FOR 2022
INF3705 – 2021 Nov Exam MCQ Notes
2021 Assignment 1 Memo (own)........................................................................................................... 2
2021 Assignment 1 Memo (other student)............................................................................................. 7
2021 Assignment 2 Memo (own)......................................................................................................... 11
2021 Assignment 2 Memo (other student)...........................................................................................16
2021 Practice Assessment.................................................................................................................. 20
2020 Assignment 1 Memo................................................................................................................... 29
2020 Assignment 2 Memo................................................................................................................... 32
Random MCQ Notes........................................................................................................................... 35
MCQs Per Chapter - 2020............................................................................................................... 35
Chapter 2...................................................................................................................................... 35
Chapter 3...................................................................................................................................... 37
Chapter 4...................................................................................................................................... 38
Chapter 5...................................................................................................................................... 39
Chapter 8...................................................................................................................................... 41
Chapter 10.................................................................................................................................... 42
Chapter 17.................................................................................................................................... 45
Chapter 18.................................................................................................................................... 47
Chapter 19.................................................................................................................................... 49
Telegram Upload “More extras”........................................................................................................ 50
Chapter 8 Additional MyUNISA Questions.......................................................................................51
Notes based on common pages asked in MCQs.................................................................................52
Chapter 1 – Introduction (17)........................................................................................................... 52
Key Points.................................................................................................................................... 52
Other Notes.................................................................................................................................. 53
Chapter 2 – Software processes (43)...............................................................................................54
Key Points.................................................................................................................................... 54
Other Notes.................................................................................................................................. 54
Chapter 3 – Agile software development (72)..................................................................................55
Key Points.................................................................................................................................... 55
Other Notes.................................................................................................................................. 55
Chapter 4 – Requirements engineering (101)..................................................................................57
Key Points.................................................................................................................................... 57
Other Notes.................................................................................................................................. 57
Chapter 5 – System modeling (138)................................................................................................. 58
Key Points.................................................................................................................................... 58
Other Notes.................................................................................................................................. 59
Chapter 6 – Architectural design (167)............................................................................................. 60
Key Points.................................................................................................................................... 60
Other Notes.................................................................................................................................. 60
Chapter 7 – Design and implementation (196).................................................................................61
Key Points.................................................................................................................................... 61
, Other Notes.................................................................................................................................. 61
Chapter 8 – Software testing (226).................................................................................................. 62
Key Points.................................................................................................................................... 62
Other notes................................................................................................................................... 62
Chapter 9 – Software evolution (255)...............................................................................................63
Key Points.................................................................................................................................... 63
Other Notes.................................................................................................................................. 64
Chapter 10 – Dependable systems (285).........................................................................................65
Key Points.................................................................................................................................... 65
Other Notes.................................................................................................................................. 65
Chapter 11 – Reliability engineering (306).......................................................................................66
Key Points.................................................................................................................................... 66
Other Notes.................................................................................................................................. 66
Chapter 12 – Safety engineering (339)............................................................................................67
Key Points.................................................................................................................................... 67
Other Notes.................................................................................................................................. 68
Chapter 15 – Software reuse (437).................................................................................................. 68
Key Points.................................................................................................................................... 68
Other Notes.................................................................................................................................. 68
Chapter 18 – Service-oriented software engineering (520)..............................................................69
Key Points.................................................................................................................................... 69
Other Notes.................................................................................................................................. 69
Chapter 19 – Systems engineering (551).........................................................................................70
Key Points.................................................................................................................................... 70
Other Notes.................................................................................................................................. 70
2021 Assignment 1 Memo (own)
Part 1 of 9 - chapter 1 Questions
Question 1 of 25
Which of the following doesn't form part of the key challenges facing software engineering?
A. Coping with increasing diversity
B. Demand for reduced delivery times
C. demanding trustworthy software
D. Focus of Computer science theory and fundamentals
Page 20.
Question 2 of 25
Software engineering is an engineering discipline that is concerned with?
A. All aspects of software development
B. Only software design and development
C. Agility software development
D. System development life cycle
Page 20.
,Part 2 of 9 - Chapter 2 Questions
Question 3 of 25
Which one of the following is a major advantage of incremental development over the waterfall
model?
A. the cost of software re-engineering
B. stand-alone application systems
C. the cost of implementing requirements
D. web services that are developed according to the service standards
Page 50.
Question 4 of 25
Incremental development has three major advantages over waterfall model. Which of the following
doesn't form part of the major advantage ?
A. The early delivery and development of useful software
B. The easy way to get customer feedback
C. The cost of implements
D. The system structure that tends to degrades new increments
Page 51 – this is mentioned as a disadvantage.
Question 5 of 25
The stages of the waterfall model directly reflect the fundamental software activities such as?
A. integration and configuration
B. Integration and system testing
C. Requirement analysis and definition
D. Incremental development
Pages 47-48.
Part 3 of 9 - Chapter 3 Questions
Question 6 of 25
A fundamental requirement of scaling agile method is to?
A. allow customer involvement
B. keep customer involved
C. embrace change
D. integrate them with plan driven approaches
Page 91.
Question 7 of 25
Agile approach to software development consists of design and implementation to be?
A. ventral activities to the software design phase
B. central activities in the software process
C. part of the final products
D. part of the development process
Page 74.
Part 4 of 9 - chapter 4 Questions
Question 8 of 25
, When a standard format is used for specifying functional requirements, the following information
should be included?
A. A description of its inputs and the origins of those inputs
B. A description of software ethnography
C. A description of requirement elicitation
D. A description of standard formats
Page 123.
Question 9 of 25
Which of the following is not part of the non-functional requirements?
A. Robustness
B. Efficiency requirements
C. Product requirements
D. Usability requirements
Figure 4.3 on page 108.
Question 10 of 25
The aims of requirement elicitation process are to?
A. understanding the work that stakeholders do
B. understanding the requirements discovery process
C. understanding the work that system developers do
D. understanding requirement classification
Page 112.
Part 5 of 9 - chapter 5 Questions
Question 11 of 25
Model of the new system are used during requirement engineering to?
A. Help clarify what the existing system does
B. help to explain the proposed requirements to other system stakeholder
C. help to keep he focus on the stakeholder’s discussion
D. help with external perspective
Page 139.
Question 12 of 25
Which of the following doesn’t form part of the four fundamental view?
A. Stakeholder view
B. A process view
C. A development view
D. A logic view
Page 174.
Question 13 of 25
Which of the following doesn't form part of the UML diagram?
A. Activity diagrams
B. Use case diagrams
C. development diagrams
D. Sequence diagrams