Concept - System Requirements Flashcards
The Air Force has identified that the legacy system isn’t meeting its existing needs. AF A3 has said that a new craft is needed. HQ AF has allocated funding for you to explore this problem, you are familiar with the issue as a friend of yours working on a Naval version of the same craft that had a similar issue last year. What should you do?
A) Work with A3 and develop a new Concept of Operations (CONOP) and begin to define system requirements
B) Conduct an Analysis of Alternatives that includes the Naval variant
C) Reach out to your friend to acquire the CONOP the Navy built to adress their issue and use that to build and define system requirements
B) Conduct an Analysis of Alternatives that includes the Naval variant
What should be your main source for developing high-level system requirements?
A) Stakeholher needs
B) Your own experience
C) Concept of Operations (CONOP)
C) Concept of Operations (CONOP)
What kind of system should be built?
A) What the customer wants
B) What the customer needs
C) What the customer can afford
B) What the customer needs
What Information should you find in a Concept of Operations (CONOP)?
A) Rationale, context, need and justification
B) How operators will employ and maintain a system
C) A list of stakeholder and requirements
A) Rationale, context, need and justification
Who are your system’s stakeholders?
A) The end operators of your system
B) HQ AF
C) Anyone who will have to interact with the system once it is deployed
C) Anyone who will have to interact with the system once it is deployed
What can you use to identify who your stakeholders are?
A) Build Use Case Scenerios for your system
B) They should be listed in the Concept of Operations (CONOP)
C) They can be found by looking at the source of funding
A) Build Use Case Scenerios for your system
Which should be done first when developing requirements?
A) Develop, analyze, and refine requirements
B) Develop Objectives Hierarchy
C) Define system boundary and external systems
What does requirements traceability mean?
A) Each requirement can be associated with subsystem design or system intergration
B) Each requirement can be associated with metrics that can be used for verification
C) Each requirement can be traced to higher level requiements up to stakeholder needs
C) Each requirement can be traced to higher level requiements up to stakeholder needs
The Concept of Operations (CONOP) highlights that the system will utilize information collected by an existing satelite network to enhance its mission capability. What should you do with this information?
A) Capture it as a Stakeholder Requirement
B) Not important OT&E will figure out how to make it work later
C) Incorporate a COTS component into design that allows the system to interface witht the network
A) Capture it as a Stakeholder Requirement
The Concept of Operations (CONOP) highlights that the system is needed to counter a foriegn capability that is already being utilized against friendly forces operating in the vicinity of these foriegn forces in both EUCOM and CENTCOM. Why is this important for you as an engineer?
A) It provides the context, and need for the system to be built
B) It allows you to identiify funding sources for adding this capability
C) It doesn’t, I am an engineer, all I need to know is what to build
A) It provides the context, and need for the system to be built
When conducting exploring alternitives and feasability what should you do?
A) Be creative, consider the stakeholder’s needs, explore existing systems and new ideas and capture them with metrics if practical
B) Be creative, but only consider ideas that save the taxpayers the most money and make your department look good
C) Limit your creativity, make sure you only explore ideas that your customer will want
A) Be creative, consider the stakeholder’s needs, explore existing systems and new ideas and capture them with metrics if practical
What are attributes of a good requirement? Concise to include only necessary information, ambigious to encourage creativity, Verifiable to ensure requirement can be met Concise to include only necessary information, unambigious having one valid interpretation, Verifiable to ensure requirement can be met Informative to share context, unambigious having one valid interpretation, Verifiable to ensure requirement can be met
The Concept of Operations (CONOP) highlights that GPS availability in the parts of EUCOM and CENTCOM that the system will be operated may be limited once this system becomes operational. Which of the following is a requirement that could be derived from this?
A) The system shall be fully capable of operating off of an Inertial Navigation System
B) The system shall include a stellar navigation system
C) The system shall have a navigtion system that does not rely soley on GPS
C) The system shall have a navigtion system that does not rely soley on GPS
The Concept of Operations (CONOP) highlights that ground support equiptment will be needed to allow the system to operate and that it will be developed alongside the craft. Why might this be important to you?
A) The ground support equiptment will need to be included as a part of the system when defining requirments
B) The systems will need to interface with eachother, which should be capured in the system requirements
C) This will be important in defining system boundary and whether this will need to be an internal or external interface, more information is needed
C) This will be important in defining system boundary and whether this will need to be an internal or external interface, more information is needed
