1) What is Software ?

a. Set of computer programs, procedures and possibly associated document concerned with the
operation of data processing.
b. A set of compiler instructions
c. A mathematical formula
d. None of above
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Answer = A
Explanation: Computer software or just software, is a collection of computer programs and related
data that provides the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.
2) Which of the following is not the characteristic of software ?

a. Software does not wear out

b. Software is flexible
c. Software is not manufactured
d. Software is always correct
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Answer = D
Explanation:A Software is not correct until it meets all the userrequirements.
3) Which of the following is not a product matrix ?

a. Size
b. Reliability
c. Productivity
d. Functionality
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Answer = C
Explanation: Software metric are used to quantitatively characterize the different aspects of
software process or software product. Product metrics are the measures for the
software product.
4)Which of the following is not a process metric ?

a. Productivity
b. Functionality
c. Quality
d. Efficiency
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Answer = B
Explanation: Software metric are used to quantitatively characterize the different aspects of
software process or software product.Process metrics qualify the attributes of software
development and environment.
5) Efforts is measured in terms of ?

a. Person - Months
b. Persons
c. Rupees
d. Months
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Answer = A
Explanation:Most appropriate unit of Effort is Person-Months , meaning thereby number of
persons involved for specified months

6) Management of software development is dependent upon ?

a. People
b. Product
c. Process
d. All of above
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Answer = D
Explanation:The management of software development is dependent upon four factors :
People, Product, Process and Project.
7) During software development which factor is most crucial ?

a. People
b. Process
c. Product
d. Project
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Answer = A
Explanation:Software development requires good managers. The manager who can
understand the requirements of people. Hence , people are the crucial and criticle during
software development.
8) Milestones are used to ?

a. Know the cost of the project

b. Know the status of the project
c. Know the user expectations
d. None of the above
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Answer =A
Explanation:Milestones are used to measure the process or status of the project
9) The term module in the design phase refers to ?

a. Functions
b. Procedures
c. Sub programs
d. All of the above
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 Answer =D
Explanation: All the terms have the same meaning.

10) Software engineering aims at developing ?

a. Reliable Software
b. Cost Effective Software
c. Reliable and cost effective Software
d. None Of Above
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Answer = C
Explanation:Software engineering is the process that aims at developing the software's that
are Reliable and cost effective as well.

11) A good specification should be ?

a. Unambiguous
b. Distinctly Specific
c. Functional
d. All of Above
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Answer = D
Explanation:A good specification should have all the qualities such as unambiguos, distinctly
specific and functional.

12) Which of the following is a tool in design phase ?

a. Abstraction
b. Refinement
c. Information Hiding
d. All of Above
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Answer = D
13) Information hiding is to hide from user, details?

a. that are relevant to him

b. that are not relevant to him
c. that may be maliciously handled by him
d. that are confidential
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Answer = C
Explanation:Information hiding is just the process of making inaccessible certain details that
have no effect on the other parts of the program.

14) Which of the following comments about object oriented design of software, is not true ?
a. Objects inherit the properties of class
b. Classes are defined based on the attributes of objects
c. an object can belong to two classes
d. classes are always different
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Answer = C
Explanation:An object can not belong to two classes.

5) SDLC stands for ?

a. Software design life cycle

b. Software development life cycle
c. System design life cycle
d. System development life cycle
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Answer = B
Explanation:Full form of SDLC is software development life cycle.

1) White box testing, a software testing technique is sometimes called ?

a. Basic path
b. Graph Testing
c. Dataflow
d. Glass box testing
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Answer = D
Explanation: White box testing also named as clear box testing, transparent testing, glass box
testing and structural testing. It is a method in which the internal structure of application is
tested.

2) Black box testing sometimes called ?

a. Data Flow testing

b. Loop Testing
c. Behavioral Testing
d. Graph Based Testing
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Answer = C
Explanation: Black box testing is a method that tests for the functionality of an application.

3) Which of the following is a type of testing ?

a. Recovery Testing
b. Security Testing
c. Stress Testing
d. All of above
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Answer = D
Explanation: Recovery testing is a method for testing how well a software can recover from
crashes. Security testing ensures that the software protects the data and performs its all
functions. Stress testing determines the robustness of software.
4) The objective of testing is ?

a. Debugging
b. To uncover errors
c. To gain modularity
d. To analyze system
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Answer = B
Explanation: The main objecting of testing is to make the software error free.

5) ...... is a black box testing method ?

a. Boundary value analysis

b. Basic path testing
c. Code path analysis
d. None of above
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Answer = A
Explanation:In boundary value analysis, we choose an input from test cases from an
equivalence class such that the input lies on the edge of equivalence class.

6) Structured programming codes includes

a. sequencing
b. alteration
c. iteration
d. multiple exit from loops
e. only A, B and C
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Answer = E
Explanation:These three constructs are sufficient to program any algorithm. Moreover, as far
as possible single entry single exit control constructs are used.
7) An important aspect of coding is ?

a. Readability
b. Productivity
c. To use as small memory space as possible
d. brevity
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 Answer = A
Explanation:Readability and understandability as a clear objective of coding activity can itself
help in producing software that is more maintainable.

8) Data structure suitable for the application is discussed in ?

a. data design
b. architectural design
c. procedural design
d. interface design
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Answer = A
Explanation: Data design is the first and most important design activity, where the main issue
is to select the appropriate data structure.

9) In object oriented design of software , objects have ?

a. attributes and names only

b. operations and names only
c. attributes, name and operations
d. None of above
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Answer = C
Explanation: The objects contains attributes, names and operations as well.

1. A system is defined as:

a. A set of things related to form unity or organic whole
b. A set of facts, principles, rules arranged in orderly form
c. both a & b
3. System engineering is _____________process
a. business
b. real-time
c. modeling
5. The goal of ____________engineering is to translate customers desire into working product.
a. requirement
b. system
c. product
6. The mechanism of understanding what customer wants, analyzing needs, assessing feasibility
are provided by
a. analyzing process
b. requirement engineering
c. system modeling
7. data, application architectures as well as technology infrastructure are defined by
a. system engineering
b. product engineering
c. business process engineering
8. A high technology system surrounds number of elements that are
a. software and hardware
b. people
c. both a and b
9. The ____________ makes bridge between System engineering and software design.
a. Software requirement analysis
b. system modeling
c. product engineering
10. Product engineering is a system engineering approach that begins with
a. system analysis
b. system specification
c. information strategy planning

MCQ: Software Engineering

Software is
A. Superset of programs
B. Subset of programs
C. Set of programs
D. None
Answer: A

Which is NOT the part of operating procedure Manuals?

A. User Manuals
B. Documentation Manuals
C. Operational Manual
D. Installation Manual
Answer: B

Product is
A. Deliverables
B. User Expectations
C. Organizations effort in development
D. None
Answer: A

To produce a good quality product, process should be

A. Complex
B. Efficient
C. Rigorous
D. None
Answer: B

During s/w development which factor is most crucial?

A. People
B. Product
C. Process
D. All of the above
Answer: A

UML Stands for

A. Uniform modeling language
B. Unit Modeling Language
C. Unified modeling language
D. Universal Modeling Language
Answer: C

Software Consists of
A. set of instructions + operating system
B. Programs + documentation + operating procedure
C. Programs + hardware
D. Set of programs
Answer: B

Software Engineering approach is used to achieve

A. Better performance of h/w
B. Error free s/w
C. Reusable software
D. Quality software product
Answer: D
Statistically, the maximum percentage of errors belong to the following phase of SDLC
A.Coding
B.Design
C.Specifications
D.Installation and maintenance
Answer:C

Which phase is not available in s/w life cycle?

A.Coding
B.Design
C.Specifications
D.Installation & Maintenance
Answer: D

Regression testing is primarily related to

A.functional testing
B.data flow testing
C.Development testing
D.Maintenance Testing
Answer:D

The maintained initiated by defects in the s/w is called

A.Corrective maintenance
B.Effective maintenance
C.Adaptive Maintenance
D.Perfective maintenance
Answer: A

A data model consists of the following information?

A.Data Object
B.The attributes that describe data object
C.Relationship that connect data object to one another
D.All of the above
Answer: D

What is the modality of relationship, if there is no explicit need for relationship to occur?
A.One
B.Two
C.Three
D.four
Answer: A

The object relationship pair of data model is represented graphically by using

A. Data flow diagram
B. Flow chart
C. Entity relationship diagram
D. All of the above
Answer: C

The primary aim of the s/w engg. Is to provide

A.Reliable s/w
B.According to requirement a complete s/w
C.Cost- effective s/w
D.All of the above
Answer: D

A good requirement specification should be,

A.Unambiguous
B.Distinctly specific
C.Functional
D.None
Answer: A

Related to object oriented design of s/w, which of the following is not true
A.Object inherit the properties of a class
B.Classes are defined based on attributes of objects
C.An object can belongs to two classes
D.None
Answer:C

Design phase include

A.Data architectural and procedural design only
B.Architectural, procedural, and interface design only
C.Data, Architectural, and interface design only
D.Data, architectural, interface and procedural design only
Answer: D

In s/w engineering approach the design phase is,

A.Top down
B.Bottom up
C.Random
D.Centre fringing
Answer: A

Following are the categories of the automated system

A.Online system
B.Real time system
C.Decision support system
D.None

The main difference between program testing and system testing is,
A.Program testing is more comprehensive that system testing
B.System testing focuses on testing the interface between program and program testing focuses on
individual programs.
C. System testing is tough and program testing is easy.
D.None
Answer: B

The largest percentage of total life cycle cost of s/w is

A. Design cost
B. Maintenance cost
C. Coding cost
D. Testing cost
Answer: A

Increase in profits caused by a new system. Select the best fit for this answer
A. Cost/benefit analysis
B. Costs
C. Regrets
D. Benefits
Answer:A

Detetmines the organisations economic, technical and opertional feaibility of a proposed infornatub
system. Select the best fit for this answer
A. Benefits
B. System development life cycle
C. System investigation
D. Feasibility study
Answer: D

Which of the followin is not considered a tool at system design phase?

A. Data flow diagram
B. Decision table
C. Pie charts
D. System flow chart
Answer: A

Coding & testing is done in following manner.

A. Adhoc
B. Cross sectional
C. Bottom up
D. Top-down
Answer: B

Checking quality of s/w in both simulated and live environments is known as,
A. Checking
B. Usability
C. Validity
D. Validation
Answer: B

The most creative and challenging phase of system life cycle is,
A. Feasibility study
B. Maintenance
C. Design
D. None
Answer: C

Which of the following is not a component of object oriented s/w engineering?

A. Process
B. Method
C. Architecture
D. None
Answer: C

The largest percentage of total life cycle cost of s/w is

A. Design cost
B. Maintenance cost
C. Coding cost
D. Testing cost
Answer: A

With through testing it is possible to remove all defects from a program prior to delivery to the
customer.
A. True
B. False
ANSWER: B

Which of the following are characteristics of testable software ?

A. observability
B. simplicity
C. stability
D. all of the above
ANSWER: D

The testing technique that requires devising test cases to demonstrate that each program function is
operational is called
A. black-box testing
B. glass-box testing
C. grey-box testing
D. white-box testing
ANSWER: A

The testing technique that requires devising test cases to exercise the internal logic of a software
module is called
A. behavioral testing
B. black-box testing
C. grey-box testing
D. white-box testing
ANSWER: D

What types of errors are missed by black-box testing and can be uncovered by white-box testing ?
A. behavioral errors
B. logic errors
C. typographical errors
D. BOTH B AND C
ANSWER: D

Program flow graphs are identical to program flowcharts.

A. True
B. False
ANSWER: B

Black-box testing attempts to find errors in which of the following categories

A. incorrect or missing functions
B. interface errors
C. performance errors
D. all of the above
ANSWER: D

Test case design "in the small" for OO software is driven by the algorithmic detail of the individual
operations.
A. True
B. False
ANSWER: A

Encapsulation of attributes and operations inside objects makes it easy to obtain object state
information during testing.
A. True
B. False
ANSWER: B

Use-cases can provide useful input into the design of black-box and state-based tests of OO software.
A. True
B. False
ANSWER: A

Testing OO class operations is made more difficult by

A. encapsulation
B. inheritance
C. polymorphism
D. both b and c
ANSWER: D

Scenario-based testing
A. concentrates on actor and software interaction
B. misses errors in specifications
C. misses errors in subsystem interactions
D. both a and b
ANSWER: A

Random order tests are conducted to exercise different class instance life histories.
A. True
B. False
ANSWER: A

Which of these techniques is not useful for partition testing at the class level
A. attribute-based partitioning
B. category-based partitioning
C. equivalence class partitioning
D. state-based partitioning
ANSWER: C

Tests derived from behavioral class models should be based on the

A. data flowdiagram
B. object-relation diagram
C. state diagram
D. use-case diagram
ANSWER: C

Real-time applications add a new and potentially difficult element to the testing mix
A. performance
B. reliability
C. security
D. time
ANSWER: D

Management is not responsible for an organization internal control system

A. True
B. False
ANSWER: B

Who is ultimate responsible for the internal control system

A. CEO
B. Project Manager
C. Technical Manager
D. Developer
ANSWER: A

The sole purpose of the Risk Control is to avoid risk

A. True
B. False
ANSWER: B

Management controls involves limiting access to computer resources

A. True
B. False
ANSWER: A

Software developed by contractors who are not part of the organization is referred to as in sourcing
organizations
A. True
B. False
ANSWER: B

Which one is not tester responsibilities ?

A. Assure the process for contracting software is adequate
B. Review the adequacy of the contractors test plan
C. Perform acceptance testing on the software
D. Assure the ongoing operation and maintenance of the contracted software
ANSWER: A

The software tester may or may not be involved in the actual acceptance testing
A. True
B. False
ANSWER: A

Software Acceptance testing is the last opportunity for the user to examine the software for
functional, interface, performance, and quality features prior to the final acceptance review.
A. True
B. False
ANSWER: A

_________ categories of data will be collected during testing.

A. Two
B. Three
C. Four
D. Five
ANSWER: C

Which one is called as most common test report ?

A. Test Summary Report
B. Check List
C. Spreadsheet
D. Cause-Effect Graphing
ANSWER: C

Verification that the process deliverables/ phases are meeting the users true needs is called as
A. Inspections
B. Reviews
C. Acceptance testing
D. Acceptance criteria
ANSWER: B

The test reports are for use by the testers, the test manager, and the software development team.
A. True
B. False
ANSWER: A

_________ is a risk-oriented activity in which resources should be expended to minimize the

major risks.
A. Testing
B. Development
C. Quality Control
D. Quality Assurance
ANSWER: A

_______________ measure the characteristics of the documentation and code.

A. Process metric
B. Product metric
C. Software quality metric
D. Software metric
ANSWER: B