Software Engineering- WGU C188 exam Questions and Answers(A+ Solution guide)

Legacy software is usually... - Answer-costly to maintain and risky to evolve. Legacy systems are often: - Answer-adapted, enhanced, extended, or re-architected What is the first step in software engineering? - Answer-Understand the problem before you build a solution. What are the software engineering layers? - Answer-A quality focus Processes Methods Tools The technical how-to's for building software. - Answer-Methods Provide automated or semi-automated support for the process and methods. - Answer-Tools A collection of activities, actions, and tasks that are performed when some work product is to be created. - Answer-Process Strives to achieve a broad objective. - Answer-Activity Encompasses a set of tasks that produce a major work product. - Answer-Action Focuses on a small, but well-defined objective that produces a tangible outcome. - Answer-Task What are the five activities of the generic process framework? - Answer-Communication, Planning, Modeling, Construction, and Deployment What are the umbrella activities? - Answer-Project tracking and control, risk management, quality assurance, technical reviews, measurements, configuration management, reusability management, work product preparation and production. What is the essence of software engineering practice? - Answer-Understand the problem, plan a solution, carry out the plan, examine the result.What are the seven principles that focus on software engineering practice as a whole? - Answer-The reason it all exists, keep it simple, maintain the vision, what you produce, others will consume, be open to the future, plan ahead, think. What is the reason it all exists? - Answer-To provide value to its users. Executes each of the five framework activities in sequence. - Answer-Linear process flow. Repeats one or more of the activities before proceeding to the next. - Answer-Iterative process flow. Executes the activities in a "circular" manner and each circuit leads to a more complete version. - Answer-Evolutionary process flow Executes one or more activities in parallel with other activities. - Answer-Parallel process flow