SWE Midterm

Question 1

The primary difference between a work breakdown structure and a work sequence draft is that the work sequence draft show

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the sequence of tasks

Question 2

The term ______ refers to all the people who have an interest in the successful implementation of the system.

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stakeholders

Question 3

Workflows can be documented using ______

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activity diagrams

Question 4

__ are all the activities the new system must perform or support and the constraints that the new system must meet

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System requirments

Question 5

___ and ___ are two important goals or steps within Core Process

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identify the problem, obtain project approval

Question 6

____ are persons who regularly interact with a system in the course of their jobs or lives

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operational stakeholders

Question 7

Persons who regularly interact with the system as part of their jobs are called _____.

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Operational stakeholders

Question 8

What is another, more common, name given to core process 3?

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System Analysis

Question 9

SDLC stands for what?

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Systems Development Life Cycle

Question 10

What do we call the person or group who provides funding for the development of the new system?

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Client

Question 11

What does the Acronym UML stand for?

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Unified Modeling Language

Question 12

Which of the following is NOT one of the core process of the SDLC?

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Run workshop sessions to train the user of the system

Question 13

An attribute whose value uniquely identifies an object is called a(n) _______.

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key attribute

Question 14

Which of the following is one of the types of relationships in class diagrams

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All of the above

Question 15

The number of associations that occur among specific things in an entity relationship diagram is called ____.

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cardinality

Question 16

The specific area of the user’s business need that is within the scope of the new system is called the _______.

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problem domain

Question 17

What is the minimum multiplicity for the association that reads "a customer places zero or more orders"?

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0

Question 18

In UML notation, the guillemets character is used to show what kind of notation?

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stereotypes

Question 19

One of the Brainstorming Technique steps is identifying a user and a set of use cases

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True

Question 20

“As a student, I want to register for a class in order to fulfill education requirements” is an example of a(n) _____.

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user story

Question 21

Which of the following is an example of a state event?

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Inventory reorder point is reached

Question 22

An information system consists of

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software, database, and manual processes

Question 23

An information system development process which is flexible and embraces change is called _____.

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agile development

Question 24

Application architecture is used to refer to

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the organization & configuration of all software solutions into info system

Question 25

FURPS stands for

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Functional, Usability, Reliability, Performance & Security requirements

Question 26

Binary Association is an association between two instances of the same class

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False

Question 27

An event that occurs by reaching a point in time is called a ___ event.

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temporal

Question 28

Two of the primary elements that are included in a Work Breakdown Structure include:

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list of tasks and estimated effort

Question 29

Which of the following items is NOT a part of the application architecture?

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virtual private networks

Question 30

There are internal vs. external stakeholders and operational vs. executive stakeholders

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True

Question 31

A relationship between a "sports team" & the players coaches, & sponsor would be described as what kind of relationship?

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Aggregation

Question 32

Which of the following describes what the system is required to do?

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Functional requirments

Question 33

What is the single activity that usually requires the most time during a project?

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programming

Question 34

When a system is partitioned into pieces, each piece is referred to as a _____.

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Subsystem

SWE Midterm

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SWE Midterm

Questions 34