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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 maintenance used to add new features to a program
Graphical Design Notation
Perfective
Modularity
Systems Analyst
2. Translates and runs a high level language one line at a time
Exceptional
Translation
Interpreter
Bottom-up Design
3. Test data which is within a range that the program should accept
Macro
Normal Test Data
Variable
Readability
4. A data type used to store more than one character
Extreme
Analysis
String
Array
5. A type of maintenance used to fix errors in a program
Macro
Flow Chart
Fixed Loops
Corrective
6. A design notation using different shaped boxes and showing hierarchy
Integer
Structure Diagram
Corrective
Local Variable
7. Revisiting or repeating steps in the SDP to improve the solution
Translation
Flow Chart
Iteration
Acceptance Testing
8. First stage of the SDP concerned with gathering knowledge and understanding the problem
Exceptional
Compiler
Analysis
Extreme
9. A text-based design notation using ordinary language to define a problem
Normal Test Data
Pseudocode
Extreme
Structure Diagram
10. The ability of software to cope with errors during execution without crashing
Integer
Robustness
Local Variable
Extreme Test Data
11. Allowing users other than the programmers to test the program
Robustness
Data Flow
Structure Diagram
Field Testing
12. The process of finding and correcting errors in a program
Analysis
Debugging
Stepwise Refinement
Reliability
13. A loop which is carried out a set number of times
Exceptional Test Data
Machine Code
Extreme
Fixed Loops
14. Test data which is on the boundary of what is acceptable by the program
Extreme Test Data
Interpreter
Acceptance Testing
Module
15. Does the program do what it was meant to do? This is one way to evaluate a program.
Fixed Loops
Comprehensive Testing
Translation
Fit for Purpose
16. A stage of SDP that involves the planning of a solution to the problem
Comprehensive Testing
User Guide
Design
Logical Operator
17. Variables defined only for use in one subprogram
Local Variable
Robustness
Text Editor
Compiler
18. Fixing bugs or mistakes which were not discovered at the testing stage
Corrective Maintenance
String
User Interface
Systems Analyst
19. Used to find a target value in a full list
Project Manager
Linear Search
Adaptive Maintenance
Field Testing
20. Converts high level code into machine code one line at a time and reports errors as they are found
Bottom-up Design
Interpreter
Program Specification
Fit for Purpose
21. A loop that repeats instructions until - or while - a condition is met eg - Repeat / Until X > 0
Conditional Loop
Linear Search
Software Specificiation
Modularity
22. A programming instruction that returns out a numerical task - e.g. LENGTH or RND or DIV
Module
Iteration
Pre-defined Function
Array
23. Legally binding document defining the problem
Graphical Design Notation
Array
Software Specificiation
Fixed Loops
24. A series of actions that you record and then replay to automate tasks.
Readability
Project Manager
Acceptance Testing
Macro
25. Secting part of a string
Iteration
Variable
Bottom-up Design
Substrings
26. NOT/OR?AND
Adaptive
Logical Operator
Systems Analyst
Portability
27. A data type used to store a single character
Char
Corrective Maintenance
Normal
Corrective
28. A document that is produced at the end of the Analysis stage. It is a legal agreement between the client and developer
Char
Variable
Software Specificiation
Program Specification
29. A visual representation of the program design such as a Flowchart or Structure Diagram
Software Specificiation
Analysis
Macro
Graphical Design Notation
30. A type of test data that tests a program using expected values within the allowed range
Normal
Local Variable
Technical Guide
Exhaustive Testing
31. An evaluation criterion that assesses if the software can be used on a computer other than the one on which it was designed
Readability
Compiler
Portability
Interpreter
32. Software is evaluated for excessive resource use such as memory or backing storage
Compiler
Efficiency
Array
Technical Guide
33. Writes code working to a software specification
Data Types
Programmer
Readability
Analysis
34. A design notation using boxes linked by arrows showing data flow
Conditional Loop
Flow Chart
Local Variable
Logical Operator
35. Translates a high level language program into object code
Fixed Loops
Compiler
Project Manager
Programmer
36. A type of test data that tests the limits of the expected range of values
Debugging
Extreme
Input Validation
Portability
37. A loop contained within another loop
Program Specification
Readability
Nested Loop
Flow Chart
38. Types of data stored by a program including string and integer and real and single
Data Types
Exceptional
Extreme
Counting Occurrences
39. Used to count how many times a value appears in a list
Normal Test Data
Extreme
Debugging
Counting Occurrences
40. A data structure in which data items of the same type are grouped together
Array
Extreme Test Data
Debugging
Adaptive
41. A data structure used to store a list of information of the same type
Compiler
Array
Readability
Conditional Loop
42. An evaluation criterion that determines how easy it is to maintain a program
Array
Interpreter
Systems Analyst
Maintainability
43. A type of test data that tests a program for values outwith the expected range
Counting Occurrences
Reliability
Normal
Exceptional
44. Changing the software in response to changes in the client's hardware
Adaptive Maintenance
Maintainability
Psuedocode
Stepwise Refinement
45. The Beta testing stage of the SDP
Extreme Test Data
Iteration
Reliability
Acceptance Testing
46. Test data which should be rejected by the program under test conditions
Portability
Interpreter
Exceptional Test Data
Conditional Loop
47. Involves all the possible sets of test data and all of the program pathways
Normal Test Data
Exhaustive Testing
Graphical Design Notation
Perfective Maintenance
48. The movement of data between subprograms and implemented using parameters
Real
User Interface
Data Flow
Analysis
49. Instructions that can be understood by the computer without the need for translation
Fit for Purpose
Macro
Machine Code
Programmer
50. Documentation that explains how to operate the software once it has been installed
User Guide
Modularity
Machine Code
Perfective Maintenance