SE Recitation

Question 1

It refers to a specific or discrete action that is necessary to achieve a given objective.

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Function

Question 2

The first and most important phase of the system design and development process.

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Conceptual Design Phase

Question 3

It is one that does not interact significantly with its environment.

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Closed system

Question 4

It is a fundamental principle that the whole entities exhibit properties which are meaningful only when attributed to the entity as a whole, not to its parts.

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Emergence

Question 5

Everything that remain outside the boundaries of the system.

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Environment

Question 6

This model starts with user needs on the upper left and ends with a user-validated system on the upper right

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VEE Process Model

Question 7

It helps to ensure the elements of the system fit together to accomplish the objectives of the whole, and ultimately satisfy the needs of the customers and other stakeholders who will acquire and use the system.

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Systems Engineer

Question 8

The degree to which a system’s design or code is difficult to understand because of numerous components or relationships among components.

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Complexity

Question 9

Introduced by Royce in 1970, initially for software development.

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Waterfall Process Model

Question 10

These are the parts of a system.

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Components

Question 11

A structured process or mechanism for determining customer requirements and translating them into relevant technical requirements that each functional area and organization level can understand and act upon.

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Quality Function Deployment

Question 12

It should perform with the objective of translating a broadly defined “want” into a more specific system-level requirement.

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Need/Needs Analysis

Question 13

An iterative process model that focuses on prototyping and a risk driven approach for development of products or system.

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Spiral Process Model

Question 14

Systems from the Greek word systema, meaning an ________.

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Organized whole

Question 15

A system component that are the parts that perform the processing.

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Operating Components

Question 16

It is also known as advance development.

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Preliminary Design Phase

Question 17

This is the characteristics of design and installation that reflects the ease, accuracy, safety and economy of performing maintenance actions.

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Maintainability

Question 18

It is a combination of interacting elements organized to achieve one or more stated purposes.

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Engineered System

Question 19

A system operational requirement that focuses on the anticipated time that the system will be in operational use.

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Operational life cycle (horizon)

Question 20

The system’s engineering process generally commences with the identification of a ________ or _________ for something based on some real deficiency.

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Want, Desire

Question 21

May include a combination of contractor and customer (or ultimate user) activities.

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Utilization Phase

Question 22

They introduced the “Vee” Process Model.

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Forsberg and Mooz

Question 23

It is a systematic approach to creating a system design that simultaneously considers all phases of the life cycle, from conception through disposal.

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Concurrent Engineering

Question 24

It is defined as “the probability that a system or product will perform in a satisfactory manner for a given period of time used under specified operating conditions.

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Reliability

Question 25

A reliability allocation technique that is a straightforward method that assigns equal reliability requirements for all subsystems based on the system requirements.

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Equal Apportionment Technique

Question 26

A system which human-beings have intervened through components, attributes, and relationships.

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Human Made System

Question 27

This technique is a straightforward method that assigns equal reliability requirements for all subsystem based on system requirements.

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Equal Apportionment Technique

Question 28

A structured process or mechanism for determining customer requirements and translating them into relevant technical requirements that each functional area and organization level can understand and act upon.

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Quality Function Deployment

Question 29

Material, Energy and Information that pass from the system to the environment.

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Output

Question 30

Breaking requirements down in an iterative way from the system level to the subsystem, and as far down the hierarchical structure as necessary to identify input design criteria and/or constraints for the various elements of the system.

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Functional Analysis

Question 31

May include both the customer and the producer.

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Acquisition Phase

Question 32

A system that are treated as a special form of engineered system.

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Sociotechnical Systems

Question 33

Anticipated time that the system will be in operational use.

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Operational Life Cycle (Horizon)

Question 34

At whatever level in the hierarchy, consists of all components, attributes, and relationships needed to accomplish one or more objectives.

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Total system

Question 35

Analysis that should be performed with the objective of translating a broadly defined “want” into a more specific system-level requirement.

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Need/Needs Analysis