Software Engineering NTA UGC NET Question Analysis P2

Software Engineering NTA UGC NET Question Analysis P2

Q51➡ | NTA UGC NET NOVEMBER 2017
Which of the following is not a key issue stressed by an agile philosophy of software engineering ?

i ➥ The importance of self-organizing teams as well as communication and collaboration between team members and

ii ➥ Recognition that change represents opportunity.

iii ➥ Emphasis on rapid delivery of software that satisfies the customer.

iv ➥ Having a separate testing phase after a build phase.

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Q52➡ | NTA UGC NET NOVEMBER 2017
What is the normal order of activities in which traditional software testing is organized?
Integration Testing
System Testing
Unit Testing
Validation Testing
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i ➥ 3,1,2,4

ii ➥ 3,1,4,2

iii ➥ 4,3,2,1

iv ➥ 2,4,1,3

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Q53➡ | NTA UGC NET NOVEMBER 2017
Which of the following testing techniques ensures that the software product runs correctly after the changes during

i ➥ Path Testing

ii ➥ Integration Testing

iii ➥ Unit Testing

iv ➥ Regression Testing

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Q54➡ | NTA UGC NET NOVEMBER 2017
Which of the following Super Computers is the fastest Super Computer ?

i ➥ Sun-way TaihuLight

ii ➥ Titan

iii ➥ Piz Daint

iv ➥ Sequoia

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Q55➡ | NTA UGC NET NOVEMBER 2017
Which of the following statements about ERP system is true ?

i ➥ Most ERP software implementations fully achieve seamless integration

ii ➥ ERP software packages are themselves combinations of separate applications for manufacturing, materials, resource

iii ➥ Integration of ERP systems can be achieved in only one way

iv ➥ An ERP package implemented uniformly throughout an enterprise is likely to contain very flexible connections

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Q56➡ | NTA UGC NET NOVEMBER 2017
Which of the following is not a Clustering method ?

i ➥ K-Mean method

ii ➥ Self Organizing feature map method

iii ➥ K-nearest neighbor method

iv ➥ Agglomerative method

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Q57➡ | NTA UGC NET NOVEMBER 2017
Which of the given wireless technologies used in IoT, consumes the least amount of power ?

i ➥ Zigbee

ii ➥ Bluetooth

iii ➥ Wi-Fi

iv ➥ GSM/CDMA

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Q58➡ | NTA UGC NET JANUARY 2017
Which of the following statement(s) is/are TRUE with regard to software testing ?
I. Regression testing technique ensures that the software product runs correctly after the changes during maintenance.
II. Equivalence partitioning is a white-box testing technique that divides the input domain of a program into classes of

i ➥ only I

ii ➥ only II

iii ➥ both I and II

iv ➥ neither I nor II

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Q59➡ | NTA UGC NET JANUARY 2017
A software project was estimated at 352 Function Points (FP). A four person team will be assigned to this project consisting is 80,000 per month, the programmer ₹ 60,000 per month and the tester ₹ 50,000 per month. The average productivity for the team is 8 FP per person month. Which of the following represents the projected cost of the project ?

i ➥ 28,16,000

ii ➥ 20,90,000

iii ➥ 26,95,000

iv ➥ 27,50,000

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Q60➡ | NTA UGC NET JANUARY 2017
A software company needs to develop a project that is estimated as 1000 function points and is planning to use JAVA as the programming language whose approximate lines of code per function point is accepted as 50. Considering a = 1.4 as multiplicative factor, b = 1.0 as exponential factor for the basic COCOMO effort equation and c = 3.0 as multiplicative factor, d = 0.33 as exponential factor for the basic COCOMO duration equation, approximately how long does the project take to complete ?

i ➥ 11.2 months

ii ➥ 12.2 months

iii ➥ 13.2 months

iv ➥ 10.2 months

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Q61➡ | NTA UGC NET JANUARY 2017
Software Engineering is an engineering discipline that is concerned with:

i ➥ how computer systems work.

ii ➥ theories and methods that underlie computers and software systems.

iii ➥ all aspects of software production

iv ➥ all aspects of computer-based systems development, including hardware, software and process engineering.

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Q62➡ | NTA UGC NET JANUARY 2017
Which of the following is not one of three software product aspects addressed by McCall’s software quality factors ?

i ➥ Ability to undergo change

ii ➥ Adaptability to new environments

iii ➥ Operational characteristics

iv ➥ Production costs and scheduling

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Q63➡ | NTA UGC NET JANUARY 2017
Which of the following statement(s) is/are true with respect to software architecture ?
S1 : Coupling is a measure of how well the things grouped together in a module belong together logically.
S2 : Cohesion is a measure of the degree of interaction between software modules.
S3 : If coupling is low and cohesion is high then it is easier to change one module without affecting others.

i ➥ Only S1 and S2

ii ➥ Only S3

iii ➥ All of S1, S2 and S3

iv ➥ Only S1

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Q64➡ | NTA UGC NET JANUARY 2017
A software design pattern used to enhance the functionality of an object at run-time is:

i ➥ Adapter

ii ➥ Decorator

iii ➥ Delegation

iv ➥ Proxy

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Q65➡ | NTA UGC NET AUGUST 2016
A server crashes on average once in 30 days, that is, the Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) is 30 days. When this happens, it takes 12 hours to reboot it, that is, the Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) is 12 hours. The availability of server with these reliability data values is approximately :

i ➥ 96.3%

ii ➥ 97.3%

iii ➥ 98.3%

iv ➥ 99.3%

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Q66➡ | NTA UGC NET AUGUST 2016
Software safety is quality assurance activity that focuses on hazards that

i ➥ affect the reliability of a software component.

ii ➥ may cause an entire system to fail.

iii ➥ may result from user input errors.

iv ➥ prevent profitable marketing of the final product.

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Q67➡ | NTA UGC NET AUGUST 2016
Which of the following sets represent five stages defined by Capability Maturity Model (CMM) in increasing order of

i ➥ Initial, Defined, Repeatable, Managed, Optimized.

ii ➥ Initial, Repeatable, Defined, Managed, Optimized.

iii ➥ Initial, Defined, Managed, Repeatable, Optimized.

iv ➥ Initial, Repeatable, Managed, Defined, Optimized.

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Q68➡ | NTA UGC NET AUGUST 2016
he number of function points of a proposed system is calculated as 500. Suppose that the system is planned to be developed in Java and the LOC/FP ratio of Java is 50. Estimate the effort (E) required to complete the project using the effort formula of basic COCOMO given below : E = a(KLOC)b Assume that the values of a and b are 2.5 and 1.0 respectively.

i ➥ 25 person months

ii ➥ 75 person months

iii ➥ 62.5 person months

iv ➥ 72.5 person months

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Q69➡ | NTA UGC NET AUGUST 2016
Which of the following is used to determine the specificity of requirements? [ Where n 1 is the number of requirements for which all reviewers have identical interpretations, n 2 is number of requirements in a specification.]

i ➥ n 1 / n 2

ii ➥ n 2 / n 1

iii ➥ n 1 + n 2

iv ➥ n 1 – n 2

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Q70➡ | NTA UGC NET AUGUST 2016
The major shortcoming of waterfall model is

i ➥ The difficulty in accommodating changes after requirement analysis.

ii ➥ The difficult in accommodating changes after feasibility analysis.

iii ➥ The system testing

iv ➥ The maintenance of system.

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Q71➡ | NTA UGC NET AUGUST 2016
The quick design of a software that is visible to end users leads to _.

i ➥ iterative model

ii ➥ prototype model

iii ➥ spiral model

iv ➥ waterfall model

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Q72➡ | NTA UGC NET AUGUST 2016
For a program of k variables, boundary value analysis yields __ test cases.

i ➥ 4k – 1

ii ➥ 4k

iii ➥ 4k + 1

iv ➥ 2 k – 1

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Q73➡ | NTA UGC NET JULY 2016
The extent to which a software performs its intended functions without failures, is termed as__

i ➥ Robustness

ii ➥ Correctness

iii ➥ Reliability

iv ➥ Accuracy

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Q74➡ | NTA UGC NET JULY 2016
If S 1 is total number of modules defined in the program architecture, S 3 is the number of modules whose correct function depends on prior processing then the number of modules not dependent on prior processing is :

i ➥ 1 + (S 3 / S 1 )

ii ➥ 1 – (S 3 / S 1 )

iii ➥ 1 + (S 1 / S 3 )

iv ➥ 1 – (S 1 / S 3 )

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Q75➡ | NTA UGC NET JULY 2016
The __ model is preferred for software development when the requirements are not clear.

i ➥ Rapid Application Development

ii ➥ Rational Unified Process

iii ➥ Evolutionary Model

iv ➥ Waterfall Model

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Q76➡ | NTA UGC NET JULY 2016
Which of the following is not included in waterfall model?

i ➥ Requirement analysis

ii ➥ Risk analysis

iii ➥ Design

iv ➥ Coding

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Q77➡ | NTA UGC NET JULY 2016
The cyclomatic complexity of a flow graph V(G), in terms of predicate nodes is: [Where P is number of predicate nodes in flow graph V(G).]

i ➥ P + 1

ii ➥ P – 1

iii ➥ P – 2

iv ➥ P + 2

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Q78➡ | NTA UGC NET JULY 2016
The extent to which a software tolerates the unexpected problems, is termed as:

i ➥ Accuracy

ii ➥ Reliability

iii ➥ Correctness

iv ➥ Robustness

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Q79➡ | NTA UGC NET DECEMBER 2015
The distributed system is a collection of (P)and communication is achieved in distributed system by (Q), where (P) and (Q) are:

i ➥ Loosely coupled hardware on tightly coupled software and disk sharing, respectively.

ii ➥ Tightly coupled hardware on loosely coupled software and shared memory, respectively

iii ➥ Tightly coupled software on loosely coupled hardware and message passing, respectively

iv ➥ Loosely coupled software on tightly coupled hardware and file sharing, respectively.

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Q80➡ | NTA UGC NET DECEMBER 2015
Which one of the following statements is incorrect?

i ➥ Pareto analysis is a statistical method used for analyzing causes, and is one of the primary tools for quality management

ii ➥ Reliability of a software specifies the probability of failure-free operation of that software for a given time duration.

iii ➥ The reliability of a system can also be specified as the Mean Time To Failure (MTTF)

iv ➥ In white-box testing, the test cases are decided from the specifications or the requirements

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Q81➡ | NTA UGC NET DECEMBER 2015
Which one of the following statements, related to the requirements phase in Software Engineering, is incorrect?

i ➥ “Requirement validation” is one of the activities in the requirements phase.

ii ➥ Prototyping” is one of the methods for requirement analysis.

iii ➥ Modelling-oriented approach” is one of the methods for specifying the functional specifications

iv ➥ “Function points” is one of the most commonly used size metric for requirements.

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Q82➡ | NTA UGC NET DECEMBER 2015
In software testing, how the error, fault and failure are related to each other?

i ➥ Error leads to failure but fault is not related to error and failure.

ii ➥ Fault leads to failure but error is not related to fault and failure.

iii ➥ Error leads to fault and fault leads to failure.

iv ➥ Fault leads to error and error leads to failure.

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Q83➡ | NTA UGC NET DECEMBER 2015
Which of the following is not a software process model?

i ➥ Prototyping

ii ➥ Iterative

iii ➥ Time-boxing

iv ➥ Glass-boxing

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Q84➡ | NTA UGC NET JUNE 2015
Module design is used to maximize cohesion and minimize coupling. Which of the following is the key to implement this rule?

i ➥ Inheritance

ii ➥ Polymorphism

iii ➥ Encapsulation

iv ➥ Abstraction

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Q85➡ | NTA UGC NET JUNE 2015
Verification:

i ➥ refers to the set of activities that ensure that software correctly implements a specific function

ii ➥ gives answer to the question – Are we building the product right ?

iii ➥ requires execution of software

iv ➥ both (A) and (B)

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Q86➡ | NTA UGC NET JUNE 2015
Which design metric is used to measure the compactness of the program in terms of lines of code?

i ➥ Consistency

ii ➥ Conciseness

iii ➥ Efficiency

iv ➥ Accuracy

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Q87➡ | NTA UGC NET JUNE 2015
Requirements prioritisation and negotiation belongs to:

i ➥ Requirements validation

ii ➥ Requirements elicitation

iii ➥ Feasibility study

iv ➥ Requirements reviews

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Q88➡ | NTA UGC NET JUNE 2015
Adaptive maintenance is a maintenance which __.

i ➥ correct errors that were not discovered till testing phase

ii ➥ is carried out to port the existing software to a new environment.

iii ➥ improves the system performance

iv ➥ both (2) and (3)

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Q89➡ | NTA UGC NET JUNE 2015
A Design concept Refinement is a

i ➥ Top-down approach

ii ➥ Complementary of Abstraction concept

iii ➥ Process of elaboration

iv ➥ All of the above

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Q90➡ | NTA UGC NET JUNE 2015
A software design is highly modular if:

i ➥ cohesion is functional and coupling is data type.

ii ➥ cohesion is coincidental and coupling is data type.

iii ➥ cohesion is sequential and coupling is content type.

iv ➥ cohesion is functional and coupling is stamp type.

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Q91➡ | NTA UGC NET JUNE 2015
In which testing strategy requirements established during requirements analysis are validated against developed software?

i ➥ Validation testing

ii ➥ Integration testing

iii ➥ Regression testing

iv ➥ System testing

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Q92➡ | NTA UGC NET JUNE 2015
Which process model is also called as classic life cycle model?

i ➥ Waterfall model

ii ➥ RAD model

iii ➥ Prototyping model

iv ➥ Incremental model

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Q93➡ | NTA UGC NET JUNE 2015
Cohesion is an extension of:

i ➥ Abstraction concept

ii ➥ Refinement concept

iii ➥ Information hiding concept

iv ➥ Modularity

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Q94➡ | NTA UGC NET JUNE 2015

Which one from the following is highly associated activity of project planning?

i ➥ Keep track of the project progress.

ii ➥ Compare actual and planned progress and costs.

iii ➥ Identify the activities, milestones and deliverables produced by a project.

iv ➥ Both (2) and (3).

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Q95➡ | NTA UGC NET JUNE 2015
Which of the following statements is incorrect for Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) ?

i ➥ The PVM communication model provides asynchronous blocking send, asynchronous blocking receive, and non-blocking receive function.

ii ➥ Message buffers are allocated dynamically.

iii ➥ The PVM communication model assumes that any task can send a message to any other PVM task and that there is no limit to the size or number of such messages.

iv ➥ In PVM model, the message order is not preserved.

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