high-level design

Question 1

what is high-level design

Answer 1

grand decisions: what hardware platform, type of database, systems, …

Question 2

component-based architecture and service-oriented architecture

Answer 2

components -> decouples
service : pieces are implemented as services ( self-contained program that runs on its own and provides some kind of service for its clients)

Question 3

things to specify in a high-level design

Answer 3

security
OS, hardware platform, other hardwares, UI style, interfaces, architecure, reports, outputs, database, top-level class, configuration data, data flows, training

Question 4

Architectures

Answer 4

monolithic: single program does every things
client-server: seperaters system -> user and server, 
Components based
Service-oriented
data-centric
event-driven
rule-based
distributed
mix and match

Question 5

database

Answer 5

audit trails
user access
database maintainance