ASEP/CSEP Terms I (INCOSE) Exam Study Guide Solutions

ASEP/CSEP Terms I (INCOSE) Exam Study Guide Solutions "system on their own merit" - ANSWER-An element that can be decompsed into further sub-system elements Acquisition Process - ANSWER-purpose is to obtain a product or service in accordance with the acquirer's requirements Agreement Process - ANSWER-process defines the activities necessary to establish an agreement between two organizations Architecture Definition Process - ANSWER-Generates system architecture alternatives, to select one or more alternatives that fram stakeholder concerns and meet system requirements, and to express this in a set of consistent views Atomic - ANSWER-An element that cannot be further decomposed Attribute - ANSWER-Observable characteristic or property of the system Black Box - ANSWER-Used for problem solving, the black box represents the external view of the system (i.e. attributes) Copyright ©SOPHIABENNETT 2025 ACADEMIC YEARALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Page 2/11 Bottom-Up Integration - ANSWER-Elements/aggregates are integrated in the opposite order of their activation or utilization Business or Mission Analysis Process - ANSWER-Puropse is to define the business/mission problem or opportunity, characterize the solution space; and determine potential solution class(es) that could address a problem or take advantage of an opportunity Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) - ANSWER-A strategy to improve system reliability (by reducing the amount of time the system is unavailable while conducting routine or corrective maintenance) Configuration Management Process - ANSWER-Manage and control system elements and configurations of the lifecycle. Also manages consistency between a product and its associated configuration definition ConOps - ANSWER-At the organizational level, addresses the leadership's intended way of operating the organization Coupling Matrix or N^2 Diagram - ANSWER-A basic method to define aggregates and the order of integration Criterion-Driven Integration - ANSWER-The most critical system elements compared to the selected criterion are first integrated Copyright ©SOPHIABENNETT 2025 ACADEMIC YEARALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Page 3/11 Decision Gates - ANSWER-An approval event in the project cycle, sufficiently important to be defined and included in the schedule Decision Management Process - ANSWER-Provide a structured, analytical framework for objectively identifying, characterizing and evaluating a set of alternatives for a decision at any point in the lifecycle and select the most beneficial COA Design Definition Process - ANSWER-Provide sufficient detailed data and information about the system and its elements to enable the implementation consistent with architectural entities as defined in models and views of the system architecture Design Descriptor - ANSWER-The set of generic design characteristics and of their possible values Dynamic Behavior - ANSWER-The time evolution of the system state Effectiveness Analysis - ANSWER-Term for a broad category of analysis the evaluate the degree or extent to which a systems meets one or more criteria (i.e. the effectiveness of the system in meeting the criteria in its intended operational environment) Emergence - ANSWER-The principle that whole entities exhibit properties, which are meaningful only when attributed to the w