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Software Engineering Exam Questions With
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Software Engineering - answer✔Multi-person construction of multi-person software.
System - answer✔Purposeful collection of interrelated components working together to
achieve a common goal.
Requirements Engineering - answer✔The process of eliciting: The services that the customer
requires from a system. The constraints under which it operates and is developed.
Requirements - answer✔Descriptions of the system services and constraints that are generated
during the requirement engineering process.
User Requirements - answer✔Statements in natural language and diagrams of the system
services and operational constraints. Written for customers, so it must use their language and
mental model. Understandable for users who don't have detailed technical knowledge. UML is
your friend.
System Requirements - answer✔A structured document setting out detailed descriptions of the
system's functions, services, and operational constraints. Defines what should be implemented.
Must be concise in their technical effects.
Functional Requirements - answer✔Statements of services the system should provide. How the
system should react to particular inputs. How the system should behave in particular situation.
Examples of Functional Requirements - answer✔"A library system that provides a single
interface to a number of databases of articles in different libraries". "Users can search for and
download this articles for personal study". "Users shall be able to search either all of the initial
set of databases or select a subset from it". "The system shall provide appropriate viewers for
the users to read documents in the document store".
Non-Functional Requirements - answer✔These define system properties and constraints.
Properties: reliability, response time, storage requirements.
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Constraints: security, legal impacts, domain expert workflow.
Process Requirements: (e.g.,) a particular programming language.
Example of Non-Functional Requirements - answer✔"The user interface for LIBSYS shall be
implemented as simple HTML without frames or Java applets". "The system shall not disclose
any personal information about customers apart from their name and their registration
identification number"."The system architecture shall be constructed according to the WC3
standards".
UML - answer✔Unified Modelling Language: Standard language for specifying, visualising,
constructing, and documenting all the artefacts of a software system during the software
lifecycle.
UML Diagram Types - answer✔Behavioural.
Functional.
Structural.
Behavioural Diagrams - answer✔Activity Diagram.
State Diagram.
Sequence Diagram.
Structural Diagrams - answer✔Class Diagram.
Object Diagram.
Functional Diagrams - answer✔Use Case Diagram
Use Case Diagram - answer✔Functional.
Visualise relationships between actors (interacting with the system) and use cases
(functionality).
Activity Diagram - answer✔Behavioural.
A diagram that shows the flow of control and data form activity to activity.
Activity diagrams address the dynamic view of a system
Sequence Diagrams - answer✔Behavioural.
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Displays object interactions arranged in a time sequence.
How do components interact?
Class Diagrams - answer✔Structural.
Collection of objects with common structure, common behaviour, common relationships, and
common semantics.
State Transition Diagram - answer✔Behavioural.
Show life history of a given class.
Classes that have a lot of dynamic behaviour.
Design Pattern - answer✔Way of re-suing abstract knowledge about a software design problem
and its solution.
Types of design patterns - answer✔Creational
Structural
Behavioural
Behavioural patterns - answer✔Observer
Mediator
Creational patterns - answer✔Singleton
Abstract Factory
Structural patterns - answer✔Facade
Proxy
Adapter
Composite
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Software Engineering Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
Software Engineering - answer✔Multi-person construction of multi-person software.
System - answer✔Purposeful collection of interrelated components working together to
achieve a common goal.
Requirements Engineering - answer✔The process of eliciting: The services that the customer
requires from a system. The constraints under which it operates and is developed.
Requirements - answer✔Descriptions of the system services and constraints that are generated
during the requirement engineering process.
User Requirements - answer✔Statements in natural language and diagrams of the system
services and operational constraints. Written for customers, so it must use their language and
mental model. Understandable for users who don't have detailed technical knowledge. UML is
your friend.
System Requirements - answer✔A structured document setting out detailed descriptions of the
system's functions, services, and operational constraints. Defines what should be implemented.
Must be concise in their technical effects.
Functional Requirements - answer✔Statements of services the system should provide. How the
system should react to particular inputs. How the system should behave in particular situation.
Examples of Functional Requirements - answer✔"A library system that provides a single
interface to a number of databases of articles in different libraries". "Users can search for and
download this articles for personal study". "Users shall be able to search either all of the initial
set of databases or select a subset from it". "The system shall provide appropriate viewers for
the users to read documents in the document store".
Non-Functional Requirements - answer✔These define system properties and constraints.
Properties: reliability, response time, storage requirements.
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Constraints: security, legal impacts, domain expert workflow.
Process Requirements: (e.g.,) a particular programming language.
Example of Non-Functional Requirements - answer✔"The user interface for LIBSYS shall be
implemented as simple HTML without frames or Java applets". "The system shall not disclose
any personal information about customers apart from their name and their registration
identification number"."The system architecture shall be constructed according to the WC3
standards".
UML - answer✔Unified Modelling Language: Standard language for specifying, visualising,
constructing, and documenting all the artefacts of a software system during the software
lifecycle.
UML Diagram Types - answer✔Behavioural.
Functional.
Structural.
Behavioural Diagrams - answer✔Activity Diagram.
State Diagram.
Sequence Diagram.
Structural Diagrams - answer✔Class Diagram.
Object Diagram.
Functional Diagrams - answer✔Use Case Diagram
Use Case Diagram - answer✔Functional.
Visualise relationships between actors (interacting with the system) and use cases
(functionality).
Activity Diagram - answer✔Behavioural.
A diagram that shows the flow of control and data form activity to activity.
Activity diagrams address the dynamic view of a system
Sequence Diagrams - answer✔Behavioural.
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Displays object interactions arranged in a time sequence.
How do components interact?
Class Diagrams - answer✔Structural.
Collection of objects with common structure, common behaviour, common relationships, and
common semantics.
State Transition Diagram - answer✔Behavioural.
Show life history of a given class.
Classes that have a lot of dynamic behaviour.
Design Pattern - answer✔Way of re-suing abstract knowledge about a software design problem
and its solution.
Types of design patterns - answer✔Creational
Structural
Behavioural
Behavioural patterns - answer✔Observer
Mediator
Creational patterns - answer✔Singleton
Abstract Factory
Structural patterns - answer✔Facade
Proxy
Adapter
Composite
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