3C052 Practice Test

1. (005) Within data representation each ASCII character has a representation of

Two hexadecimal digits or eight BITS

One hexadecimal digit or four BITS

Four BITS or four binary digits

Two bytes or 16 binary digits

2. (007) What are reserved words?

Words you can pass using parameters

Primitives written using structured English

Syntactical primitives used in a particular language

Words that have a special meaning to a particular language

3. (011) What causes database fragmentation

Gaps left in the database due to record deletions

Database becoming logically unorganized

Unstructured record formats

Data denormalization

4. (013) The redundant storing of the customer name in the purchase order entity is an example of

Normalization

Semantic Modeling

Data denormalization

Entity-Relationship diagram

5. (002) Which software engineering principle seeks to seperate the essential characteristics of a process from nonessential details?

Abstraction

Localization

Modularity

Uniformity

6. (004) What is the first order of operation you should follow when solving a math equation?

Multiplication and Division

Addition and subtraction

Parenthesis

Exponents

7. (009) Which term is a relational data table with data calculated at query time?

View

Build

Meta-Data

Database Table

8. (012) What is the best method to determine if the security feature of a database system is working?

Manage data activities

Install keyboards locks

Perform periodically audits

Use the least privilege concept

9. (005) What is the smallest piece of data that provides meaning or has a relationship?

Record

Field

Byte

File

10. (009)Which term is used to address the data item instead of having to address the entire size of the data item?

Model

Pointer

Schema

Structure

11. (020) What determines the cost and value of the software product so a development decision can be made?

Feasibility study

Preliminary design

Requirements analysis

Developmental approach

12. (001) Software engineering is defined as a systematic

Software program procedures to reduce risk early

Coordinated effort to meet software program objectives

Integrated software product design of defined steps combining methods, tools and procedures

Disciplined, quantifiable approach to development, operation and maintenance of software

13. (004) Exponents appear in computer notation as

Subscript

Superscript

One asterisks followed by the exponent value

Two asterisks followed by the exponent value

14. (012) One method to maintain database access control is for database Administrators (DBA) to limit users' access by

Managing data activities

Installing keyboards locks

Performing periodically audits

Using the least privilege concept

15. (014) Which type of software maintenance requires fixing defective software or errors in the existing software program?

Preventive

Corrective

Functional

Redesign

16. (030) Which Web language application is a set of syntax rules for creating semantically rich markup languages in a particular domain?

Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)

Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Math Markup Language (MathML)

Dynamic HTML (DHTML)

17. (005) Which terms are not used to describe possible binary digit (BIT) values?

0 and 1

One and Off

True and False

Positive and Negative

18. (009) Which term is a structured description of records used to describe database objects representations and the relationships among them?

Model

Pointer

Schema

Structure

19. (009) Which term is a set of data elements or values organized by using a model of horizontal rows and vertical columns?

View

Build

Meta-Data

Database Table

20. (009) Data about data within tables is which term?

View

Build

Meta-Data

Database Table

21. (011) What database administrator (DBA) maintenance responsibility involves maintaining a practical collection of metadata, DMBS software, code libraries, and editing tools?

Managing the DBMS

Managing data activity

Maintaining a data repository

Managing the database structure

22. (031) Which term best describes the science of information Security?

Ciphering

Encryption

Cryptography

Public key infrastructure

23. (002) Which software engineering principle helps create modules with loose coupling and strong cohesion

Abstraction

Localization

Modularity

Uniformity

24. (003) In which object-oriented design (OOD) step do you establish specifications for objects and designing algorithms to perform operations?

Define the problem

Establish interfaces

Develop an informal strategy

Implement objects and operations

25. (006) When developing structured code, the structured specification is considered as the

Portrayed hierarchy of independent conditions and the activities

Foundation for the development of the entire software system

Entity containing the entire set of iterative primitives

Transformation of input and output data flows

26. (010) Which term is retrieval package characteristic that is a collection of tools used to automate the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing software modules from a remote computer?

Package distribution

Remote data management

Package management system

Computer-aided software engineering

27. (013) Which term best describe a database process of using symbols to represent something in a manner different from which it was intended?

Normalization

Semantic modeling

Remote data management

Entity-Relationship diagram

28. Which item's purpose is to graphically illustrate system objects or entities and their relationships?

Normalization

Semantic modeling

Data denormalization

Entity-Relationship diagram

29. (013) Which term best describe the process of organizing data into tables in such a way that the results of using the database are unambiguous and as intended?

Normalization

Semantic Modeling

Data denormalization

Entity-Relationship Modeling

30. (014) Which type of software maintenance is sometimes referred to as adaptive or enhancement Maintenance?

Preventive

Corrective

Functional

Redesign

31. (018) Which document contains the initial system requirements for internal and external interfaces?

Design document

Test documentation

Software problem report

Software development folder

32. (023) Which configuration control board (CCB) principle regards the desire for developers or customers to circumvent the CCB if their reports are not addressed promptly?

Principle of authority

Principle of specificity

Principle of responsiveness

Principle of solitary responsibility

33. (003) What object-oriented (OO) term would you encounter in the object-oriented design (OOD) that groups classes and objects that can be used in two or more public domains?

Encapsulation

Attribute

Service

Pattern

34. (003) Object-oriented programming (OOP) models define "method" as a

Real instance of class

Distinct logical sequence

Means to define subclasses from data classes

Means to establish the interfaces between objects

35. (003) In which object-oritend design (OOD) step do you write a solution to the problem?

Define the problem

Identify the objects

Identify the operations

Develop an informal strategy

36. (008) Modularity, loose coupling, high cohesion, and information hiding are software characteristics that

Ease software reuse

Enhance software efficiency

Speed program development

Enhance program accessibility

37. (008) Another term for an Ada exception handler construct is

Case

Form

Frame

Sequence

38. (009) Another structure name for a network that is similar to a structure name for a network that is similar to a tree structure is a

Plex

View

Model

Schema

39. (014) What type of software maintenance is performed on code that is difficult to understand?

Preventive

Corrective

Functional

Redesign

40. (018) Which system testing technique uses a throw-away code to test entire software systems?

Drivers

Test databases

Pilot operations

Design verification

41. (031) Which term refers to a combination of products, services, facilities, policies, procedures, aggrements, and users that provide for and sustain secure Internet interactions?

Ciphering

Encryption

Cryptography

Public Key infrastructure

42. (001) A software engineering system is defined as the

Technical how-to's for software development

Set of defined steps which combine methods, tools, and procedures

Harmonious collection of tools designed to provide automated support

Collection of all elements contributing to the development of a software product

43. (017) How do members of the preliminary design review (PDR) team use the design documentation?

To get an understanding of the program design, its intent, and logic

To enter the program in the machine and look for errors

To determine the feasibility of automating the system

To look for areas of improvement in the test process

44. (023) Which configuration control board (CCB) principle has the right toe valuate and direct the implementation of change of a product within its scope of activity?

Principle of authority

Principle of specificity

Principle of responsiveness

Principle of solitary responsibility

45. (030) Which web language application is a set of markup symbols or codes inserted in a file intended for display on a Web browser page?

Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)

Extensible Markup Language (XML)

HypterText Markup Language (HTML)

Dynamic HTML (DHTML)

46. (031)Which term is a credit card-like device used to authenticate users over the internet?

Token

Smart card

Private key

Session key

47. (002) Which software engineering principle results from good program coding practice with consistent control structure and calling sequence for operations?

Confirmability

Localization

Modularity

Uniformity

48. (003) In which object-oriented design (OOD) step do you group the objects with the operations that act on them?

Define the problem

Establish interfaces

Develop an informal strategy

Implement objects and operations

49. (007) A graphic tool used to design algorithms for prtraying a hierarchy of independent conditions and activities resulting from valid combination of conditions is a

Sequential Primitive

Decision table

Decision tree

Syntax

50. (016) What system specification do you validate when you hand calculate the results of given input data and compare it to computer generated results?

Arithmetic computations

Program input

Test output

Test data

51. (023) What consists of a configuration of hardware/software items and is a groupoing of elements that is closely related and often physically interfaced?

Unit

System

Segment

Component

52. (026) What capability maturity model (CMM) level best describes process disciplines in place to repeat successes from earlier projects?

Level 2

Level 3

Level 4

Level 5

53. (013) Which database normalization form has a type of entity dependency called transitive dependency?

First Normal

Second Normal

Third Normal

Fourth Normal

54. (018) Which document is a repository for material pertinent to the development of a body of software?

Design document

Software problem report

Software development folder

System requirements document

55. Which web language application is most likely to succeed HypterText Markup Language (HTML)?

Dynamic HTML (DHTML)

Extensible Markup Language (XML)

Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)

Extensible HypterText Markup Language (XHTML)

56. (002) Which software engineering principles relies on decomposable software so it can be readily tested, thus aiding in developing software that is modifiable.

Confirmability

Localization

Modulatiry

Uniformity

57. (014) What type of software maintenance is required when the accepting customer of a software program may be a different group of individuals than the original requesting user group?

Preventive

Corrective

Functional

Redesign

58. (016) Which system specification selection allows a program's requirements to be followed throughout its software life cycle?

Software requirements

Requirements traceability

Software development folder

System requirements document

59. (022) What is a functional primitive?

A step-by-step algorithm

The illustration of relational data

The lowest level process of a data flow diagram (DFD)

A statement of the purpose that governs the transformation of data

60. (003) What is the term that identifies how objects relate to each other in object-oriented programming? (OOP)

Methods.

Inheritance

Data hiding

Data modeling

61. (024) What are the two major criteria for determining the capability of a company to produce quality software for major Air Force systems?

Software quality attributes and extent of the offeror's domain eperience

Software capability assessments and extent of the offeror's domain experience

The offeror's experience performance ratings and the successful completion of programs with similar size and complexity

The extent of the offeror's domain experience and the successful completion of programs with similar size and complexity

62. (027) What types of software quality metric data measures are considered important to assess the current status of your program?

Technical and Rational

Objective and Technical

Rational and Subjective

Subjective and Objective

63. (029) Which graphical format is a patent-free replacement of the GIF?

PNG

TIFF

JPEG

Bit map

64. (001) What does software engineering disciplines consist of?

The technical how-to's for software development

A set of defined steps which combine methods, tools, and procedures.

A harmonious collection of tools designed to provide automated support.

The collection of all elements contributing to the development of a software product.

65. (009) A structure within a hierarchical data structure is best used to display database records that have what type of fields?

Reliant

Repeated

Structured

Independant

66. (024) The main purpose of the source selection process is to

Provide the user with a variety of developers

Design a maturity model thus eliminating operation problems later

Realistically allow developers to have the time to complete critical activities

Give industry the opportunity to develop and propose their optimum solution to your requirements.

67. (020) What factor makes it difficult to translate conceptual program requirements into functional software requirements?

Software functional limitations

Software end-products are abstract and intangible

Program requirements may not be possible to achieve

User may not be familiar with the software development process

68. (029) Which graphical format scheme includes 29 distinct coding processes?

GIF

PNG

TIFF

JPEG

69. (031) Which term is uniquely generated to encrypt a specific message by the user?

Token

Smart Card

Private Key

Session Key

70. (018) Which document is used to record, track, and close software testing discrepancies?

Design Document

Test documentation

Software Problem Report

Software development folder

71. (021) The software requirements phase ends with the

Demonstration of the software requirements prototype

Demonstration of the software requirements model

Executable models of the software requirements specification

Successful completion of the software requirements specification

72. (022) What are the two main qualities you should strive for when developing process descriptions?

Understandability and efficiency

Completeness and explicitness

Conformability and modularity

Modularity and explicitness

73. (029) What graphical format is used for exchanging faster graphics or "bit maps" between application programs?

GIF

PNG

TIFF

JPEG

74. (017) A preliminary design review (PDR) is an approach to what testing technique?

Design Validation

Design Verification

Test data preparation

Test plan implementation

75. (018) Which software testing term provides information about observable states, conditions, events, and data?

Test case

Test results

Test procedure

Test status report

76. (022) The main purpose of the data dictionary (DD) is to

Match key fields by data type

Separate data definitions from system files

Locate data concepts by database record key fields

Provide a common understanding of system data definitions

77. (014) Which type of software maintenance does not change the functionality of a system, but changes the code in a manner to ease future software maintenance?

Preventive

Corrective

Functional

Redesign

78. (028) When protecting against intrusion, storage segregation contribute to software security by

Relocating software files from user access

Removing data from the system when not in use

Allowing multi-users to access selected system files

Providing system storage with partitioning capabilities

79. (017) Which member of the preliminary design review (PDR) is an approach to what testing technique?

Design validation

Design verification

Test data preparation

Test plan implementation

80. (024) Which software contract type is best suited where requirements are ill-defined and development risk is high?

Cost-reimbursable contract

Multiple-award contracts

Cost-plus/schedule-plus

Fixed-price contract

81. (010) The term "relation" is a mathematical use in relational database structure and another term for

Model

Table

Schema

Structure

82. (015) The software maintenance step that is concerned with minimizing side effects is

Modifying the software

Revalidating the system

Understanding the program

Conducting program testing

83. (028) What software security policy applies to multi-user computer systems inactive sessions on system terminals?

Access controls

Restrict privileges

Maintain accountability

Prepare for contingencies

84. (015) The software maintenance step that involves three different levels of testing is

Modifying the software

Revalidating the system

Understanding the program

Conducting program testing

85. (019) The primary mission of a Combined Test Force (CTF) is to perform test

Preparation, evaluation and reporting

Preparation, planning and execution

Planning, execution and reporting

Planning, execution and evaluation

86. (020) What is the most important, yet difficult phase of software development?

Completing feasibility studies of software requirements

Conducting analysis and definition of software requirements

Prototyping the software end-product to meet functional requirements

Minimizing software errors and meeting the performance model requirements

87. (025) Software requirements transformed into high-level functions and algorithms that developers can understand are documented on

Software Design Document

System/Subsystem specification

Software Requirements Specification

System/Subsystem Design Description

88. (015) In which software maintenance step do you produce a preliminary software design change?

Modify the software

Revalidate the system

Understand the program

Conduct program testing

89. (015) The software maintenance step in which a programmer performs execution analysis is

Modifying the software

Revalidating the system

Understanding the program

Conducting program testing

90. (020) In which step of the feasibility study must you perform further analysis involving user scenarios, transaction modeling, performance modeling and consistency checking among viewpoints?

Determining feasibility

Determining costs and value

Selecting a development approach

Managing the requirements process

91. (022) What is the purpose and procedures that governs the transformation flow of input data into output data for a given functional primitive?

E-R diagram

Context diagram

Main specification

Process description

92. (018) What is the purpose of program checkout?

To evaluate the program memory dumps

To desk check the program for printed results

To validate the program in as few runs as possible

To test program on the target system and validate results

93. (019) Which software acceptance test methods' primary functions are to deliver effective and suitable systems and resolve deficiencies early in the testing process?

Combined testing

Functional testing

Integration Testing

Test and evaluation

94. (019) Which software acceptance test method executes independent tests designed to demonstrate a specific operational capability of a program or software system?

Unit testing

System testing

Functional Testing

Combined Testing

95. (019) Which software acceptance test method is most frequently used for debugging?

Unit Testing

System testing

Functional Testing

Combined Testing

96. (021) Critical prototypes should be comprised of the user interface, interaction details of

Executable models of critical functional models

Proposed system and executable models of critical algorithms

Operational system and executable models of critical algorithms

Critical details with the proposed system and executable functional models

97. (025) What software process improvement phase involves exhaustive test execution of all feasible paths of control flow in a module or system?

System testing

Integration testing

Program coding and unit testing

Component integration and testing

98. (011) What database administrator (DBA) maintenance responsibility includes configuration control which entails updating information on an enterprise's computer systems?

Managing the database management system (DBMS)

Managing data activity

Maintaining a data repository

Managing the database structure

99. (020) In which step of the feasibility study must you stress a commitment to an iterative process that uses structured software requirements methods, appropriate tracking and analysis tools?

Determining feasibility

Determining costs and value

Selecting a development approach

Managing the requirements process

100. (025) What software process improvement phase tests integrated modules in operationally represented scenarios?

System testing

Integration testing

Program coding and unit testing

Component integration and testing

3c052 Practice Test

1. (005) Within data representation each ASCII character has a representation of

2.

What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. (007) What are reserved words?

3. (011) What causes database fragmentation

4. (013) The redundant storing of the customer name in the purchase order entity is an example of

5. (002) Which software engineering principle seeks to seperate the essential characteristics of a process from nonessential details?

6. (004) What is the first order of operation you should follow when solving a math equation?

7. (009) Which term is a relational data table with data calculated at query time?

8. (012) What is the best method to determine if the security feature of a database system is working?

9. (005) What is the smallest piece of data that provides meaning or has a relationship?

10. (009)Which term is used to address the data item instead of having to address the entire size of the data item?

11. (020) What determines the cost and value of the software product so a development decision can be made?

12. (001) Software engineering is defined as a systematic

13. (004) Exponents appear in computer notation as

14. (012) One method to maintain database access control is for database Administrators (DBA) to limit users' access by

15. (014) Which type of software maintenance requires fixing defective software or errors in the existing software program?

16. (030) Which Web language application is a set of syntax rules for creating semantically rich markup languages in a particular domain?

17. (005) Which terms are not used to describe possible binary digit (BIT) values?

18. (009) Which term is a structured description of records used to describe database objects representations and the relationships among them?

19. (009) Which term is a set of data elements or values organized by using a model of horizontal rows and vertical columns?

20. (009) Data about data within tables is which term?

21. (011) What database administrator (DBA) maintenance responsibility involves maintaining a practical collection of metadata, DMBS software, code libraries, and editing tools?

22. (031) Which term best describes the science of information Security?

23. (002) Which software engineering principle helps create modules with loose coupling and strong cohesion

24. (003) In which object-oriented design (OOD) step do you establish specifications for objects and designing algorithms to perform operations?

25. (006) When developing structured code, the structured specification is considered as the

26. (010) Which term is retrieval package characteristic that is a collection of tools used to automate the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing software modules from a remote computer?

27. (013) Which term best describe a database process of using symbols to represent something in a manner different from which it was intended?

28. Which item's purpose is to graphically illustrate system objects or entities and their relationships?

29. (013) Which term best describe the process of organizing data into tables in such a way that the results of using the database are unambiguous and as intended?

30. (014) Which type of software maintenance is sometimes referred to as adaptive or enhancement Maintenance?

31. (018) Which document contains the initial system requirements for internal and external interfaces?

32. (023) Which configuration control board (CCB) principle regards the desire for developers or customers to circumvent the CCB if their reports are not addressed promptly?

33. (003) What object-oriented (OO) term would you encounter in the object-oriented design (OOD) that groups classes and objects that can be used in two or more public domains?

34. (003) Object-oriented programming (OOP) models define "method" as a

35. (003) In which object-oritend design (OOD) step do you write a solution to the problem?

36. (008) Modularity, loose coupling, high cohesion, and information hiding are software characteristics that

37. (008) Another term for an Ada exception handler construct is

38. (009) Another structure name for a network that is similar to a structure name for a network that is similar to a tree structure is a

39. (014) What type of software maintenance is performed on code that is difficult to understand?

40. (018) Which system testing technique uses a throw-away code to test entire software systems?

41. (031) Which term refers to a combination of products, services, facilities, policies, procedures, aggrements, and users that provide for and sustain secure Internet interactions?

42. (001) A software engineering system is defined as the

43. (017) How do members of the preliminary design review (PDR) team use the design documentation?

44. (023) Which configuration control board (CCB) principle has the right toe valuate and direct the implementation of change of a product within its scope of activity?

45. (030) Which web language application is a set of markup symbols or codes inserted in a file intended for display on a Web browser page?

46. (031)Which term is a credit card-like device used to authenticate users over the internet?

47. (002) Which software engineering principle results from good program coding practice with consistent control structure and calling sequence for operations?

48. (003) In which object-oriented design (OOD) step do you group the objects with the operations that act on them?

49. (007) A graphic tool used to design algorithms for prtraying a hierarchy of independent conditions and activities resulting from valid combination of conditions is a

50. (016) What system specification do you validate when you hand calculate the results of given input data and compare it to computer generated results?

51. (023) What consists of a configuration of hardware/software items and is a groupoing of elements that is closely related and often physically interfaced?

52. (026) What capability maturity model (CMM) level best describes process disciplines in place to repeat successes from earlier projects?

53. (013) Which database normalization form has a type of entity dependency called transitive dependency?

54. (018) Which document is a repository for material pertinent to the development of a body of software?

55. Which web language application is most likely to succeed HypterText Markup Language (HTML)?

56. (002) Which software engineering principles relies on decomposable software so it can be readily tested, thus aiding in developing software that is modifiable.

57. (014) What type of software maintenance is required when the accepting customer of a software program may be a different group of individuals than the original requesting user group?

58. (016) Which system specification selection allows a program's requirements to be followed throughout its software life cycle?

59. (022) What is a functional primitive?

60. (003) What is the term that identifies how objects relate to each other in object-oriented programming? (OOP)

61. (024) What are the two major criteria for determining the capability of a company to produce quality software for major Air Force systems?

62. (027) What types of software quality metric data measures are considered important to assess the current status of your program?

63. (029) Which graphical format is a patent-free replacement of the GIF?

64. (001) What does software engineering disciplines consist of?

65. (009) A structure within a hierarchical data structure is best used to display database records that have what type of fields?

66. (024) The main purpose of the source selection process is to

67. (020) What factor makes it difficult to translate conceptual program requirements into functional software requirements?

68. (029) Which graphical format scheme includes 29 distinct coding processes?

69. (031) Which term is uniquely generated to encrypt a specific message by the user?

70. (018) Which document is used to record, track, and close software testing discrepancies?

71. (021) The software requirements phase ends with the

72. (022) What are the two main qualities you should strive for when developing process descriptions?

73. (029) What graphical format is used for exchanging faster graphics or "bit maps" between application programs?

74. (017) A preliminary design review (PDR) is an approach to what testing technique?

75. (018) Which software testing term provides information about observable states, conditions, events, and data?

76. (022) The main purpose of the data dictionary (DD) is to

77. (014) Which type of software maintenance does not change the functionality of a system, but changes the code in a manner to ease future software maintenance?