Software Engineering Quiz 2: 24 March 2024 (January 2024 term)

Consider the following requirements for a mobile app that enables its customers to choose and order various grocery items:
Requirement 1: The mobile app must be able to support a minimum of 100 simultaneous client requests.
Requirement 2: The mobile app must enable the customer to search for various grocery items. Requirement 3: The mobile app must be able to display different brand options available for each grocery item.
Requirement 4: Once a customer places an order, the mobile app must be able to generate the invoice and delivery information within a second.
Which of the following statements is true?

Suppose the risk assessed for budget slippage is 1.8. The probability of budget slippage occurring during project development is 0.6. What is the impact of budget slippage in the project development?

An organization came up with a new text editor that has an AI-enabled feature: when the user types a sentence along with indicating the spelling and grammar mistakes, the text editor provides several suggestions with different ways the sentence can be paraphrased. However, the text editor does not have any auto-saving features. Therefore, if the editor accidentally closes, the entire document gets lost. Furthermore, if the user tries to close an unsaved document, it does not prompt the user to save it.
What kind of usability goal is missing from the mobile app?

Consider an instant messaging software that enables users to chat and communicate through voice and video calls directly with each other. The messages and media files are exchanged between users without a centralized server.
What type of software architecture is most likely used for the instant messaging software?

Suppose you are developing a ticketing-based support application for an e-learning platform. While developing the application, you have used some APIs for which you do not have access to the internal code implementation. Therefore, you have decided to refer to documentation and code examples to understand the proper usage of the APIs.
What type of debugging strategy are you using in the given scenario?

Which of the following UML diagrams models the sequence of message exchanges between various parts of a software system?

Consider developing a music production software that helps musicians create high-quality tracks. Suppose it has a specific module that enhances the sound quality. The module has a number of functions that are applied in a sequence to enhance the sound quality. The functions are designed in such a way that the output of one function is used as input for the next function in the sequence.
Identify the type of cohesion that is applied for the module.

Which of the following best defines the type of software, like VSCode, PyCharm, or Thonny?

Consider a software company that is developing a new IDE for Python. The IDE has a feature that, when it catches any syntax error, along with displaying the error message, it also suggests to the user (the programmer) different possible corrections for that error.
Which of the design heuristics is best fulfilled in this given scenario?

Consider the design of an online medicine application in which each module performs a single objective, and modules are highly dependent on each other as they share a large amount of common data.
Identify the correct statement about the modules of the given application.

Which of the scrum activities involves the development team, the scrum owner, and the product manager, where each member talks about what work he or she has done last day, what work he or she will do today, and the issues that are blocking his or her work?

Suppose you are developing a web service that provides services for checking spelling and grammatical mistakes and also suggesting possible corrections. Any text editor can consume these services to enable spelling and grammar checks and correction suggestions.
Identify the type of client for the web service discussed above.

Which of the following is/are the main advantages of prototype model?

Consider that a software company is developing a language-learning app that helps its customers learn new languages and also access language skills. However, after the release of the app, it has been found that the app is not competitive in the market.
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.

Identify the type of the risk in the given scenario.

Consider that a software company is developing a language-learning app that helps its customers learn new languages and also access language skills. However, after the release of the app, it has been found that the app is not competitive in the market.
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.

Select the correct option that specifies how the risk can be mitigated.