Software Reliability and Fault Tolerance

This quiz contains multiple-choice problems on reliability models and fault tolerance.

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How many product quality factors are proposed in the McCall quality model?

2

3

11

8

Which one of the following is not a software quality model?

ISO 9000

McCall model

Boehm model

ISO 9126

How is software reliability defined?

Time

Efficiency

Quality

Speed

Under what type of quality attributes of ISO 9126 do suitability, accuracy, interoperability, and security fall?

Reliability

Efficiency

Functionality

Usability

Under which quality attribute of ISO 9126 do time and resource behaviours fall?

Reliability

Efficiency

Functionality

Usability

NHPP stands for

Non Homogeneous Poisson Product

Non-Hetrogeneous Poisson Product

Non-Hetrogeneous Poisson Process

Non Homogeneous Poisson Process

The CMM model is a technique to

Automatically maintain the software reliability

Improve the software process

Test the software

All of the above

How are reliability and failure intensity related?

Direct relation

Inverse relation

No relation

None of the above

What is MTTF?

Maximum time to failure

Mean time to failure

Minimum time to failure

None of the above

The non-occurrence of improper alteration of information is known as

Available dependability Confidential dependability Maintainable dependability Integral dependability

In log-based fault tolerance, logs of undetermined events are saved and replayed on failure. True or false?

True False

Communication processes must reach consistent recovery points to avoid the __ effect, with a backward error recovery mechanism.

Static Dynamic Domino Whirlpool

All fault-tolerant techniques rely on

Integrity Dependability Redundancy None of the above

Which level of CMM is for process management?

Initial Repeatable Defined Optimizing

Which of the following is not a phase of “bathtub curve” of hardware reliability?

Useful life

Burn-in

Wear-out

Time

Quiz/Test Summary
Title: Software Reliability and Fault Tolerance
Questions: 15
Contributed by:
Ivan