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TECH/ CSE/EVEN/SEM – 6/ CS603/2018-2019
2019
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
CS603
TIME ALLOTTED : 3 Hrs FULL MARKS : 70
The figures in the margin indicate full marks.
Candidates are required to give their answers in their own words as far as practicable
GROUP – A
(Multiple Choice Type Questions)
1. Answer any ten from the following, choosing the correct alternative of each question: 10×1=10
CO No.
(i) The most important feature of Spiral model is CO1
a. Requirement Analysis
b. Quality Management
c. Risk Management
d. Configuration Management
(ii) Barry Bohem has proposed CO1
a. Waterfall model
b. Spiral model
c. V- Model
d. RAD model
(iii) Equivalence class partitioning is followed in CO3
a. White box testing
b. Black box testing
c. Both (a) and (b)
d. None of these
(iv) Alpha- testing is done by CO5
a. The development team
b. A friendly set of customers
c. The customer himself
d. None of these
(v) A COCOMO model is CO5
a. Common cost estimation model
b. Complete cost estimation model
c. Constructive cost estimation model
d. Comprehensive cost estimation model
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(vi) Cardinality in an ER diagram refers to CO2
a. Number of attributes in an entity
b. The order of co-related entities
c. The number of sub-entities
d. Degree of a relationship
(vii) All critical path activities have slack time of CO5
a. 0
b. 1
c. 2
d. None of these
(viii) Alpha & Beta testing are forms of CO4
a. Acceptance testing
b. System testing
c. Integration testing
d. Unit testing
(ix) Case tool is CO3
a. computer aided software engineering
b. component aided software engineering
c. constructive aided software engineering
d. computer analysis software engineering
(x) In function point analysis the number of adjustment factors based on CO5
system characteristics to refine unadjusted function point is
a. 12
b. 10
c. 20
d. 14
(xi) Which is not a size measure for software CO5
a. LOC
b. Function point
c. Cyclomatic complexity
d. Halstead’s program length
(xii) Which of the following is not a core step of Six Sigma? CO5
a. Define
b. Control
c. Measure
d. Analysis
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GROUP – B
(Short Answer Type Questions)
(Answer any three of the following) 3 x 5 = 15
CO No.
2. a) What are cohesion and coupling? 02 CO3
b) Mention different kinds of cohesion. 03 CO3
3.a) What is Use case diagram? 01 CO3
b) Draw the use case diagram of hospital management system. 04 CO3
4. What are different levels of testing and their goals? 05 CO4
5.a) What are CASE tools? 03 CO5
b) How they are helpful in software development life cycle? 02 CO1
6. What are the advantages of SRS document? 5 CO2
GROUP – C
(Long Answer Type Questions)
(Answer any three of the following) 3 x 15 = 45
CO No.
7. a) Differentiate between high level design and low level design. 03 CO3
b) “A good design should have high cohesion and low coupling” – explain 03 CO3
the statement.
c) What are the differences between logical and physical DFD? 03 CO3
d) Draw and explain the DFD for an ATM transaction system. 06 CO3
8. a) Assume that size of software product has been estimated to be 32000 09 CO4
lines of source code. Estimate the effort required to develop the product
and nominal development time for organic, semi-detached and
embedded system respectively.
b) Write a C program to calculate GCD of two numbers and calculate the 06 CO5
cyclomatic complexity of the program.
9. a) Define software reliability. 02 CO4
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b) What the different reliability metrics? 03 CO4
c) What is SQA? 01 CO4
d) Consider a software project with 5 activities T1 to T5. Duration of 5 05 CO5
activities in weeks are 3, 2,3,5,2 respectively. T2 and T4 can start when
T1 is complete. T3 can start when T2 is complete.T5 can start when both
T3 and T4 are complete.
Draw activity network for the project. When is the latest start date of the
activity T3? What is the float of the activity T4? Which activities are on
the critical path?
e) Discuss briefly the standard ways in which software organization and 04 CO5
teams can be structured.
10. a) Explain Waterfall model with proper diagram 09 CO1
b) What are the advantages of spiral model? 06 CO1
11. Write short notes on any three of the following:
a) Feasibility studies 05 CO1
b) RAD model 05 CO1
c) CASE tools 05 CO5
d) Quality Assurance 05 CO3
e) Black box testing. 05 CO5
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