1.

The two dimensions of spiral model are

a) diagonal, angular

b) radial, perpendicular

c) radial, angular

d) diagonal, perpendicula

2. The Incremental Model is combination of elements of

a) Build & FIX Model & Waterfall Model

b) Linear Model & RAD Model

c) Linear Model & Prototyping Model

d) Waterfall Model & RAD Model

3. Model preferred to create client/server applications is

a) WINWIN Spiral Model

b) Spiral Model

c) Concurrent Model

d) Incremental Model

4. Identify the correct statement with respect to Evolutionary development:

a) Evolutionary development usually has two flavors; exploratory development, and throw-away
prototyping

b) Very large projects are usually done using evolutionary development based approach

c) It facilitates easy project management, through the high volume of documentation it generates

d) Sometimes the construction of a throw-away prototype is not followed by a re- implementation of the
software system using a more structured approach

5. Spiral model was developed by

a) Victor Bisili

b) Berry Boehm
c) Bev Littlewood

d) Roger Pressma

6. Software evolution does not comprises:

a) Development activities

b) Negotiating with client

c) Maintenance activities

d) Re-engineering activities

7. Processes for evolving a software product depend on:

a) Type of software to be maintained

b) Development processes used

c) Skills and experience of the people involved

d) All of the mentioned

8. Which technique is applied to ensure the continued evolution of legacy systems ?

a) Forward engineering

b) Reverse Engineering

c) Reengineering

d) Reverse Engineering and Reengineering

9. Program modularization and Source code translation are the activities of_____________

a) Forward engineering

b) Reverse Engineering

c) Reengineering

d) Reverse Engineering and Reengineering

10. Reverse engineering is the last activity in a reengineering project.

a) True

b) False
11. The cost of re-engineering is often significantly less than the costs of developing new software.

a) True

b) False

12. Software is defined as ___________

a) set of programs, documentation & configuration of data

b) set of programs

c) documentation and configuration of data

d) None of the mentioned

2. What is Software Engineering?

a) Designing a software

b) Testing a software

c) Application of engineering principles to the design a software

d) None of the above

3. Who is the father of Software Engineering?

a) Margaret Hamilton

b) Watts S. Humphrey

c) Alan Turing

d) Boris Beizer

4. What are the features of Software Code?

a) Simplicity

b) Accessibility

c) Modularity

d) All of the above

5. ____________ is a software development activity that is not a part of software processes.

a) Validation
b) Specification

c) Development

d) Dependence

6. Define Agile scrum methodology.

a) project management that emphasizes incremental progress

b) project management that emphasizes decremental progress

c) project management that emphasizes neutral progress

d) project management that emphasizes no progress

7. CASE stands for

a) Computer-Aided Software Engineering

b) Control Aided Science and Engineering

c) Cost Aided System Experiments

d) None of the mentioned

8. ________ is defined as the process of generating analysis and designing documents?

a) Re-engineering

b) Reverse engineering

c) Software re-engineering

d) Science and engineering

9. The activity that distributes estimated effort across the planned project duration by allocating the
effort to specific software developing tasks is ____________

a) Project scheduling

b) Detailed schedule

c) Macroscopic schedule

d) None of the mentioned

10. What is a Functional Requirement?

a) specifies the tasks the program must complete

c) specifies the tasks the program must not work

d) All of the mentioned

11. Why do bugs and failures occur in software?

a) Because of Developers

b) Because of companies

c) Because of both companies and Developers

d) None of the mentioned

12. Attributes of good software is ____________

a) Development

b) Maintainability & functionality

c) Functionality

d) Maintainability

13. The Cleanroom philosophy was proposed by _________

a) Linger

b) Mills

c) Dyer

d) All of the Mentioned

14. What does SDLC stands for?

a) System Design Life Cycle

b) Software Design Life Cycle

c) Software Development Life Cycle

d) System Development Life cycle

15. Who proposed the spiral model?

a) Barry Boehm
b) Pressman

c) Royce

d) IBM

16. ______________ is not among the eight principles followed by the Software Code of Ethics and
Professional Practice.

a) PRODUCT

b) ENVIRONMENT

c) PUBLIC

d) PROFESSION

17. Which of the following are CASE tools?

a) Central Repository

b) Integrated Case Tools

c) Upper Case Tools

d) All of the mentioned

18. __________________ suits the Manifesto for Agile Software Development.

a) Customer collaboration

b) Individuals and interactions

c) Working software

d) All of the mentioned

19. Software patch is defined as ______________

a) Daily or routine Fix

b) Required or Critical Fix

c) Emergency Fix

d) None of the mentioned

20. __________ software development team has no permanent leader.

a) Controlled Centralized (CC)

c) Democratic decentralized (DD)

d) None of the mentioned

21. Regardless of application area, project size, or complexity, software development work may be
divided into three generic phases: the__________ phase, which focuses on what, the_________ phase,
which focuses on how, and the_________ phase, which focuses on change.

i. support

ii. development

iii. definition

a) iii, ii, i

b) iii, i, ii

c) i, ii, iii

d) ii, i, iii

22. _________ is not a fundamental activity for software processes in software development.

a) Evolution

b) Design and implementation

c) Validation

d) Verification

23. What are agile manifesto principles?

a) Customer satisfaction

b) Face-to-face communication within a development team

c) Changes in requirements are welcome

d) All of the mentioned

24. Faster delivery is possible with CBSE.

a) False

b) True
25. Who proposed Function Points?

a) Albrecht

b) Jacobson

c) Boehm

d) Booch

26. _________ is a software development life cycle model that is chosen if the development team has
less experience on similar projects.

a) Iterative Enhancement Model

b) RAD

c) Spiral

d) Waterfall

27. Agile Software Development is based on which of the following type?

a) Iterative Development

b) Incremental Development

c) Both Incremental and Iterative Development

d) Linear Development

28. _______________________ is a software developing team has a defined leader who coordinates
specific tasks and secondary leaders that have responsibility for sub tasks.

a) Democratic decentralized (DD)

b) Controlled centralized (CC)

c) Controlled decentralized (CD)

d) None of the mentioned

29. 4GT Model is a set of __________________

a) Programs

b) CASE Tools

c) Software tools
d) None of the mentioned

30. Engineers developing software should not

a) be dependent on their colleagues

b) maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment

c) not knowingly accept work that is outside your competence

d) not use your technical skills to misuse other people’s computers

31. __________ is not suitable for accommodating any change?

a) RAD Model

b) Waterfall Model

c) Build & Fix Model

d) Prototyping Model

32. The model which has a major disadvantage in terms of the coding phase of a software life cycle
model is ________

a) Rad Model

b) Spiral Model

c) 4GT Model

d) Waterfall Model

33. Adaptive Software Development(ASD) has which of the following three framework activities?

a) speculation, collaboration, learning

b) analysis, design, coding

c) requirements gathering, adaptive cycle planning, iterative development

d) all of the mentioned

34. Which of the following is not a project factor that should be considered when planning the structure
of software developing teams?

a) The rigidity of the delivery date

b) The degree of sociability required for the project

d) The difficulty of the problem to be solved

35. What is the full form of the “COCOMO” model?

a) Cost Constructive Estimation Model

b) Constructive Cost Estimation Model

c) Constructive Case Estimation Model

d) Constructive Cost Estimating Mode

36. Which one of the following is not a software process quality?

a) Visibility

b) Timeliness

c) Productivity

d) Portability

37. Cleanroom software development process complies with the operational analysis principles by using
a method called known as

a) referential transparency

b) degenerative error correction

c) box structure specification

d) none of the mentioned

38. What is system software?

a) computer program

b) Testing

c) AI

d) IOT

39. Quality Management is known as _______

a) SQI
b) SQA

c) SQM

d) SQA and SQM

40. ___________ is the definition of objects in the database that leads directly to a standard approach
for the creation of software documentation.

a) Data/data integration

b) Information sharing

c) Document standardization

d) Data integrity

41. ______________ is an indirect measure of software development process.

a) Cost

b) Effort Applied

c) Efficiency

d) All of the mentioned

42. According to an IBM research, “31% of projects are abandoned before they are completed, 53%
exceed their cost projections by an average of 189 percent, and 94 projects are restarted for every 100
projects.” What is the significance of these figures?

a) Lack of software ethics and understanding

b) Management issues in the company

c) Lack of adequate training

d) All of the mentioned

43. Which of the following document contains the user system requirements?

a) SRD

b) DDD

c) SDD

d) SRS

44. _____________ specification is also known as SRS document.

b) grey-box

c) black-box

d) none of the mentioned

45. Which of the following is not a part of Software evolution?

a) Re-engineering activities

b) Maintenance activities

c) Development activities

d) Negotiating with client

46. ___________ is a Strategy to achieve Software diversity.

a) Explicit specification of different algorithms

b) Different programming languages

c) Different design methods and tools

d) All of the mentioned

47. In which step of SDLC actual programming of software code is done?

a) Development and Documentation

b) Maintenance and Evaluation

c) Design

d) Analysis

48. Software Debugging is known as _________________

a) identifying the task to be computerized

b) creating program code

c) creating the algorithm

d) finding and correcting errors in the program code

49. The word which describes the importance of software design is?
a) Complexity

b) Quality

c) Efficiency

d) Accuracy

50. The incorrect activity among the following for the configuration management of a software system is
________

a) Version management

b) System management

c) Change management

d) Internship management