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Specialty Engineering Activities Flashcards

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What is the affordability defined by INCOSE?

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It is the balance of system performance, cost and schedule constraints over the system life while satisfying mission needs in concert with strategic investment and organizational needs.

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What elements are included within affordability?

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Acquisition cost, average annual operation and support cost

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What are the factors that must be considered within the trade space across the system life cycle?

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  1. Cost versus benefits of different design solutions
  2. Cost versus benefits of different support strategies
  3. Methods and rational used to develop these comparisons
  4. Ability to identify and obtain data required to analyze changes

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What are the selected affordability components we must define when defining affordability for a particular program or system?

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Required capabilities, required capabilities performance, budget

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What is cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA)?

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It is a form of business analysis that compares the relative costs and performance characteristics of two or more courses of action.

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What’s the difference between CEA and CBA (cost-benefit analysis)?

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In contrast to CEA where the results are measured in performance terms, CBA uses monetary measures of outcomes.

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What is LCC?

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LCC refers to the total cost incurred by a system, or product, throughout its life.

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What cost elements are included within LCC?

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Concept costs, development costs, production costs, utilization and support costs, retirement costs.

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What are the common methods/techniques for conduction LCC analysis?

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Expert judgement, analogy-reasoning, Parkinson technique, price to win, top focus, bottoms up, algorithmic (parametric), DTC, Delphi techniques, taxonomy method

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What is EMC?

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It is the engineering discipline concerned with the behavior of a system in an electromagnetic environment.

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What’s the focus of environmental impact analysis?

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The focus is on potential harmful effects of a proposed system’s development, production, utilization, support, and retirement stages.

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What is the scope of logistics engineering?

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  1. To determine logistics support requirements
  2. To design the system for supportability
  3. To acquire or procure the support
  4. To provide cost-effective logistics support for a system during the utilization and support stages

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What is the key task in developing low-cost, quality products?

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Producibility analysis.

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What are included in the mass properties?

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Weight, the location of center of gravity, inertia about the center of gravity, and product of the inertia about an axis.

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What are the two groups of reliability engineering activities?

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Engineering analyses and tests and failure analyses.

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What is availability?

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It is defined as the probability that a system, when used under stated conditions, will operate satisfactory at any point in time as required.

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What are the categories of maintainability?

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Corrective maintenance and preventive maintenance.

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What is resilience?

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It is the ability to prepare and plan for, absorb or mitigate, recover from, or more successfully adapt to actual or potential adverse events.

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What are the key inputs for resiliency engineering?

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  1. Threats: number, type, characteristics
  2. Objectives and priorities
  3. SOI: type and purpose
  4. Candidate principles: potentially appropriate for the SOI
  5. Solution proposals

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What is the primary objective of system safety engineering?

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To influence the design with safety-related requirements for the development, production, utilization, support, and retirement stages of a safe system.

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What are included within stakeholder security interests?

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It includes intellectual property, information assurance, security laws, supply chain compliance, and security standards.

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What personnel are included in HSI?

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It includes all personnel who interact with the system in any capacity, such as system owners, operators, maintainers, trainers, users/customers, decision makers, support personnel, peripheral personnel.

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What is the key method of HSI?

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Trade studies and analyses.

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24
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What are the six phases of a VE job plan?

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Phase 0: preparation/planning
Phase 1: information gathering
Phase 2: functional analysis
Phase 3: creativity
Phase 4: evaluation
Phase 5: development
Phase 6: presentation/implementation

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