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First check the sections to review;

System Engineering Concepts
Design Concepts
Design Domains
Development Process Concepts
Systems Operational Concepts

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Now answer the questions and click the check box at the end to evaluate your answers.

Quality can be defined as fitness for use or more measurably as -- Select -- costly appearance conformance to requirements . Ref
Once a fault is detected, the system must assess the -- Select -- priority extent cost of the damage and contain the fault to the smallest possible safe scope. Ref
Stakeholders are the ones who have -- Select -- responsibility meat an interest in a system or a stake in the outcome of the use of a system. Ref
-- Select -- Engineers Scientists Technologists excel at taking off the shelf components and making them work together. Ref
-- Select -- Civil Mechanical Chemical Architectural Biochemical Electrical Engineering is concerned with designing machines that are principally electrical or electronic. Ref
-- Select -- Mechanical Electrical Chemical Civil Biochemical Architectural engineering creates industrial processes to extract one kind of substance from others using sequences of chemical reactions. Ref
Making things configurable is -- Select -- the same harder easier than making them not configurable. Ref
The maximum amount of variation in an attribute is called -- Select -- gap precision tolerance . Ref
-- Select -- Architectural Biochemical Electrical Mechanical Chemical Civil engineering uses the principles of thermodynamics, kinetics, physics et al. Ref
-- Select -- Buyers Casual observers Stakeholders Builders understand the needs of the system. Ref
Overloading means similar operations have the same -- Select -- name objects . Ref
Manufacturability is a property of a product such that it can be -- Select -- rapidly economically produced with a high yield. Ref
States have a name that often ends in ' -- Select -- ly ed ing ' indicating continuous action or being. Ref
A port is a -- Select -- consumable scarce complex resource where an I/O meets an interface. Ref
One of the main reasons systems go over budget is because of a phenomena known as -- Select -- feature creep hot-dogging lazy developers . Ref
Encapsulation means to build a -- Select -- shield trench around things. Ref
Marx referred to this unknown process as dialectical -- Select -- resistance materialism embolism which is a force in the nature of matter that causes it to organize into more complex forms. Ref
A state is the name for a set of circumstances or the configuration of a system that characterizes its -- Select -- attitude value condition . Ref
The -- Select -- atmosphere universe environment is everything that interacts with a system, that is not part of the system. Ref
An FSM or just "state machine" can be represented as a diagram or a -- Select -- transition table event . Ref
Traceability is an attribute of product documentation that allows you to demonstrate that consequent design decisions can be traced back to antecedent -- Select -- decisions requirements . Ref
To develop a system you first Identify the system -- Select -- stakeholders controls . Ref
Electrical, mechanical, civil and software systems each have -- Select -- physical appearances symbol systems architectures . Ref
-- Select -- Cheating Prototyping Rapid development is seeing the first visualization of something that did not exist before. Ref
Modeled attributes are properties of systems that have discrete or ranges of -- Select -- periodic static continuous values. Ref
Many -- Select -- opinions facts perspectives are necessary to comprehend all of a system's aspects. Ref
Systems Engineering is an -- Select -- optimized intolerant ad hoc interdisciplinary development approach that causes the stakeholders' needs to be satisficed throughout a system's life cycle. Ref
-- Select -- Civil Electrical Mechanical Chemical Biochemical Architectural engineering is concerned with building structures that we live, work and play in. Ref
Stakeholders may not be able to -- Select -- vaguely informally precisely articulate needs, but their gut tells them what the system must do. Ref
The principal value of a use case is that it forces you to think about who will be -- Select -- interacting unhappy with the system and what they will be doing in their role as an actor. Ref
General things have -- Select -- information properties generalizations that we wish to confer on specializations. Ref
A control is intuitive when it has attributes like similar things in the -- Select -- product line user guide user's experience . Ref
Quality problems always begin with a -- Select -- management workplace hair style that allows products and services to be delivered that do not conform to a specific recipe or requirements. Ref
Final testing usually consists of verifying that all assembled -- Select -- firmware software underwear hardware is operational. Ref
Scalability is the ability of a design to accommodate a wide range of -- Select -- speed configurations height . Ref
An abstraction is a representation that differs from another by having one or more attributes -- Select -- added removed modified . Ref
When the system or one of its components cannot tolerate a condition then it leaves its valid state and transitions to a -- Select -- initial fault safe state. Ref
A systems engineer can write requirements often without much domain knowledge except as needed to not be intimidated by the -- Select -- management SME . Ref
Usability is a qualitative measure of the -- Select -- ease of use cost of a product or even fitness for use. Ref
Availability has to do with the percentage of time that a system will process -- Select -- requests timecards . Ref
We -- Select -- ignore color tag the data with information that tells the machine what it is for. Ref
Second, load testing verifies that a system -- Select -- precludes gracefully tolerates ignores excursions outside the required performance envelope. Ref
A model is a representation of reality or intended reality that has only the -- Select -- fields parts storage attributes necessary to solve a class of problems. Ref
A trade study is an activity often performed by a systems engineer to choose between alternative -- Select -- requirements architectures or designs. Ref
Regression testing is employed when changes are made to a -- Select -- large subset small subset superset of a system. Ref
Inputs and outputs or just -- Select -- stuff wires I/O , contain the information shared among systems in an interaction. Ref
-- Select -- COBOL BASIC C was to be for business accounting, FORTRAN for science and PL1 for everyone else. Ref
-- Select -- Electrical Chemical Mechanical Architectural Biochemical Civil engineering is concerned with redirecting life forces to do things that are thought to be advantageous. Ref
The most important requirements began; “The system -- Select -- SHOULD SHALL MIGHT …" or "The system MUST…”. Ref
Each state determines which -- Select -- components opinions events are allowed and which are ignored. Ref
Since the Project Review Board meetings have a -- Select -- ad hoc random regular schedule, board members will keep the time slot free in case they need to attend. Ref
Emulation is -- Select -- copying rewarding actual behavior. Ref
Information models capture aspects of a system called -- Select -- attributes data functions . Ref
A system changes -- Select -- speed mind state when interacting with its environment. Ref
A central authority needs -- Select -- mountains of little communication filtered up and down the chain of command to make decisions about the allocation of resources. Ref
Critical thinking is concerned with the relative possibilities of -- Select -- ROI alternatives . Ref
The system engineer manages configurability by determining the number of -- Select -- feature attributes knobs and switches incorporated into the design, manufacture and operation of a product. Ref
Unit testing occurs when independently developed design components are tested in -- Select -- incubation isolation or stubbed out systems. Ref
If you drag the line some distance you create a -- Select -- boat solid plane . Ref
Each layer provides an interpretive interface for the language -- Select -- beside below above it. Ref
One job of the systems engineer is to establish the -- Select -- justification boundaries detail design of a system. Ref
Usually manual intervention is required to repair or replace -- Select -- extra expensive failed components. Ref
Testing is how we know we are done by proving that what was created is what was -- Select -- intended possible . Ref
Technically, Designing and programming are -- Select -- the same similar two different disciplines. Ref
Fault detection occurs when a system or one of its components -- Select -- assumes confirms senses that something is not valid. Ref
This is referred to as emergent behavior or the sum of the whole is greater than the parts. Ref
A Service Level Agreement is a commitment to -- Select -- elevate maintain freeze a system in a condition where it performs at a specified level. Ref
The difference between a system and a -- Select -- function component state is only a matter of perspective. Ref
Statements with several -- Select -- words conjunctions participles like (AND) and (OR) can obscure the meaning of a requirement configuration such that more is implied than intended. Ref
This -- Select -- explanation prioritization of properties or attributes is generalization. Ref
In a complex system, integration testing can present a tremendous challenge to -- Select -- scheduling fault isolation managers for several reasons. Ref
Then back in the 80s some guys came up with -- Select -- Lotus VisiCalc Excel , one of the first spreadsheets. Ref
-- Select -- Features Bells and whistles are what people are willing to pay for. Ref
At some point in the design of the logical model a decision is made to begin assigning the -- Select -- functions components of the logical subsystems to the actual physical systems to be designed. Ref
Verification is about the process used to construct a system. It answers the question; Did we build -- Select -- the right thing it the right way ? Ref
Traditionally, a -- Select -- vote site survey test drive is conducted to identify the adjustments to the system environment that will be required. The table indicates some categories of concern. Ref
A need is an expression of a desire of a -- Select -- stakeholder muse . Ref
An acceptance test is a subset of a validation test where the customer has said -- Select -- in advance after the fact under duress what will be acceptable. Ref
Restoral places the system back into a -- Select -- happy final valid state. Ref
Epigenesis is really about the -- Select -- genealogy mechanisms management randomness mechanisms cells employ when they differentiate into different cell types. Ref
Requirements must account for every interaction between the system and elements of its -- Select -- components environment users . Ref
This is why free markets -- Select -- equal trump pale to controlled economies. Ref
-- Select -- General Important Reliable ization is the process of proceeding from several special cases to a more general one. Ref
Of some things it is said that the whole is -- Select -- greater less than the sum of the parts. Ref
Activity diagrams are a variant of STDs that can represent complex -- Select -- appearance instantiation behavior of objects. Ref
While most ethics is about behaviors humans have been engaged in since the dawn of time, technology allows us to behave in ways never before -- Select -- planned dreamed possible . Ref
Simulation is about -- Select -- imitating copying displaying something that exists or pretending that something exists. Ref
The systems engineering process collects and analyzes system information to design and maintain a logical system that can be -- Select -- appreciated considered reified by others. Ref
He asks about the possibility of having a baby in -- Select -- three months nine months one month by using 9 women. Ref
A requirement is a statement about the -- Select -- coupling relationship contempt between system and something in its environment. Ref
"Satisficing is the seeking of an -- Select -- perfect poor adequate solution without expending too many resources. Ref
It is called "finite" because there are usually a -- Select -- large medium small fixed number of states. Ref
Critical systems have primary services defined so that developers will take -- Select -- casual extreme cavalier measures to ensure their success. Ref
Chaos thinking leads designers to examine if complex forms might be better described by -- Select -- more less extremely complex algorithms applied with a frequency not previously considered. Ref
-- Select -- Adds Tools Capital can set us apart from our competition if we can secure a competitive advantage. Ref
Many engineers, artists and designers are -- Select -- critical political quick thinkers. Ref
A -- Select -- problem fault bug failure is when a system ceases providing one or more of its primary services. Ref
The -- Select -- DO/WHILE FOR/NEXT loop repeats a sequence a fixed number of times usually known before the loop has begun. Ref
In order to make design changes to a system that is not the current version requires a -- Select -- comprehensive delta MS Word documentation set. Ref
A -- Select -- containment feudal class hierarchy is an abstraction hierarchy. Ref
Technically, physical architecture design is no longer a requirements related activity but a -- Select -- implementation high level design process. Ref
Precision has to do with -- Select -- repeatability smoothness cleanliness while accuracy is directly related to reliability in that it refers to absolute correctness. Ref
A Collaboration diagram is similar to a -- Select -- sequence use case domain diagram except that the time information is not so evident. Ref
The -- Select -- DO/WHILE FOR/NEXT construct performs a sequence 0 or more times. Ref
When developers are deciding what should be modeled they are constructing a -- Select -- model model rationale . Ref
One half of -- Select -- an interaction a wire a disagreement between two systems is implemented as a function in one of them. Ref
A system may have many -- Select -- erroneous faulty southern valid states and normally traverses from one to another without problems. Ref
Systematica is a product of -- Select -- ICTT IBM the Palo Alto Research Center . Ref
Configuration occurs during the -- Select -- early stages entire life cycle operation of a product. Ref
Functions are often expressed as -- Select -- logarithms spoonerisms algorithms . Ref
That ability to say " -- Select -- eureka shazam I've seen that somewhere before " is pattern recognition and is truly astonishing. Ref
The purpose of a sequence diagram is to highlight the -- Select -- temporal spatial psychic relationships among systems involved in transactions. Ref
Many -- Select -- managers developers , marketers and administrators are political thinkers. Ref
When a project gets off track, there should be a -- Select -- prayer plan desire to put it back on track. Ref
Provisioning has to do with the act of physically -- Select -- removing installing manhandling a piece of equipment literally putting things in place. Ref
The decision to increase the configurability of a product must be balanced with the target -- Select -- audience performance cost and market. Ref
A scenario is equivalent to a movie maker's -- Select -- camera storyboard dressing room . Ref
Requirements are always statements about the -- Select -- stakeholders specification boundary of a system. Ref
Risk management is largely about identifying -- Select -- obvious unknown known risks and putting a plan in place to mitigate them. Ref
A semantic net is the -- Select -- sludge confusion relationships formed by the similarity of meanings of the words in a taxonomy. Ref
The project plan -- Select -- temple template matrix defines the typical tasks in a software project. Ref
Design is describing, with -- Select -- standard artifacts gestures unique representations , something desired which did not previously exist that can be produced by some standard process. Ref
The way a system or component can be coupled to something else is called an -- Select -- connector attitude interface (literally face to face). Ref
Review Board Meetings are scheduled based on the scope of the project and the frequency of -- Select -- priority management social issues. Ref
A product validation verifies that the product operates according to the expressed product -- Select -- requirements expectations hopes . Ref
However, each state can be -- Select -- simplified decomposed abstracted into another state machine. Ref
Testability is often associated with the -- Select -- illumination instrumentation habituation of hardware to make it easier to test. Ref
A use case definition describes -- Select -- a transaction an episode with the system by one or more actors. Ref
Activation has to do with -- Select -- turning on tuning in the assigned system and making it available for use. Ref
Every system has a set of -- Select -- primary features primary services quirks which should have one or more service levels each. Ref
Logical architecture diagrams are not that -- Select -- interesting easy important to look at. Ref
Functions are always allocated to -- Select -- logical physical mechanical system components. Ref
One lesson learned from the automotive industry is that similar controls should always be in the -- Select -- same place way same position . Ref
When IT professionals talk about system availability they refer to the number of -- Select -- ones zeros nines in the percentage of uptime. Ref
Product Life Cycle begins from the time of -- Select -- initial conception deployment development and ends with its disposal. Ref
At the molecular level we see that many processes are just not possible without appropriate -- Select -- electrical noise peace and quiet physical boundaries . Ref
Cheap is the variable for -- Select -- cost quality . Ref
One reason to keep intermediate artifacts is that designers sometimes take a -- Select -- wrong path holiday leap of faith and need to backup and go another direction. Ref
-- Select -- Mechanical Electrical Architectural Chemical Civil Biochemical engineering, one of the oldest design domains concerns transportation structures like bridges and roads as well as barriers like levees, locks and dams. Ref
The self taught IT person learns to procure -- Select -- architectures people parts and make them work together. Ref
A small business may have a programmer on staff or a designated -- Select -- hitter handy IT person or both. Ref
All the other systems in the environment are called -- Select -- Players Dog Actors Irrelevant . Ref
Specialization is the process of proceeding from the -- Select -- specific to the general inside to the outside general to the specific . Ref
Each FSM has a minimum of two states named Initial and -- Select -- Altered Final Complimentary . Ref
A system is simply a collection of interacting -- Select -- components markets that are affected by and effect their environment. Ref

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