Analyzing the cost of development
2. Determining scope of the software
3. Understanding the customer requirements and organize them in an informal document
4. None of these above

15. One of the fault base testing techniques is

1. beta testing
2. Stress testing
3. unit testing
4. mutation testing

16. If every requirement can be checked by a cost-effective process, then the SRS is

1. traceable
2. modifiable
3. verifiable
4. complete

17. SRS is also known as specification of

1. Stress testing
2. Integrated testing
3. White box testing
4. Black box testing

18. What is noise in terms of software development ?

1. Adding contradictory requirements in SRS document
2. Writing over-specific requirements
3. Writing irrelevant statement to the software development in the SRS document
4. None of these above

19. Alpha and Beta Testing are forms of

1. Integration testing
2. System Testing
3. Acceptance testing
4. Unit testing

20. The testing that focuses on the variables is called

1. white box testing
2. data variable testing
3. black box testing
4. data flow testing

21. The tools that support different stages of software development life cycle are called:

1. CAME tools
2. CAQE tools
3. CASE Tools
4. CARE tools

22. Which phase is not available in software life cycle?

1. Testing
2. Maintenance
3. Coding
4. Abstraction

23. Which of the following is not a desirable characteristic of SRS document ?

1. Ambiguous
2. Traceable
3. Concise
4. Verifiable

24. An object encapsulates

1. Behaviour
2. State
3. Data
4. Both Data and behaviour

25. A cross life-cycle activity of system development is

1. Data modelling
2. Fact finding
3. Prototyping
4. Data Flow Diagram modelling

26. The worst type of coupling is

1. control coupling
2. stamp coupling
3. Data coupling
4. content coupling

27. A decision table consist of two parts

1. Sub and entry
2. Pros and cons
3. Condition and result
4. None of the above

28. As the reliability increases, failure intensity

1. increases
2. no effect
3. decreases
4. none of the above

29. A good requirement specification should be

1. Unambiguous
2. Distinctly specific
3. Functional
4. None of the above

30. What are the three generic phases of software engineering?

1. What, how, where
2. Programming, debugging, maintenance
3. Definition, development, support
4. Analysis, design, testing

31. Coding and testing can be done in

1. Top-down manner
2. Bottom-up manner
3. Adhoc manner
4. Gross-sectional manner

32. The main purpose of integration testing is to find

1. analysis errors
2. procedure errors
3. design errors
4. interface errors

33. Following software process model can be represented schematically as a series of major technical activities and there associated state?

1. Incremental Model
2. Component assembly Model
3. Concurrent Development Model
4. All of the Above

34. Top down approach is used for

1. identification of faults
2. testing and validation
3. development
4. reverse engineering

35. If limited user participation is available, which model is to be selected

1. Waterfall Model
2. Spiral Model
3. Iterative Model
4. Any of the above

36. What is the final outcome of the requirements analysis and specifications phase ?

1. The SRS Document
2. Coding the project
3. Drawing the data flow diagram
4. The User Manual

37. In which phase procedure development occurs?

1. Structured design phase
2. Conversion phase
3. System building phase
4. Maintenance

38. Which of the following is not an attribute of software engineering

1. Scalability
2. Dependability
3. Efficiency
4. Usability

39. Milestones are used to

1. know the cost of the project
2. know the status of the project
3. know the user expectations
4. All of the above

40. The spiral model of software development

1. Is more chaotic than the incremental model
2. Includes project risks evaluation during each iteration
3. Ends with the delivery of the software product
4. All of the above

41. Software Quality is

1. Conformance to requirements
2. Fitness for the purpose
3. Level of satisfaction
4. All of the above

42. The goal of reading SRS document by the software developer is to :

1. understand the features of the product
2. ensure that the software is developed as per customer needs
3. ensure requirements are understandable from a functionality point of view
4. none of these

43. Software testing techniques are most effective if applied immediately after

1. Requirement specification
2. Design
3. Coding
4. Integration

44. FAST stands for

1. Fast Application Specification Technique
2. Facilitated Application Specification Technique
3. Functional Application Specification Technique
4. None of the above

45. The black box concepts

1. Is invoked by describing a systems in terms of inputs andoutputs, easing the transformation process a black box
2. Assumes that black box is independent
3. Assumes that inputs and output will remain stable
4. None of the above

46. Which of the following is not included in the Software Requirements Specification(SRS) Document ?

1. Non-functional requirement
2. Goals of implementation
3. Functional Requirements
4. User manual

47. The largest percentage of total life cycle cost of software is

1. Design Cost
2. Maintenance Cost
3. Coding Cost
4. Testing Cost

48. In the spiral model risk analysis is performed

1. in the first and second loop
2. In every loop
3. In the first loop
4. before using spiral model

49. The objective of testing is

1. Debugging
2. To uncover errors
3. To gain Modularity
4. To analyze system

50. The ISO quality assurance standard that applies to software engineering is

1. ISO 9001
2. ISO 9002
3. ISO 9000
4. ISO 9003