Software Design

Multiple choice questions

1) Software design broadly classified in to

a) Software architectural design

b) Software structural design
c) Software details design
d) Software module design

**Can select multiple options

2) What are the key issues in software design?

a) Concurrency
b) Enabling techniques
c) Data persistence
d) Design process

**Can select multiple options

3) What are all the software design strategies and methods?

a) Function oriented design

b) Object oriented design
c) Data structured design
d) Component based design
e) All of the above

**Can select multiple options

4) What are the components builds the architectural design?

a) Functional requirements
b) Design constraints
c) Quality attribute requirements
d) None of the above

**Can select multiple options

5) Match the following based on how they depend to one another.

a) User requirement specification 1) Customer acceptance testing

b) Functional design specification 2) Coding integration and testing
c) Software design specification 3) Module testing
6) What are the enabling techniques in software design principles?

a) Abstraction
b) Coupling cohesion
c) Decomposition
d) Modularization
e) Encapsulation/information hiding
f) Option a & c
g) Option a, b,d,e
h) Option a,b,c,d,e
i) None of the above

7) State true or false

Error and exception handling and fault tolerance are some of the key issues in software
design? T or F

8) State true or false

Sufficiency, completeness and primitiveness are not some part of the enabling techniques T or
F?

9) Select the correct option available in software design notations?

a) Structural descriptions
b) Behavior description
c) Both a & b

10) Match the following

1) Structural description a) static view
2) behavior description b) dynamic view

Testing Scenarios

1. Test scenarios is used in identifying

A. Identifying defects which might go undetected during execution of separate test cases.

B. Identifying testable requirements.

C. Identifying business scenarios.

D. None of the above.

2. Test design should include

A. Normal conditions

B. error conditions

C. both normal & error conditions

D. None of the above.

3. Test scenarios are generated using

A. class diagrams

B. sequence diagrams

C. collaboration diagrams

D. use case Modeling techniques.

4. In test scenarios alternate flows cannot be tested by themselves

A. True

B. False

5. What are the components of test scenarios

A. Scenario #

B. Reference document

C. User id

D. None of the above.

6. Good test scenarios should include

A. Basic flows

B. Alternate flows

C. Both A & B
D. none of the above

7. Significance of test scenario are

A. Clear & simple flow

B. Hypothetical stories

C. Realistic events of application

D. None of the above.

8. The test design process has

A. Test scenario

B. Test development

C. both A & B

9. A test scenarios do not have

A. case specific data values assigned to them.

B. Business rules

C. Normal conditions.

10. Is it necessary to consider exception flow while modeling use case diagram for test scenarios

A. True

B. False

SOFTWARE QULAITY MANAGEMENT

1.Software quality management processes used for?

a. Defining the process

b. Specifies the process owner

c. Both a and b

d. None of the above

2. Quality assurance is used for

a. Auditing and reporting function

b. Completeness of quality

c. User satisfaction

d. All the above

3. how many types of reviews used in SQM?

a.4

b.2

c.5

d.3

4. What is an Inspection?

a. Detect s/w and identify s/w product

b. Evaluate s/w product

c. Both a and b

d. None of the above

5.What is Walkthrough?

a. Evaluate s/w product

b. Detect s/w product

c. identify s/w product

d. None of the above

6. What are the objectives of walkthrough?

a. Find anomalies
b. improve the s/w product

c. Consider the alternative implementations

d. All the above

7. What are the software quality Requirements?

a. Analytical technique

b. both a and c

c. Dependability

d. Integrity level

e. both c and d.

8. What are the software quality Management technique?

a. Static techniques

b. Integrity level.

c. Analytical techniques

d. both a and c

e. both a and b

9. RunCharts is an example of

a. Statistical based

b. Statistical tests

c. Trend Analysis

d. Prediction

10. Binomial test and chi squared test is an example of

a. Statistical based

b. Statistical tests

c. Trend Analysis

d. Prediction
 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

1) Which is the 3rd stage under SDLC

a)Requirement Analysis b)Evolution c)Implementation d)Testing

2) The Software Requirements Specification does not contain which of the following ?

a) Performance b)Scalability c) Actors & Use cases d) Constraints

3) Functional Requirements are also termed as

a) Functional Specifications b) Processes c) Behaviours d) Capabilities

4) Legislative Requirements comes under which category

a)Functional /Product Requirements b) Non-functional /Process Requirements

c) Functional/Process Requirements d)Non-functional/ External Requirements

5) Quantifiable requirements are the one which give Mathematical Value for any System

a) True b) False

6) According to _____System means "an interacting combination of elements to accomplish

a defined objective”

a) UNO b)UNESCO c)ISI d)INCOSE00 e)FBI

7) Neither Market Analysts nor Customers are categorized as Stake Holders

a)True b)False

8) Requirement Analysis use one of the below Analysis Technique

a)LAPD b)SADT c)NYPD c)NYNJ

9) Process Support Management acts as a link between Process activities and____

a)Human Resources b)Training c)Tools d)All the above

10) .NET Platform with SQL Database are to be implemented at which stage
a) Low level Requirement b)High level Requirement c)Business Application Goal

d) Feature List

11) why should the s/w engineer need to analyze the requirements?(check box)

a.detect and resolve the conflicts

b.discover the bounds of the s/w

c.link the process activities identified

d.elaborate system requirements to derive s/w requirements

12. In system design project h/w design starts from

a.identification of size and capacity requirements of hardware

b.cataloging price from h/w vendors

c.finding compatability between h/w and s/w

d.none of the above

13.which of the following is not a s/w lifecycle model?

a.spiral model

b.waterfall maodel

c.prototyping model

d.CMM

14.waterfall model is not suitable for?

a.small projects

b.complex projects

c.accommodating change

d.none of the above

 15.during s/w development which factor is more crucial?

a.people

b.process

c.product

d.project

16.prototype is a

a.working model of existing system

b.mini model of existing system

c.working model of processing system

d.none of the above

TESTING-DEVELOPMENT

TEST DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

1.The process of preparation of complete set of test cases to be performed during testing is the
test development process. say true or false

a.True

b.False

2.The test development process is based on

a.Entry criteria

b.Exit criteria

c.Entry and Exit criteria

d.None of the above

3.The popular techniques for developing the test cases are

 a.BVA(boundary value analysis)

b.EP

c.EG

d.All the above

4.The test cases can be created based on

a.set of inputs

b.execution pre-condition

c.expected outcomes

d.all the above

5.what are the elements should test cases include?

a.description of what requirement is being tested

b.method of how it ill be tested

c.actions and expected results

d. all the above

6.Multiple test cases could be generated for a single scenario with multiple test conditions. Say
true or false

a.true

b.false

7.Equivalence partitioning divides the output data of a software unit into partions of data from
which test cases can be derived.say true or false

a.true

b.false

8.In Equivalence partitioning, the test cases are designed to cover each partion at least

a.once

b.twice

c.thrice
 d.none of the above

9.What is a technique that consists of developing a test cases and data that focuses on input and
output boundaries of a given function

a.Equivalence partitioning

b.Boundary value analysis

c.Both a and b

d.none of the above

10.Is Boundary value analysis identify the error at the boundaries rather than finding those that
exists in the center of the output domain.say true or false

a.true

b.false

11.The ranges of the Boundary value analysis are

a.First ,second amd Last value of the range

b.Value immediately below range and below last value of range

c.value immediately above range

d.all the baove

SOFTWARE TESTING

1) Technique used for casual analysis is

A. Glass analysis, B. Fish-bone analysis, C. waterfall analysis, D. None

2) Popular methodologies of software development

A. V model, B. Waterfall model, C. inheritance, D.A&B, E. All above

3) What are the two process to be done while developing software

A. Verification & Validation, B. Validation & Analysis, C. Both A & B,

D. None

4) Waterfall methodology consists of

A. Sdlc & Stlc, B. Stlc & Vmodel, C. All, d. None

5) what does test execution does

A. Selenium/Qtp, B. QC, C. Prioritizing, D. All, E. None.

6) Each process model follows a particular _____ in order to ensure access in process of software
development

A. Life cycle, B. Waterfall, C. Iterative, D. Vmodel

7) software testing helps to identify _____ of the developed software

A. Correctness, B. Verification, C. Completeness, D. A & C, E. A & B.

8.After a tast case is designed,it undergoes how many cycles of review?

A).Two

B).Three

C).four

9.Formal review is conducted by subject matter experts in the absence of the author.state true or
false

A).True

B).false

10.what are the benefits of review checklist?

A).Avoids rework

B).Helps to detect defects at an earlier stage.

C)Can be customizaed based on project specific standards

D).All of the above

11).what are the main activities involved in Test Execution process

A).Re testing of defects

B).Regression testing

c).Test execution status reporting

D).all of the above

12).What are done in defect management?

A).Defect triaging

B).Defect tracking

13).Defect testing

D)All of the above

6).Build verification using smoke/sanity test is done by which team?

A).Development team

B).Build manager

C).Test team

14.The two ways of review like formal review and informal review is done in which type of
review?

A).Self review

B).peer review

15.Build verification and performing the test runs are part of Test Execution process.state True
or false

A).True

B).False

SOFTWARE QUALITY

1.What are the different quality standards?

a)SMDL

b)TickIT

c)SLOI

d)CMMI

2.What are tools which Quality objective can be met?

a)TQM

b)PCDQ
c)TSM

d)PDCA

3.Which one is not SQM process?

a)Verification process

b)Software life cycle process

c)Review process

d)Quality assurance process

4.Finding area of a program not exercised by a set of test cases is called…………

a)Defect Resolution

b)Coverage Analysis

c)Risk Management

d)Test Management

5.Checking Quality of software in both simulated and live environments is known as

a)Checking

b)Usability

c)validity

d)validation

6. The static system model exploit which type of relationship

a)Activity cost

b)Quality cost

c)Time cost
d)None of the above

7.Variation in debugging:coding ability has been reported to

a)1:5

b)1:8

c)1:10

d)1:2

8.Defects caught internally deal by discarding or repairing the defective items called

a)appraisal cost

b)internal failure cost

c)prevention cost

d)external failure cost

9.Coding and testing is done in following manner

a)cross_functional

b)ad_hoc

c)Bottom-up

d)Top-down

10.The largest percentage of total life cycle software cost is

a)Design cost

b)Coding cost

c)Maintance cost
d) Testing cost

SOFTWARE CONSTRUCTION

1. Construction produces high volume of

a. configuration items
b.Design

c.Process

2. The fundamentals of software construction include:

a.Minimizing complexity

b.Anticipating change

c.Constructing for verification

d.Standards in construction

e.all of the above

3. Standards which directly affect construction issues include,

a.ProgrammingLanguages
b. Unified Modeling Language

c.Mainframe

d.all of the above

4. We should construct software that allows bugs to be easily found and fixed.

a.True

b.False

5. Do Anticipation of change affect software construction.

a.True

b.False.
6. Construction depends on which of the following

a. degree of the life cycle model used.

b.degree of designing process.

7. System testing is done by ,

a.QA engineers.

b.Developers

c.Quality Manager.

8.Unit testing is done by ,

a.QA engineers.

b.Developers

c.Quality Manager.

9.Which of the following are Integration strategies

a.Big bang, top-down and bottom-up

b.Continuous integration

c.all the above

10. The important decisions are taken during which of the following phases,

a.Coding Phase

b.Testing Phase.

c. requirements analysis and design

 SQL JOINS,SUBQUERIES & VIEWS AND INDEXES

1. Which of the following is outer join?

a. Equi join
b. Left outer join
c. Natural join
d. Right outer join

2. The ON clause is used in which of the following?

a. Theta Style
b. ANSI Style
c. All of the above
d. None of the above.

3. The parenthesis are strictly required in ON clause.

a. True
b. False

4. To join tables on columns of the same name, the ________clause can be used?
a. ON
b. USING
c. All of the above.

5. To fetch various combinations of two/more table records ,which join can be used?
a. Inner join
b. Outer join
c. Cross join
d. Self join
6. The comparison operators that are not in equi join are
a. <=
b. >=
c. <!=>
d. =

7. The left outer join contains

a. All records of the left table.
b. Only records those match with both tables.
c. All records of the right table.
d. Both left and right records even if they does not match.

8. A subquery in an SQL statement is enclosed within

a. Braces {..}
b. CAPITAL LETTERS
c. Parantheseis (…)
d. Brackets […]

9. A subquery cannot be immediately enclosed in a set function.

a. True
b. False

10. The subqueries can be used with _________ statement.

a. Select
b. Insert
c. Update
d. Delete
11. We can use a scalar subquery in _______
a. In the WHERE clause of a SELECT
b. In the VALUES clause of an UPDATE statement.
c. The SET or WHERE clauses of an INSERT statement.
d. The WHERE clause of a DELETE statement.

12. The multiple row subquery contains

a. IN
b. NOT IN
c. ON
d. All of the above

13. A subquery that refers to a column of a table that is not in its FROM clause but can
be in the PROJECTION or in the WHERE clause is called_________.
a. Scalar subquery
b. Multiple Row subquery
c. Correlated Subquery
d. Non correlated subquery

14. A virtual table that can access the data using SQL SELECT statement is _______.
a. Index
b. Transaction
c. View
d. None of the above.

15. Inline views does not contain_________

a. GROUP BY
b. HAVING
c. ORDER BY
d. USING
 16. The physical order of the rows is not the same as the index order in clustered index.
a. True
b. False

MY-SQL

1. ____________________ is a set of programs that enables sorting, modifying and

extracting information from a database.
a. Database
b. Database management system
c. Relational database management system
d. None of these

2. ___________________ is based on a perception of the world as consisting of a

collection of basic objects (entities) and relationships among these objects.
a. E-R model
b. Record based model
c. Object based model
d. Relational model

3. Data and relationships are represented by a collection of tables. Which model?

_____________
a. E-R model
b. Record based model
c. Object based model
d. Relational model
4. Organization of the records is as a collection of trees, rather than arbitrary graphs.
Which model? _____________
a. E-R model
b. Record based model
c. Object based model
a. Hierarchical model

5. _____________ is the process of organizing the fields and tables of a relational database
to minimize redundancy and dependency.
a. Redundancy
b. Consistency
c. Normalization
d. None of these

6. ________________ normal form should have functional dependency and remove

partial dependencies.
a. First
b. Second
c. Third
d. Bcnf

7. ________________ normal form should have functional dependency and remove

transitive dependencies.
a. Second
b. First
c. Third
d. Bcnf
 8. ______________ normal form contains each and every determinant as a candidate key
and removes non-trival dependencies
a. Third
b. Second
c. Bcnf
d. First

9. _____________ normal form contains only atomic values, and the value of each
attribute contains only a single value from that domain.
a. Third
b. First
c. Second
d. Bcnf

10. In a like clause ______________ is used for fetching the value ending with “ton”.
A.    LIKE ton$
B.    LIKE ^.*ton$
C.    LIKE %ton
D.    LIKE *ton
E.    LIKE.*ton

11) To remove duplicate rows from the result set of a SELECT use the following keyword:
a) NO DUPLICATE
b) UNIQUE
c) DISTINCT
d) None of the above

12) A NULL value is treated as a blank or 0.

a) True
b) Fasle
 c) None of the above

13) Which function used to get the current time in mysql?

a) getTime()
b) Time()
c) NOW()

14) Which of the following is not a valid aggregate function?

a) COUNT
b) MIN
c) MAX
d) COMPUTE

15) What SQL clause is used to restrict the rows returned by a query?
a) AND
b) WHERE
c) HAVING
d) FROM

16) mysql_pconnect ()
is used to make a persistent connection to the database which means a SQL link that do not
close when the execution of your script ends.
a) True
b) False

17) Which of the following is used to delete an entire MYSQL database?

a) mysql_drop_database
b) mysql_drop_entiredb
c) mysql_drop_db
 d) mysql_drop_dbase

18) Primary Key does allow the Null Values. where as in

Unique key doesn't accept the Null values.

True or False?
a) False
b) True

19) How much characters are allowed to create database name?

a) 55
b) 72
c) 64
d) 40

20) Which of the following commands should be used to create a database named “student”?
a) CREATE ?I student
b) CREATE DATABASE student
c) DATABASE /student
d) DATABSE student

21) Which one will delete the table data as well as table structure?
a) TRUNCATE
b) DROP

22) The USE command?

a) Is used to load code from another file
b) Has been deprecated and should be avoided for security reasons
c) Is a pseudonym for the SELECT command
d) Should be used to choose the database you want to use once you've connected to
MySQL

23) Given an employee’s table as follows:

emp_id emp_name
1 Brush
2 Jerrin

What value will be return by below query?

Select count(*) from employees
a) 3
b) 2
c) 1
d) none of the above

24) The main MySQL program that does all the data handling is called?
a) mysql.exe
b) mysql
c) mysqld
d) httpd

25) A SELECT command without a WHERE clause returns?

a) All the records from a table that match the previous WHERE clause
b) All the records from a table, or information about all the records
c) SELECT is invalid without a WHERE clause
d) Nothing

26) In a SELECT with a GROUP BY clause, a WHERE clause, and a HAVING clause, the WHERE
conditions are applied before the HAVING conditions.
 a) True
b) Fasle
c) Either True or False
d) None of the above

27) If we want to undo GRANT, we should use?

a) REVOKE
b) UNDO
c) UNGRANT
d) DELETE
e) ROLLBACK

28) The result of a SELECT statement can contain duplicate rows.

a) False
b) True
c) None of the above

SOFTWARE PROCESS MEASUREMENT

1. The AIS cycle allows for multiple iterations.

a. True b. false
2. There are _____ general architectures for assessment model

a.3 b. 4 c.2 d. 5

3. model building includes only calibration.

a. true b.false

4. software product measurement includes

a. size b. structure c. both a and b d. only a e. only b

5. measurement is used to identify strength and weakness of processes.

a. false b. true
 6. the personal software process is a part of

a. process model b. experimental technique c. analytical technique d. benchmarking

7. process measurement technique are classified into 3 types

a. true b. false

8. minimum requirement in CBA-IPI assessment method does not include data validation
and collection

a. true b. false

9. In staged process assessment model risk analysis forms which stage

a. 5 b. 6 c.3 d. 4

10. the last stage in automation tools is

a. mockup b. create c. stage and test d. release

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROCESS

1)The number of stages in software engineering process are

a.1

b.2

c.3

d.4

2.)Process infrastructure and software process management cycle come under which of the
following stages in software engineering process?

a.process definition

b.process implementation and change

c.process assessment
d.none of the above

3.)Process measurement and software product measurement come under which stage in
software engineering process?

a.process definition

b.process assessment

c.process and product measurement

d.none of the above

4.) _________ is concerned with modifying existing software systems to meet new
requirements.

(a) Software specification

(b) Software design and implementation

(c) Software validation

(d) Software evolution

5.) Which of these terms are level names in the Capability Maturity Model?

A) Performed

B) Repeated

C) Reused

D) Optimized

E) both a and d

6.) Which of the items listed below is not one of the software engineering layers?

A) Process
 B) Manufacturing

C) Methods

D) Tools

7. Which statement best describe a meaning of "waterfall" life cycle model.

(a) When a phase in the lifecycle is completed, the results fall down to the next phase and there
is no going back.(ans)

(b) When a phase in the lifecycle iterates like a ring on the spiral, moving outward from the
center.

(c) When a phase in the lifecycle overlapping with each others.

(d) When a phase in the lifecycle is executed continuously without stop.

8.)DFD represents?

a.The flow of data

b.The processes

c.The area where they are stored

d. none of the above

9.The software life cycle can be said to consist of a series of phases. The classical model is
referred to as the waterfall model. Which phase may be defined as "The concept is explored
and refined, and the client's requirements are elicited?"

(a) Requirements

(b) Specification

(c) Design

(d) Implementation

(e) Integration