Software Engineering Questions:

xix) The Systems engineering discipline is best described as the activity that focuses on which of the following items?

1. The design of data structures and algorithms in embedded systems.

2. The design of entire systems, taking into account the software, human elements, and hardware of these systems.

3. The management of system risk associated to unpredictable events over the course of the Software Development Life Cycle.

4. The job function provided by systems administrators for computer hardware and networks.

xx) Which item is neither an issue nor concern in a Prototyping exercise?
1. Set expectations
2. Bill the customer
3. Build consensus
4. Set ground rules

xxi) The relationship between UML and a Model is best given by which item?

1. UML is the same as a model.

2. We use our model to express our UML ideas.

3. We utilize UML as a structured natural language to express our model.

4. We utilize UML as a graphical notation language to express our model.

xxiv) Individual care management, patient monitoring, and administrative reporting in the Mentcare case study are examples of which type of requirement?

1. Nonfunctional

2. UML

3. Goal

4. Functional

xxviii) Enterprise Resource Planning software is typically encountered in which process methodology?

1.Agile

2.Waterfall

3.Therac-25

4.Integration and Configuration

xxix) Choose those item(s) that were not adequately specified in the lecture presentation slides for the system requirements (as discussed in the lectures) of the Mentcare monthly drug prescription cost reports.

1. How to determine the last working day of each month

2. Management access control list

3. Report presentation format (rows and columns format, sort order, pagination, etc.)

4. How to treat data entered into the system after 5:30 pm (when the report is generated) on the last working day of the month

xxx) Which items are included among activities in Requirements Elicitation and Analysis?

1. Discovery and understanding

2. Design Patterns

3. Political factors

4. Classification and organization

5. Prioritization and negotiation

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xxxi)The traceability of each requirement in the Requirements Specification document consists of the following items for the software engineer's protection:

1. The reason (purpose, motivation, rationale) it was provided

2. The date it was provided

3. Who provided it

4. The class diagram for the requirement

xxxii) Errors in the Requirements Engineering SDLC activity fall into the general categories as give by which item(s):

1.Errors encountered during Architecture and Design

2.Errors experienced during a Feasibility Study

3.Errors in receiving requirements during the Elicitation and Analysis subactivity

4.Errors in transcribing requirements during the Specification subactivity

xxxiii) In using various techniques both in gathering requirements from end users during Elicitation and Analysis and in expressing them during Specification, we rely on what principle?

1.Superposition

2.Complementarity

3.Fault Avoidance

4.Refactoring

xxxiv) Incremental development is pertinent to which item(s):

1.Agile

2.Modified Waterfall

3.Waterfall

4.Integration and Configuration

xxxv) A post-condition is a statement that is true at the end of an SDLS activity. We also refer to a post-condition as:

1. Milestone

2. Increment

3. Completion

4. Sprint

xxxvii) The Waterfall model is strongly encouraged for mission critical systems and those systems where software safety is important. However, a primary issue to be managed in using Waterfall is:

1. Interleaved SDLC activities

2. Lack of documentation

3. Accomodation of requirements changes

4. Refactoring of code in intermediate versions

xxxviii) The goal of Model-driven Architecture is to:

1.lower the level of abstraction in software engineering

2.generate a platform independent model from a platform specific model

3.generate executable code from a model

4.standardize UML as a graphical notation language

xxxix) A model expressed in terms of the application domain concepts is typically derived in which SDLC activity?

1. Implementation

2. Requirements Engineering

3. Design

4. Architecture

XL) The characteristics of a model are best described by which items?

1.Pragmatic (useful features of the system)

2.Mapping (abstract representation) of a system)

3.Reduction (reduced form)

4.Performance

5.Architeture

XLI) Which items best describe the actions we take on our models as we progress through subsequent SDLC activities?

1.standardize

2.transform (translate)

3.refine

4.harmonize

5.diversify

XLII) A model expressed in terms of the application domain concepts is typicall derived in which SDLC activity?

1.Architecture

2.Requirements Engineering

3.Design

4.Implementatation

XLIV) The predictiveness of a model (for a system) refers to which item?

1. inherent errors in the system

2. how well we can learn about the interesting, though not necessarily obvious, properties (behavior) of the system

3. understandability

4. past history predicts future behavior

XLVI) Graphical models are typically utilized for a system in ways best described by the following items:

1. Discussion

2. Security

3. Configuration

4. Code generation

5. Documentation

XLVII) Which one of the following subsequent SDLC activities to Requirements Engineering would utilize the logical groupings of functional requirements (that were obtained during elicitation and analysis) in order to arrange the eventual subsystems of the software?

1. Implementation

2. Testing

3. Architecture

4. Evolution