Software Engineering Unit 5 – Maintenance and Project Management: AKTU previous year questions
30 AKTU questions from Unit 5 (Maintenance and Project Management) asked in 2018–2025, tagged by marks, year and topic. In short: about 32 marks of every paper come from this unit; the most asked topic is Software Maintenance (13 times); 30 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 5 previous year questions
- What is Software Risk Analysis Management? (2 marks, 2025, Software Risk Management)
- Define software Re-engineering. (2 marks, 2025, Software Maintenance)
- Justify the statement "Software Maintenance is Inevitable". Discuss various types of software maintenances along with their relative maintenance cost. (7 marks, 2025, Software Maintenance)
- Give the structure of CASE development environment and discuss its various components in brief. Write various benefits of using CASE tools? (7 marks, 2025, Software Configuration Management)
- 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)
- List any two reasons for increase in the software costs. (2 marks, 2024, Cost and Effort Estimation)
- Discuss the need of Risk Management in software engineering. (2 marks, 2024, Software Risk Management)
- What do you mean by the term software re-engineering? Why is it required? (10 marks, 2024, Software Maintenance)
- Discuss the need of maintenance. Also discuss various categories of maintenance. (10 marks, 2024, Software Maintenance)
- Discuss COCOMO model in detail. Also explain the term Person Month (PM). (10 marks, 2024, Cost and Effort Estimation)
- Mention the advantages of CASE tools. (2 marks, 2023, Software Configuration Management)
- List out the importance of cost estimation in software development. (2 marks, 2023, Cost and Effort Estimation)
Most asked Unit 5 topics
- Software Maintenance – asked 13 times
- Cost and Effort Estimation – asked 7 times
- Software Configuration Management – asked 6 times
Unit 5 question pattern
- 2-mark questions: 12 asked in 2018–2025
- 7-mark questions: 3 asked in 2018–2025
- 10-mark questions: 15 asked in 2018–2025
- About 32 marks from Unit 5 in every paper
- 30 questions were asked again in a later year
Unit 5 questions year by year
- 2025: 5 Unit 5 questions asked (25 marks across that year's papers)
- 2024: 5 Unit 5 questions asked (34 marks across that year's papers)
- 2023: 10 Unit 5 questions asked (68 marks across that year's papers)
- 2022: 5 Unit 5 questions asked (34 marks across that year's papers)
- 2018: 5 Unit 5 questions asked (34 marks across that year's papers)