Software Engineering Unit 3 – Software Design and Metrics: AKTU previous year questions
31 AKTU questions from Unit 3 (Software Design and Metrics) asked in 2018–2025, tagged by marks, year and topic. In short: about 33 marks of every paper come from this unit; the most asked topic is Software Design Concepts (20 times); 29 questions came back in a later year. The latest ones are listed below; on the page you can filter them by 2-mark or long questions, topic and repeats.
Unit 3 previous year questions
- Give a detailed overview of Size Oriented Measures of software. (2 marks, 2025, Software Measurement and Metrics)
- List various drawbacks of the Line of Code (LOC) based size measure of software. Discuss the Albretch Function Point count method. Show that the Complexity Adjustment Factor (CAF) adjusts the unadjusted value of Function Point (UFP) to ± 35%. (7 marks, 2025, Software Measurement and Metrics)
- Discuss all nine (9) types of UML diagrams under static and dynamic category which are used for specifying various concepts notations in Object Oriented Design/development of software. (7 marks, 2025, Design Strategies)
- Write down various attributes/properties of a good/stable software design. Discuss the concept of coupling and cohesion measures and their use to determine strength of a software design. (7 marks, 2025, Software Design Concepts)
- Draw the Control Flow Graph (CFG) for the following program and calculate its Cyclomatic Complexity. Also write various independent/basis paths available in the program/CFG. int compute_gcd(x,y) int x,y; { while (x != y) { if(x>y) then x=x-y; else y=y-x; } return x; } (7 marks, 2025, Software Measurement and Metrics)
- Discuss LOC? List two advantages and disadvantages of LOC. (2 marks, 2024, Software Measurement and Metrics)
- What is Pseudo Code? How it differs from Algorithm? (2 marks, 2024, Software Design Concepts)
- Explain the term Cohesion and Coupling? Also explain the various forms of cohesion and coupling? (10 marks, 2024, Software Design Concepts)
- Explain software metric? Also explain the various metrics for the size estimation of a project. (10 marks, 2024, Software Measurement and Metrics)
- What do you mean by horizontal and vertical partitioning? (2 marks, 2023, Software Design Concepts)
- Why software architecture is important in a software process? (2 marks, 2023, Software Design Concepts)
- How do you evaluate user interface? (2 marks, 2023, Software Design Concepts)
Most asked Unit 3 topics
- Software Design Concepts – asked 20 times
- Software Measurement and Metrics – asked 10 times
- Design Strategies – asked 1 times
Unit 3 question pattern
- 2-mark questions: 11 asked in 2018–2025
- 7-mark questions: 4 asked in 2018–2025
- 10-mark questions: 16 asked in 2018–2025
- About 33 marks from Unit 3 in every paper
- 29 questions were asked again in a later year
Unit 3 questions year by year
- 2025: 5 Unit 3 questions asked (30 marks across that year's papers)
- 2024: 4 Unit 3 questions asked (24 marks across that year's papers)
- 2023: 12 Unit 3 questions asked (88 marks across that year's papers)
- 2022: 5 Unit 3 questions asked (34 marks across that year's papers)
- 2018: 5 Unit 3 questions asked (34 marks across that year's papers)