Master

Question 1

What are the 4 fundamental activities of software engineering

Answer 1

Specification
Development (design/implementation)
Validation
Evolution

Question 2

What are the 2 categories of activities for software engineering

Answer 2

Process
Umbrella

Question 3

What is heterogeneity

Answer 3

Distributed systems across networks with different devices

Question 4

What is an average cost for software development

Answer 4

60% development
40% maintenance

Question 5

What are the 5 framework activities for the generic process model

Answer 5

communication
planning
modeling
construction
deployment

Question 6

what are the 5 umbrella activities for the generic process model

Answer 6

project tracking and control
risk management
quality assurance
configuration management
technical reviews

Question 7

what are the 3 software process descriptions

Answer 7

products
roles
pre and post conditions

Question 8

what is a variant of the waterfall model

Answer 8

the v-model

Question 9

what are the 3 advantages of the waterfall model

Answer 9

plan-driven makes all activites of the process fully defined
high quality software due to detailed specs and docs
simple to implement

Question 10

what are the 2 common evolutionary process models

Answer 10

prototyping
spiral model

Question 11

what are the 2 disadvantages of prototyping

Answer 11

stakeholders get greedy and demand for an unmaintainble prototype as the final product

engineers forget compromises they made to get a prototype working and they become integral

Question 12

What does the spiral model use prototypes for

Answer 12

risk reduction

Question 13

what are the 3 activities of the requirements engineering process and what do each of them produce

Answer 13

elicitation and analysis -> system descriptions
specification -> user and system requirements
validation -> requirements document

Question 14

what are the 4 design activities

Answer 14

architecture
database
interface
component selection

Question 15

what is the standard processes for programming

Answer 15

there isnt one

Question 16

what is another way of saying customer testing

Answer 16

acceptance testing

Question 17

what are the 5 principles of agile development

Answer 17

customer involvement
incremental delivery
people not process
embrace change
maintain simplicity

Question 18

what is the main goal of agile project management

Answer 18

make sure software is delivered on time and within the budget

Question 19

what are the 3 phases of scrum

Answer 19

outline, planning, architecture
sprint cycles
complete user manuals and assess

Question 20

what is the sprint review and retrospective focused on

Answer 20

product, process

Question 21

what is the sweet spot of requirements volitility for agile devlopment

Answer 21

30-50% per month

Question 22

what are the 3 non-functional requirements classifications

Answer 22

product
organizational
external

Question 23

what is another word for discovery

Answer 23

elicitation

Question 24

what are the 4 stages of elicitation

Answer 24

discovery
classification and organization
prioritization and negotiation
specification

Question 25

what are the 4 perspectives of system modeling

Answer 25

external/context interaction structural behavioral

Question 26

what model deals with the external factors and boundaries

Answer 26

context

Question 27

what 2 diagrams are good for interaction modeling

Answer 27

use cases sequence

Question 28

when do you create structural modals

Answer 28

when you are discussing/designing the system architecture

Question 29

what is a simplified node in a state machine called which has more details by expanding it

Answer 29

superstate

Question 30

what is good about model driven engineering (MDE)

Answer 30

abstraction is raised and development is more automated so that engineers need not be concerned with programming details (maybe this is for me rn)

Question 31

what are the 3 model driven architecture models, in order

Answer 31

computation independent platform independent platform specific

Question 32

what are the 4 views of software architecture

Answer 32

logical physical development process

Question 33

what are the 5 architectural patterns

Answer 33

Model-View-Controller (MVC) Layered Repository Client-Server Pipe and Filter

Question 34

how much complexity of the solution to a problem is increased when the complexity of the problem increases

Answer 34

100% increase to the solution for 25% increase in the problem

Question 35

what makes for a good module

Answer 35

high cohesion low coupling

Question 36

what is module cohesion

Answer 36

interaction within (good)

Question 37

what is module coupling

Answer 37

interaction between modules (bad)

Question 38

what are the 3 control structures

Answer 38

sequence selection iteration

Question 39

what are the 5 design patterns

Answer 39

divide and conquer information hiding abstraction and encapsulation high cohesion low coupling

Question 40

what is the key to successful program structuring

Answer 40

maximizing module independence

Question 41

what are the 8 levels of cohesion, worst to best

Answer 41

coincidental (unrelated) logical (actions similar) temporal (unique sequences) procedural (common sequences) communication (sequences for 1 data) sequential (1 sequence for 1 data) functional (1 action) informational (singular actions for 1 data)

Question 42

what are the 6 levels of coupling, worst to best

Answer 42

content (direct) common (random global) external (structured global) control (message) stamp (some) data

Question 43

what are the 4 levels of reuse

Answer 43

abstraction object component system

Question 44

what are the 3 types of open source licenses

Answer 44

General Public License (GPL) Lesser General Public License (LGPL) Berkley Standard Distribution (BSD)

Question 45

whats the difference between verification and validation

Answer 45

verification: are we building the product right validation: are we building the right product

Question 46

what is the aim of V&V

Answer 46

establish confidence that the system is "fit for purpose"

Question 47

what cant inspections do

Answer 47

check for non-functional characteristics like performance

Question 48

what is black box testing also called

Answer 48

functional testing

Question 49

what is openness for distributed systems

Answer 49

interoperability due to using standards, agility/adaptability

Question 50

what is scaling up vs out

Answer 50

up: performance out: more systems

Question 51

what are the 2 types of interaction in distributed systems

Answer 51

procedural (wait) message-based

Question 52

what is the difference between SaaS and SOA

Answer 52

SaaS holds data and transactions are large Software Oriented Architecture are microservices

Question 53

what does REST stand for

Answer 53

Representational State Transfer

Question 54

what are the 4 steps of risk management

Answer 54

identification analysis (probability & impact) planning monitoring

Question 55

what are the 4 people management factors

Answer 55

consistency (favoritism) respect (skills) inclusion (listen) honesty (transparent)

Question 56

what are the 3 personality types

Answer 56

task-oriented (doing) interaction-oriented (people) self-oriented (achieving)

Question 57

what are the 4 configuration management activities

Answer 57

version management system building change management release management

Question 58

what is the x-line hierarchy in versioning starting from the biggest

Answer 58

mainline baseline codeline

Question 59

what are the 2 types of version control systems

Answer 59

centralized distributed (git)