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Software Development
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Subject
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it-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A type of test data that tests the limits of the expected range of values
Adaptive
Design
Robustness
Extreme
2. A loop that repeats instructions a set number of times eg - Loop 12 times
Macro
Documentation
Exceptional
Fixed Loop
3. Writes code working to a software specification
Conditional Loop
Extreme
Project Manager
Programmer
4. Test data which is on the boundary of what is acceptable by the program
Project Manager
Extreme Test Data
Iteration
User Guide
5. Software is evaluated for excessive resource use such as memory or backing storage
Fixed Loops
Documentation
Pre-defined Function
Efficiency
6. A type of test data that tests a program for values outwith the expected range
Portability
Exceptional
Input Validation
Pre-defined Function
7. Instructions that can be understood by the computer without the need for translation
Iteration
Machine Code
Flow Chart
Reliability
8. NOT/OR?AND
Technical Guide
Logical Operator
Data Flow
Interpreter
9. Adding new features to a program and the request and cost of the client
Analysis
String
Perfective Maintenance
Robustness
10. Documentation that explains how to operate the software once it has been installed
Analysis
Logical Operator
User Guide
Corrective Maintenance
11. A data type used to store whole numbers
Integer
String
Modularity
Linear Search
12. A data type used to store more than one character
Flow Chart
Iteration
String
Exhaustive Testing
13. Revisiting or repeating steps in the SDP to improve the solution
Iteration
Bottom-up Design
Comprehensive Testing
Compiler
14. In charge of the whole software development process
Interpreter
Char
Real
Project Manager
15. A series of actions that you record and then replay to automate tasks.
Technical Guide
Macro
Normal
Integer
16. A data structure in which data items of the same type are grouped together
Array
Software Specificiation
Compiler
User Guide
17. A data type used to store a single character
Char
Array
Programmer
Fixed Loop
18. Test data which is within a range that the program should accept
Normal Test Data
Corrective Maintenance
Psuedocode
Real
19. A type of test data that tests a program using expected values within the allowed range
Robustness
Normal
Corrective Maintenance
Counting Occurrences
20. A loop contained within another loop
Adaptive Maintenance
Nested Loop
Portability
Pseudocode
21. A loop which is carried out a set number of times
Fixed Loops
Stepwise Refinement
Fixed Loop
Array
22. A data structure used to store a list of information of the same type
Fixed Loops
Psuedocode
Translation
Array
23. How easy is the program to read? This is one way to evaluate a program.
Debugging
Readability
Maintainability
Real
24. High Level Code is converted into Machine Code
Array
Extreme Test Data
Technical Guide
Translation
25. Used to count how many times a value appears in a list
Counting Occurrences
Perfective
Translation
Project Manager
26. Used to check that data input is with an acceptable range
Iteration
Input Validation
Extreme
Field Testing
27. How easy it is for your program to be read by anyone else
Readability
Translation
Normal Test Data
Debugging
28. Used to find a target value in a full list
Linear Search
Array
Array
Exceptional
29. Translates a high level language program into object code
Readability
Fixed Loops
Counting Occurrences
Compiler
30. Test data which should be rejected by the program under test conditions
Perfective Maintenance
Exceptional Test Data
Fixed Loops
Concatenation
31. The ability of software to cope with errors during execution without crashing
Robustness
Field Testing
Translation
Corrective Maintenance
32. Translates and runs a high level language one line at a time
Pseudocode
Interpreter
Text Editor
Input Validation
33. A design notation using boxes linked by arrows showing data flow
Machine Code
Linear Search
Flow Chart
Debugging
34. The process of finding and correcting errors in a program
Psuedocode
Debugging
Comprehensive Testing
Pseudocode
35. Secting part of a string
Substrings
Modularity
Normal
Fixed Loop
36. A loop that repeats instructions until - or while - a condition is met eg - Repeat / Until X > 0
Exceptional Test Data
Systems Analyst
Conditional Loop
Project Manager
37. Joining strings together
Fit for Purpose
Extreme Test Data
Compiler
Concatenation
38. How well your program operates without stopping due to design faults
Reliability
Corrective
String
Exhaustive Testing
39. Interviews company personnel and observes current procedures looking for ways to improve the system
Input Validation
Systems Analyst
Field Testing
Project Manager
40. The movement of data between subprograms and implemented using parameters
Pseudocode
Concatenation
Data Flow
Perfective
41. A programming instruction that returns out a numerical task - e.g. LENGTH or RND or DIV
Counting Occurrences
Comprehensive Testing
Pre-defined Function
Conditional Loop
42. Testing programs as thoroughly as possible
Comprehensive Testing
Stepwise Refinement
Fixed Loop
Fixed Loops
43. Converts high level code into machine code in a single operation and reports all errors at the end
Counting Occurrences
Compiler
Psuedocode
Maintainability
44. When a program is divided into smallers sections called subprograms
Concatenation
Modularity
Design
Exceptional
45. A programmung language that uses english like statements. Must be translated into machine code
Corrective
Programmer
High Level Langauge
User Interface
46. Types of data stored by a program including string and integer and real and single
Graphical Design Notation
Data Types
Pseudocode
Corrective
47. Variables defined only for use in one subprogram
Field Testing
Programmer
Local Variable
String
48. First stage of the SDP concerned with gathering knowledge and understanding the problem
Analysis
Stepwise Refinement
Perfective Maintenance
Logical Operator
49. A stage of SDP that involves the planning of a solution to the problem
Variable
Normal Test Data
Readability
Design
50. A stage of the SDP where a user guide and technical guide are produced
Project Manager
Pre-defined Function
Documentation
Interpreter