Engineering Questions with Answers - Multiple Choice Questions
Software Engineering MCQ – Software Reliability Models
1 - Question
Which one is not a software quality model?
a) ISO 9000
b) McCall model
c) Boehm model
d) ISO 9126
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Answer: a
Explanation: ISO 9000 is software certification.
2 - Question
How many levels are present in CMM?
a) three
b) four
c) five
d) six
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Answer: c
Explanation: The five levels are: initial, repeatable, defined, managed, optimizing.
3 - Question
Which level of CMM is for process management?
a) Initial
b) Repeatable
c) Defined
d) Optimizing
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Answer: d
Explanation: It is a characteristic of processes at this level that the focus is on continually improving process performance through both incremental and innovative technological changes/improvements.
4 - Question
In ISO 9126, time behavior and resource utilization are a part of
a) maintainability
b) portability
c) efficiency
d) usability
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Answer: c
Explanation: A set of attributes that bear on the relationship between the level of performance of the software and the amount of resources used, under stated conditions.
5 - Question
Which of the following is not a Probabilistic Model?
a) Error seeding
b) NHPP
c) Input domain
d) Halstead’s software metric
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Answer: d
Explanation: Halstead’s software metric is a deterministic model.
6 - Question
Software reliability is defined with respect to
a) time
b) bugs
c) failures
d) quality
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Answer: a
Explanation: None.
7 - Question
Failure In Time (FIT) is another way of reporting
a) MTTR
b) MTTF
c) MTSF
d) MTBF
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Answer: d
Explanation: FIT reports the number of expected failures per one billion hours of operation for a device. This term is used particularly by the semiconductor industry but is also used by component manufacturers .
8 - Question
MTTF stands for
a) Minimum time to failure
b) Mean time to failure
c) Maximum time to failure
d) None of the mentioned
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Answer: b
Explanation: None.
9 - Question
Mean Time To Repair (MTTR) is the time needed to repair a failed hardware module.
a) True
b) False
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Answer: a
Explanation: In an operational system, repair generally means replacing a failed hardware part. Thus, hardware MTTR could be viewed as mean time to replace a failed hardware module.
10 - Question
IMC Networks is a leading ________ certified manufacturer of optical networking and LAN/WAN connectivity solutions for enterprise, telecommunications and service provider applications.
a) Telco Systems
b) D-Link
c) Arista Networks
d) ISO 9001
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Answer: a
Explanation: Founded in 1988, with over one million products installed worldwide, IMC Networks offers a wide range of fiber media and mode converters for a variety of applications.