Exam 16: Architecture

The mission of design is to randomly select the individual artifacts of analysis and transform them into engineering blueprints.

In developing a software system, a good software engineer must understand ________.

In a ________ architecture, two or more computers on a network cooperate to perform services.

Architecture is concerned with ________ of an information system.

________ is concerned with structural, functional, and behavioral issues of a system. It models the problem and outlines the solution.

Which of the following can be considered an architectural view?

Define workflow architecture.

A ________ is one in which software components cooperate and interact across a network to perform services.

In the client-server architecture model, one or more clients provide services that are consumed by the server computers.

While how components are organized is eventually physical, the architecture of an application remains logical and can be mapped to various physical configurations of components.

In a distributed architecture, all services depend on one computer system.

Design must formulate a vision of the solution as a whole before building the individual components of the final product.

A signal event is a type of event that is ________.

Technology is not limited to the tools of technology, but the ________ used to support information systems.

Coupling is the extent of dependency among components of a system.

Databases are the strategic assets of enterprise information systems. Which of the following is NOT one of the factors that have made dedicated database servers an absolute necessity?

________ represents the relevant features of a product or a system from particular perspectives.