Software Quiz interview questions

The acronym of CASE is

1. Computer Aided Structured Engineering
2. Continuously Aimed Software Engineering
3. Computer Aided Software Engineering
4. None of the above

What is the most suitable architecture to develop a web based system?

1. Client Server Model
2. Distributed System Model
3. Island Model
4. Repository Model

The visual interface developed by Xerox was modeled on a

1. Desktop
2. File cabinet
3. Tree
4. None of these

The advantage of better testing in software development is in

1. Iterative
2. Prototyping
3. Waterfall model
4. All of these

Who develop software products?

1. Customers
2. Database administrators
3. Software engineers
4. Programmers

Choose the tool which is not used in the requirement analysis.

1. Activity Network
2. Flow Graphs
3. Module Dependency Diagram
4. Data Flow Diagram

Information hiding is to hide from user, details that

1. May be maliciously handled by him
2. Are not relevant to him
3. Are relevant to him
4. Are confidential

A Simulation program

1. Teaches by emulating the responses of the system being studied
2. Teaches facts, such as arithmetic operations and spelling
3. Guides novices through the basics of using other computer programs
4. None of these

What is the disadvantage of using distributed approach to system development?

1. Security
2. Scalability
3. Concurrency
4. Fault tolerance

Use of recursion

1. makes debugging easier
2. reduces execution time
3. makes software bug-free
4. enhances logical clarity and reduces code size

Which of the following is (are) required by top-down design?

1. Modularity
2. Step-wise refinement
3. Flow charging
4. All of these

If a file is to be moved from main memory to a disk, the directory file would be modified by the

1. File manager
2. Command processor
3. I/0 managers
4. Supervisor

The error distribution in the case of requirement analysis is

1. 10%
2. 20%
3. 30%
4. 40%

Configuration management is not concerned with

1. Choice of hardware configuration for an application
2. Controlling changes to the source code
3. Controlling documentation changes
4. Maintaining versions of software

The data flow model of an application mainly shows

1. decision and control information
2. communication network structure
3. processing requirements and the flow of data
4. the underlying data and the relationship among them

A desirable property of module is

1. High coupling
2. Multifunctional
3. Low Cohesiveness
4. Independency

A Good specification should be

1. Functional
2. Distinctly specific
3. Unambiguous
4. None of these

A program written for an application generator includes

1. Procedural statements
2. Non-procedural statements
3. Both (a) and (b)
4. None of these

Data structure suitable for the application is discussed in

1. Interface design
2. Procedural design
3. Architectural design
4. Data design

Which of the following is a tool in design phase?

1. Abstraction
2. Refinement
3. Information hiding
4. All of these

Which of the following types of maintenance takes the maximum chunk of the total maintenance efforts in a typical commercial application environment?

1. Adaptive Maintenance
2. Perfective Maintenance
3. Preventive Maintenance
4. Corrective Maintenance

In an IBM PC, ROM contains

1. The file manager
2. The I/0 manager
3. The operating system supervisor
4. All of these

Home finance programs are

1. Inventory management programs
2. Project management programs
3. Accounting programs
4. None of these

The shell

1. Accepts command from the user
2. Maintains directories of files
3. Translates the keyboard’s character codes
4. None of these

In object oriented design of software

1. Classes are always different
2. Classes are defined based on the attributes of objects
3. Objects inherit the properties of the class
4. All of these

The extent to which the software can control to operate correctly despite the introduction of invalid input is called as

1. Portability
2. Fault tolerance
3. Robustness
4. Reliability

The maximum error distribution is in

1. Testing
2. Coding
3. Design
4. Requirement analysis

The model which estimates the total effort in terms of person, months of the technical project staff, is

1. COCOMO Model
2. Waterfall model
3. Prototyping
4. Spiral

Game programs include

1. Video arcade games
2. Adventure games
3. Simulation games
4. All of these

The principle, a function can always be replaced by its value (irrespective of the context), without changing the meaning is called

1. Referential transparency
2. Context-free
3. Orthogonality
4. Unbinding