All Free Software Engineering MCQs with Answers

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  • A. Intuitive
  • B. Cognitive
  • C. Systematic
  • D. Analytic

Explanation: Decision making is cognitive because it involves mental activities such as interpreting information, evaluating alternatives, and choosing…

Correct answer: Cognitive
  • A. MIS
  • B. DSS
  • C. TPS
  • D. OIS

Explanation: A Decision Support System is specifically designed to assist individual or group decisions, especially when problems are semi-structured.

Correct answer: DSS
  • A. testing
  • B. building
  • C. deleting
  • D. innovating

Explanation: System professionals on a project team are directly responsible for building the system, including implementing its components and…

Correct answer: building
  • A. Operational
  • B. functional
  • C. decision support
  • D. knowledge

Explanation: A functional head needs functional information to administer and manage that particular business area, such as finance, marketing, or…

Correct answer: functional
  • A. termination costs
  • B. moving costs
  • C. development costs
  • D. switching costs

Explanation: Switching costs are the time, money, effort, and other resources a customer loses when moving from one seller or supplier to another.

Correct answer: switching costs
  • A. Decision making
  • B. Business
  • C. Value
  • D. Re-engineering

Explanation: Decision making involves recognizing a problem, generating possible solutions, selecting the best alternative, and putting it into action.

Correct answer: Decision making
  • A. Relevance
  • B. Availability
  • C. Timeliness
  • D. All of the above

Explanation: Useful information should be relevant to the decision, available when needed, and timely enough to support action.

Correct answer: All of the above
  • A. Planning
  • B. Managerial
  • C. Accounting
  • D. Diagnosis

Explanation: Accounting records business transactions, classifies them into accounts, and summarizes them in financial reports.

Correct answer: Accounting
  • A. MIS
  • B. DSS
  • C. MRS
  • D. None of the above

Explanation: A management information system is an organized collection of formal systems that gathers, processes, stores, and delivers information for…

Correct answer: MIS
  • A. operational level
  • B. management level
  • C. knowledge level
  • D. strategic level

Explanation: Recording employee training, skills, and appraisal details supports routine day-to-day HR operations, so it belongs to the operational…

Correct answer: operational level
  • A. Behavioral model
  • B. Management science models
  • C. Operations research models
  • D. Policy making models

Explanation: Management science models apply business management, accounting, and econometric principles to support managerial planning and decisions.

Correct answer: Management science models
  • A. Allowable use of systems
  • B. Legal obligations
  • C. Encryption policies
  • D. User responsibilities

Explanation: An acceptable use policy normally defines permitted system use, legal obligations, and user responsibilities.

Correct answer: Encryption policies
  • A. middle managers
  • B. executive managers
  • C. supervisors
  • D. mobile managers

Explanation: Middle managers make tactical decisions that translate strategic plans into short-term operational actions.

Correct answer: middle managers
  • A. a document that compares business and technical requirements of a commercial application package against the capabilities and features of a specific commercial application package
  • B. a document that communicates business, technical, and support requirements for an application software package to vendors that wish to compete for the sale of that application package and services
  • C. a document that communicates business, technical, and support requirements for an application software package to a single vendor that has been determined as being able to supply that application package and service
  • D. a contract with management and the user community to develop or enhance an information system

Explanation: An RFQ is commonly directed to a known supplier to obtain a price for a specified package or service, matching option c.

Correct answer: a document that communicates business, technical, and support requirements for an application software package to a single vendor that has been determined as being able to supply that application package and service
  • A. what if analysis
  • B. optimization
  • C. Goal seeking analysis
  • D. None of the above

Explanation: Optimization analysis searches for the best value of one or more target variables while obeying specified constraints.

Correct answer: optimization
  • A. Service sector
  • B. Banking sector
  • C. Agriculture sector
  • D. All of the above

Explanation: A manufacturing MIS is designed around production, inventory, and factory operations, so its structure does not directly fit a service…

Correct answer: Service sector
  • A. technical feasibility
  • B. schedule feasibility
  • C. operational feasibility
  • D. resource feasibility

Explanation: The commonly recognised feasibility criteria are technical, economic, operational, and schedule feasibility.

Correct answer: resource feasibility
  • A. Google
  • B. Apple Inc
  • C. France as its Foreign Secretary
  • D. Microsoft

Explanation: Tim Cook is the chief executive associated with Apple Inc., succeeding Steve Jobs in 2011.

Correct answer: Apple Inc
  • A. Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale
  • B. Jagadip Narayan Singh
  • C. Ajay Kumar Mittal
  • D. D.Y. Chandrachud

Explanation: Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale was sworn in as Chief Justice of the Allahabad High Court in 2016.

Correct answer: Dilip Babasaheb Bhosale
  • A. Version Control
  • B. Access control
  • C. CM Process
  • D. Version Control and Access control

Explanation: Version control lets multiple projects access and manage common source files while preserving versions and coordinating changes.

Correct answer: Version Control