Architectural Design Decisions

This quiz covers the fundamentals of architectural design decisions, including the purpose of software architecture, levels of abstraction, key design questions, and the influence of non-functional requirements on architectural choices

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What is Architectural Design?

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Which of the following best describes what architectural design is concerned with?

Documenting user requirements in a specification

Testing software components for defects

Writing detailed code for individual modules

Understanding how a system should be organized and designing its overall structure

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Architecture and Requirements Engineering

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Architectural design is described as the critical link between which two activities?

Coding and documentation

Design and requirements engineering

Project management and budgeting

Testing and deployment

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Architecture in the Small vs. Large

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Match each level of architectural abstraction with its correct description.

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Architecture in the large

Architecture in the small

Description

Concerned with the architecture of individual programs and how they are decomposed into components

Concerned with complex enterprise systems distributed across different computers, possibly owned by different companies

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Three Advantages of Documenting Architecture

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Which THREE of the following are recognized advantages of explicitly designing and documenting a software architecture?

Reduced testing effort - architecture documentation eliminates the need for unit tests

Stakeholder communication - the architecture provides a high-level presentation for discussion

System analysis - early architectural design requires analysis and reveals whether requirements can be met

Faster coding - developers write code more quickly with a documented architecture

Large-scale reuse - the architecture can be reused across systems with similar requirements

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Packing Robot Architecture

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Consider the architecture diagram for a packing robot control system shown below. Which component is responsible for identifying the type of object on the conveyor and selecting the appropriate packaging?

Vision System

Conveyor Controller

Packaging Selection System

Object Identification System

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Key Architectural Design Questions

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During the architectural design process, system architects must consider a number of fundamental questions. Which of the following are among those key questions? Select ALL that apply.

What strategy will be used to control the operation of components in the system?

How will the system be distributed across a number of cores or processors?

Which programming language will be used for implementation?

How will the architectural design be evaluated?

Is there a generic application architecture that can act as a template for the system?

What architectural patterns or styles might be used?

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Architecture and Agile Development

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Which statement best describes the relationship between architectural design and agile development processes?

An early stage of agile development should establish an overall system architecture, since refactoring a system architecture is likely to be expensive

Agile processes never consider architecture, leaving it entirely to the implementation phase

Architecture is not relevant in agile methods because components are refactored continuously

Agile processes fully specify the architecture before writing any code

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Non-Functional Requirements and Architecture

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Match each non-functional requirement with the architectural strategy it demands.

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Non-Functional Requirement

Security

Performance

Safety

Maintainability

Availability

Architectural Strategy

Localize critical operations in a small number of components, deployed together on the same computer

Use a layered structure with the most critical assets protected in the innermost layers

Locate safety-related operations in a single component or a small number of components

Include redundant components so components can be replaced and updated without stopping the system

Use fine-grain, self-contained components where producers of data are separated from consumers

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Conflicting Architectural Requirements

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A system has both high performance and high maintainability as critical non-functional requirements. Why do these requirements create an architectural conflict?

Performance requires large components deployed together, while maintainability requires fine-grain, self-contained components — these are opposites

There is no conflict — performance and maintainability always use the same architectural approach

Performance and maintainability both require layered architectures, making it impossible to satisfy either

Performance requires distributed components, while maintainability requires a single monolithic component

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Block Diagrams as Architectural Models

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In a system architecture block diagram, what do arrows between boxes typically represent?

Ownership relationships between subsystems

Temporal ordering of component development

Data and/or control signals passed from one component to another in the direction of the arrows

Inheritance relationships between classes

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Two Uses of an Architectural Model

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There are two distinct ways in which an architectural model of a program is used. Drag the correct purpose into each placeholder.

An architectural model can be used (1) — where a high-level view aids stakeholder communication and project planning without excessive detail. It can also be used (2) — where the aim is to produce a complete model showing all components, their interfaces, and their connections.

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as a way of facilitating discussion about the system design

as a substitute for writing requirements

as a way of documenting an architecture that has been designed

as a tool for performance benchmarking

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Architectural Decisions as a Creative Process

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Why is it more accurate to think of architectural design as a series of decisions rather than a sequence of activities?

Because architectural design follows a strict waterfall process with defined stages

Because architectural design is fully automated by CASE tools

Because the activities within the process depend on the type of system, the architect's background, and the specific requirements — making it inherently creative rather than procedural

Because decisions are made only once at the start of a project and never revisited

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Evaluating an Architectural Design

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Which of the following statements about evaluating an architectural design are TRUE? Select ALL that apply.

An architecture can be fully validated by static code analysis tools before implementation

Bosch's description of non-functional characteristics of architectural patterns can help with architectural evaluation

You can do some evaluation by comparing the design against reference architectures or generic architectural patterns

The true test of an architecture is how well the system meets its functional and non-functional requirements when in use

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What is Architectural Design?

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Architecture and Requirements Engineering

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Architecture in the Small vs. Large

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Three Advantages of Documenting Architecture

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Packing Robot Architecture

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Key Architectural Design Questions

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Architecture and Agile Development

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Non-Functional Requirements and Architecture

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Architectural Strategy

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Conflicting Architectural Requirements

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Block Diagrams as Architectural Models

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Two Uses of an Architectural Model

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Architectural Decisions as a Creative Process

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Evaluating an Architectural Design

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