NET EXAM Software Engineering Previous Years Questions

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

(Jun - 2011)

A.     Process

B.     Manufacturing

C.     Method

D.     Tools

Answer: - B

2.      What is the first stage in program development? (Jun – 2011)

A.     Specification and design

B.     System Analysis

C.     Testing

D.     None of the above

Answer: - B

3.      By means of a data flow diagram, the analyst can detect            (Jun – 2011)

A.     Task duplication

B.     Unnecessary delays

C.     Task overlapping

D.     All of the above

Answer: - D

4.      Which of these are the 5 generic software engineering framework activities?(Jun – 2011)

A.     Communication, planning, modeling, construction, deployment

B.     Communication, risk management, measurement, production, reviewing

C.     Analysis, designing, programming, Debugging, maintenance

D.     Analysis, planning, designing, programming, testing

Answer: - A

5.      Many causes of the software crisis can be traced to mythology based on(Jun – 2011)

A.     Management Myths

B.     Customer Myths

C.     Practitioner Myths

D.     All of the above

Answer: - D

6.      For a data entry project for office staff who have never used computers before (user interface and user-friendliness are extremely important), one will use    (Dec – 2011)

A.     Spiral model

B.     Component based model

C.     Prototyping

D.     Waterfall model

Answer: - C

2.      An SRS                        (Dec – 2011)

A.     Establishes the basis for agreement between client and the supplier

B.     Provides a reference for validation of the final product.

C.     Is a prerequisite to high quality software?

D.     All of the above.

Answer: - D

7.      McCabe’s cyclomatic metric V(G) of a graph G with n vertices, e edges and p connected component is             (Dec – 2011)

A.     E

B.     (B) n

C.     (C) e – n + p

D.     (D) e – n + 2p

Answer: - C

8.      Emergency fixes known as patches are result of                         (Dec – 2011)

A.     Adaptive maintenance

B.     perfective maintenance

C.     Corrective maintenance

D.     None of the above

Answer: - C

9.      Design recovery from source code is done during                      (Dec – 2011)

A.     Reverse engineering   

B.     Re-engineering

C.     Reuse   

D.     all of the above

Answer: - D

10.  Following is used to demonstrate that the new release of software still performs the old one did by rerunning the old tests:                 (Dec – 2011)

A.     Functional testing

B.     Path testing

C.     Stress testing   

D.     Regression testing

Answer: - D