Unit 6: Software Quality and Small Projects - Practice Quiz

1 What does software quality generally refer to?

2 Which factor is most closely related to software quality?

3 ISO 9126 is a standard related to which area?

4 Which of the following is a quality characteristic in the ISO 9126 model?

5 What is the main purpose of the ISO/IEC 25010 quality model?

6 Which ISO/IEC 25010 characteristic describes how easily software can be changed?

7 Which quality characteristic concerns how easily users can learn and operate software?

8 Product quality focuses mainly on which of the following?

9 Process quality is concerned with what?

10 Which activity is an example of improving process quality?

11 Why are external standards used in software projects?

12 Who should ensure that relevant external standards are followed in a project?

13 Which is a common problem in student software projects?

14 Limited time in a student project can commonly lead to what problem?

15 Which item is normally included in a software project plan?

16 What does a project plan usually identify about a project?

17 What is an important early step when incorporating a new company?

18 Which document is commonly required to verify the identity of a company director?

19 What is the purpose of registering for an MSME certificate?

20 Which information is generally needed during MSME registration?

21 A payroll application produces correct salary calculations but is difficult to modify whenever tax rules change. Which conclusion best reflects the definition of software quality?

22 A development team claims that its product is high quality because it has no known defects. Users, however, cannot complete common tasks without extensive training. Which quality perspective has the team overlooked?

23 An application performs correctly on Windows, but significant redevelopment is required before it can run on Linux. Which ISO 9126 quality characteristic should receive the most attention?

24 A banking system gives correct results under normal conditions but frequently crashes after several hours of continuous operation. Which ISO 9126 characteristic is primarily affected?

25 Two modules exchange data correctly, but the new module causes resource conflicts when deployed alongside another application. Which ISO/IEC 25010 characteristic is most relevant?

26 A healthcare system must prevent unauthorized users from viewing patient records and must record who changes each record. Which ISO/IEC 25010 characteristic should be prioritized?

27 A team follows mandatory code reviews, testing procedures, and configuration-management practices, yet the released application still has poor response time. Which statement is most accurate?

28 Which pair of measurements correctly distinguishes product quality from process quality?

29 A customer contract refers to an external security standard that is updated during development. What is the most appropriate management action?

30 A student team postpones integration until the final week because each member is developing a separate module. Which action would best reduce the resulting project risk?

31 A student project has an impressive interface but no documented requirements, test evidence, or version history. Which underlying problem is most evident?

32 A project manager wants the plan to specify who approves requirements, who performs testing, and who is informed of releases. Which section should contain this information?

33 A project has uncertain access to a third-party payment service that could delay system testing. How should this issue be represented in the project plan?

34 The proposed directors of an Indian company have obtained Digital Signature Certificates. What is the next appropriate incorporation activity through the MCA system?

35 After incorporation forms and required attachments have been submitted to the Registrar of Companies, which event establishes the company's legal existence?

36 Promoters plan to use rented premises as the registered office of a new company. Which document set most directly supports the registered-office declaration?

37 A newly incorporated Indian software company wants official MSME recognition. Which procedure is appropriate?

38 A team wants to prove that the test report approved for a release has not been modified. Which blockchain-based approach is most suitable?

39 A blockchain ledger records that a developer submitted a quality approval, but the approval was based on incorrect test data. What limitation does this demonstrate?

40 A company wants releases to proceed only when required reviews, security scans, and test approvals have been recorded. How can blockchain support this policy?

41 A payroll system exactly matches its approved specification, but the specification omitted a legally required tax rule. Which assessment best characterizes the system's quality?

42 A team computes a weighted quality score , where security receives the smallest weight. A release scores highly overall but has a known authentication bypass. What is the strongest criticism of this decision model?

43 Under ISO 9126, a database service crashes after a hardware fault but restores its data and resumes operation from a checkpoint within the required time. Which reliability subcharacteristic is most directly demonstrated?

44 A vendor claims that its new component can replace a legacy component in the same environment without changing dependent applications. Which ISO 9126 portability subcharacteristic should be tested most directly?

45 A digitally signed approval record allows an independent auditor to prove that a particular manager approved a release, even though the manager later denies doing so. Which ISO/IEC 25010 security subcharacteristic is primarily involved?

46 Two applications share a constrained server without degrading each other's response times, but they cannot exchange customer records. Which conclusion follows under ISO/IEC 25010?

47 An organization migrates its quality framework from ISO 9126 to ISO/IEC 25010. Which mapping decision is most defensible?

48 A supplier follows a certified development process and produces complete review records, yet production testing reveals frequent data corruption. What is the correct management conclusion?

49 After introducing mandatory peer reviews, a team observes that escaped defects fell by 30%. Which evidence would best support the claim that the process change caused the improvement?

50 A referenced external security standard is revised halfway through a fixed-price project. The contract does not state whether later revisions apply. What should the project manager do first?

51 A project is subject to a contract, an industry standard, and an internal coding standard that prescribe conflicting retention practices. Which mechanism provides the strongest basis for controlled resolution?

52 A student team selects an unfamiliar framework, depends on a free external API, and schedules all integration work for the final week. Which planning response best addresses the combined risk?

53 A six-person student project estimates capacity as person-weeks because the semester has ten weeks. Why is this estimate especially unreliable?

54 A project plan contains a work breakdown structure and delivery dates but no mapping from activities to people, dependencies, or risks. Which defect is most serious?

55 A project repeatedly disputes whether completed features are acceptable. Which addition to the project plan would most directly prevent this problem?

56 For an Indian company using the integrated MCA incorporation process and reserving its name separately, which sequence is most appropriate?

57 The proposed registered office of a new Indian company is owned by a director's relative, and the utility bill is in that relative's name. Which document set most directly supports the registered-office filing?

58 An Indian enterprise performs both software development and IT consulting through the same legal entity. Which approach is appropriate when applying for Udyam registration?

59 A company wants auditors to verify that a deployed binary came from an approved source commit and passed required tests, while keeping source code and test data confidential. Which blockchain design best meets both goals?

60 A tester accidentally submits an incorrect defect severity to an append-only quality ledger. Which correction method best preserves auditability?