TDT4240 Software Architecture Summary

Question 1

How is the scoping of the variation points in the software product line for this scenario?

Accepted Answer

Too Broad

Question 2

The term for a representation of a coherent set of architectural elements is...

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View

Question 3

What is this?

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Analysis of architectural approaches

Question 4

A decision that will affect two or more fighting quality attributes is named:

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Tradeoff point

Question 5

Which structures from the textbook can be classified as allocation structures?

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Implementation, Work assignment

Question 6

What view has the main focus on non-functional requirements such as availability & scalability?

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Physical, Process

Question 7

What pattern can be used to ensure that a change of one object influences other objects?

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Observer

Question 8

Which architectural strategy should be chosen from the numbers?

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2

Question 9

What do you call a collection of patterns that build on each other to generate a system?

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Pattern Language

Question 10

What view represents an abstraction of the most important requirements? (4+1 view model)

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Scenario

Question 11

What are typical outputs of the ATAM?

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Map tactics to quality requirements, Utility tree, Concise architecture

Question 12

The most important technical factor that contributes to the architecture is...

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Quality attributes

Question 13

How is the scoping of the following scenario?

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Too narrow

Question 14

What parameters are typically used in performance models?

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Schedule algorithm, Arrival rate, Network bandwidth

Question 15

Categorize the following characteristic:

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Cloud

Question 16

Structures that can answer what parts of the system can run in parallel are...

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Component and Connector

Question 17

Important keywords related to the description of a design pattern are...

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Problem, Solution, Context

Question 18

What analysis models exist for Usability?

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None

Question 19

How can an architecture affect business goals of a system?

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Faster to market, Add value

Question 20

What Type of architectural pattern has been used here?

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Modular

Question 21

What questions do ATAM produced answers to?

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Is the architecture suitable?, Which of the architectures is most suitable?

Question 22

A safe architectural design decision is named:

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Non-risk

Question 23

Categorize the following characteristic:

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Not cloud

Question 24

What pattern can be used to implement/maintain several almost identical pieces of code?

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Template Method

Question 25

What is important when designing the architecture for the CORE of an Edge dominant system?

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Highly modular, Highly robust

Question 26

What TYPE of architectural pattern can this be classified as?

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Component-and-connector

Question 27

A decision that will affect only one quality attribute is named:

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Sensitivity point

Question 28

Modeling of architecture for availability is typically carried out for determining...

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Recovery times, Failure rates

Question 29

Categorize the following characteristic:

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Cloud

Question 30

What is the term that describes people who both produce and consume content?

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Prosumers

Question 31

What are typical outputs of the ATAM?

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Tradeoff points, Sensitivity points

Question 32

What are the main elements in the definition of software architecture?

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Relations, Set of structures, Properties, Software elements

Question 33

What is the TA in ATAM an abbreviation for?

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Tradeoff Analysis

Question 34

What adoption strategy for software product lines is used in this company?

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Top-down, Proactive

Question 35

What are the main influences of the stakeholders related to software architectures?

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Project, Technical, Business

Question 36

What view is most relevant for the end user? (4+1 view model)

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Logical

Question 37

What pattern can be used to ensure a single instance of a class?

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Singleton

Question 38

Description of fundamental structural organization or schema for software systems is called...

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Architectural pattern

Question 39

What analysis models exist for Availability?

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Markov models, Statistical models

Question 40

Tactics are in a software architecture context...

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Primitive design techniques

Question 41

Structures that can answer which CPUs software elements are executed on are named...

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Allocation

Question 42

What adoption strategy for software product lines is used in this company?

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Bottom-up, Reactive

Question 43

How can you implement variation points for software product line in code?

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Generalization, Overloading

Question 44

What is important for getting a good object-oriented design?

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High cohesion, Abstraction/generalization, Delegation

Question 45

What is the main characteristic from an Edge dominant system?

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Depend on input from users

Question 46

Requirements in Edge dominant systems are usually established from...

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Web forums

Question 47

What are typical outputs of the ATAM?

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Set of risks, Set of nonrisks, Set of risk themes

Question 48

Description of patterns specific to a programming language is called...

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Idioms

Question 49

Categorize the following characteristic:

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Cloud

Question 50

Structures that allow reasoning about how primary functionality is assigned to units are named:

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Module

Question 51

What types of views are described in the textbook?

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Allocation, Component-and-connector, Module

Question 52

A quality attribute scenario is used to describe...

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Quality requirements

Question 53

What is gained from doing a CBAM compared to doing an ATAM?

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Economical analysis

Question 54

Categorize the following characteristic:

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Not cloud

Question 55

In what view can ER-modeling typically be used? (4+1 view model)

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Logical

Question 56

What pattern can be used to ensure that single and multiple objects can be treated similarly?

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Composite

Question 57

What is this?

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Utility tree

Question 58

What TYPE of architectural pattern can this be classified as?

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Allocation

Question 59

What analysis models exist for Performance?

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Real-time scheduling, Queuing

Question 60

What is the total benefit obtained from architectural strategy 2?

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TDT4240 Software Architecture Summary

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TDT4240 Software Architecture Summary

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