System Design Quiz

What activities are included in the design process?

• Testing and validation

• Coding and debugging

• User interface design

• Database management

What decisions are made in physical architecture?

• User interface design

• System analysis

• Hardware and software purchases

• Software development

What is the purpose of verifying and validating analysis models?

• To develop user interfaces

• To ensure accurate representation of the problem domain

• To optimize system performance

• To create new design models

What should every class on a class diagram be associated with?

• At least one use case

• At least one communication diagram

• At least one actor

• At least one sequence diagram

What must every object node on an activity diagram be associated with?

• An instance of a class on a class diagram

• An instance of a use case

• An instance of a communication diagram

• An instance of a sequence diagram

What do behavioral state machines represent?

• The hardware components

• The system architecture

• The user interface design

• The life cycle of complex objects

What is factoring in the context of design models?

• The process of separating out a module into a stand-alone module

• The process of combining modules

• The process of creating new classes

• The process of creating new use cases

What is the purpose of partitions in design models?

• To represent the system environment

• To separate a module into a stand-alone module

• To combine different modules

• To represent the system architecture

What is the purpose of the human-computer interaction layer?

• To design the user interface

• To optimize system performance

• To address issues involving the persistence of objects

• To manage data in the system

What is the focus of the physical architecture layer?

• User interface design

• System analysis

• Optimizing system performance

• Hardware and software purchases