SE Revision VII

________ is an “umbrella” activity that is applied throughout the software engineering process.

• Debugging

• Designing

• Testing

• Software quality assurance

The software _______ of a program or a computing system is the structure or structures of the system, which comprise software components, the externally visible properties of those components, and the relationships among them.

• Design

• Process

• Architecture

• Requirement

Which of these does not affect different types of software as a whole?

• Heterogeneity

• Business and social change

• Flexibility

• Security

If you were a lead developer of a software company and you are asked to submit a project/product within a stipulated time-frame with no cost barriers, which model would you select?

• Waterfall

• RAD

• Spiral

• Incremental

The factors that determine the quality of a software system are

• correctness, reliability

• efficiency, usability, maintainability

• testability, portability, accuracy, error tolerances, expandability, access control, audit

• All of the above

What is the major drawback of using RAD Model?

• Highly specialized & skilled developers/designers are required

• Increases reusability of components

• Encourages customer/client feedback

• Increases reusability of components, Highly specialized & skilled developers/designers are required

Program modularization and Source code translation are the activities of_____________.

• Forward engineering

• Reverse Engineering

• Reengineering

• Both b & c

“Consider a system where, a heat sensor detects an intrusion and alerts the security company.” What kind of a requirement the system is providing?

• Functional

• Non-Functional

• Known Requirement

• None of the mentioned

FAST stands for

• Functional Application Specification Technique

• Fast Application Specification Technique

• Facilitated Application Specification Technique

• None of the above

The context diagram is also known as

• Level-0 DFD

• Level-1 DFD

• Level-2 DFD

• None