The IIT Madras BS Software Engineering (Software Engineering) End Term paper sat on 1 Sept 2024, in the May 2024 term, set QDB3: 26 questions for 100 marks in 180 minutes. Every question is below with its answer. Take it as a timed mock test to be marked, or read it through first.
Which of the following is the primary responsibility of the marketing team at a software company?
To communicate with users and create prototypes.
To conduct market research to identify potential customers.
To analyze data generated from various teams and users in order to assist the organization in making better decisions.
To address and resolve issues that clients encounter.
Correct answer
To conduct market research to identify potential customers.
In the scrum framework, which role is responsible to keep track of all the activities of a given sprint and ensuring that all the activities are completed successfully?
Product owner
Scrum master
Development team
Client
Correct answer
Scrum master
Consider a software module in which all the functions refer to or update the same data structure. Identify the type of cohesion the given module has.
Coincidental cohesion
Procedural cohesion
Communicational cohesion
Sequential Cohesion
Correct answer
Communicational cohesion
Which of the following diagrams models the flow of control among computational activities?
Class diagram
State machine diagram
Activity view
Interaction view
Correct answer
Activity view
1-B, 2-D, 3-C, 4-A
1-B, 2-D, 3-A, 4-C
1-B, 2-C, 3-A, 4-D
1-C, 2-A, 3-B, 4-D
Correct answer
1-B, 2-C, 3-A, 4-D
During debugging, a developer finds out the event that trigger incorrect behavior. He follows data control flow ahead until incorrect state reached.
Which of the following debugging strategies was chosen by the developer?
Input manipulation
Backwards strategy
Forwards strategy
Blackbox debugging
Correct answer
Forwards strategy
Which type of deployment environment is also known as the live environment where all the users can interact with the deployed system?
Development
Testing
Staging
Production
Correct answer
Production
Which of the following is considered as the primary objective of caching to enhance performance of web applications?
It stores the results of common operations in memory.
It executes time consuming tasks outside the HTTP request-response cycle.
It compresses static pages.
It can be used to analyze page resources, find optimization suggestions, check SEO and accessibility metrics and calculate your performance score.
Correct answer
It stores the results of common operations in memory.
In which of the software deployment strategies the users are allowed to choose the versions of software they want to use?
Blue/Green deployment
Canary deployment
Versioned deployment
None of these
Correct answer
Versioned deployment
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96
338
57
Correct answer
96
Suppose you are creating a prototype for a web application using tools like Photoshop and PowerPoint.
In the above case, identify the type of prototype technique you have chosen.
Storyboards
Paper prototype
Digital mock-ups
Interactive prototype
Correct answer
Digital mock-ups
Consider a scenario where a bus company has decided not to allow seat bookings for their bus more than three months in advance. As a result, on their bus booking website, the UI does not allow you to select a booking date that is more than three months away. Which of the following heuristics for UI evaluation does the app satisfy?
Prevent errors
Show status
Support error recovery
Provide help
Correct answer
Prevent errors
Consider an EdTech company that decided to develop an educational portal based on GenAI services. To collect requirements for the proposed development, the company needs to gather responses from a very large group of users who are largely spread all over the world. Which of the following requirement gathering techniques will be most suitable in the given scenario?
Questionnaires
Interviews
Focus group
Documentations
Correct answer
Questionnaires
Which of the SMART characteristics of user stories specifies that the story must provide business value to one or more stakeholders?
Specific
Measurable
Achievable
Relevant
Timeboxed
Correct answer
Relevant
A software company has developed and released a job portal that allows job seekers to apply for different organizations at different positions. Following its release, the company received numerous complaints stating that the website generates an internal server error when an applicant enters 0 in the experience field. The software company has decided to correct the problem. Identify the phase in which the correction has to be made.
Requirements gathering
Design
Development
Testing
Maintenance
Correct answer
Maintenance
Consider the Python function below.
What is the cyclomatic complexity of the function?
2
3
4
5
Correct answer
3
Consider a mobile app that enables users to send and receive music files and audio messages directly from each other. Users exchange music files and audio messages without the need for a centralized server.
What kind of software architecture does the mobile app most likely use?
Client-server system
Pipe and filter
Model view controller
Peer-to-peer architecture
Correct answer
Peer-to-peer architecture
Consider the following table for risk assessment of a software project.
Which of the following risks has the most impact to the project?
Personnel shortfall
Shortcomings in external components
Schedule slippage
Product not competitive in the market
Correct answer
Shortcomings in external components
Iterator design pattern
Adapter design pattern
Strategy design pattern
Facade design pattern
Correct answer
Adapter design pattern
Which of the following is/are the benefit(s) of using knowledge sharing tools?
It helps to document and archive the knowledge of one project that might be required in some other project.
It helps all members of the team to get a big picture as well as detailed view of progress.
It helps in easy migration of developers between different projects.
It helps the developers to become more productive by using tools like IDEs.
Correct answers
It helps to document and archive the knowledge of one project that might be required in some other project.
It helps in easy migration of developers between different projects.
Which of the following is/are true about the staging environment of deployment?
It is also known as pre-production environment.
It is also known as live environment where all the users can interact with the deployed system.
It is the local environment for individual developers that provides IDEs and other tools.
It exactly resembles the production environment, and it runs on a remote machine.
Correct answers
It is also known as pre-production environment.
It exactly resembles the production environment, and it runs on a remote machine.
{income = 0, income = 150000}
{income = -100, income = 0, income = 15000, income = 150000}
{income = -100, income = 7000, income = 15000, income = 150000}
{income = 0, income = 7000, income = 15000, income = 150000}
Correct answers
{income = -100, income = 7000, income = 15000, income = 150000}
{income = 0, income = 7000, income = 15000, income = 150000}
A inherits from B
B is composition of A
B is associated with C
A is composition of D and E
Correct answers
B is composition of A
B is associated with C
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
Identify the set(s) of valid test cases for branch coverage.
{-5, 5}
{-5, 0, 2, 5}
{-5, 2, 5, 10}
{-5, 0, 1, 2, 5}
Correct answers
{-5, 0, 2, 5}
{-5, 0, 1, 2, 5}
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
Identify the set(s) of valid test cases for multiple condition coverage.
{-5, 5}
{-5, 0, 2, 5}
{-5, 2, 5, 10}
{-5, 0, 1, 2, 5}
Correct answer
{-5, 0, 1, 2, 5}
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.
Identify the number of linearly independent paths in the code base.
2
3
4
5
Correct answer
4
