Free Software Engineering Trivia Questions and Answers

Question 1

The person who makes use of a product once it has undergone thorough development and marketing.

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End-User

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Project Manager

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Programmer

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Project Leader

Question 2

The person who is entirely responsible for the project's success and is answerable to the sponsors and stakeholders.

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Project Manager

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Systems Analyst

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End-User

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Project Leader

Question 3

A specific kind of software life cycle activity that entails assessing the value of a proposed development.

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Feasibility

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Requirement elicitation

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Domain analysis

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Market analysis

Question 4

A specific kind of software life cycle activity where the user's needs are collected.

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Requirement elicitation

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Domain analysis

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Feasibility

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Market analysis

Question 5

Which deliverable document lists the tasks in order and estimates how much time and effort will be required?

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Project schedule

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Software test plan

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Source code

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None of the above

Question 6

One of the fundamental principles of XP is that all production code must be created by two programmers simultaneously at the same machine or location. This is a revision stage that has gone above and beyond. At least one other person always reviews every piece of code.

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Pair programming

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Design improvement (refactoring)

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Test-driven development

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None of the above

Question 7

What are the fundamental principles of extreme programming?

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All of the above

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Feedback at many different levels

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Communication between team members and with the customer

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Simplicity in design and code

Question 8

A particular type of software life cycle activity that entails creating the program and translating the design into code.

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Implementation

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Interface design

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Architectural design

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Detailed design

Question 9

A particular type software life cycle activity where the original developer tests the software.

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Unit testing

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Regression testing

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System testing

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Acceptance testing

Question 10

What are a few examples of conventional process models?

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Waterfall, Incremental, Spiral

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Waterfall, XP, Spiral

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Spiral, XP, Agile

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None of the above