System Integration Final Exam

Question 1
SE Vee model describes the Systems Engineering process, which integrates all the disciplines
and specialty groups into a team effort forming a structured development process that proceeds
from concept to production to operation
Question options:
1) True
2) False
Question 2
Every system has inputs, which will be processed to produce certain output
Question options:
1) True
2) False
Question 3
The first third of the SE Vee model is:
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1) Design-to specs to Build-to documentation
2) Decomposition and Definition
3) Integrate system and perform system Verification to performance specifications
4) Demonstrate and validate system to user validation plan
Question 4
Hurricane Matthew is considered as:
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1) Man Made System
2) Conceptual System
3) Closed System
4) Physical Open System
Question 5

One of the major issues a systems engineer have to deal with is logistics, where the coordination
of different teams, and automatic control of machinery become more difficult when dealing with
large, complex systems.
Question options:
1) True
2) False
Question 6
A dynamic system is a system that has only one state, and does not require any control
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1) True
2) False
Question 7
System By-products Include any type of logical system output or behavior
Question options:
1) True
2) False
Question 8
Which of the following is not a key question in identifying operating environment factors?
Question options:
1) What is and what is not relevant to the mission in the operating environment?
2) What is the degree of importance, significance, or influence of these items?
3) What is the probability of occurrence of those items of significance?
4) What are some of the physical instances of each system element?
Question 9
System Thinking is a holistic mental framework and worldview that recognizes a system as an
entity first, with its fit and relationship to its environment being primary concerns
Question options:
1) True
2) False
Question 10 2 / 2 points
To analyze a system we need to identify system attributes, properties and characteristics, then
change attributes based on user/customer requirements
Question options:
1) True

2) False
Question 11
Which of the following is a question that should be answered in the design phase?
Question options:
1) Who will use it?
2) How should we build it?
3) What should the system do for us?
4) Where & when will it be used?
Question 12
The following are general guidelines for developing a problem statement except:
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1) Avoid identifying the source or root cause of a problem.
2) Avoid reporting any system problems
3)

Identify the operational scenario or operating conditions under which the

problem occurs.

4) Avoid stating any explicit or implicit solutions

Question 13
User requirements analysis will not provide a precise descriptions of the content, functionality
and quality demanded by prospective users
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1) True
2) False
Question 14
The Systems life cycle is the overall depiction of the system, from concept to development to
deployment and use and eventual disposal
Question options:
1) True
2) False
Question 15
One of the first tasks of a system analyst or SE is to establish a semantics frame of reference for
the System of Interest (SOI)
Question options:
1) True
2) False

Question 16
A complex system implies that the overall target system is composed of many stand-alone
elements or sub-systems, each of which could be a true system in its own right.
Question options:
1) True
2) False
Question 17
One of the reasons that some organization separate the software element from the Equipment
Element is:
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1) The high cost of the software
2) Licensing
Equipment and Software may be developed separately or procured from
different vendors
Actually they dont separate software from hardware because they go hand on
4)
had together
Question 18
Key issues to be addressed in supply support operations include
3)

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1) communications
2) procedural data
3) equipment element
4) software element
Question 19
System Analysis is a methodology that applies systems or holistic perspective by taking all
aspects of the situation into account, and by concentrating on the interactions between its
different elements
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1) True
2) False
Question 20
A subsystem is part of a system that interoperate with other subsystems to achieve the main
systems goal
Question options:
1) True

2) False
Question 21 0 / 2 points
Non-Functional requirements are calculations and data manipulation and processing that define
what a system is supposed to accomplish.
Question options:
1) True
2) False
Question 22
The System Architecture is an abstraction or analytical representation of the system components,
their relationships, and the principles governing its design and evolution
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1) True
2) False
Question 23
User requirements document cannot be translated into system specifications
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1) True
2) False
Question 24
2 / 2 points
A requirement is something that can be assigned to a function
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1) True
2) False
Question 25 0 / 2 points
All the following are considered reasons of the importance of system component concept
EXCEPT
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1)

It enables us to organize, classify, and bound system entity abstractions and their
interactions

2) It will ensure that components will not be interacting with the environment
Its Architecture establishes a common framework for developing the logical and
physical system architecture of each component within the system hierarchy
4) It serves as an initial starting point for allocations of multi-level performance
specification requirements
3)

When we assemble the logical components into a framework that graphically

describes their relationships, we refer to the diagram as physical architecture
a. True
*b. False
Question 26
What does INCOSE stand for?
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1) International Natural Council on Systems Engineering
2) International Council on Systems Engineering
3) Institute of North America Council on Systems Engineering
4) Institute of National Concepts of Systems Engineering
Question 27
The Operating Environment represents the totality of natural and human-made elements
(entities) that a system must be prepared to interact with during missions and throughout its
lifetime
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1) True
2) False
Question 28
A system is a set of integrated components each with specified and bounded capabilities without
the need to interoperate since each component can do a specific task
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1) True
2) False
Question 29
The physical implementation of system component interfaces does not require in-depth analysis
and decision
Question options:
1) True
2) False
Question 30
The System of Interest (SOI) itself consists of
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1) Support Systems only

2) Mission Systems and Environment
3) Mission Systems and Support Systems
4) Mission Systems, Support Systems, and the Environment
Question 31
Wide range of todays problems are too complicated to be solved by the old nineteenth century
techniques
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1) True
2) False
Question 32
Computer resources support operations include all the following except:
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1) Procurement
2) Facilities
3) Upgrade
4) Maintenance
Question 33
System attributes can be used as a checklist to:
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1) Assess the adequacy of the given systems specifications
2) describe processes within a system
3) describe policies and procedures
4) describe the environment surrounding the system
Question 34
Every system operates in isolation of other systems, but might be composed of smaller
subsystems.
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1) True
2) False
Question 35
Some organizations establish a contextual frame of reference convention for a system to facilitate
communications about specific components within the system
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1) True
2) False
Question 36
Characteristics refer to the behavioral and physical qualities that uniquely identify each system
Question options:
1) True
2) False
Question 37
The training activity in a system is part of:
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1) The mission System Personnel
2) Support System Personnel
3) The Environment
4) The hardware and software system element
Question 38
A copper wire, light switches, lighting fixtures can be configured into electrical circuit block
diagram and schematics that depict:
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1) The physical relationships
2) The logical relationships
3) That this is not a system
4) That there are no relationships between these components
Question 39
Which of the following is NOT a true statement about user requirements?
Question options:
Collecting user requirements for consumer products does not require any
effort, and there is no risk associated
If consumers have no idea of the innovative product or service, it will be very
2)
difficult for them to state their needs
Creativity of designers is required for the transfer of user requirements into
3)
innovative consumer products
1)

4) Precise user requirements analysis and specification is essential

Question 40

Most successful missions begin with a thorough identification and understanding of the problem,
and opportunity, but not the solution
Question options:
1) True
2) False
Question 41
Users and Environment are external systems that interact with the organizations information
system
Question options:
1) True
2) False
Question 42
Systems development approach that employs tools, techniques, and methodologies designed to
speed application development are called
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1) RAD
2) PHST
3) WBS
4) PMI
Question 43
The spiral model is best used with the development of:
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1) Hardware system
2) Natural system
3) Software system
4) Educational system
Question 44
What is a systems Engineer?
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An interdisciplinary field of engineering that focuses on how complex
1) engineering projects should be designed and managed over the life cycle of
the project.
2) Its only civil engineering that concentrate on bridges and buildings

3) Its only mechanical engineering, which deals with mechanical systems

4)

Its only electrical engineering, which deals with electrical systems and the way
they interact with the environment.

Question 45
System boundary encapsulates all the essential elements, and subsystems, but does not include
the interactions necessary to address a systems decision problem.
Question options:
1) True
2) False
Question 46
The spiral model is a risk-driven approach for the development of a system
Question options:
1) True
2) False
Question 47
When systems interact with their Operating Environment, one of the following is considered as a
type of behavior pattern that might emerge:
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1) System will not interact with any of their surroundings
2) System responses to products only
3) System responses to services only
4)

System interact with or respond to the dynamics in their Operating

Environment

Question 48
Which of the following is NOT a support system element?
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1) System maintenance operations
2) Packaging, handling, storage, and transportation operations
3) Publications support operations
4) Procedural Data
Question 49
Which of the following is not a question that should be answered in the planning phase?
Question options:
1) Who will use the system?

2) Why should we build this system?

3) What value does it provide?
4) How long will it take to build?
Question 50
The integration of the Hardware and Software is developed to satisfy a system component
capability but not the performance requirements
Question options:
1) True
2) False