Software Engineering Online Test

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The Software Engineering online test assesses knowledge of software development and engineering concepts, principles, and best practices through a series of multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions.

The assessment includes work-sample tasks such as:

  • Creating RESTful APIs.
  • Using OOP principles and OOP design patterns to write reusable code.
  • Selecting an appropriate solution and software architecture to satisfy specific business needs.

A good software engineer needs a solid understanding of how software systems work together, how to optimize them, and how to design systems to avoid potential issues.

Sample public questions

Easy
3 min
mmcq
Public
AI-resistant
Solution & Software Architecture
Software Architecture
Solution Architecture

During a discussion about architecture for a new web app the following sketchup was made:

Web app architecture

The authors of the sketchup forgot to write the descriptions for three components marked with red numbers.

Select the best choice, regarding the context, for the description that should define each component.

Easy
5 min
mmcq
Public
Data Structures & Algorithms
Algorithmic Thinking
Complexity

For the following pseudocode functions, choose the big O notation that accurately describes its worst-case complexity.

Easy
5 min
mca
Public
OOP & Design Patterns
Inheritance

In a language that supports the OOP paradigm, we have the following code that serializes the content of a shopping cart to JSON format:

class ShoppingCart
  private content : Dictionary<Int, String> 

  public function serialize() : String
    return new JsonSerializer().serialize(content.clone())
  end function
end class

class JsonSerializer  
  public function serialize(value : Dictionary<Int, String>) : String
    // Code that serializes dictionary to JSON format and returns it as string
  end function
end class

A client wants to allow loosely coupled plugins to be able to serialize the shopping cart content to their own formats (e.g., XML). Select lines of code that, together, would extend the code above to allow this.

Hard
3 min
mca
Public
REST API & HTTP
HTTP
REST

Select the statements about RESTful web services that are correct.

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21 more premium Software Engineering questions

Sorted Array Search, Panel System, Engine, UML Diagrams, Welcome Screen, Advertising Platform, Mock Configuration, Sort Comprehension, Tree Traversal, Do Recursive, Cloud Solution, Collaborative Software, Spreadsheet App, Blame, Service Discovery, Car Persistence, Web Protocol, HTTP Post, Candidates REST API, REST Communications, Cookies.

Skills and topics tested

  • Data Structures & Algorithms
  • Algorithmic Thinking
  • Binary Search
  • Complexity
  • OOP & Design Patterns
  • Behavioral Patterns
  • Creational Patterns
  • Design Patterns
  • Inheritance
  • Method Overriding
  • UML
  • Inversion of Control
  • Recursion
  • Tree Traversal
  • Solution & Software Architecture
  • Cloud Computing
  • Solution Architecture
  • Software Architecture
  • Software Architecture Patterns
  • Collaborative Environment
  • Microservices
  • OOP
  • REST API & HTTP
  • Network Security
  • Protocol
  • HTTP
  • REST

For job roles

  • Back-End Developer
  • Full-Stack Developer
  • Mobile Developer
  • Software Developer
  • Web Developer
  • Web Front-End Developer

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