Final Term Solved Paper Of CS504- Software Engineering - I

FINALTERM  EXAMINATION

Spring 2010

CS504- Software Engineering - I

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Question No: 1    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

 Quantitative methods for assessing the quality of proposed architectural designs

are readily available.

       ► True

       ► False   

Question No: 2    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

 A decision table should be used_______________________

       ► to document all conditional statements

       ► to guide the development of the project management plan

       ► only when building an expert system

       ► when a complex set of conditions and actions appears in a component   

Question No: 3    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

  Test cases should be designed long before testing begins.

       ► True

       ► False

Question No: 4    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

 Which of the following are characteristics of testable software?

       ► observability

       ► simplicity

       ► stability

       ► all of the given  

Question No: 5    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

 Comparison testing is typically done to test two competing products as part of

customer market analysis prior to product release.

       ► True

       ► False   

Question No: 6    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

 By collecting software metrics and making use of existing software reliability

models it is possible to develop meaningful guidelines for determining when software testing is done.

       ► True

       ►  False   

Question No: 7    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

 Configuration reviews are not needed if regression testing has been rigorously applied during software integration.

       ► True

       ► False   

Question No: 8    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

 A change becomes ------------- because of close presence of data and fucntions

       ► Localized

       ► Private

       ► Global

       ► Accessible

   

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Question No: 9    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

 Requirement engineering mainly deals with the -------------- of the system

       ►  definition phase

       ► development phase

       ► maintenance

       ► non of the above  

Question No: 10    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

 40-60% of all defects found in software projects can be traced back to poor -----------

       ► Requirements

       ► Design

       ► Coding

       ► Testing

   

Question No: 11    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

 In the N-Tire Architecture  the idea is to enhance scalability and -------------- by distributing both the data and the application using multiple server machines.

       ► Performance

       ► Efficiency

       ► Usability

       ► non of the all

   

Question No: 12    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

 MVC pattern was based on the --------------- pattern.

       ► Observer

       ► Structural

       ► Behavioral

       ► Non of them

   

Question No: 13    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

 Classes should be declared in individual header files with the file name matching the

---------- name.

       ► class

       ► method

       ► object

       ► non of the all

   

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Question No: 14    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

 Unit testing is roughly equivalent to ----------  testing for hardware in which each chip is tested

thoroughly after manufacturing

       ► Circuit level

       ► Chip Level

       ► component level

       ► system level

   

Question No: 15    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

 Software should be tested more like hardware, with  Built-in self testing: such that each unit can be tested -------------

       ► freely

       ► independently

       ► dependtly

       ► completely

   

Question No: 16    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

 A system -------------  is the period in which tremendous pressure is on developers end to fix the problem and make the system running again

       ► Uptime

       ► Downtime

       ► Currentime

       ► futuretimr

   

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Question No: 17    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

 Which one of the given below is not a symptom of memory overrun?

       ► Program crashes quite regularly after a given routine is called, that routine should be examined for a possible overrun condition.

       ► If the routine in question does not appear to have any such problem the most likely cause is that another routine, called in the prior sequence, has already

trashed variables or memory blocks.

       ► Checking the trace log of the called routines leading up to one with the problem will often show up the error.

       ► Compiler warnings.

   

Question No: 18    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

 Software architecture elements are further divided into categories which in total are -----------

       ► 2

       ► 3

       ► 4

       ► 5

   

Question No: 19    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

 Three tier architecture contains ------------- layers

       ► Presentation

       ► Application

       ► Database

       ► All of the above

   

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Question No: 20    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

 1. Variables should be initialized where they are declared and they should be declared in

the -------------- scope possible.

       ► Smallest

       ► largest

       ► medium

       ► None of the given

   

Question No: 21    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

 ------------------ are two important tools that can help in managing and mastering the complexity of a program.

       ► abstraction and encapsulation

       ► abstraction and Inheritence

       ► abstraction and Polymarhphism

       ► None of given

   

Question No: 22    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

 Which of the following is a/are tool used in requirement analysis?

       ► Flow Graphs

       ► Data Flow Diagrams

       ► Activity Networks

       ► Module Dependency Diagrams

   

Question No: 23    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

 Consider the following comment. “The software which I bought won’t run on windows and when it runs I can’t use WORD at the same time”. Which of the following do you think are violated by the newly bought software?

       ► dependability, interchangeability

       ► platform independence, interoperability

       ► reliability, dependency

       ► interoperability, reliability

   

Question No: 24    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

 ……………… is a diagramming technique used to identify the types of objects in the system and the static relationships that exist among them.

       ► Class Diagram

       ► Document flow diagrams

       ► Data flow diagrams

       ► Flow charts

   

Question No: 25    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

 Which of the following interaction style best suit the design of an interface for visually impaired users?

       ► direct manipulation

       ► direct manipulation

       ► natural language

       ► command line

   

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Question No: 26    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one

 Which of the following testing involve purely black box testing?

       ► unit testing, beta testing

       ► acceptance testing, interface testing

       ► beta testing, acceptance testing

       ► integration testing, interface testing

   

Question No: 27    ( Marks: 2 )

  what does this mean” Object Creation and Life Time”?

   

Question No: 28    ( Marks: 2 )

 How one can avoid hazards caused by side effects while writing code. List the two guidelines.

   

Question No: 29    ( Marks: 2 )

  What is the greatest advantage of exception handling?

   

Question No: 30    ( Marks: 2 )

 Give 2 Unit Testing Tips.

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Question No: 31    ( Marks: 3 )

  Write unit testing quantitative benefits.

    Question No: 32    ( Marks: 3 )

 How Comments should be indented relative to their position in the code? Give an example

   

Question No: 33    ( Marks: 3 )

 Consider the following code fragment.

while a

{

while b

c

d

}

If you were to test this code, what would be the test technique to adopt?

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Question No: 34    ( Marks: 5 )

  Narrate the manner for the organization of Class and Interface declarations

   

Question No: 35    ( Marks: 5 )

 Discus the symptoms and an example of coding error bug class.

   

Question No: 36    ( Marks: 5 )

 Why Code portability is so important ? Give out 3 ways / Guide lines  to improve the code portability with examples

(5+5)

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