STS Quiz No. 2

Technology as Technic is the most fundamental and technology as a total societal enterprise is the most general and encompassing.

• True

• False

In the most general sense, Science means “universal theoretical inquiry”.

• True

• False

It is an interface with technology that science has had its remarkable and dramatic effects in society, environment and the ecosystems.

• Scientific Revolution

• Industrial Revolution

• Science, Technolgy and Society

• Total Societal Enterprise

Is an international standard for the evaluation of software.

• ISO 9126

• ISO 4126

• ISO 9121

• ISO 9146

The following are software quality model that identifies main quality characteristics, except:

• Functionality

• Reliability

• Portability

• Effectivity

Software Quality that features of the developed software and enables a user to have a set of capabilities.

• Functionality

• Reliability

• Usability

• Efficiency

Software Quality that shows capability of the system to maintain its service provision under defined conditions for defined periods of time.

• Reliability

• Functionality

• Efficiency

• Security

Software Quality concerned with the system resources used when providing the required functionality. The amount of disk space, memory, network etc. provides a good indication of this characteristic.

• Efficiency

• Functionality

• Security

• Portability

The ability to identify and fix a fault within a software component is what the maintainability characteristic addresses.

• Maintainability

• Functionality

• Effectivity

• Security

This characteristic refers to how well the software can adopt to changes in its environment or with its requirements.

• Portability

• Maintainability

• Efficiency

• Adaptability