Software Engineering Quiz

What is the main purpose of software engineering?

• To produce hardware more cost-effectively

• To develop reliable and trustworthy software systems quickly and economically

• To minimize the number of programmers required

• To make software products more expensive

Which of the following is a key activity in the software development life cycle?

• Product marketing

• Resource scheduling

• Software validation

• Legal auditing

Which software development model is best suited for projects with clearly defined and stable requirements?

• Waterfall

• Agile

• Spiral

• Prototype

What does the V in V-Model stand for?

• Velocity

• Verification and Validation

• Version

• Visualization

Which model emphasizes risk analysis and is suitable for high-risk projects?

• Agile

• Prototype

• Spiral

• Waterfall

In Agile development, which value is preferred according to the Agile Manifesto?

• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

• Contract negotiation over customer collaboration

• Following a plan over responding to change

• Comprehensive documentation over working software

What architectural style promotes "high cohesion" and "loose coupling"?

• Monolithic

• Layered

• Any good modular architecture design

• Microservices only

Which architectural pattern uses a centralized data store accessed by multiple agents?

• MVC

• Pipes and Filters

• Repository

• Blackboard

Which quality attribute is not observable at runtime?

• Maintainability

• Performance

• Availability

• Usability

What is a key limitation of the Pipes and Filters architectural style?

• Cannot be reused

• Requires interactive GUI

• Overhead of data transformation

• No concurrency is possible