Software Design and Architecture Quiz

Which of these views show the functional design of the software, usually in the form of objects and the relationships between them?

• Process View

• Development View

• Physical View

• Logical View

Which of these UML diagrams are likely to be part of the process view? Select two correct answers.

• Activity Diagram

• Sequence Diagram

• State Diagram

• Class Diagram

To which view would the Package Diagram belong? Remember that a package diagram shows the packages that make up a software and how they are related.

• Physical View

• Development View

• Logical View

• Process View

Which of these statements about Component Diagrams is true?

• They clarify dependency relationships

• They give a dynamic view of the system

• They are useful for clarifying the artifacts that will be produced from development

• They do not show third-party libraries

Which of these will you NOT find in a deployment diagram?

• Class

• Execution Environment

• Component

• Artifact

• Library

What is an artifact?

• An unintended effect that the software has on the device

• A part of a device that is nonetheless important to depict on the deployment diagram, like a hard drive

• Part of the development process that is important to the developers but not the end-users

• A physical realization of a software component

What is an abstract data type?

• A data type that dynamically allows the storage of different primitives

• A data schema that is defined by the developer

• A data type that is not actually storing data; instead, it is used to define interfaces

• An interface that defines how to store data in a class

Which of these are advantages of the main program and subroutine architectural style? Select two correct answers.

• Easily mapped to all kinds of real-world problem spaces

• Abstract data types are easy to define and extend

• Promotes function modularity and reuse

• Efficient for computation-focused problems

Select the one accurate statement about layered architecture:

• Enforcing communication only between adjacent layers and within a layer is key to good, layered architecture

• Layered architecture is often based on layers of abstraction

• Passthrough should be avoided at all costs

• Upper layers act as service providers to lower layers

What is the correct term for a machine that hosts a server?

• Server-machine

• Server-tier

• Called by type: e.g. print server or media server

• Server-host