NOCTI FINAL STUDY GUIDE 2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
◍ Criteria. Ans: A means of judging. A standard, rule, or test by which
something can be judged.
◍ Constraint. Ans: 1. A limit to a design process. Constraints may be
such things as appearance, funding, space, materials, and human
capabilities. 2. A limitation or restriction.
◍ Design. Ans: 1. An iterative decision-making process that produces
plans by which resources are converted into products or systems that
meet human needs and wants or solve problems. 2. A plan or drawing
produced to show the look and function or workings of something before
it is built or made. 3. A decorative pattern.
◍ Design Brief. Ans: A written plan that identifies a problem to be
solved, its criteria, and its constraints. Encourage thinking of all aspects
of a problem before attempting a solution.
◍ Design Process. Ans: A systematic problem-solving strategy, with
criteria and constraints, used to develop many possible solutions to solve
a problem or satisfy human needs and wants and to winnow (narrow)
down the possible solutions to one final choice.
,◍ Design Statement. Ans: A part of a design brief that challenges the
designer, describes what a design solution should do without describing
how to solve the problem, and identifies the degree to which the solution
must be executed.
◍ Designer. Ans: A person who designs any of a variety of things. This
usually implies the task of creating drawings or in some ways uses
visual cues to organize his or her work.
◍ Engineer. Ans: A person who is trained in and uses technological and
scientific knowledge to solve practical problems.
◍ Engineering Notebook. Ans: A book in which an engineer will
formally document, in chronological order, all of his/her work that is
associated with a specific design project.
◍ Innovation. Ans: An improvement of an existing technological
product, system, or method of doing something.
◍ Invention. Ans: A new product, system, or process that has never
existed before, created by study and experimentation.
◍ Iterative. Ans: A process that repeats a series of steps over and over
until the desired outcome is obtained.
, ◍ Valid. Ans: Well-founded on evidence and corresponds accurately to
the real world.
◍ open-looped. Ans: a system that has to have input each time the
system is used
◍ feedback. Ans: fourth step of a system
◍ closed-looped. Ans: a system that has feedback
◍ process. Ans: second step of a system
◍ output. Ans: third step of a system
◍ subsystem. Ans: smaller systems intergrated into a larger system
◍ What are some important resources for engineering and technology?
Ans: People,Energy, Capital(Money), Information,Tools, Machines,
Materials, and Time
◍ What is a system? Ans: a set or group of parts that all work together,
all of them include input, a process and an output
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
◍ Criteria. Ans: A means of judging. A standard, rule, or test by which
something can be judged.
◍ Constraint. Ans: 1. A limit to a design process. Constraints may be
such things as appearance, funding, space, materials, and human
capabilities. 2. A limitation or restriction.
◍ Design. Ans: 1. An iterative decision-making process that produces
plans by which resources are converted into products or systems that
meet human needs and wants or solve problems. 2. A plan or drawing
produced to show the look and function or workings of something before
it is built or made. 3. A decorative pattern.
◍ Design Brief. Ans: A written plan that identifies a problem to be
solved, its criteria, and its constraints. Encourage thinking of all aspects
of a problem before attempting a solution.
◍ Design Process. Ans: A systematic problem-solving strategy, with
criteria and constraints, used to develop many possible solutions to solve
a problem or satisfy human needs and wants and to winnow (narrow)
down the possible solutions to one final choice.
,◍ Design Statement. Ans: A part of a design brief that challenges the
designer, describes what a design solution should do without describing
how to solve the problem, and identifies the degree to which the solution
must be executed.
◍ Designer. Ans: A person who designs any of a variety of things. This
usually implies the task of creating drawings or in some ways uses
visual cues to organize his or her work.
◍ Engineer. Ans: A person who is trained in and uses technological and
scientific knowledge to solve practical problems.
◍ Engineering Notebook. Ans: A book in which an engineer will
formally document, in chronological order, all of his/her work that is
associated with a specific design project.
◍ Innovation. Ans: An improvement of an existing technological
product, system, or method of doing something.
◍ Invention. Ans: A new product, system, or process that has never
existed before, created by study and experimentation.
◍ Iterative. Ans: A process that repeats a series of steps over and over
until the desired outcome is obtained.
, ◍ Valid. Ans: Well-founded on evidence and corresponds accurately to
the real world.
◍ open-looped. Ans: a system that has to have input each time the
system is used
◍ feedback. Ans: fourth step of a system
◍ closed-looped. Ans: a system that has feedback
◍ process. Ans: second step of a system
◍ output. Ans: third step of a system
◍ subsystem. Ans: smaller systems intergrated into a larger system
◍ What are some important resources for engineering and technology?
Ans: People,Energy, Capital(Money), Information,Tools, Machines,
Materials, and Time
◍ What is a system? Ans: a set or group of parts that all work together,
all of them include input, a process and an output
