CS605 Final Term MCQs

CS605- Software Engineering II · Solved MCQS · From Final term Papers · July 10,2013 · PSMD01 · FINALTERM EXAMINATION · Spring 2011 · CS605- Software Engineering II (Session - 1)

A law affirming that to continue after a certain level of performance has been reached will result in a decline in effectiveness. This law is know as __________________

1. Law of effectiveness
2. Law of Saturation
3. Law of Marketing returns

__________ is not the construction part of software development activities.

1. Requirement gathering
2. Testing
3. Configuration Management (Page 8)
4. Coding

Correct answer: Configuration Management (Page 8)

Basic project management process are established at _________ level of CMM

1. Chaotic
2. Initial
3. Level 1
4. Repeatable (Page 12)

Correct answer: Repeatable (Page 12)

The projects usually don’t fail due to

1. ambiguous/incomplete requirements
2. changing customer requirements
3. the fact that company was not CMM certified (Page 28 - 29)
4. failure in project management

Correct answer: the fact that company was not CMM certified (Page 28 - 29)

___________________is a team organization where there is no permanent leader and task coordinators are appointed for short duration. Decisions on problems and approach are made by group consensus and communication among team is horizontal.

1. Democratic decentralized (DD) (Page 32)
2. Controlled decentralized (CD)
3. Synchronous paradigm (SP)
4. Controlled centralized (CC)

Correct answer: Democratic decentralized (DD) (Page 32)

Which of these is not a valid reason for measuring software processes, products, and resources?

1. to improve them
2. to characterize them
3. to evaluate them

Integrity can be measured by the following formula

1. integrity= (1-threat) x (1-security)
2. integrity= ∑ (1+threat) + (1-security)
3. integrity= ∑[(1-threat) x (1-security)] (Page 69)
4. integrity= ∑ (1-threat) - (1-security)

Correct answer: integrity= ∑[(1-threat) x (1-security)] (Page 69)

The rapid application development model is

1. Another name for component-based development.
2. A useful approach when a customer cannot define requirements clearly
3. A high speed adaptation of the linear sequential model. (Page 19)
4. All of the given

Correct answer: A high speed adaptation of the linear sequential model. (Page 19)

An _______________is a user identifiable group of logically related data or control information maintained within the boundary of the application

1. Internal logical file (ILF) (Page 42)
2. External Interface file (EIF)
3. External input
4. External Query

Correct answer: Internal logical file (ILF) (Page 42)

When more than one user interpret the same requirement in different ways then we can say that the requirements are

Incomplete

Incorrect

Testing and Software Quality Assurance activities are exactly similar activities with different names

True

If an error related to requirements is identified in testing phase, so this error will be considered as an error in ___________ phase.

1. Design
2. Code
3. Requirement
4. Testing

Correct answer: Testing

Usually the performance of the organization change over-night.

1. True