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Software Engineering → Software Design 4

SQA stands for
Software development company
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ISO 9000 seeks standardization in terms of
independent test group
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A quality circle holds a brainstorming session and attempts to identify the factors responsible for flaws in a product. Which tool do you suggest they use to organize their findings?
Test data management technique
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Which of the following statements is NOT true?
ISO 9001:2000
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Software Engineering → Coding Standards 4

Quality costs may be divided into costs associated with
Customer’s site
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Total Quality Management emphasizes
Metrics
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When a sample measurement falls inside the control limits, it means that
Regression testing
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Formal Reviews seek to:
Define, measure, analyze
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Software Engineering → Software Testing 4

Variation control in the context of software engineering involves controlling variation in the
30-40%
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A successful TQM program incorporates all of the following except
All of the mentioned
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Which of the following is true regarding control charts?
80, 20
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Which form of software development model is most suited to a system where all the requirements are known at the start of a project and remain stable throughout the project?
The definition proposed by the American Society for Quality Control
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Software Engineering → Debugging 4

A key concept of quality control is that all work products
All of the above
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"Kaizen" is a Japanese term meaning
Nonexistent loop termination
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Which type of risk factor is most likely to cause problems for a software project developing commercial software?
5 related standards
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Which of the following are objectives for formal technical reviews?
Inadequate user documentation
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Software Engineering → Software Maintenance 4

Which of these activities is not one of the activities recommended to be performed by an independent SQA group?
Identification of faults
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The philosophy of zero defects is
Error description is unintelligible
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Defect prevention is defined as:
Conformance to user specified requirements.
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Regression testing is known as
Finding and fixing errors before release but after insertion
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Software Engineering → Introduction to Software Engineering 4

Software safety is a quality assurance activity that focuses on hazards that
Unit testing
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Quality Circles members are
Low-level components are combined into clusters that perform specific software sub-function.
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Product quality is defined as:
Software quality assurance
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At the end of a formal technical review all attendees can decide to
Delivering a product using high quality procedures
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Software Engineering → Software Development Models 4

The ISO quality assurance standard that applies to software engineering is
fixing the error
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The process of identifying other organizations that are best at some facet of your operations and then modeling your organization after them is known as
Fault-based testing
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Which of the following is NOT a main reason to undertake software quality assurance activities?
Prevention, appraisal and failure
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A review summary report answers which three questions?
Insistence by the user on a satisfactory software quality assurance programme
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Software Engineering → Waterfall Model 3

Which of the following is not a section in the standard for SQA plans recommended by IEEE?
Testing, Debugging
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A quality loss function utilizes all of the following costs except
Surface structure
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Which type of risk factor is most likely to cause problems for a software project which develops military software?
All of the above
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Software Engineering → Spiral Model 3

Six Sigma methodologies define three core steps.
Testing is part of a complete QA process
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Among the tools of TQM, the tool ordinarily used to aid in understanding the sequence of events through which a product travels is a
Category-based partitioning
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The main goal of quality assurance is:
Are thoroughly tested before delivery to the customer
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Software Engineering → Agile Model 3

"Quality is defined by the customer" is
Ranking items by importance
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A fishbone diagram is also known as a
PERT chart
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Software interoperability is:
Serve as the sole test team for any software produced
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Software Engineering → Requirement Engineering 3

Which of the following is not one of the major categories of costs associated with quality?
Different testing techniques are appropriate at different points in time.
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If a sample of parts is measured and the mean of the measurements is outside the control limits the process is
Black box testing
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With respect to software metrics, which statement is NOT true?
May cause an entire system to fail
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