What ordering of Technical Processes best completes this process list? Select the best order.

_____________, Requirements Analysis, _______________, Implementation

Answer:
  • Stakeholder Requirements Definition, Architecture Design
Wrong Answers:
  • Transition, Validation
  • Verification, Validation
  • Requirements Management, Interface Management

Which of the following best defines Requirements Management, one of the Systems Engineering Technical Management processes?

Answer:
  • It provides traceability, ultimately back to user-defined capabilities
Wrong Answers:
  • It is used to plan for, acquire, access, manage, protect and use data of a technical nature
  • It is used to examine the technical risks of deviating from the program plan
  • It provides the basis for evaluating and selecting alternatives when decisions need to be made

Each of the following is a Systems Engineering Technical Management Process except _____.

Answers:
  • Stakeholder Requirements Definition Process 
  • Transition Process 
 Wrong Answers:
  • Decision Analysis Process 
  • Interface Management Process
  • Technical Planning Process

Each of the following is a Systems Engineering Technical Process used for designing systems except for _____.

Answer:
  • Technical Planning Process
Wrong Answers:
  • Stakeholder Requirements Definition Process
  • Requirements Analysis Process
  • Architecture Design Process

Which of the following statements about the various Technical Management Processes used in Systems Engineering is correct?

Answer:
  • They are key to managing the overall technical effort
Wrong Answers:
  • They are used extensively in system design
  • Product 'realization' uses them to field a product
  • Architecture Design is the most important of the Technical Management Processes
  • None of these responses is correct

Which of the following are Systems Engineering Technical Processes used for realizing system products?

Answers:
  • Integration Process
  • Verification Process
  • Validation Process
  • Transition Process
Wrong Answers
  • Architecture Design Process
  • Stakeholder Requirements Definition Process

Which of the following are Systems Engineering Technical Processes used for designing systems?

Answers:
  • Stakeholder Requirements Definition Process
  •  Requirements Analysis Process
  •  Architecture Design Process
Wrong Answers:
  • Transition Process
  • Verification Process
  • Integration Process

Which of the following is not a Systems Engineering Technical Process used for system design and product realization?

Answer:
  • Requirements Management Process
Other Potential Answers:
  • Transition Process
  • Verification Process
  • Stakeholder Requirements Definition Process
  • Architecture Design Process

Which of the following statements about the various Technical Processes used in Systems Engineering is correct?

Answer:
  • They are used for designing systems and for product realization
Wrong Answers:
  • They are used to manage the overall technical effort
  • 'Decision Analysis' is a key Technical Process
  • Different ones are used for different types of DoD systems

The term 'realization' as used in Systems Engineering encompasses _____.

Answers:
  • Verifying and validating the product
  • Providing the physical design solution in an appropriate form
  • Transitioning the product, ultimately to the customer
Wrong Answer:
  • None of these responses is correct

Low investment in technical management, especially at the start of a program, is one of the significant challenges impacting Systems Engineering

Answer:
  • True

Challenges to the application of System Engineering within the DoD include all of the following EXCEPT:

Answer:
  • Unknown (Please post a comment if you have the answer)
Wrong Answer:
  • Inconsistent requirements management
Other Potential Answers:
  • Poor initial program formulation
  • Excessive technical management investment
  • Increasing system complexity
  • Workforce turbulence

All of the following are true about the scope of Systems Engineering EXCEPT:

Answer:
  • It is a management but not a technical discipline
Wrong Answers:
  • It helps to unify the technical vision of a product
  • It encompasses the entire technical effort
  • It is comprised of a logical sequence of processes and activities

Which one of the following is likely NOT to be cited as one of the challenges facing Systems Engineering within the DoD?

Answer:
  •  Excessive investment in technical management (Thanks again for your help on this one William)
Wrong Answer:
  • Lack of the awareness of the importance of Systems Engineering
  • Insufficient Systems Engineering tools

DoD program offices mainly use Systems Engineering processes and tools to manage development activities, but they are not normally needed as part of the defense industry’s technical and management approach to develop products for the acquirer.

Answer
  • False

Which one of the following best summarizes the DoD’s viewpoint on the scope of Systems Engineering?

Answer:
  •  Unknown (Please post a comment if you have the answer)
Wrong Answers:
  • Systems Engineering is what a person with a titled position of "Systems Engineer” does

Key aspects of the DoD’s definition of Systems Engineering include all of the following EXCEPT:

Answer:
  • Excludes people or process solutions
Wrong Answers:
  • An interdisciplinary approach 
  • Aims for total lifecycle balanced solutions
  • Encompasses the entire technical effort

Key parts of the DoD's definition of Systems Engineering include all of the following except _____.

Answer:
  • Performed only by defense contractors

Which one of the following best summarizes how the DoD views Systems Engineering?

Answer:
  • Systems Engineering is a multidisciplinary approach that defines the total technical effort needed to realize system products and sustain their life cycle services.

Which of the following statements about the scope of Systems Engineering is true?

Answer:
  • All:
    • It helps to unify the technical vision of a product.
    • It is a technical discipline.
    • It encompasses the entire technical effort.
    • It is comprised of a logical sequence of processes and activities.