SET 2 SE / CN / OS

1. Engineers developing software should not

a) be dependent on their colleagues
b) maintain integrity and independence in their professional judgment
c) not knowingly accept work that is outside your competence
d) not use your technical skills to misuse other people’s computers

2. __________ is not suitable for accommodating any change?

a) RAD Model
b) Waterfall Model
c) Build & Fix Model
d) Prototyping Model

3. The model which has a major disadvantage in terms of the coding phase of a
software life cycle model is ________
a) Rad Model
b) Spiral Model
c) 4GT Model
d) Waterfall Model

4. Adaptive Software Development(ASD) has which of the following three

framework activities?
a) speculation, collaboration, learning
b) analysis, design, coding
c) requirements gathering, adaptive cycle planning, iterative development
d) all of the mentioned

5. Which of the following is not a project factor that should be considered when
planning the structure of software developing teams?
a) The rigidity of the delivery date
b) The degree of sociability required for the project
c) High frustration caused by personal, business, or technological factors that
causes friction among team members
d) The difficulty of the problem to be solved

6. What is the full form of the “COCOMO” model?

a) Cost Constructive Estimation Model
b) Constructive Cost Estimation Model
c) Constructive Case Estimation Model
d) Constructive Cost Estimating Model

7. Which one of the following is not a software process quality?

a) Visibility
b) Timeliness
c) Productivity
d) Portability

8. Cleanroom software development process complies with the operational analysis

principles by using a method called known as
a) referential transparency
b) degenerative error correction
c) box structure specification
d) none of the mentioned

9. What is system software?

a) computer program
b) Testing
c) AI
d) IOT

10. Quality Management is known as _______

a) SQI
b) SQA
c) SQM
d) SQA and SQM

11. _____________ is the definition of objects in the database that leads directly to
a standard approach for the creation of software documentation.
a) Data/data integration
b) Information sharing
c) Document standardization
d) Data integrity

12. ______________ is an indirect measure of software development process.

a) Cost
b) Effort Applied
c) Efficiency
d) All of the mentioned
13. According to an IBM research, “31% of projects are abandoned before they are
completed, 53% exceed their cost projections by an average of 189 percent, and 94
projects are restarted for every 100 projects.” What is the significance of these
figures?
a) Lack of software ethics and understanding
b) Management issues in the company
c) Lack of adequate training
d) All of the mentioned

14. Which of the following document contains the user system requirements?
a) SRD
b) DDD
c) SDD
d) SRS

15. _____________ specification is also known as SRS document.

a) white-box
b) grey-box
c) black-box
d) none of the mentioned

16. Which of the following is not a part of Software evolution?

a) Re-engineering activities
b) Maintenance activities
c) Development activities
d) Negotiating with client

17. ___________ is a Strategy to achieve Software diversity.

a) Explicit specification of different algorithms
b) Different programming languages
c) Different design methods and tools
d) All of the mentioned

18. In which step of SDLC actual programming of software code is done?

a) Development and Documentation
b) Maintenance and Evaluation
c) Design
d) Analysis
19. Software Debugging is known as _________________
a) identifying the task to be computerized
b) creating program code
c) creating the algorithm
d) finding and correcting errors in the program code

20. The word which describes the importance of software design is?
a) Complexity
b) Quality
c) Efficiency
d) Accuracy

Computer Network
1. Which type of network shares the communication channel among all the
machines?
a) anycast network
b) multicast network
c) unicast network
d) broadcast network

2. Which topology requires a multipoint connection?

a) Ring
b) Bus
c) Star
d) Mesh

3. Which of the following maintains the Domain Name System?

a) a single server
b) a single computer
c) distributed database system
d) none of the mentioned

4. When discussing IDS/IPS, what is a signature?

a) It refers to “normal,” baseline network behavior
b) It is used to authorize the users on a network
c) An electronic signature used to authenticate the identity of a user on the network
d) Attack-definition file

5. Which of the following are Gigabit Ethernets?

a) 1000 BASE-LX
b) 1000 BASE-CX
c) 1000 BASE-SX
d) All of the mentioned

6. Which of the following networks extends a private network across public

networks?
a) virtual private network
b) local area network
c) storage area network
d) enterprise private network

7. Which layer is responsible for process to process delivery in a general network

model?
a) session layer
b) data link layer
c) transport layer
d) network layer

8. What does each packet contain in a virtual circuit network?

a) only source address
b) only destination address
c) full source and destination address
d) a short VC number

9. What is the term for the data communication system within a building or
campus?
a) MAN
b) LAN
c) PAN
d) WAN

10. What was the name of the first network?

a) ASAPNET
b) ARPANET
c) CNNET
d) NSFNET

11. Which of the following is the network layer protocol for the internet?
a) hypertext transfer protocol
b) file transfer protocol
c) ethernet
d) internet protocol

12. Which network topology requires a central controller or hub?

a) Ring
b) Bus
c) Star
d) Mesh

13. If a link transmits 4000 frames per second, and each slot has 8 bits, what is the
transmission rate of the circuit using Time Division Multiplexing (TDM)?
a) 500kbps
b) 32kbps
c) 32bps
d) 500bps

14. Which of the following allows LAN users to share computer programs and
data?
a) File server
b) Network
c) Communication server
d) Print server

15. What type of transmission is involved in communication between a computer

and a keyboard?
a) Half-duplex
b) Full-duplex
c) Simplex
d) Automatic
 Operating System

1. What is an operating system?

a) collection of programs that manages hardware resources
b) system service provider to the application programs
c) interface between the hardware and application programs
d) all of the mentioned
2. To access the services of operating system, the interface is provided by the
___________
a) System calls
b) API
c) Library
d) Assembly instructions

3. Which one of the following is not true?

a) kernel is the program that constitutes the central core of the operating system
b) kernel is the first part of operating system to load into memory during booting
c) kernel is made of various modules which can not be loaded in running operating
system
d) kernel remains in the memory during the entire computer session

4. Which one of the following error will be handle by the operating system?
a) power failure
b) lack of paper in printer
c) connection failure in the network
d) all of the mentioned

5. What is the main function of the command interpreter?

a) to get and execute the next user-specified command
b) to provide the interface between the API and application program
c) to handle the files in operating system
d) none of the mentioned

6. In Operating Systems, which of the following is/are CPU scheduling

algorithms?
a) Round Robin
b) Shortest Job First
c) Priority
d) All of the mentioned
7. If a process fails, most operating system write the error information to a ______
a) log file
b) another running process
c) new file
d) none of the mentioned
.
8. Which facility dynamically adds probes to a running system, both in user
processes and in the kernel?
a) DTrace
b) DLocate
c) DMap
d) DAdd

9. Which one of the following is not a real time operating system?

a) VxWorks
b) QNX
c) RTLinux
d) Palm OS

10. The OS X has ____________

a) monolithic kernel
b) hybrid kernel
c) microkernel
d) monolithic kernel with modules

11. A Process Control Block(PCB) does not contain which of the following?
a) Code
b) Stack
c) Bootstrap program
d) Data

12. The number of processes completed per unit time is known as __________
a) Output
b) Throughput
c) Efficiency
d) Capacity

13. The state of a process is defined by __________

a) the final activity of the process
b) the activity just executed by the process
c) the activity to next be executed by the process
d) the current activity of the process
.

14. Which of the following is not the state of a process?

a) New
b) Old
c) Waiting
d) Running

15. What is a Process Control Block?

a) Process type variable
b) Data Structure
c) A secondary storage section
d) A Block in memory
Explanation: A Process Control Block (PCB) is a data structure. It contains
information related to a process such as Process State, Program Counter, CPU
Register, etc. Process Control Block is also known as Task Control Block.