University of Rajasthan 2008 B.Tech Information Technology Software Engineering - Question Paper

B.Tech II Year (Sem. IV) Examinatio, MAY- 2008
Software Engineering
Inforamtion Technology

[Time : three hours] [Total marks : 80]
[Min passing marks :24]


1 (a) State the differences ranging from program and software. Why have documents and documentation become very important ? [8]
(b) discuss System Development Life Cycle (SDLC). [8]

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1 (a)Explain issues in System Cycle. [8]
(b) discuss tasks performed by a system engineering/analyst. List qualification requires for a person to work as a system engineer and be successful in his or her job. Justify your list of qualification. [8]

2 (a) Is it possible to estimate software size before coding? Justify your ans with suitable examples. [8]
(b) calculate the FP (Function point) for a payroll program that reads a file of employee and a file of info for the current month and prints cheques for all the employees. The program is capable of handling an interactive command to print an individually requested cheques immediately. [8]

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2 (a) elaborate different activities during software project planning? discuss. [8]
(b) A proposal is made to count the size of "C" programs by number of semicolons, other than those occurring with literal strings. explain the strengths and weaknesses to this size measure when compared with lines of codes count. [8]

3 (a) A department of computer science has usual resource and usual users for these resources. A software is to be developed to that resources are assigned without conflict. Draw a DFD specifying the above system. [8]
(b) An airline reservation is an association ranging from a passenger a flight and a seat. choose a few pertinent attributes for every of these entity kinds and represent a reservation in an E-R Diagram. [8]


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3 (a) Draw a DFD for borrowing a book in a library which is discussed below: "A borrower can borrow a book if it is available else he/she can reserves for the book if he/she so wishes. He/she can borrow a maximum of 3 books. " [8]
(b) Draw the E-R diagram for hotel reception desk management. [8]

4 (a) If a few existing modules are to be reused in building a new system, which design strategy is used and why?
(b) Do we design software when we 'write' a program? What makes software design various from coding?

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4 (a) explain the differences ranging from object oriented and function oriented design. [8]
(b) What documents should be produced on completion of the design phase? [8]

5 (a) What is modularity? List the important properties of a modular system. [8]
(b) discuss Unified Modeling Language. [8]

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5 (a) discuss Object-Oriented Analysis Modeling. [8]
(b) describe the subsequent terms: objects, messages, abstraction, class, inheritance and polymorphism. [8]

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Earning:   Approval pending.