The safety of a system is a system attribute that reflects the system’s ability to operate, normally or abnormally, without injury to people or damage to the environment ?

Related Mcqs:

1. An assessment of the worst possible damage that could result from a particular hazard is known as _________________?

   A. Risk
   B. Hazard probability
   C. Hazard severity
   D. Mishap

2. Consider a case where the failure of the system causes damage to the system itself or it data. What type of failure is being described here ?

   A. Loss of service
   B. Incorrect service delivery
   C. System/data corruption
   D. None of the mentioned

3. Static analysis is now routinely used in the development of many safety and security critical systems?

   A. True
   B. False

4. An aircraft engine normally includes automatic fire extinguishers.What kind of dependability and security issue the example states ?

   A. Hazard avoidance
   B. Damage limitation
   C. Hazard detection
   D. Hazard detection and removal

5. A password checking system that disallows user passwords that are proper names or words that are normally included in a dictionary is an example of ________________ with respect to security systems?

   A. risk
   B. control
   C. attack
   D. asset

6. Which process characteristic with respect to Dependability Engineering is mentioned by the statement: “The process should be understandable by people apart from process participants” ?

   A. Diverse
   B. Documentable
   C. Auditable
   D. None of the mentioned

7. An erroneous system state that can lead to system behavior that is unexpected by system users is known as________________?

   A. Human error or mistake
   B. System fault
   C. System error
   D. System failure

8. What is the term for a system that is designed such that the faults in the delivered software do not result in system failure ?

   A. Fault Avoidance
   B. Fault detection
   C. Fault tolerance
   D. None of the mentioned

9. Controls that are intended to ensure that attacks are unsuccessful is analogous to ______________ in dependability engineering?

   A. Fault avoidance
   B. Fault tolerance
   C. Fault detection
   D. Fault Recovery

10. Choose the fault class in which the following automated static analysis check would fall:”Pointer Arithmetic” ?

    A. Storage management faults
    B. Data Faults
    C. Input/Output Faults
    D. Interface faults