SEPM Question Bank

Define Software Engineering and explain different Umbrella Activities.

Explain the Agile Process Model / Compare Agile and Waterfall/Traditional models.

Describe the Waterfall Model and Incremental Process Model.

Describe the Waterfall Model and Evolutionary Process Model.

What are the Agile Methodologies? Explain any one of them.

Short note: Software Design Patterns.

Compare Agile and Traditional software development models.

Short note: Scrum Model.

Compare Agile and Waterfall models.

Short note: Kanban Model and Extreme Programming.

Describe the Waterfall Model and Incremental Process Model.

Explain the Agile Process Model.

Elaborate the COCOMO Model for Cost Estimation. (Also: COCOMO II)

Explain Functional & Non-Functional Requirements.

Elaborate COCOMO model for Cost Estimation.

Develop the SRS of Hospital Management System.

Develop the SRS of University Management System.

What is Cost Estimation? Assume a system for simple student registration (~10,000 LOC). Organization pays Rs 25,000/month. Compute development effort and development time.

Develop SRS for Hospital Management System.

Elaborate COCOMO Method of cost estimation.

Importance of Requirement Analysis; explain different Requirement Engineering tasks.

Prepare SRS for Railway Reservation System.

Elaborate COCOMO Method of cost estimation.

Write Test Cases for input box accepting numbers between 1 and 1000 using Equivalence Partitioning and Boundary Value Analysis.

Importance of Requirement Analysis; explain different Requirement Engineering tasks.

Explain the Golden Rules for User Interface Design.

Explain User Interface Design in detail with example.

Draw CFG and calculate Cyclomatic Complexity for the given PDL: if(c1 or c2) do s1; s2; while(c3) else while(c4) s3; s4;

Explain Software Design Concepts.

Explain Design Concepts and elaborate Architectural Design Styles.

What is Cohesion and Coupling?

Explain Cohesion and Coupling.

Short note: Software Design Patterns.

Explain User Interface Design in detail with example.

What is Risk Management? Discuss RMMM Plan. Also: Create a Risk Table for a given project scenario.

Illustrate the SCM (Software Configuration Management) Process.

Describe the details of FTR (Formal Technical Review) and Walkthrough.

What is Risk Management? Discuss RMMM Plan for risk management.

Illustrate the SCM process of Software Quality Management.

Discuss common Sources of Risk in IT projects.

Discuss different Categories of Risk; create a Risk Table for a next-gen word processing software project.

Discuss Software Configuration Management.

Explain Software Quality Management with QA and QC.

Explain Formal Technical Review (FTR).

Identify any two risks in an Online Examination System. Perform risk assessment and prepare RMMM Plan for any one risk.

Discuss different Categories of Risk; create a Risk Table for a next-gen word processing software project.

Explain Software Change Management with example.

Compare FTR and Walkthroughs.

Differentiate between White Box Testing and Black Box Testing.

Differentiate between White Box and Black Box Testing.

Explain Software Reverse Engineering in details.

Differentiate White Box and Black Box Testing.

Explain Software Maintenance and different types of maintenance.

Short note: Reverse Engineering Process.

Short note: Unit Testing and Integration Testing.

Explain following testing strategies: Unit Testing, Integration Testing, Validation Testing, System Testing.

Short note: Reverse Engineering and Reengineering.

Short note: Software Quality and Quality Factors.

Differentiate between White Box and Black Box Testing.

Explain Project Scheduling and describe CPM and PERT.

Draw AON Diagram, find the Critical Path, total float time, list critical & non-critical activities, and total project duration. (Same table: A→2, B→4, C→3, D→2, E→3, F→6, G→5, H→4)

Explain with diagram the CMM (Capability Maturity Model).

Explain the 4 P's of Project Management.

Explain the 4 P's of Project Management.

Different phases in Project Life Cycle with suitable example.

Explain Project Scheduling and describe CPM and PERT.

Different phases in Project Life Cycle with suitable example.

Explain Project Scheduling and describe CPM and PERT.

Explain Project Scheduling and describe CPM and PERT.

Discuss Project Management Techniques.

Explain W5HH Principle.

Explain with diagram CMM Model.

Draw AON Diagram, find critical path, total float for each path, list critical/non-critical activities and total duration. (A:2, B:4, C:3, D:2, E:3, F:6, G:5, H:4)

Short note: PMBOK Knowledge Areas.

Explain with diagram CMM Model.

Draw AON Diagram, find critical path, float times, critical/non-critical activities, total duration. (A:2, B:4, C:3, D:2, E:3, F:6, G:5, H:4)

Short note: PMBOK Knowledge Areas.