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National Exams — December 2015 — 98-Comp-A6 Software Engineering. Three-hour, closed-book exam, no calculator permitted. Format: eight questions, candidates answer any five of the eight (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 eight 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, requirements engineering, dependability and critical systems, configuration management, project/risk management; Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach (9th ed.) — supplementary process and testing coverage; Leveson, Safeware: System Safety and Computers — hazard analysis and fault tree analysis for safety-critical software (applied to the Question 7 medical-device case).
