Software Engineering Quiz 2: 3 August 2025 (May 2025 term)

You're tasked with building a digital wallet feature for an e-commerce platform. Your team suggests directly looking into how similar apps like Paytm and PhonePe work.
Which of the following best describes the activity being performed?

You are developing an online education platform. Professors use the system to upload materials, students access the content, and the university’s accreditation body occasionally reviews course reports generated from the system.
Which of the following correctly categorizes the stakeholders?

One stakeholder wants user passwords to expire every 30 days. Another insists users must not be forced to change passwords more than once a year.
What kind of requirement issue is this?

While designing the seller portal's financial features, your team needs to comply with local banking regulations on fund transfers. You refer to official banking policies and competitor portal FAQs.
Which requirement gathering technique does this illustrate?

A startup is developing an app for food delivery. They’ve created clickable images of app screens using PowerPoint and ask users to try placing a test order.
What kind of prototype is being used?

A Scrum team has assigned point values to each user story. In their first sprint, they completed 2 stories totaling 5 points.
What is the estimated velocity of the team?

A company develops a mobile game for low-end devices. During design, the team restricts image resolution and optimizes memory usage by reusing textures.
Which quality of good design is being prioritized here?

A programmer is working with a third-party Python API for image processing. Their code compiles, but the output image is not what they expected. They cannot see or change the library’s internal code.
Which debugging technique should they use?

A file-sharing system allows users to both download and upload files from / to other users without relying on any central server. Each user system shares a part of their storage. What architecture is being described?

Your team developed a system over 12 months using a strict sequential process. After the final release, the client expresses dissatisfaction due to misunderstood requirements. What was the likely development model?

In an e-commerce system, the SellerModule calls a function in the InventoryModule using a variable operationFlag to decide whether to view, add, or delete a product. Which type of coupling is present?

In an online seller portal, the Seller class uses the Inventory class’s viewInventory(sellerID) method to fetch the list of products. Additionally, the Inventory class implements an interface
InventoryInterface that defines standard inventory operations.
Which of the following relationships can be identified from this scenario?

A team is designing a new tax filing software for first-time users. Which of the following features would most likely improve the learnability of their system?

In a distributed software development environment, why is it important to define interfaces clearly before implementing components?

A module in your project depends on a third-party payment gateway. During testing, you discover it is not functioning properly due to a known bug in the vendor’s code.
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.

Based on the scenario, which category does this risk most appropriately fall under?

A module in your project depends on a third-party payment gateway. During testing, you discover it is not functioning properly due to a known bug in the vendor’s code.
Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.

What is the most suitable way to mitigate the risk described in the scenario?

Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.

What is the estimated initial effort for the dashboard system?

Based on the above data, answer the given subquestions.