Software Architecture Questions and Answers – Architectural Structural Views

This set of Software Architecture Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on “Architectural Structural Views”.

1. Why is Software architecture so important?
a) Communication among stakeholders
b) Early Design decisions
c) Transferable abstraction of a system
d) All of the mentioned
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2. Why is software architecture called vehicle for stakeholder communication?
a) Each stakeholder of a software system is concerned with different characteristics of the system affected by architecture
b) Architecture provides a common language in which different concerns can be expressed
c) All of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned
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3. Which lines depict that architecture defines constraints on an implementation?
a) An implementation exhibits an architecture if it conforms to the structural decisions described by the architecture
b) The implementation need not be divided into prescribed components
c) An implementation exhibits an architecture if it conforms to the structural decisions described by the architecture and the implementation must be divided into prescribed components
d) None of the mentioned
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4. Why does architecture dictates organizational structure?
a) Architecture describes the structure of the system being developed which becomes engraved in the development project structure
b) An implementation exhibits an architecture if it conforms to the structural decisions described by the architecture
c) Architecture may not describe structure as whole
d) None of the mentioned
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5. Which of the following is right dependence relationship?
a) Performance depends on how strongly components are coupled with other components in system
b) Re-usability depends on the volume and complexity of the inter-component communication and coordination
c) Modifiability depends on system’s modularization
d) All of the mentioned
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6. Which of the following is correct for decisions made at life cycle level?
a) Decisions at all level of like cycle from high level design to coding, implementation affect system quality
b) Decisions at all level of like cycle from high level design to coding, implementation may or may not affect system quality
c) Decisions at all level of like cycle from high level design to coding,implementation does not affect system quality
d) None of the mentioned
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7. Is it possible to make quality predictions about a system based solely on evaluation of its architecture?
a) Yes
b) No
c) May be
d) None of the mentioned
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8. Every possible architecture partition possible changes into which of the following categories?
a) Local
b) Non Local
c) Architectural
d) All of the mentioned
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9. Which change is accomplished by modifying a single component?
a) A local change
b) Non Local Change
c) Architectural change
d) All of the mentioned
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10. An architecture help in evolutionary prototyping in which of the following ways?
a) Potential performance problem can be identified early in the product’s life cycle
b) The system is executable early in the product’s life cycle
c) All of the mentioned
d) None of the mentioned
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11. Which of the following are software structures?
a) Module Structure
b) Conceptual or logical structure
c) Process structure
d) All of the mentioned
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12. Which structure describes units as abstraction of system’s functional requirements?
a) Conceptual structure
b) Module structure
c) Physical structure
d) Calls structure
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13. Which structure’s view is orthogonal to the module and conceptual view?
a) Module Structure
b) Process Structure
c) Uses Structure
d) Data flow
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14. Which structure’s view shows the mapping of software onto hardware?
a) Module Structure
b) Process Structure
c) Physical Structure
d) Class Structure
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15. Which structure describes units are programs or module?
a) Calls Structure
b) Uses Structure
c) Data Flow
d) Control Flow
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