EIA-649 Configuration Management Standard Rev C - Terminology

Question 1

AQUIRER (1)

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An individual or enterprise that (1) commissions the engineering or design of a product

Question 2

AQUIRER (2)

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An individual or enterprise that (2) is a prospective purchaser of the end products of a system or a portion thereof; (3) is a procurer of a product; (4) is a user or consumer of the product; or (5) an obtainer of output.

Question 3

AQUIRER (3)

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An individual or enterprise that (3) is a procurer of a product; (4) is a user or consumer of the product; or (5) an obtainer of output.

Question 4

AQUIRER (3)

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An individual or enterprise that (4) is a user or consumer of the product; or (5) an obtainer of output.

Question 5

APPROVAL AUTHORITY (1)

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The organization or person authorized to approve: (1) A configuration change to a product

Question 6

APPROVAL AUTHORITY (2)

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The organization or person authorized to approve: (2) Changes to product definition information and other related documents

Question 7

APPROVAL AUTHORITY (3)

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The organization or person authorized to approve: (3) Release (or cancellation) of documents for use anywhere or in a specific program

Question 8

APPROVAL AUTHORITY (4)

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The organization or person authorized to approve: (4) Commitment of resources.

Question 9

APPROVED CONFIGURATION

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The baseline plus any approved changes

Question 10

ARTIFACT (1)

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(1) A contained piece of information that is used or produced by a software or hardware development process, or by deployment and operation of a system. Examples of artifacts include: representational views, model files, source files, scripts, and binary executable files, a table in a database system, a development deliverable, a word-processing document, or a mail message.

Question 11

ARTIFACT (2)

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(2) Physical entities and their elements such as patterns, parts, components, and assemblies. New artifacts can be created by grouping existing artifacts.

Question 12

BASELINE

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Configuration of a product, at a specific point in time, which serves as a basis for defining change, for conducting verifications, and for other management activities. For a software product, the build baseline includes the actual product.

Question 13

CHANGE BOARD

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A group comprised of technical and administrative representatives who review and recommend approval or disapproval to the approval authority, of changes and variances to a configuration managed product and its supporting documentation.

Question 14

CONFIGURATION (1)

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(1) The product attributes of an existing or planned product, or a combination of products, i.e., product requirements, the product, and associated product configuration information

Question 15

CONFIGURATION (2)

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(2) one of a series of sequentially created variations of a product.

Question 16

CONFIGURABILITY

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The capability to temporarily adapt or rearrange the configuration of a system or system of systems to accommodate the needs of a particular application or deployment.

Question 17

CONFIGURATION AUDIT

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Review of processes, product definition information, documented verification of compliance with requirements, and an inspection of products, to confirm that products have achieved their required attributes and conform to released product configuration definition information.

Question 18

CONFIGURATION BASELINE

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Configuration of a product, at a specific point in time, which serves as a basis for defining change, for conducting verifications, and for other management activities. For a software product, the build baseline includes the actual product.

Question 19

CONFIGURATION CHANGE

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A change to the product configuration information and the product.

Question 20

CONFIGURATION CHANGE MANAGEMENT

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The CM function that ensures changes to and variances from a configuration baseline are properly identified, recorded, evaluated, dispositioned, and incorporated and verified as appropriate.

Question 21

CONFIGURATION CONTROL

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The systematic proposal, justification, evaluation, coordination, disposition of proposed changes or requested variances and the implementation of all approved changes or variances in the configuration after the establishment of a configuration baseline.

Question 22

CONFIGURATION IDENTIFICATION (1)

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The CM function which (1) assigns unique identifiers to each product and product configuration information;

Question 23

CONFIGURATION IDENTIFICATION (3)

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The CM function which (3) selects, defines, documents, and baselines product attributes.

Question 24

CONFIGURATION IDENTIFICATION (2)

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The CM function which (2) establishes a structure for products and product configuration information;

Question 25

CONFIGURATION ITEM (CI)

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A product, allocated components of a product, or both, that satisfies an end use function, has distinct requirements, functionality and/or product relationships, and is designated for distinct control.

Question 26

CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT (CM)

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A technical and management process applying appropriate processes, resources, and controls, to establish and maintain consistency between product configuration information, and the product.

Question 27

CONFIGURATION STATUS ACCOUNTING (CSA)

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The CM function that formalizes the recording and reporting of the established product configuration information, the status of requested changes, and the implementation of approved changes including changes occurring to product units during operation and maintenance.

Question 28

CONFIGURATION VERIFICATION

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Verification of requirements and incorporation of approved configuration changes (see verification).

Question 29

CUSTOMIZATION

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The action to permanently establish a configuration of a system or system of systems with a unique set of items to satisfy a particular application or deployment with no intention of changing or rearranging the custom configuration over the life of the product.

Question 30

DESIGN ACTIVITY

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An organization that has, or has had, responsibility for the design of an item. (Adapted from ASME Y14.100)

Question 31

DESIGN RELEASE CONFIGURATION

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The set of design information, incrementally released to date, by the development activity for a product during a product’s definition (development) phase.

Question 32

DISPOSITION (NOUN)

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DISPOSITION (VERB)

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To make a decision on a change to either approve, disapprove, defer or cancel.