MCQ on Software Engineering

Question :(62) Which one is a quality attribute?

(a) Reliability
(b) Availability
(c) Security
(d) All of the above

Question :(63) IEEE standard for SRS is:

(a) IEEE Standard 837-1998
(b) IEEE Standard 830-1998
(c) IEEE Standard 832-1998
(d) IEEE Standard 839-1998

Question :(64) Which one is not a functional requirement?

(a) Efficiency
(b) Reliability
(c) Product features
(d) Stability

Question :(65) APIs stand for:

(a) Application performance interfaces
(b) Application programming interfaces
(c) Application programming integration
(d) Application performance integration

Question :(66) After the finalization of SRS, we may like to estimate

(a) Size
(b) Cost
(c) Development time
(d) All of the above.

Question :(67 )Which one is not a size measure for software

(a) LOC
(b) Function Count
(c) Cyclomatic Complexity
(d) Halstead’s program length

Question :(68) Function count method was developed by

(a) B.Beizer
(b) B.Boehm
(c) M.halstead
(d) Alan Albrecht

Question :(69) Function point analysis (FPA) method decomposes the system into functional units. The total numbers of functional units are

(a) 2
(b) 5
(c) 4
(d) 1

Question :(70) COCOMO was developed initially by

(a) B.W.Bohem
(b) Gregg Rothermal
(c) B.Beizer
(d) Rajiv Gupta

Question :(71) A COCOMO model is

(a) Common Cost estimation model
(b) Constructive cost Estimation model
(c) Complete cost estimation model
(d) Comprehensive Cost estimation model

Question :(72) Estimation of software development effort for organic software is COCOMO is

(a) E=2.4(KLOC)1.05PM
(b) E=3.4(KLOC)1.06PM
(c) E=2.0(KLOC)1.05PM
(d) E-2.4(KLOC)1.07PM

Question :(73) Estimation of size for a project is dependent on

(a) Cost
(b) Schedule
(c) Time
(d) None of the above

Question :(74) In function point analysis, number of Complexity adjustment factor is

(a) 10
(b) 20
(c) 14
(d) 12

Question :(75) COCOMO-II estimation model is based on

(a) Complex approach
(b) Algorithm approach
(c) Bottom up approach
(d) Top down approach

Question :(76) Cost estimation for a project may include

(a) Software Cost
(b) Hardware Cost
(c) Personnel Costs
(d) All of the above

Question :(77) In COCOMO model, if project size is typically 2-50 KLOC, then which mode is to be selected?

(a) Organic
(b) Semidetached
(c) Embedded
(d) None of the above

Question :(78) COCOMO-II was developed at

(a) University of Maryland
(b) University of Southern California
(c) IBM
(d) AT & T Bell labs

Question :(79) Which one is not a Category of COCOMO-II?

(a) End User Programming
(b) Infrastructure Sector
(c) Requirement Sector
(d) System Integration

Question :(80) Which one is not infrastructure software?

(a) Operating system
(b) Database management system
(c) Compilers
(d) Result management system

Question :(81) How many stages are in COCOMO-II?

(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 4
(d) 5

Question :(82) Which one is not a stage of COCOMO-II?

(a) Application Composition estimation model
(b) Early design estimation model
(c) Post architecture estimation model
(d) Comprehensive cost estimation model

Question :(83) The most desirable form of coupling is

(a) Control
(b) Data
(c) Common
(d) Content

Question :(84) The worst type of coupling is

(a) Content
(b) Common
(c) External
(d) Data coupling

Question :(85) The most desirable form of cohesion is

(a) Logical cohesion
(b) Procedural cohesion
(c) Functional cohesion
(d) Temporal cohesion

Question :(86) The worst type of cohesion is

(a) Temporal cohesion
(b) Coincidental cohesion
(c) Logical cohesion
(d) Sequential cohesion

Question :(87) Which one is not a strategy for design?

(a) Bottom up design
(b) Top down design
(c) Embedded design
(d) Hybrid design

Question :(88) Software testing is:

(a) The process of demonstrating that errors are not present
(b) The process of establishing confidence that a program does what it is supposed to do
(c) The process of executing a program to show it is working as per specifications
(d) The process of executing a program with the intent of finding errors

Question :(89) Software mistakes during coding are known as:

(a) failures
(b) defects
(c) bugs
(d) errors

Question :(90) Functional testing is known as:

(a) Structural testing
(b) Behavior testing
(c) Regression testing
(d) None of the above

Question :(91) Regression testing is primarily related to:

(a) Functional testing
(b) Data flow testing
(c) Development testing
(d) Maintenance testing

Question :(92 )The relationship of data elements in a module is called

(a) Coupling
(b) Cohesion
(c) Modularity
(d) None of the above

Question :(93) The extent to which different modules are dependent upon each other is called

(a) Coupling
(b) Cohesion
(c) Modularity
(d) Stability

Question :(95) Which one is not a phase of “bath tub curve” of hardware reliability

(a) Burn-in
(b) Useful life
(c) Wear-out
(d) Test-out

Question :(96) Software reliability is

(a) The probability of failure free operation of a program for a specified time in a specified environment
(b) The probability of failure of a program for a specified time in a specified environment
(c) The probability of success of a program for a specified time in any environment
(d) None of the above

Question :(97) Fault is

(a) Defect in the program
(b) Mistake in the program
(c) Error in the program
(d) All of the above

Question :(98) One fault may lead to

(a) one failure
(b) two failures
(c) many failures
(d) all of the above

Question :(99) Which ‘time’ unit is not used in reliability studies?

(a) Execution time
(b) Machine time
(c) Clock time
(d) Calendar time

Question :(100) Failure occurrences can be represented as

(a) time to failure
(b) time interval between failures
(c) failures experienced in a time interval
(d) All of the above

Question :(101)As the reliability increases, failure intensity

(a) decreases
(b) increases
(c) no effect
(d) None of the above

Question :(102) Maximum possible value of reliability is

(a) 100
(b) 10
(c) 1
(d) 0

Question :(103) Minimum possible value of reliability is

(a) 100
(b) 10
(c) 1
(d) 0

Question :(104) Software Quality is

(a) Conformance to requirements
(b) Fitness for the purpose
(c) Level of satisfaction
(d) All of the above

Question :(105)Defect rate is

(a) Number of defects per million lines of source code
(b) Number of defects per function point
(c) Number of defects per unit of size of software
(d) All of the above

Question :(106) How many product quality factors have been proposed in McCall quality model?

(a) 2
(b) 3
(c) 11
(d) 6

Question :(107) Which one is not a product quality factor of McCall quality model?

(a) Product revision
(b) Product operation
(c) Product specification
(d) Product transition

Question :(108) The second level of quality attributes in McCall quality model are termed as

(a) quality criteria
(b) quality factors
(c) quality guidelines
(d) quality specifications

Question :(109) Which one is not a level in Boehm software quality model?

(a) Primary uses
(b) Intermediate constructs
(c) Primitive constructs
(d) Final constructs

Question :(110) Which one is not a software quality model?

(a) McCall model
(b) Boehm model
(c) ISO 9000
(d) ISO 9126

Question :(111) Basic execution time model was developed by

(a) Bev.Littlewood
(b) J.D.Musa
(c) R.Pressman
(d) Victor Baisili

Question :(112) NHPP stands for

(a) Non Homogeneous Poisson Process
(b) Non Heterogeneous Poisson Process
(c) Non Homogeneous Poisson Product
(d) Non Heterogeneous Poisson Product

Question :(113 ) In Basic execution time model, failure intensity is given by

(a) λ(µ)=λ0(1-µ2 / V0)
(b) λ(µ)=λ0(1-µ / V0)
(c) λ(µ)=λ0(1-V0/ µ2)
(d) λ(µ)=λ0(1- V0/ µ)

Question :(114 ) In Basic execution time model, additional number of failures required to achieve a failure intensity objective is expressed as

(a) 0/λ0(λP – λF)
(b) ) 0/λ0(λF – λP)
(c) λ0 0(λF – λP)
(d) λ0/ 0 (λP – λF)

Question :(115 )In Logarithmic Poisson execution model, ‘θ’ is known as

(a) Failure intensity function parameter
(b) Failure intensity decay parameter
(c) Failure intensity measurement
(d) Failure intensity increment parameter

Question :(116) Failure intensity function of Logarithmic Poisson execution model is given as

(a) λ(µ)= λ0LN(-θµ)
(b) λ(µ)= λ0exp(θµ)
(b) λ(µ)= λ0exp(-θµ)
(c) λ(µ)= λ0log(-θµ

Question :(117 ) CMM level 1 has

(a) 6 KPAs
(b) 2 KPAs
(c) 0 KPAs
(d) None of the above

Question :(118) MTBF stands for

(a) Mean time between failure
(b) Maximum time between failures
(c) Minimum time between failures
(d) Many time between failures

Question :(119 )CMM model is a technique to

(a) Improve the software process
(b) Automatically develop the software
(c) Test the software
(d) All of the above

Question :(120) Total numbers of maturing levels in CMM are

(a) 1
(b) 3
(c) 5
(d) 7