Software Architecture and Design Practice Test 6

1. Which change is accomplished by modifying a single component?

Architectural change

All of the mentioned

Non Local Change

A local change

2. What can be stated with regards to performance?

Performance depends partially on how much communication is necessary between the components

Performance is an example of architectural and non architectural dependencies

All of the mentioned

None of the mentioned

3. Which of the following are correct statements?

An architecture may or may not defines components

All of the mentioned

An architecture is not dependable on requirements

An architecture is foremost an abstraction of a system that suppresses details of the components that do not affect how they are used

4. What is a Reference Model?

It is standard decomposition of a known problem into parts that cooperatively solve a problem

It is a division of functionality together with data flow between the pieces, It is standard decomposition of a known problem into parts that cooperatively solve a problem

It is a description of component types

It is a division of functionality together with data flow between the pieces

5. What is Testability?

None of the mentioned

It is ability to make the separately developed component of the system to work correctly together

It is ability of system to run into different environments

It is ease with which software can be made to demonstrate faults

6. What is Architecture of a software based on?

None of the mentioned

Requirements

All of the mentioned

Design

7. What claim does Analyzing and evaluating architecture follow?

All of the mentioned

Maintainability has many facets

Maintainability is the main aspect

ADL's provide valuable analytical capabilities but tend to concentrate on run-time properties of system

8. Any class using the built-in cloning mechanism is supposed to do which of the following?

All of the mentioned

In the clone() operation, obtain a new object by calling super.clone()

Implement the Cloneable interface

Define a concrete public or protected clone() operation

9. What is the main technique for achieving portable software?

The main technique for achieving portable software is to isolate system dependency

None of the mentioned

The main technique for achieving portable software is to increase the overall performance

The main technique for achieving portable software is to have independent platform dependency

10. Which of the following is a correct statement?

None of the mentioned

A highly modifiable system produces correct results

A highly modifiable system may or may not produces correct results

A highly modifiable system does not produces correct results