Final Quiz - ALL CHAPTERS Flashcards
Q1: Which of the following statements are true? (choose two)
A. The system engineering is in charge of the technical part of the system. He/she interacts with the project manager when it comes to budget and business case.
B. The system engineer is in charge of the technical part of the system. He/she is as well responsible of the project processes (e.g., planning).
C. The project manager will work closely with the system engineer to define the technical tasks and risks.
D. The system engineer define with the project manager the resource allocation and the financial contacts.
A/C
Q2: Which two of the following challenges influence the engineering of System of Systems? (Choose two)
A. Technical SoS management.
B. System elements have different life cycles.
C. SoS business case.
D. Autonomy, interdependencies and emergence.
B/D
Q3: Which three of the following are products produced by the Stakeholder Needs and Requirements Definition Process? (Choose three)
A. Traceability Matrix.
B. Preliminary MOE needs.
C. Life cycle concepts.
D. System specification.
E. Validation criteria.
A/C/E
Q4: Which three of the following are attributes of good requirements? (Choose three)
A. Consistent - one requirement shall not conflict with another.
B. Verifiable - it shall be possible to verify that the solution meets the requirement.
C. Implementation specific - includes “how to” aspects of design.
A/B/D
Q5: Which with standards is the SE handbook compliant? (Choose two)
A. SEBoK.
B. ISO 9000: 2005.
C. ISO/IEC TR 19760: 2003.
D. ISO/IEC 15288:2015.
A/D
Q6: What are the main acceptance criteria for the lead contractor negotiator? (Choose three)
A. Cost.
B. Percent of the SRD.
C. Delay.
D. Requirements stability.
B/D/E
Q7: What are technical processes? (Choose three)
A. Life cycle management, Stakeholder Needs & Requirements Definition, Verification, Validation.
B. Stakeholder Need & Requirement Definition, System Requirements Definition, Architecture Definition.
C. Implementation, Integration, Verification, Transition.
D. Validation, Operation, Maintenance, Disposal.
B/C/D
Q8: Which of the following items are activities of the supply process? (Choose three)
A. Monitor the Agreement
B. Respond to the tender.
C. Deliver the product or service.
D. Identify opportunities.
B/C/D
Q9: Which of the following are model types (taxonomy of models)? (Choose three)
A. Abstract.
B. Informal.
C. Deterministic.
D. Formal.
E. FMECA.
A/B/D
Q10: What is Systems Engineering? (Choose three)
A. An interdisciplinary approach.
B. Business activities.
C. A set of lessons learned on marketing.
D. Socio-technical discipline.
E. Perspective based on Systems Thinking.
A/D/E
Q11: Which two of the following attributes describe the hierarchy within a system? (Choose two)
A. A system element could be viewed as a system itself.
B. An element should have no more than 7 ± 2 subordinate entities.
C. A level of design with few subordinate entities has a lot of distinct design activities.
D. Simple system should have at least as many levels in the hierarchy than complex systems.
A/B
Q12: Which of the following five are outputs of the Acquisition Process? (Choose two)
A. Acquisition Strategy.
B. Acquisition Proposal.
C. Accepted System.
D. Organization Policies.
E. Project Infrastructure.
A/C
Q13: What are the inputs for Tailoring processes? (Choose two)
A. SRD.
B. Organization Strategic Plan.
C. Life cycle models.
D. Organization Tailoring Strategy.
B/C
Q14: Which three of the following attributes describes the value of Systems Engineering? (Choose three)
A. SE effort increases project costs.
B. SE effort can be a positive factor in controlling cost and schedule overruns.
C. Optimal SE effort is about 14%.
D. SE effort reduces risk on the project execution.
B/C/D
Q15: Which two of the following attributes describe the role of the System Engineer along the system life-cycle? (Choose two)
A. The System Engineer focuses only on the requirement determination.
B. The System Engineer role encompasses activities from requirement determination to retirement.
C. The System Engineer works closely with the project manager in tailoring the generic life cycle, through decision gates.
D. The Systems Engineer manages the system life-cycle from requirement determination to retirement.
B/C
Q16: What are the addressed questions of a decision gate of the lifecycle? (Choose three)
A. Does the project deliverables still satisfy the business case?
B. Can the project be delivered when needed?
C. What will be the next stage?
D. Is it affordable?
E. Is it feasible?
A/B/D
Q17: What are the outputs of the information management process? (Choose two)
A. The information items.
B. The information management strategy.
C. The information repository.
D. The information CIs.
B/C
Q18: Which of the following are examples of infrastructures systems? (Choose three)
A. Bridges.
B. Helicopters.
C. Operation system software.
D. Physical structures used for commodity transfers.
E. Roads.
A/D/E
Q19: What are the generic life-cycle stages? (Choose two)
A. Concept.
B. Specification.
C. Deployment.
D. Operations.
E. Disposal.
F. Support.
A/F
Q20: What are the activities of the stakeholder needs and requirements definition process? (Choose three)
A. To define interactions of the system or solution with the users.
B. To refine the system requirements.
C. To analyze stakeholder requirements.
D. To develop operational concept.
A/C/D
Q21: What are the purposes of the development stage? (Choose three)
A. To define/refine the system requirements.
B. To explore feasible concepts.
C. To create solution description - architecture and design.
D. To produce systems.
E. To integrate, verify and validate systems.
A/C/E
Q22: Which of the following three are products produced by the System Requirements Definition process? (Choose three)
A. System requirements.
B. User Needs statement.
C. System Function definition.
D. System Elements.
E. Updated RTVM.
A/C/E
Q23: Which two of the following attributes are purposes of the retirement stage? (Choose two)
A. To remove the system and its services from operation.
B. To plan for system disposal.
C. To terminate the project.
D. To store and archive.
A/D
Q24: Which two are components of a project cycle? (Choose two)
A. Staffing.
B. Deliverables.
C. Decision Gates.
D. Systems engineering.
B/C
Q25: What are the activities for Tailoring Processes? (Choose three)
A. To obtain input from parties affected by tailoring decisions.
B. To reuse a tailored baseline from another system.
C. To take due account of the life cycle structures.
D. To reuse all processes “just to be safe”.
E. To identify and record the circumstances that influence tailoring.
A/C/E
Q26: Select among the following propositions the life-cycle models? (Choose three)
A. Lean development model.
B. Waterfall.
C. Spiral.
D. Vee.
E. LAI.
B/C/D
Q27: In which stage is the initial system implemented? (Choose one)
A. Concept.
B. Development.
C. Production.
D. Utilization.
E. Support.
B
Q28: What are the inputs for the Stakeholder Requirements definition process? (Choose three)
A. Concept documents.
B. Validation criteria.
C. Source document.
D. Stakeholder needs.
E. Project constraints.
C/D/E
Q29: What (or who) among the following list can be stakeholders? (Choose four)
A. System Engineer.
B. Customers.
C. End-users.
D. Operators.
E. Stakeholders of interoperating systems.
F. System of interest.
B/C/D/E
Q30: Which document describes the scenarios of the utilization stage? (Choose one)
A. Concept of production.
B. Concept of deployment.
C. OpsCon.
D. Concept of support.
E. Concept of disposal.
C
Q31: What is the role of the information management process with regards to the decision making, risk and configuration management process? (Choose one)
A. It is the mechanism to ensure coherency between these different processes.
B. It is the mechanism to maintain the historical knowledge of these processes.
C. It is the mechanism that provides access to the SEP, Q and Risk Management Plan.
D. It is the mechanism that ensures that all these processes are properly and dynamically connected.
B
Q32: What are the factors that influence the Tailoring Processes? (Choose three)
A. Risk tolerance.
B. Complexity of the system.
C. Human Factors Engineering.
D. Stakeholders.
E. Verification and Validation processes.
A/B/D
Q33: Why are the System Requirements fundamental? (Choose three)
A. For system definition.
B. For design definition process.
C. For system integration.
D. For system configuration management.
E. For system verification.
F. For system disposal.
B/C/E
Q34: What are the main characteristics of the system requirement definition process? (Choose three)
A. It is an iterative activity.
B. It focuses on solution.
C. It is a top-down and bottom-up process.
D. It consists in allocation and flow-down.
A/C/D
Q35: What are the questions a Project manager shall ask during the decision gate? (Choose three)
A. Business Case: Does the project deliverable still satisfy the business case?
B. Business Case: Does the product still match my customer’s needs?
C. Budget: Is it affordable?
D. Technical: Can it be delivered when needed?
E. Technical: Are the Technical Performance Measures (TPMs) achieved?
A/C/D
Q36: When shall the SyRS (System Requirement Specification) be written?
A. At the very beginning, in the stakeholder needs & requirements definition process.
B. Once the stakeholder requirements are known, in the development of the system requirements (i.e., the requirements analysis process).
C. Depending on the granularity of the System requirements, this SRD can be drafted all along the Vee cycle.
D. Once the non-functional requirements are known, in the Functional Requirements Elicitation process.
B
Q37: Which three statements are true about the N2 diagram? (Choose three)
A. Applicable to functions or physical entities.
B. Useful in defining and understanding interfaces.
C. Places interfaces on the diagonal for ease of understanding.
D. Shows inputs between each function or entity.
E. Can be used instead of the interface specifications.
A/B/D
Q38: Challenges related to maintaining databases or sharing data across multiple platforms and organizations are tackled by which of the following process? (Choose one)
A. The configuration management process.
B. The information management process.
C. The agreement process.
D. The tailoring process.
B
Q39: Which of the following statement is true about validation? (Choose one)
A. Validation is only performed at the very top right of the Vee, when it is time to demonstrate conformance of the system to the stakeholder requirements.
B. Validation is performed all throughout the Vee.
C. Validation is only performed at the right side of the Vee, when it is time to demonstrate conformance of the integrated system to the system requirements.
D. Validation is performed all throughout the Vee (in-process validation) and when it is time to demonstrate conformance of the integrated system to the system requirements.
B
Q40: What are the characteristic of a good requirement? (Choose three)
A. Singular.
B. Solution specific.
C. Complete.
D. Cost independent.
E. Verifiable.
A/C/E
Q41: Which of the following statements are correct? (Choose two)
A. Schedule overrun lessens with increasing SE effort.
B. Variance in the schedule overrun lessens with increasing SE effort.
C. Variance in the cost estimates lessens with increasing SE effort.
D. Variance in the cost overrun increases with increasing project management effort.
B/C
Q42: Which of the following statement is correct? (Choose one)
A. The key participants in carrying out the requirements and design feedback loops are SE with support from design, manufacturing, specialty engineering, and material and processes engineering.
B. The key participants in carrying out the requirements and design feedback loops are SE with support from design, manufacturing, specialty engineering, and material engineering.
C. The key participants in carrying out the requirements and design feedback loops can be design, manufacturing, specialty engineering, and material and processes engineering.
D. The key participants in carrying out the requirements and design feedback loops can be design, manufacturing, specialty engineering, and material engineering.
A
Q43: Which three of the items below are appropriate uses of models for validation purposes? (Choose three)
A. To demonstrate physical fit.
B. To support stakeholder requirements elicitation.
C. To simulate operational scenarios.
D. To satisfy test measurement requirements.
A/B/C
Q44: What are from the list below the most appropriate statements related to a prototype? (Choose two)
A. The original use of a prototype is the first-of-a-kind product from which all others are replicated.
B. Rapid prototypes and traditional prototypes both aim to be the first draft of production.
C. Rapid prototypes are widely used since they avoid developing costly traditional prototypes.
D. Rapid prototype is not a true prototype.
A/D
Q45: What are the activities to Maintain the Infrastructure? (Choose three)
A. Manage the Infrastructure availability.
B. Establish resource management information system.
C. Plan the utilization of the infrastructure in the early phases.
D. Allocate the infrastructure resources to all the projects.
E. Identify potential future conflict in infrastructure management.
A/D/E
Q46: Which of the following are key outputs generated from FBSE? (Choose two)
A. IPO (Input Process Output).
B. FDD (Functional Derived Description).
C. FFBD (Functional Flow Block Diagram).
D. FFA (Functional Flow Activity).
E. FAA (Functional Activity Acknowledgement).
A/C
Q47: What are requirement technical risks? (Choose three)
A. Can’t achieve requirements.
B. Wrong or missed milestones.
C. Can’t verify requirements.
D. Wrong or missed stakeholders.
A/C/D
Q48: What influence System of Systems? (Choose three)
A. Autonomy, interdependencies, and emergence.
B. Safety and security.
C. Constituent systems’ perspectives.
D. Quality of system elements.
E. Capabilities and requirements.
A/C/E