Question: What enables a software engineer to defined screen layout rapidly for interactive applications ?

• 1. Analysis and design tools
• 2. Tool kit
• 3. Screen painters
• 4. PRO/SIM tools

Question: Which of the following is software engineer’s primary characteristics ?

• 1. A collection of useful tools that will help in every step of building a product
• 2. An organized layout that enables tools to be found quickly and used efficiently
• 3. A skilled artisan who understands how to use the tools in an effective manner
• 4. All of the mentioned

Question: Extracting data items and objects, to get information on data flow, and to understand the existing data structures that have been implemented is sometimes called__________________?

• 1. data analysis
• 2. directionality
• 3. data extraction
• 4. client applications

Question: Transformation of a system from one representational form to another is known as________________?

• 1. Re-factoring
• 2. Restructuring
• 3. Forward engineering
• 4. Both Re-factoring and Restructuring

Question: Reverse engineering is the process of deriving the system design and specification from its____________________?

• 1. GUI
• 2. Database
• 3. Source code
• 4. All of the mentioned

Question: Much of the information necessary to create a behavioral model can be obtained by observing the external manifestation of the existing ________________________?

• 1. candidate keys
• 2. interface
• 3. database structure
• 4. none of the mentioned

Question: Which of the following is not an objective of reverse engineering ?

• 1. to reduce maintenance effort
• 2. to cope with complexity
• 3. to avoid side effects
• 4. to assist migration to a CASE environment

Question: Which of the following steps may not be used to define the existing data model as a precursor to re-engineering a new database model ?

• 1. Build an initial object model
• 2. Determine candidate keys
• 3. Refine the tentative classes
• 4. Discover user interfaces

Question: What have become de rigueur for computer-based products and systems of every type ?

• 1. GUIs
• 2. Candidate keys
• 3. Object model
• 4. All of the mentioned

Question: In reverse engineering process, what refers to the sophistication of the design information that can be extracted from the source code ?

• 1. interactivity
• 2. completeness
• 3. abstraction level
• 4. direction level