Software Engineering MCQs

What is often undefined and is left to the ingenuity of the project managers and engineers ?

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A. Role
B. Exception
C. Activity
D. Process
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Explanation: Exceptions are often undefined and it is left to the ingenuity of the project managers and engineers to handle the exception.

If all tasks must be executed in the same time-span, what type of cohesion is being exhibited ?

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A. Functional Cohesion
B. Temporal Cohesion
C. Functional Cohesion
D. Sequential Cohesion
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Explanation: A Module exhibits temporal cohesion when it contains tasks that are related by the fact that all tasks must be executed in the same time-span.

Which of these software engineering activities are not a part of software processes ?

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A. Software dependence
B. Software development
C. Software validation
D. Software specification
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Explanation: Software dependence is an attribute and not an engineering activity for process.

Which of the following is NOT a guideline for successfully conducting a Joint Requirements Planning (JRP) session ?

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A. stay on schedule
B. allow for ample breaks
C. brainstorm technical alternatives to problems identified in a JRP session
D. none of these
✅ The correct answer is option C.

The primary objective of formal technical reviews is to find _________________ during the process so that they do not become defects after release of the software?

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A. errors
B. equivalent faults
C. failure cause
D. none of the mentioned
✅ The correct answer is option A.
Explanation: Errors lead to faults

Which reliability requirements are concerned with maintaining copies of the system ?

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A. Checking requirements
B. Recovery requirements
C. Redundancy requirements
D. Ambiguous requirements
✅ The correct answer is option B.
Explanation: These requirements are geared to helping the system recover after a failure has occurred.