What are the two types of architectures defined in the ROPES process? How do they differ?
What are the primary organizational elements in each of the two types of architecture?
What is a domain? How is it modeled in the UML?
Identify and define the five aspects of physical architecture.
What is the relationship between components and subsystems?
How are concurrency units modeled in the UML?
What are the seven task/thread identification strategies?
Distinguish between symmetric and asymmetric distribution. What are the advantages of each?
Define the term recurring cost and relate it to hardware/software tradeoff decisions.
What is a Hamming distance? How is it useful in communication protocols?
Describe the difference between safety and reliability.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of heterogeneous versus homogeneous redundancy?
Explain the concept of vertical slices and its application to the construction of prototypes.
What are the two primary kinds of nodes to be found on deployment diagrams?
What is a resource in the UML?
Contrast the terms importance, urgency, and priority.
How are priorities assigned with the RMS strategy?