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Key Facts: Saber Pro Diseño de Software Exam

40 MCQs

Official 2026-2 Diseño de Software module is 40 single-answer multiple-choice items

ICFES Guía de orientación Diseño de Software Saber Pro 2026-2

3 × 3 evidencias

Three afirmaciones with three evidencias each; ICFES does not publish percentage weights

ICFES Guía 2026-2 Tablas 1–3

Combinatoria 49

2026-2 NBC Ingeniería de sistemas, telemática y afines combinatoria: this module plus Formulación de Proyectos de Ingeniería plus Pensamiento Científico — Matemáticas y Estadística

ICFES Oferta de combinatorias Saber Pro 2026-2

4 h 30 min

Session-2 time when two or three specific modules are assigned

ICFES Oferta de combinatorias Saber Pro 2026-2

0–300

Saber Pro module score scale; not averaged into Puntaje Global

ICFES Guía de orientación Saber Pro 2026-2

COP 126,000

2026 ordinary Saber Pro fee for public IES; no separate software-module fee is published

Resolución 000629 of 11 November 2025

Spanish

Official guide and items for this module are issued in Spanish

ICFES Guía Diseño de Software 2026-2

7 conceptual areas

Tabla 4 covers design fundamentals, architecture, UML, algorithms, databases, methodology, and user interfaces

ICFES Guía 2026-2 Tabla 4

Saber Pro combinatoria 49 software-design module: 40 Spanish MCQs on problem formulation, alternatives, and detailed specification of information-system products, scored 0–300 and not part of the generic Puntaje Global.

Sample Saber Pro Diseño de Software Practice Questions

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1A Bogotá IES in SNIES NBC Ingeniería de sistemas, telemática y afines briefs a Saber Pro Diseño de Software studio team: students wait about 40 minutes at registro académico during matrícula week, the current queue kiosk times out, and a dean adds we should use blockchain. In a technical problem-identification frame, what is the design problem?
A.Absence of a blockchain ledger for enrollment tokens
B.Unacceptably long wait and kiosk failure during peak matrícula, whose causes are still unmeasured
C.Need to rewrite the entire academic information system this semester
D.Treat the 40-minute wait as a fixed hardware-capacity requirement before measuring its causes
Explanation: Afirmación 1 asks you to interpret the situation as an operational problem: peak-load waiting and kiosk timeouts. Blockchain and a fixed hardware-capacity target are premature solutions because the underlying causes have not yet been measured.
2A Cali hospital affiliated with an IES asks a telematics team for a system for appointments. The correo contains no clinic hours, no daily volume, no actor list, and no description of the current paper agenda. For evidencia 1.1, what kind of information problem is this?
A.Incomplete operational information: volumes, hours, actors, and the as-is process are missing
B.Sufficient problem information, because daily volume and clinic hours can be selected during implementation
C.A complete actor model, because mentioning appointments implies every participant and responsibility
D.A channel constraint that requires a mobile app even though no access context is described
Explanation: The brief is incomplete: without hours, volumes, actors, and the current process, you cannot yet identify the real bottleneck. Evidencia 1.1 trains you to notice missing and uncertain technical information rather than invent a UI.
3A Medellín IES packet for a grade-consultation product includes (a) SIS timeout logs from last matrícula, (b) the cafeteria weekly menu, (c) parking-lot paint colors, and (d) registrar role names. Which items should the designer treat as surplus for identifying the software problem?
A.The timeout logs, because logs are never used in problem analysis
B.The registrar role names, because actors are out of scope
C.The cafeteria menu and parking-lot paint colors
D.All four items, because every attachment from operations is equally relevant
Explanation: Surplus information is content that does not help explain the technical failure. Menus and paint colors do not describe consultation latency or actors. Timeout logs and registrar roles are relevant.
4In Barranquilla, a coordinador de programa tells the studio: the problem is that we do not have microservices. How should a candidate interpret that sentence under afirmación 1?
A.As a complete problem statement, because architecture names are the ICFES object of evaluation
B.As a non-functional requirement for 99.99 percent availability
C.As a Ley 1581 personal-data constraint
D.As solution jumping: it names a style, not an operational or information-system failure
Explanation: A problem of design is a gap in the current information system (errors, delays, missing use cases, unclear data). Microservices is an architectural alternative to evaluate later. Naming it as the problem skips evidencia 1.1.
5A Pereira IES lists stakeholders for a student grade-consultation WebGUI: the rector, the TI unit, students, the campus data-protection officer, and DIAN. For this product, which named party is most likely surplus unless the brief adds tax-reporting scope?
A.Students, because consultation users provide input but do not own the operating budget
B.DIAN, because the product as stated does not handle tax reporting
C.The TI unit, because infrastructure and support are considered only after the product is designed
D.The rector, because an executive sponsor can delegate daily decisions to registro académico
Explanation: Stakeholders must have a genuine interest in the product. DIAN is Colombia's tax authority; a grade-consultation app does not by itself create a tax-reporting actor. Students, TI, executive sponsors, and the data-protection role all have direct interests in access, operation, governance, or privacy.
6A Bucaramanga brief says only that the academic system is bad. In a technical frame for Saber Pro Diseño de Software, what should the team do first?
A.Translate the complaint into measurable failures such as timeout rate, error codes, missing use cases, or peak-load wait
B.Select microservices because independently deployed services will make the complaint measurable
C.Keep bad as the complete problem statement and defer measurement until after construction
D.Treat the current system's programming language as the failure without checking user outcomes
Explanation: Evidencia 1.1 is about interpreting incomplete language inside a technical frame. Bad is not a specification; latency, failure rate, and missing functions are. You do not jump to an architecture, and this bank is not the official Spanish booklet.
7In Bogotá, TI reports 99.5 percent monthly uptime for the matrícula service, while students say they could not enroll on the first morning. How should the designer treat this uncertain pair of reports?
A.Discard the student reports because uptime already proves there is no problem
B.Discard the TI report because direct user reports are sufficient evidence of every technical cause
C.Treat both as possibly true: high monthly availability can coexist with a short peak-capacity failure on day one
D.Combine uptime and complaints into one average without aligning their measurement windows
Explanation: Availability averaged over a month can look healthy while a three-hour overload still blocks matrícula. Uncertain information is resolved by separating quality attributes (monthly availability versus peak throughput) and gathering day-one metrics.
8A Cali tesis-deposit brief lists use cases: submit PDF, registrar validates metadata, emit constancia, and print cafeteria coupons. Which use case is surplus for the deposit product unless dining is added to scope?
A.Submit PDF, because file upload should be treated only as an implementation detail
B.Registrar validation, because every staff task must be modeled in a separate product
C.Emit constancia, because the repository's upload response makes proof of deposit redundant
D.Print cafeteria coupons, because it does not belong to tesis deposit
Explanation: Use-case identification from a messy brief means keeping the product's goal (deposit and proof) and dropping unrelated restaurant functions. Coupons are surplus scope.
9A Medellín lab-booking packet contains screenshots of the current Excel sheet, no booking counts, and a vendor quote for an Oracle cluster. What is the main information gap for evidencia 1.1?
A.Measured demand and failure modes of the current Excel process; the Oracle quote is a premature solution artifact
B.A UML class diagram for the proposed replacement before the current failure is measured
C.A selected database product and cluster size
D.A final user-interface color palette
Explanation: You have a qualitative as-is picture but no volumes, conflict rates, or no-show rates. The cluster quote already assumes a heavy database solution. Fill the operational gap before treating the quote as a requirement.
10A Barranquilla IES wants a student-wellbeing chatbot that stores mental-health notes and mentions Ley 1581 in the same paragraph. How should problem, constraint, and solution be separated?
A.The functional objective is compliance with Ley 1581; the wellbeing conversation is merely the selected interface
B.The problem is supporting confidential wellbeing conversations; Ley 1581 is a personal-data handling constraint, not a feature
C.The problem is choosing MongoDB; Ley 1581 is a functional requirement named store notes
D.The problem is storing notes; confidentiality is only an optional preference after implementation
Explanation: The user need is access to wellbeing support. Storing sensitive notes triggers Ley 1581 duties (authorization, purpose, security) as constraints on any design. Those duties are not the problem statement and are not a cute feature toggle.

About the Saber Pro Diseño de Software Exam

The ICFES module Diseño de Software is a Saber Pro specific-competency module offered to SNIES NBC Ingeniería de sistemas, telemática y afines. It is one of the eight Diseño de Ingeniería modules and is part of the Examen de Estado de la Calidad de la Educación Superior under Ley 1324 de 2009, not a professional-licensure exam. ICFES's 2026-2 combinatoria table assigns combinatoria 49 as Formulación de Proyectos de Ingeniería plus Diseño de Software plus Pensamiento Científico — Matemáticas y Estadística; combinatoria 0 is generics only. The 2026-2 guide specifies 40 Spanish single-answer multiple-choice items. The official competencia treats software design as a systemic process that identifies a problem and its cause, analyzes requirements, creates data models and interfaces, defines use cases, and establishes software architecture for an information-system problem under economic, technological, temporal, ethical, or human-resource constraints. Diseño Centrado en Evidencias splits that competencia into three equal-evidence afirmaciones (problem formulation, alternative selection, and detailed specification). Tabla 4 conceptual areas are fundamentos de diseño, arquitectura de software, modelado UML, algoritmia y estructuras de datos, diseño de base de datos, metodología de diseño/desarrollo, and diseño de interfaz de usuario. ICFES does not publish percentage weights across the three afirmaciones. This free bank is an English-language four-option MCQ study adaptation of the official afirmaciones and evidencias — not an official ICFES translation, not a Spanish-booklet simulation, and not a substitute for Formulación de Proyectos de Ingeniería, Pensamiento Científico, the generic sitting, or actual software-engineering studio work.

Assessment

Saber Pro session 1 (all candidates): five generic modules in 4 hours 40 minutes. When an IES selects NBC Ingeniería de sistemas, telemática y afines combinatoria 49, session 2 assigns Formulación de Proyectos de Ingeniería, Diseño de Software, and Pensamiento Científico — Matemáticas y Estadística in 4 hours 30 minutes. Combinatoria 0 is generics only. This bank covers only the Diseño de Software module.

Time Limit

Session 2: 4 hours 30 minutes when combinatoria 49 assigns three specific modules. Plus 4 hours 40 minutes for the generic session (ICFES Oferta de combinatorias Saber Pro 2026-2).

Passing Score

No pass/fail. Each Saber Pro specific module scored 0–300 without decimals and reported separately. These scores are not averaged into the Puntaje Global.

Exam Fee

No separate module or combinatoria 49 fee is published. Eligible first-time students registered by an IES pay the applicable 2026 ordinary Saber Pro fee: public IES COP 126,000; private IES COP 126,000–224,000 by tuition band; graduates COP 224,000 (Resolución 000629 of 11 November 2025). (ICFES (Instituto Colombiano para la Evaluación de la Educación))

Saber Pro Diseño de Software Exam Content Outline

3 official evidences

Identifica y formula un problema de diseño

Interpret incomplete or uncertain technical information, distinguish constraints from requirements, and write technical specifications. Official evidencias 1.1–1.3; ICFES does not publish a percentage weight.

3 official evidences

Analiza alternativas de solución y selecciona la más adecuada

Recognize, compare, and select viable software-design alternatives against technical, economic, financial, social, ethical, and environmental criteria. Official evidencias 2.1–2.3; ICFES does not publish a percentage weight.

3 official evidences

Especifica en detalle el producto tecnológico

Calculate and detail components, specify the development process, and verify/validate against design specifications. Official evidencias 3.1–3.3; ICFES does not publish a percentage weight.

How to Pass the Saber Pro Diseño de Software Exam

What You Need to Know

  • Passing score: No pass/fail. Each Saber Pro specific module scored 0–300 without decimals and reported separately. These scores are not averaged into the Puntaje Global.
  • Assessment: Saber Pro session 1 (all candidates): five generic modules in 4 hours 40 minutes. When an IES selects NBC Ingeniería de sistemas, telemática y afines combinatoria 49, session 2 assigns Formulación de Proyectos de Ingeniería, Diseño de Software, and Pensamiento Científico — Matemáticas y Estadística in 4 hours 30 minutes. Combinatoria 0 is generics only. This bank covers only the Diseño de Software module.
  • Time limit: Session 2: 4 hours 30 minutes when combinatoria 49 assigns three specific modules. Plus 4 hours 40 minutes for the generic session (ICFES Oferta de combinatorias Saber Pro 2026-2).
  • Exam fee: No separate module or combinatoria 49 fee is published. Eligible first-time students registered by an IES pay the applicable 2026 ordinary Saber Pro fee: public IES COP 126,000; private IES COP 126,000–224,000 by tuition band; graduates COP 224,000 (Resolución 000629 of 11 November 2025).

Keys to Passing

  • Work through all 100 available questions
  • Review every answer and explanation
  • Track weak areas and revisit them
  • Use our AI tutor for tough concepts

Saber Pro Diseño de Software Study Tips from Top Performers

1Treat every stem as an engineering-design cycle: identify the real problem and constraints, compare alternatives, then detail the chosen product — matching afirmaciones 1, 2, and 3.
2ICFES Tabla 4 is the content map: design fundamentals, architecture, UML, algorithms and data structures, databases, development methodology, and user interfaces.
3Keep functional requirements, quality attributes, and project constraints in separate piles; evidencia 1.2 fails when a deadline is treated as a feature.
4For afirmación 3, practise real calculations: complexity of algorithms, relational normalization, hash load factor, and availability of replicated components.
5These MCQs are an English study aid. Practise also with ICFES's Spanish cuadernillos, and remember combinatoria 49 still includes Formulación de Proyectos de Ingeniería and Pensamiento Científico as separate sittings.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is ICFES Saber Pro Diseño de Software?

It is a specific-competency module of Colombia's Saber Pro Examen de Estado offered to SNIES NBC Ingeniería de sistemas, telemática y afines. When an IES assigns combinatoria 49, first-time candidates sit 40 Spanish single-answer multiple-choice items on formulating, comparing, and detailing software-design solutions.

Is there a single ICFES exam called Saber Pro Ingeniería de Sistemas?

No. ICFES names modules, not degree titles. Combinatoria 49 for NBC Ingeniería de sistemas, telemática y afines assigns three separately named modules. This bank covers only Diseño de Software.

Is this the same as the generic Saber Pro bank?

No. The generic Saber Pro sitting (Lectura Crítica, Razonamiento Cuantitativo, Competencias Ciudadanas, Comunicación Escrita, and Inglés) is a separate 4-hour-40-minute session and makes the Puntaje Global. This module is the software-design sitting and is scored separately 0–300.

How many questions and how long is the official combinatoria?

This module's 2026-2 guide states 40 selección múltiple con única respuesta items. Combinatoria 49's three specific modules share a 4-hour-30-minute second session, plus 4 hours 40 minutes for the generic session.

How is the module scored?

There is no pass/fail cut. Each Saber Pro module is scored 0–300 without decimals and reported separately. Those scores are not averaged into the Puntaje Global.

Does ICFES publish percentage weights for the three afirmaciones?

No. The 2026-2 guide lists three afirmaciones with three evidencias each and seven conceptual areas in Tabla 4, but it does not publish a percentage split. This study bank therefore distributes practice items evenly across the three afirmaciones.

How much does it cost?

ICFES does not publish a separate combinatoria 49 fee. Ordinary 2026 Saber Pro fees are COP 126,000 for public IES and the lowest private tuition band, up to COP 224,000 for the highest private band and graduates (Resolución 000629 of 11 November 2025).

Is this practice bank in the same language and format as the real exam?

No. ICFES issues the current module guide and items in Spanish. This bank is an English-language four-option MCQ study adaptation of the official afirmaciones, not an official translation or a substitute for sitting the Spanish booklet.