Q. A software system crashed 20 times in the year 2017 and for each crash, it took 2 minutes to restart. Approximately, what was the software availability in that year?

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Q. Match the 5 CMM Maturity levels/CMMI staged representations in List- I with their characterizations in List-II:

List - I
(a) Initial
(b) Repeatable
(c) Defined
(d) Managed
(e) Optimizing

List - II
(i) Processes are improved quantitatively and continually.
(ii) The plan for a project comes from a template for plans.
(iii) The plan uses processes that can be measured quantitatively.
(iv) There may not exist a plan or it may be abandoned.
(v) There’s a plan and people stick to it.

Code:
(a) (b) (c) (d) (e)

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Q. Coupling is a measure of the strength of the interconnections between software modules. Which of the following are correct statements with respect to module coupling?

P: Common coupling occurs when one module controls the flow of another module by passing it information on what to do.
Q: In data coupling, the complete data structure is passed from one module to another through parameters.
R: Stamp coupling occurs when modules share a composite data structure and use only parts of it.

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Q. A software design pattern often used to restrict access to an object is:

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Q. Reasons to re-engineer a software include :

P: Allow legacy software to quickly adapt to the changing requirements
Q: Upgrade to newer technologies/platforms/paradigm (for example, object-oriented)
R: Improve software maintainability
S: Allow change in the functionality and architecture of the software

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Q. Which of the following is not a key strategy followed by the clean room approach to software development?

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Q. Which of the following statements is/are True?

P: Refactoring is the process of changing a software system in such a way that it does not alter the external behaviour of the code yet improves the internal architecture.
Q: An example of refactoring is adding new features to satisfy a customer requirement discovered after a project is shipped.

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Q. Software does not wear-out in the traditional sense of the term, but software does tend to deteriorate as it evolves, because

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Q. Software re-engineering is concerned with:

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Q. Which of the following is not a key issue stressed by an agile philosophy of software engineering?

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Q. What is the normal order of activities in which traditional software testing is organized?

(a) Integration Testing
(b) System Testing
(c) Unit Testing
(d) Validation Testing

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Q. Which of the following testing techniques ensures that the software product runs correctly after the changes during maintenance?

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Q. Which of the following statements about ERP system is true?

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Q. Statistical software quality assurance in software engineering involves ................

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Q. Which of the following statements is/are FALSE with respect to software testing?

S1 : White-box tests are based on specifications; better at telling whether program meets specification, better at finding errors of ommission.
S2 : Black-box tests are based on code; better for finding crashes, out of bounds errors, file not closed errors.
S3 : Alpha testing is conducted at the developer’s site by a team of highly skilled testers for software that is developed as a product to be used by many customers.

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Q. A signal processor software is expected to operate for 91.25 days after repair, and the mean software repair time is expected to be 5 minutes. Then, the availability of the software is :

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Q. A simple stand - alone software utility is to be developed in ’C’ programming by a team of software experts for a computer running Linux and the overall size of this software is estimated to be 20,000 lines of code. Considering (a, b) = (2.4, 1.05) as multiplicative and exponention factor for the basic COCOMO effort estimation equation and (c, d)=(2.5, 0.38) as multiplicative and exponention factor for the basic COCOMO development time estimation equation, approximately how long does the software project take to complete?

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Q. In Software Configuration Management (SCM), which of the following is a use-case supported by standard version control systems?

(a) Managing several versions or releases of a software
(b) Filing bug reports and tracking their progress
(c) Allowing team members to work in parallel
(d) Identifying when and where a regression occurred

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Q. Software engineering primary aims on

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Q. A good specification should be

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