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4.

Which of the following are true of the inception phase?

1. The business case is prepared and includes risk management.

2. Environment is a consideration.

3. An essential activity is synthesizing the architecture.

 (a) I and III only  (b) III only  (c) I, II, and III  (d) I and II only

Correct answer is

(a)

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   See section 5.2, pages 76-7 in the textbook.    

5.

A minor milestone

 (a) does not involve end-user stakeholders, though it necessarily involves managers and developers  (b) is an iteration-focused event conducted to review the content of a given iteration in detail and to authorize continued work  (c) is a relatively unimportant review that can be skipped if time is short  (d) is a relatively unimportant, iteration-focused event conducted after the authorization to continue work has been given

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(b)

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   See Glossary, page 394 in the textbook.    

6.

The production stage

 (a) emphasizes inspection and analysis  (b) emphasizes resolving diseconomies of scale  (c) has more predictable but larger teams  (d) emphasizes schedule and technical feasibility

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(c)

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   See section 5.1, page 74 in the textbook.    

7.

Each of the four phases (inception, elaboration, construction, transition)

 (a) has only major milestones  (b) consists of one iteration only and a technical capability must be demonstrated  (c) consists of one or more iterations in which some technical capability is produced in demonstrable form  (d) does not always have to have demonstrations

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(c)

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   See section 5.5, page 81 in the textbook.    

8.

The following are essential activities of which phase?

• synchronization and integration of concurrent construction increments into consistent deployment baselines

• deployment-specific engineering (cutover, commercial packaging and production, sales rollout kit development, field personnel training)

• assessment of deployment baselines against the complete vision and acceptance criteria in the requirements set

 (a) the construction phase  (b) the elaboration phase  (c) the inception phase  (d) the transition phase

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(d)

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   See section 5.5, pages 80-1 in the textbook.    

9.

The production stage of the life cycle

 (a) develops the architecture  (b) has nothing to do with the engineering stage  (c) depends on the result of the engineering stage  (d) emphasizes construction only

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(c)

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   See chapter 5, page 73 in the textbook.    

10.

Which of the following is true of a modern software process?

 (a) It supports risk management and the evolution of plans, architecture, and system capability  (b) It completes all engineering before any implementation is carried out  (c) It places emphasis on object-orientation  (d) It leads to fixed and finalized plans by the end of the first iteration

Correct answer is

(a)

The design set

 (a) is a failure if it cannot be machine analyzed  (b) can only be evaluated subjectively  (c) will always be analyzed by human effort  (d) must be analyzed by human effort

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(d)

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   See section 6.1.2, page 87 in the textbook.    

2.

Which of the following are true?

1. The separation of the implementation set from the deployment set is very important.

2. The separation of the implementation set from the deployment set is arbitrary.

3. Implementation sets should not address process level concurrency issues.

 (a) I, II, and III  (b) III only  (c) II and III only  (d) I only

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(d)

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   See section 6.1.2, page 90 in the textbook.    

3.

A deployment set includes

 (a) UML models, a test model, and an integrated product executable  (b) a user manual, integrated product executable baselines, and associated run time files  (c) a vision document and requirements models  (d) a user manual, a test manual, and software architecture description

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(b)

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   See section 6.1, page 85 in the textbook.    

4.

Which of the following sentences about deployment sets are true?

1. They include both machine-readable and human-readable artifacts.

2. They include only machine-readable artifacts.

3. They only require testing against use case scenarios.

 (a) I, II, and III  (b) III only  (c) I only  (d) II and III only

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(c)

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   See section 6.1.2, pages 88-9 in the textbook.    

5.

In a modern software process

 (a) plans are dependent on a fixed design and the flexibility afforded by prototyping  (b) artifacts may be at different levels of detail, depending on the phase the project is in  (c) artifacts must be carefully baselined in order to prevent changes to them in subsequent phases  (d) artifacts evolve concurrently, at approximately the same level of detail, and change with each phase

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(d)

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   See chapter 6, pages 83-4 in the textbook.    

6.

A design set includes

 (a) test model, design mode, source code, and software architecture description  (b) vision document, design models, test model, and software architecture description  (c) UML models without text  (d) design models, test model, and software architecture description

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(d)

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   See section 6.1, page 85 in the textbook.    

7.

An artifact is

 (a) a remnant of the conventional software process  (b) a discrete, cohesive collection of information, typically developed and reviewed as a single entity  (c) developed once, then changed only with change management  (d) usable only by the development team

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(b)

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   See Glossary, page 391 in the textbook.    

8.

The software user manual

 (a) should be written early in the life cycle for embedded systems  (b) provides a necessary basis for test plans and test cases and for construction of automated test suites  (c) should be driven by the users  (d) has highly consistent content

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(b)

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   See section 6.3, pages 104-5 in the textbook.    

9.

Status assessments

 (a) should be limited because of preparation time required to get data  (b) should focus only on major milestone plans and results  (c) provide an indispensable forcing function  (d) must be at regularly scheduled intervals

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(c)

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   See section 6.2, pages 100-1 in the textbook.    

10.

A requirements set

 (a) is best created in text only  (b) is in the language of the development team  (c) includes organized text and models of the problem space  (d) should trace to code

Correct answer is

(c)

The design view

 (a) is static only  (b) describes the architecturally significant elements of the design model  (c) is dynamic only  (d) must use state charts

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(b)

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   See section 7.2, page 114 in the textbook.    

2.

The component view

 (a) is based on the management set  (b) is only static in nature  (c) is based on the deployment set  (d) is based on the implementation set

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(d)

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   See section 7.2, page 114 in the textbook.    

3.

An architecture baseline includes, among other things,

 (a) diagrams and critical use cases only  (b) critical use cases, relationships of significant classes and components, source code inventory, and executable components  (c) verbal narrative and definitions only  (d) abstract diagrams, critical use cases, verbal narrative and definitions, vision statement

Correct answer is

(b)

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   See section 7.2, page 114 in the textbook.    

4.

The UML Architecture Description Document is an organized and abstracted view into the design models. Therefore