SWD392 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
Which of these quality attributes is most important from the developer's perspective?
A. usability
B. availability
C. flexibility
D. security - Answer- C
What are the main software elements at software development time?
A. Source code modules or files
B. Binary versions of the project modules and files
C. Processes and threads
D. All of the others - Answer- A
Consider statements about MVC:
1. It is expensive to change data model in case of multiple pairs of controllers and views
based on the same data model.
2. The division between the View and the Controller is not clear in some cases.
A. 1 and 2 are false
B. 1 and 2 are true
C. 1 is true, 2 is false
D. 1 is false, 2 is true - Answer- B
What are some advantages of object-oriented programing in a language like Java?
A. computing efficiency, abstract data types and data management
B. mimic the real-world structure of the problem, computing efficiency and data
management
C. mimic the real-world structure of the problem, abstract data types and data
management
D. mimic the real-world structure of the problem, abstract data types and computing
efficiency - Answer- C
"Maintenance Downtime" is an attribute refinement of what quality attribute?
A. Conceptual Integrity
B. Performance
C. Maintainability
,D. Availability - Answer- C
Which attribute quality is NOT from a user's perspective?
A. Availability
B. Interoperability
C. Flexibility
D. Performance - Answer- C
Which of the following is not addressed by a secure system?
(a) System penetration
(b) Denial of service
(c) System scalability
(d) System authorization - Answer- C
Which of the following system problems does availability address?
(a) Denial of service
(b) Single point of failure
(c) System throughput
(d) System penetration - Answer- B
The purpose of the software design phase is to produce a software requirement
specification.
A. True
B. False - Answer- B
Which of the following structures describe the dynamic properties of software
architecture?
A. Software management structure
B. Software deployment structure
C. Software code structure
D. Software runtime structure - Answer- D
There are two categories of data-centered architecture
A. Batch sequential and Repository
B. Pipe-filter and Batch sequential
C. Repository and Blackboard
D. Blackboard and Pipe-filter - Answer- C
,Sam realized that her DeliveryDriver class had some behaviour and attributes that could
be shared by other classes, like BusDriver and TaxiDriver, so she made a class called
Driver that these classes inherited behaviour from. Which object-oriented design
principle did she use?
A. abstraction
B. encapsulation
C. decomposition
D. generalization - Answer- D
Which of these UML diagrams might be useful for the logical view of a system?
A. Class diagram and Sequence diagram
B. Sequence diagram and Deployment diagram
C. State diagram and Class diagram
D. Deployment diagram and State diagram - Answer- C
There is a common technique that used in event architectures to indicate whether or not
a particular resource is being accessed by another process at that moment. What is it
called?
A. semaphore
B. access switch
C. toggle
D. occupied - Answer- B
What is NOT the essential parts of an HTTP request?
A. A blank space
B. A message body
C. Headers
D. Request-line - Answer- A
Which of the following attributes can be improved by installing firewalls, establishing
authentication and authorization processes, and using encryption?
A. availability
B. usability
C. performance
D. security - Answer- D
Which of the following quality attribute pairs is tradeoff?
A. Scalability and Performance
B. Reliability and Availibility
C. Availability and Interoperability
, D. Reusability and Interoperability - Answer- A
What is the name for a physical result of the development process, such as an
executable file?
A. node
B. leaf
C. package
D. artifact - Answer- D
What might NOT contain in architecture style?
A. Rules that how to structure the system
B. How to design user interface
C. Constraints that how to structure the system
D. Patterns that that how to structure the system - Answer- B
Which connector type allows one of its incident elements to send a request (method call
or message) to another and wait for a response (method return value or message)
A. Unblocking
B. Blocking
C. Two-initiator
D. One-initiator - Answer- B
Which of these is not desirable characteristic of a web service?
A. composable
B. platform-independent
C. modular
D. simple - Answer- B
The "+1" in Kruchten's 4+1 View Model refers to a scenario. What is a scenario?
A. an unexpected use case of the software
B. one of the tools that is used to implement the software
C. a representation of a normal use case
D. a representation of the system-wide state - Answer- C
There are three different relationships that objects can have. Which of these best
describes the relationship between a Chair and its Legs?
A. association
B. generalization
C. composition
D. aggregation - Answer- C
AND ANSWERS
Which of these quality attributes is most important from the developer's perspective?
A. usability
B. availability
C. flexibility
D. security - Answer- C
What are the main software elements at software development time?
A. Source code modules or files
B. Binary versions of the project modules and files
C. Processes and threads
D. All of the others - Answer- A
Consider statements about MVC:
1. It is expensive to change data model in case of multiple pairs of controllers and views
based on the same data model.
2. The division between the View and the Controller is not clear in some cases.
A. 1 and 2 are false
B. 1 and 2 are true
C. 1 is true, 2 is false
D. 1 is false, 2 is true - Answer- B
What are some advantages of object-oriented programing in a language like Java?
A. computing efficiency, abstract data types and data management
B. mimic the real-world structure of the problem, computing efficiency and data
management
C. mimic the real-world structure of the problem, abstract data types and data
management
D. mimic the real-world structure of the problem, abstract data types and computing
efficiency - Answer- C
"Maintenance Downtime" is an attribute refinement of what quality attribute?
A. Conceptual Integrity
B. Performance
C. Maintainability
,D. Availability - Answer- C
Which attribute quality is NOT from a user's perspective?
A. Availability
B. Interoperability
C. Flexibility
D. Performance - Answer- C
Which of the following is not addressed by a secure system?
(a) System penetration
(b) Denial of service
(c) System scalability
(d) System authorization - Answer- C
Which of the following system problems does availability address?
(a) Denial of service
(b) Single point of failure
(c) System throughput
(d) System penetration - Answer- B
The purpose of the software design phase is to produce a software requirement
specification.
A. True
B. False - Answer- B
Which of the following structures describe the dynamic properties of software
architecture?
A. Software management structure
B. Software deployment structure
C. Software code structure
D. Software runtime structure - Answer- D
There are two categories of data-centered architecture
A. Batch sequential and Repository
B. Pipe-filter and Batch sequential
C. Repository and Blackboard
D. Blackboard and Pipe-filter - Answer- C
,Sam realized that her DeliveryDriver class had some behaviour and attributes that could
be shared by other classes, like BusDriver and TaxiDriver, so she made a class called
Driver that these classes inherited behaviour from. Which object-oriented design
principle did she use?
A. abstraction
B. encapsulation
C. decomposition
D. generalization - Answer- D
Which of these UML diagrams might be useful for the logical view of a system?
A. Class diagram and Sequence diagram
B. Sequence diagram and Deployment diagram
C. State diagram and Class diagram
D. Deployment diagram and State diagram - Answer- C
There is a common technique that used in event architectures to indicate whether or not
a particular resource is being accessed by another process at that moment. What is it
called?
A. semaphore
B. access switch
C. toggle
D. occupied - Answer- B
What is NOT the essential parts of an HTTP request?
A. A blank space
B. A message body
C. Headers
D. Request-line - Answer- A
Which of the following attributes can be improved by installing firewalls, establishing
authentication and authorization processes, and using encryption?
A. availability
B. usability
C. performance
D. security - Answer- D
Which of the following quality attribute pairs is tradeoff?
A. Scalability and Performance
B. Reliability and Availibility
C. Availability and Interoperability
, D. Reusability and Interoperability - Answer- A
What is the name for a physical result of the development process, such as an
executable file?
A. node
B. leaf
C. package
D. artifact - Answer- D
What might NOT contain in architecture style?
A. Rules that how to structure the system
B. How to design user interface
C. Constraints that how to structure the system
D. Patterns that that how to structure the system - Answer- B
Which connector type allows one of its incident elements to send a request (method call
or message) to another and wait for a response (method return value or message)
A. Unblocking
B. Blocking
C. Two-initiator
D. One-initiator - Answer- B
Which of these is not desirable characteristic of a web service?
A. composable
B. platform-independent
C. modular
D. simple - Answer- B
The "+1" in Kruchten's 4+1 View Model refers to a scenario. What is a scenario?
A. an unexpected use case of the software
B. one of the tools that is used to implement the software
C. a representation of a normal use case
D. a representation of the system-wide state - Answer- C
There are three different relationships that objects can have. Which of these best
describes the relationship between a Chair and its Legs?
A. association
B. generalization
C. composition
D. aggregation - Answer- C
