Q. Which of the following is used to determine the specificity of requirements ?

(A) n1/n2                        (B) n2/n1
(C) n1+n2           (D) n1–n2

Where n1 is the number of requirements for which all reviewers have identical interpretations, n2 is number of requirements in a specification.

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Q. The major shortcoming of waterfall model is

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Q. The quick design of a software that is visible to end users leads to ............

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Q. For a program of k variables, boundary value analysis yields .............. test cases.

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Q. The extent to which a software performs its intended functions without failures, is termed as

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Q. An Operating System (OS) crashes on the average once in 30 days, that is, the Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) = 30 days. When this happens, it takes 10 minutes to recover the OS, that is, the Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) = 10 minutes. The availability of the OS with these reliability figures is approximately :

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Q. Match each software lifecycle model in List – I to its description in List – II:

List – I                                       List – II
I. Code-and-Fix                        a. Assess risks at each step; do most critical
action first.
II. Evolutionary prototyping  b. Build an initial small requirement specifications,
code it, then “evolve” the specifications and code
as needed.
III. Spiral                                    c. Build initial requirement specification for
several releases, then design-and-code in
sequence
IV. Staged Delivery                 d. Standard phases (requirements, design,
code, test) in order
V. Waterfall                               e. Write some code, debug it, repeat
(i.e. ad-hoc)

Codes :
      I    II   III   IV   V

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Q. Match each software term in List – I to its description in List – II:

List – I                                       List – II
I. Wizards                                  a. Forms that provide structure for a document
II. Templates                             b. A series of commands grouped into a
single command
III. Macro                                    c. A single program that incorporates most
commonly used tools
IV. Integrated Software           d. Step-by-step guides in application software
V. Software Suite                    e. Bundled group of software programs

Codes :
      I    II   III   IV   V

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Q. The ISO quality assurance standard that applies to software Engineering is

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Q. Which of the following are external qualities of a software product ?

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Q. Which of the following is/are CORRECT statement(s) about version and release ?

I. A version is an instance of a system, which is functionally identical but nonfunctionally distinct from other instances of a system.
II. A version is an instance of a system, which is functionally distinct in some way from other system instances.
III. A release is an instance of a system, which is distributed to users outside of the development team.
IV. A release is an instance of a system, which is functionally identical but onfunctionally distinct from other instances of a system.

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Q. An experimental file server is up 75% of the time and down for 25% of the time due to bugs. How many times does this file server have to be replicated to give an availability of at least 99% ?

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Q. A server crashes on the 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:

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Q. Match the software maintenance activities in List-I to its meaning in List-II.

List-I                              List-II
I. Corrective                              (a) Concerned with performing activities to reduce the software complexity
thereby improving program understandability and increasing software
maintainability.
II. Adaptive                    (b) Concerned with fixing errors that are observed when the software is in
use.
III. Perfective                  (c) Concerned with the change in the software that takes place to make
the software adaptable to new environment (both hardware and
software).
IV. Preventive               (d) Concerned with the change in the software that takes place to make the
software adaptable to changing user requirements.

Codes:
       I      II     III    IV

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Q. Match each application/software design concept in List-I to its definition in List-II.

List-I                              List-II

I. Coupling                    (a) Easy to visually inspect the design of the software and understand its purpose.
II. Cohesion                  (b) Easy to add functionality to a software without having to redesign it.
III. Scalable                   (c) Focus of a code upon a single goal.
IV. Readable                (d) Reliance of a code module upon other code modules.

Codes:
       I      II     III    IV

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Q. Software safety is quality assurance activity that focuses on hazards that

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Q. Which of the following sets represent five stages defined by Capability Maturity
Model (CMM) in increasing order of maturity?

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Q. The 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.

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Q. In software testing, how the error, fault and failure are related to each other?

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Q. Which of the following is not a software process model?

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