Software Engineering (BCS601) important questions and topics for AKTU
These are ranked by how often AKTU repeats them across 5 papers. Repeated questions and "very likely" topics are the safest marks in the exam.
Most repeated Software Engineering questions
- Discuss the SEI Capability Maturity Model and compare it with the ISO 9000 certification giving various distinctive features of each model. (7 marks, 2025, Software Quality Assurance) – also asked in 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024
- Write a brief description of various categories of software maintenances? Give a proportionate distribution of maintenance cost to these categories. Discuss the role of Reverse Engineering in software maintenance. (7 marks, 2025, Software Maintenance) – also asked in 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024
- Discuss the Requirements Engineering Process. Write down the most generalized template used for describing Use Cases. Give description of its various components taking a suitable example. (7 marks, 2025, Requirement Engineering Process) – also asked in 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024
- Define software and software engineering. Write various components of software and give their brief description. Why there is a crisis in software development industry? (7 marks, 2025, Software Engineering Introduction) – also asked in 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024
- List various software quality attributes and discuss the procedure for assessment of software quality. Obtain the expression for Error Index (which acts as Quality Indicator for software) through the Statistical Quality Assurance procedure where the defect/error data is collected and categorized for a defined period of time. (7 marks, 2025, Software Quality Assurance) – also asked in 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024
High-probability Software Engineering topics
- Software Design Concepts (Unit 3: Software Design and Metrics) – asked 20 times in 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
- Software Engineering Introduction (Unit 1: Introduction and SDLC Models) – asked 17 times in 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
- Software Maintenance (Unit 5: Maintenance and Project Management) – asked 13 times in 2018, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025