Top 150+ Solved Software Quality Management (SQM) MCQ Questions Answer
Q. ISO 9000 is a series of standards for quality management system and has:
a. 2 related standards
b. 5 related standards
c. 10 related standards
d. 25 related standards
Q. Software quality is defined as
a. Conformance to user specified requirements.
b. Achievement of extremely low defect rates.
c. Production of software with high reliability
d. None of the above
Q. SQA stands for
a. Software quality added
b. Software quality audit
c. Software quality assurance
d. None of the above
Q. Quality costs may be divided into costs associated with
a. Prevention, appraisal and failure
b. People, process and product
c. Customers, developers and maintenance
d. All of the above
Q. Variation control in the context of software engineering involves controlling variation in the
a. Process applied
b. Resources expended
c. Product quality attributes
d. All of the above
Q. A key concept of quality control is that all work products
a. Are delivered on time and under budget
b. Have complete documentation
c. Have measurable specifications for process outputs
d. Are thoroughly tested before delivery to the customer
Q. Which of these activities is not one of the activities recommended to be performed by anindependent SQA group?
a. Prepare SQA plan for the project
b. Review software engineering activities to verify process compliance
c. Report any evidence of noncompliance to senior management
d. Serve as the sole test team for any software produced
Q. Software safety is a quality assurance activity that focuses on hazards that
a. Affect the reliability of a software component
b. May cause an entire system to fail
c. May result from user input errors
d. Prevent profitable marketing of the final product
Q. The ISO quality assurance standard that applies to software engineering is
a. ISO 9000:2004
b. ISO 9001:2000
c. ISO 9002:2001
d. ISO 9003:2004
Q. Which of the following is not a section in the standard for SQA plans recommended byIEEE?
a. Budget
b. Documentation
c. Reviews and audits
d. Test
Q. Six Sigma methodologies define three core steps.
a. Analyze, improve, control
b. Analyze, design, verify
c. Define, measure, analyze
d. Define, measure, control
Q. "Quality is defined by the customer" is
a. An unrealistic definition of quality
b. A user-based definition of quality
c. A manufacturing-based definition of quality
d. The definition proposed by the American Society for Quality Control
Q. Which of the following is not one of the major categories of costs associated with quality?
a. Prevention costs
b. Appraisal costs
c. Internal failures
d. None of the above, they are all major categories of costs associated with quality
Q. ISO 9000 seeks standardization in terms of
a. Products
b. Production procedures
c. Suppliers' specifications
d. Procedures to manage quality
Q. Total Quality Management emphasizes
a. The responsibility of the Quality Control staff to identify and solve all qualityrelated problems
b. A commitment to quality that goes beyond internal company issues to suppliers and customers
c. A system where strong managers are the only decision makers
d. A process where mostly statisticians get involved