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National Exams — May 2013 — 98-Comp-A6 Software Engineering. Three-hour, closed-book exam, no calculator permitted. Format: nine questions, candidates answer any five of the nine (all questions equal weight — each of the five counted questions is worth 20%; only the first five questions as they appear in the answer book are marked). All nine questions are solved below for completeness.
Reference texts: Sommerville, Software Engineering (10th ed., Pearson) — software process models, object-oriented and function-oriented design, software testing, dependability and critical systems, reliability metrics, configuration management, real-time software engineering; Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach (9th ed.) — supplementary process and testing coverage; Gamma, Helm, Johnson & Vlissides, Design Patterns — object-oriented design vocabulary.