Unit 1

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

a) Confidentiality
b) Intellectual property rights
c) Both Confidentiality & Intellectual property rights
d) Managing Client Relationships

Answer: c

2. “Software engineers should not use their technical skills to misuse other people’s
computers.” Here the term misuse refers to:
a) Unauthorized access to computer material
b) Unauthorized modification of computer material
c) Dissemination of viruses or other malware
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: d

3. Explain what is meant by PRODUCT with reference to one of the eight principles as per the
ACM/IEEE Code of Ethics ?
a) The product should be easy to use
b) Software engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications meet the
highest professional standards possible
c) Software engineers shall ensure that their products and related modifications satisfy the client
d) It means that the product designed /created should be easily available

Answer: b

4. Identify an ethical dilemma from the situations mentioned below:

a) Your employer releases a safety-critical system without finishing the testing of the system
b) Refusing to undertake a project
c) Agreement in principle with the policies of senior management
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: a

5. Identify the correct statement: “Software engineers shall

a) act in a manner that is in the best interests of his expertise and favour.”
b) act consistently with the public interest.”
c) ensure that their products only meet the SRS.”
d) all of the mentioned

Answer: b
6. Select the incorrect statement: “Software engineers should
a) not knowingly accept work that is outside your competence.”
b) not use your technical skills to misuse other people’s computers.”
c) be dependent on their colleagues.”
d) maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment.”

Answer: c

7. Efficiency in a software product does not include

a) responsiveness
b) licensing
c) memory utilization
d) processing time

Answer: b

8. 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 ?
a) Lack of adequate training in software engineering
b) Lack of software ethics and understanding
c) Management issues in the company
d) All of the mentioned

Answer: a

9. Which of the following property does not correspond to a good Software Requirements
Specification (SRS) ?
a) Verifiable
b) Ambiguous
c) Complete
d) Traceable

Answer: b
10. Which one of the following is a functional requirement ?
a) Maintainability
b) Portability
c) Robustness
d) Operations of the system

Answer: d

11. _________ requirements capture the intended behavior of the system.

a) Functional
b) Non-functional

c) Emergent

d) Quality

Answer: a

12. The SRS document is also known as specification.

a) black-box
b) white-box
c) grey-box
d) green-box

Answer: a

13. Requirements should specify but not ‘how’.

a) ‘what’
b) ‘how’
c) ‘why’
d) ‘which’

Answer: a

14. Requirements Analysis is an Process.

a) Iterative
b) Non-Iterative
c) Sequential
d) Unidirectional

Answer: a

15. SDLC stands for

a) Software Development Life Cycle
b) System Development Life cycle
c) Software Design Life Cycle
d) System Design Life Cycle

Answer: a

16. The spiral model was originally proposed by

a) IBM
b) Barry Boehm
c) Pressman
d) Royce
Answer: b

17. Compilers, Editors software come under which type of software?

a. System software
b. Application software
c. Scientific software
d. Business Software
Answer: a

18. Which of the following is not defined in a good Software Requirement Specification (SRS)
document?
a. Functional Requirement.
b. Nonfunctional Requirement.
c. Goals of implementation.
d. Algorithm for software implementation.
Answer: d

19. Requirement engineering process includes which of these steps?

a. Feasibility study
b. Requirement Gathering
c. Software Requirement specification & Validation
d. All choices are correct
Answer: d

20. If requirements are easily understandable and defined then which model is best suited?
a. Spiral model
b. Waterfall model
c. Prototyping model
d. Incremental
Answer: b

21. Software is defined as .

a. Instructions
b. Data Structures
c. Documents
d. All choices are correct
Answer: d

22. What is the meaning of requirement elicitation in software engineering?

a. Gathering of requirement.
b. Understanding of requirement.
c. Getting the requirements from client.
d. All choices are
correct
Answer: d

23. Which is not a step of Requirement Engineering?

a. Requirements elicitation
b. Requirements analysis
c. Requirements design
d. Requirements documentation
Answer: c
24. Find out which phase is not available in SDLC?
a. Coding
b. Testing
c. Maintenance
d. Abstraction
Answer: d

25. Which of the following is/are considered stakeholder in the software process?
a. Customers
b. End-users
c. Project managers
d. All choices are correct
Answer: d

26. The process together the software requirements from Client, Analyze and Document is
known as .
a. Requirement engineering process
b. Requirement elicitation process
c. User interface requirements
d. Software system analyst
Answer: a

27. For the best Software model suitable for the project, in which of the phase the developers
decide a roadmap for project plan?
a. Software Design
b. System Analysis
c. Coding
d. Testing
Answer: b

28. Which of these primary objectives have to be achieved for the requirement model?
a. To describe what the customer requires
b. To establish a basis for the creation of a software design
c. To define a set of requirements that can be validated
d. All choices are correct
Answer: d

29. Design phase is followed by .

a. Coding
b. Testing
c. Maintenance
d. Analysis
Answer: a

30. Project risk factor is considered in which model?

a. Spiral model.
b. Waterfall model.
c. Prototyping model
d. Incremental

Answer: a

31. Abbreviate the term SRS.

a. Software Requirement Specification
b. Software Refining Solution
c. Software Resource Source
d. Software Service

Answer: a

32. What are the major activities of the spiral model of software engineering?

(a) Planning, Risk Analysis, Engineering, Customer Evaluation

(b) Defining, Prototyping, Testing, Delivery
(c) Requirements
(d) Quick Design, Build Prototype, Evaluate Prototype, Refine Prototype

Answer: a
33. Symptoms of the software crisis would include

(a)Software delivered behind schedule

(b)Software exceeding cost estimate
(c)Unreliable
(d)All choices are correct

Answer: d

34. An SRS

a. establishes the basis for agreement between client and the supplier.
b. provides a reference for validation of the final product.
c. is a prerequisite to high quality software.
d. All choices are correct

Answer: d

35. Main aim of software engineering is to produce

a. program
b. software
c. within budget
d. software within budget in the given schedule
Answer: d

36. Reliability of software is directly dependent on

a. quality of the design
b. number of errors present
c. software engineers experience
d. user requirement
Answer: b

37. Working software is not available until late in the process in

a. Waterfall model
b. Prototyping model
c. Incremental model
d. Evolutionary Development model

Answer: a

38. The major shortcoming of waterfall model is

a. the difficulty in accommodating changes after requirement analysis.
b. the difficult in accommodating changes after feasibility analysis.
c. the system testing.
d. the maintenance of system.

Answer: a

39. Which of the following is not included in waterfall model ?

a. Requirement analysis
b. Risk analysis
c. Design
d. Coding

Answer: b

40. Software Engineering is an engineering discipline that is concerned with:

a. how computer systems work
b. theories and methods that underlie computers and software systems
c. all aspects of software production
d. all aspects of computer-based systems development, including hardware, software
and process engineering

Answer: c

41. Which process model is also called as classic life cycle model?
a. Waterfall model
b. RAD model
c. Prototyping model
d. Incremental model

Answer: a

42. Requirements prioritization and negotiation belongs to :

a. Requirements validation
b. Requirements elicitation
c. Feasibility study
d. Requirements reviews

Answer: b
43. Select the most appropriate statement about software engineering.
A). Has been around as a discipline since the early 50’s
B). Is a set of rules about developing software products
C). None of these choices
D). Is an engineering discipline concerned with all the aspects of software production

Answer: D

44. Who proposed the spiral model?

a) Barry Boehm

b) Pressman

c) Royce

d) IBM

Answer: a

45. Which of the following document contains the user system requirements?

a) SRD

b) DDD

c) SDD

d) SRS

Answer: d

46. Software engineering is intended to support _________ software development.

a) professional

b) individual programming

c) personal programming

d) unstructured

Answer: a

47. Good software should deliver the required _____ and ________ to the user and should be

maintainable, dependable, and usable.

a) non-functionality and performance

b) functionality and performance

c) unreliable and underperformance

d) functionality and non-availability

Answer: b

48.____________, where customers and engineers define the software that is to be produced and the
constraints on its operation.
a) Software development

b) Software validation

c) Software specification

d) Software evolution

Answer: c

49. The waterfall model is an example of a _________ process—in principle, yo must plan and

schedule all of the process activities before starting work on them.

a) incremental

b) non plan-driven

c) unstructured

d) plan-driven

Answer: d

50. By developing the software __________, it is cheaper and easier to make changes in the software

as it is being developed.

a) incrementally

b) non concurrently

c) structured

d) plan-driven

Answer: a

Unit II

1. Aggregation represents .
a. is_a relationship
b. part_of relationship
c. composed_of relationship
d. none of above

Answer: c

2. The feature of the object oriented paradigm which helps code reuse is .
a. Object
b. Class
c. Inheritance
d. Aggregation.

Answer: c

3. Which among these are the rules to be considered to form Class diagrams?
a) Class symbols must have at least a name compartment
b) Compartment can be in random order
c) Attributes and operations can be listed at any suitable place
d) Class symbols must not have at least a name compartment

Answer: a

4. Object diagram is used to show the design view of a system.

a. static
b. dynamic
c. logical
d. process

Answer: a

5. Which of the following diagram is used to model the vocabulary of a system?

a. Object Diagram
b. Activity Diagram
c. Class diagram
d. Interaction Diagram

Answer: c

6. The object-oriented development life cycle is which of the following?

a. Analysis, design, and implementation steps in the given order and using the steps no more than
one time.
b. Analysis, design, and implementation steps in any order and using the steps no more than one
time.
c. Analysis, design, and implementation steps in any order and using multiple iterations.
d. Analysis, design, and implementation steps in the given order and using multiple iterations.

Answer: d

7. Composition is a stronger form of which of the following?

a. Aggregation
b. Inheritance
c. Encapsulation
d. Gernalization

Answer: a

8. Sequence of messages is emphasized by diagram.

a. state chart
b. sequence
c. activity
d. collaboration

Answer: b

9. Which model in system modeling depicts the dynamic behavior of the system ?
a. Context Model
b. Behavioral Model
c. Data Model
d. Object Model

Answer: b

10. The UML supports event-based modeling using diagrams.

a. Deployment
b. Collaboration
c. State
d. Class

Answer: c

11. allows us to infer that different members of classes have some common
characteristics.
a. Realization
b. Aggregation
c. Generalization
d. dependency

Answer: c

12. & diagrams of UML represent Interaction modeling.

a. Use Case, Sequence
b. Class, Object
c. Activity, State Chart
d. Class, State

Answer: a

13. Actual programming of software code is done during the step in the SDLC.
a. Maintenance and Evaluation
b. Design
c. Analysis
d. Development

Answer: d

14. The context diagram is also known as

a. Level-0 DFD
b. Level-1 DFD
c. Level-2 DFD
d. Level-3 DFD

Answer: a
15. How is generalization implemented in Object Oriented programming languages?
a. Inheritance
b. Polymorphism
c. Encapsulation
d. Abstract Classes

Answer: a

16. In Design phase, which is the primary area of concern ?

a) Architecture
b) Data
c) Interface
d) All of the choices are correct
Answer: d

17. Which of the following describes ”Is-a-Relationship” ?

a) Aggregation
b) Inheritance
c) Dependency
d)Composition

Answer:b

18. The state diagram

a. depicts relationships between data objects
b. depicts functions that transform the data flow
c. indicates how data are transformed by the system
d. indicates system reactions to external events

Answer:d

19. Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, and Ivar Jacobson combined the best features of their
individual object-oriented analysis into a new method for object oriented design known as
?

A. HTML
B. XML
C. UML
D. SGML
Answer:C

20. What encapsulates both data and data manipulation functions ?

A. Object
B. Class
C. Super Class
D. Sub Class

Answer:A
21. Which of the following is a complementary approach to function-oriented approach ?
A. Object oriented analysis
B. Object oriented design
C. Structured approach
D. Both Object oriented analysis and design

Answer:D

22. Which of the following is delivered at the end of the Sprint?

a) A document containing test cases for the current sprint
b) An architectural design of the solution
c) An increment of done software
d) Wireframes designs for User Interface

Answer:c

23. Select the option that suits the Manifesto for Agile Software Development
a) Individuals and interactions
b) Working software
c) Customer collaboration
d) All of the mentioned choices are correct

Answer:d

24. Agile Software Development is based on

a) Incremental Development
b) Iterative Development
c) Linear Development
d) Both Incremental and Iterative Development

Answer:d
25. How many phases are there in Scrum ?
a) Two
b) Three
c) Four
d) Scrum is an agile method which means it does not have phases

Answer:b

26. According to Agile manifesto what carries more value?

A. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.
B. Individuals and interactions over people and technique.
C. Individuals and interactions over projects and tools.
D. Individuals and interactions over products and tools.

Answer: A

27. An Agile customer …

A. Must have a good understanding of Agile techniques
B. Will always receive worse systems than their non-Agile counterparts
C. Will typically get business value delivered early
D. Will need to work out at the gym regularly

Answer: C

28. The Agile approach to documentation is:

A. Do no documentation – it is a waste of time
B. Do plenty of documentation, to prove you have done a good job
C. Do the necessary documentation to support the use of the product
D. Do more documentation than usual, because Agile is risky

Answer: C

29. The working culture of an Agile team is …

A. Collective
B. Collaborative
C. Connective
D. Contemplative

Answer: B

30. An Agile approach values …

A. Process over people
B. People over process
C. Plans over process
D. Plans over people

Answer: B

31. Who is responsible for sprint meeting?

a) Product owner
b) Scrum team
c) Scrum master
d) Architect
Answer: c

32. Scrum is iterative. The iteration is called .........

A) sprite
B) IT1
C) sprint
D) sprinte

Answer: C

33. Select one of the following options that explains the meaning of daily stand-up in agile?

A) It is the meeting to ask future work schedule

B) A meeting where the team is asked the things done on the previous day and the plan for the
current day along with the problems they faced during these tasks
C) A stand-up lecture
D) no such meetings

Answer: B

34. User requirements are expressed as in Extreme Programming.

a) implementation tasks
b) functionalities
c) scenarios
d) algorithms

Answer: c

35. XP follows Test Development practice.

a) first
b) last
c) after
d) none of these choices

Answer: a

36. is a XP Practice?
a) Pair Programming
b) Individual Coding
c) Plan intensive
d) none of these choices

Answer: a

37. Agile model advocates which one of the following approaches?

a. In each increment, get something “quick and dirty” delivered and thereby save time
b. In each increment, get something simple released as quickly as possible
c. In each increment, get something of business-value delivered as quickly as possible,
consistent with the right level of quality
d. In each increment, get something delivered once it has been fully documented and the
documentation has been signed off as complete
Answer: c

38. Pair programming intends to take which one of the following best practices to the extreme?
a) Design
b) Incremental development
c) Code review
d) Simplicity

Answer: c

39. A user story is

a. A series of interactions by the user (Actor) with the system and the response of the system.
b. A narrative text(s) that describe an interaction of the user with the value of from the system.
c. A narrative text(s) that describe an interaction of the user and the system, focusing on the value
a user gains from the system.
d. Non descriptive

Answer: c

40) System Testing is a .

a. Black box testing

b. White box testing
c. Grey box testing
d. Both a and b

Answer: a

41) Verifying that whether individual software components are functioning correctly and identifying the
defects in them is objective of which level of testing?

a. Integration Testing
b. Acceptance Testing
c. Unit Testing
d. System Testing

Answer: c

42. Which of the following is non-functional testing?

a) Black box testing
b) Performance testing
c) Unit testing
d) None of the mentioned

Answer: b

43. Which traditional order in Software Testing is organized?

a. Integration Testing
b. System Testing
c. Unit Testing
d. Acceptance Testing

a) a, d, c, b
b) b, d, a, c
c) c, a, b, d
d) d, b, c, a

Answer: c

44. Verification and Validation is focused on respectively.

a. Product
b. Process and Product
c. Both
d. None

Answer: b

45. Equivalence Partitioning comes under which type of Testing?

a. White Box Testing

b. Green Box Testing
c. Grey Box Testing
d. black box testing

Answer: d

46._________ and_________ processes are concerned with checking that software being developed
meets its specification and delivers the functionality expected by the people paying for the software.

a) Verification and validation

b) Analysis and Design
c) code and design
d) analysis and code

Answer: a

47. In ___________ testing, where a separate testing team tests a complete version of the system before
it is released to users.
a) User
b) Release
c) Development
d) Unit

Answer: b

48. The_______ should show that, when used as expected, the component that you are testing does
what it is supposed to do.
a) software
b) hardware

c) Development

d) test cases

Answer: d

49._________ tests have to be designed to ensure that the system can process its intended load.
a) Performance
b) hardware

c) system

d) user

Answer: a

50.In _________ testing, where customers test a system to decide whether or not it is ready to be
accepted from the system developers and deployed in the customer environment.
a) unit
b) component

c) system

d) Acceptance

Answer: d