Software Engineering Mcqs Practice Test

Question 1

Which of the following program is not a utility ?

Accepted Answer

B. Spooler

Question 2

An algorithm is best described as_______________?

Accepted Answer

C. A step by step procedure for solving a problem

Question 3

Multiprogramming was made possible by____________________?

Accepted Answer

C. both A and B

Question 4

Job Control Language (JCL) statements are Used to___________________?

Accepted Answer

B. Specify, to the operating system, the beginning and end of a job in a batch

Question 5

In which addressing mode, the effective address of the operand is generated by adding a constant value to the contents of register ?

Accepted Answer

A. index mode

Question 6

A development stategy whereby the executive control modules of a system are coded and tested first, is known as________________?

Accepted Answer

A. Top-down development

Question 7

In analyzing the compilation of PL/I program, the term “Lexical analysis” is associated with________________?

Accepted Answer

C. recognition of basic elements and creation of uniform symbols

Question 8

Convert the 11014B machine language instructions into assembly language, assuming that they were not generated by pseudo-ops__________________?

Accepted Answer

D. STOREA h#014B, d

Question 9

Loaders that allow for program relocation are called__________________?

Accepted Answer

C. both A and B

Question 10

In analyzing the compilation of PL/I program, the term “Syntax analysis” is associated with________________?

Accepted Answer

B. recognition of basic syntactic constructs through reductions

Question 11

A loader is_________________?

Accepted Answer

A. a program that places programs into memory and prepares them for execution

Question 12

Indicate whether the statement LDA B is a statement, in_________________?

Accepted Answer

B. Assembly language

Question 13

The action of parsing the source program into the proper syntactic classes is known as________________?

Accepted Answer

A. lexical analysis

Question 14

A self-relocating program is one which_________________?

Accepted Answer

B. can itself perform the relocation of its address-sensitive portions

Question 15

Which of the following system program forgoes the production of object code to generate absolute machine code and load it into the physical main storage location from which it will be executed immedia________________?

Accepted Answer

D. load-and-go assembler

Question 16

Convert the CHARI h#000F, s assembly language instructions into hexadecimal machine language________________?

Accepted Answer

B. DA000F

Question 17

The advantage(s) inherent to using high level languages is/are________________?

Accepted Answer

D. All of the above

Question 18

Convert the 080D4E machine language instructions into assembly language, assuming that they were not generated by pseudo-ops_______________?

Accepted Answer

C. LOADA h#OD4E, i

Question 19

In analyzing the compilation of PL/I program, the term “Machine independent optimization” is associated with______________?

Accepted Answer

A. creation of more optional matrix

Question 20

Which of the following systems software does the job of merging the records from two flies into one ?

Accepted Answer

A. Utility program