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| System (ubiquitous definition) |
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| A set of interrelated components working together to accomplish a common purpose. |
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| System (definition Russell Ackoff) |
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| A whole that cannot be divided into independent parts without losing its essential characteristics as a whole. |
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| According to Russell Ackoff, a system's essential properties are products of what? |
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| It is the product of the interactions of its parts, not the actions of those parts considered separately. |
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| Accordin to Russell Ackoff, what happens when a system is taken apart? |
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| It loses its essential properties. |
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| According to Russell Ackoff, what happens when when performance of each part taken separately is improved? |
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| The performance of the system as a whole may not be improved and usually isn’t. |
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| Context Diagram (definition) |
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| Identifies system scope & interactions with active stakeholders. |
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| Active Stakeholders (definition) |
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| External systems and people who interact with the system of interest. |
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| Things that provide inputs to the system of interest but do not interact with it when in use. E.g., system developers. |
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| Systems thinking can be broken into seven parts. What are they? |
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1. Emergence: Hierarchy, Openness
2. Transformations: Inputs, Outputs
3. Function: Structure, Process
4. Boundary: Interior, Exterior
5. Harmony: Variety, Parsimony
6. Relationships: Wholes, Parts
7. Communication: Command, Control |
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| The way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions. |
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| The quality of being good with money or resources. Economy of use. |
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| A tool to assist systems engineers in succinctly describing a topic without sacrificing the detail required to accomplish clarity. It is composed of nodes (nouns) and links (verbs) and is read by focusing on the nouns as concepts and the links as defining the relationships between those concepts. Finally, it has a "mainstay" that starts at the upper left and ends in the lower right. The mainstay defines the purpose of the system. |
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| What are the seven SystemiGram Creation Rules? |
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1. The mainstay, which supports the purpose of the system, starts in the upper left and goes to the lower right.
2. There should be 15-25 nodes.
3. Nodes are nouns and links are verbs.
4. No repetition of nodes.
5. No cross-over of links.
6. Beautification should help reader read the sentences in the diagram.
7. Exploit topology to depict why, how, and what. |
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| The front-end aspect of system's engineering involves what? |
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The transformation of an operational need or market opportunity into a
system description to support detail design. |
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| What is systems engineering according to INCOSE? |
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| An interdisciplinary approach and means to enable the realization of successful systems. It focuses on defining customer needs and required functionality early in the development cycle, documenting requirements, then proceeding with design synthesis and system validation while considering the complete problem: Operations, cost and schedule, performance, training and support, test, manufacturing, disposal. |
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| What are the seven parts of the SE "V" model? |
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1. Understand User Requirements, CONOPS, and validation plan.
2. Develop System Requirements, Architecture, and Validation Plan.
3. Function/Component Design, and verification plan.
4. Evolve "Design to" specs to "Build to" Documentation and Inspection Plan.
5. Procure, Fabricate, and Assemble according to "Build to" documentation.
6. Inspect against "Built to" documentation.
7. Component Integration and Test against "Design to" specs.
8. Systen Integration and Verification.
9. System Demonstration and Validation. |
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| What word is characteristic of a system "goal"? |
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| What word is characteristic of a system "fact"? |
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| What word is characteristic of a system "requirement"? |
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| The military standard for SE. It assists in defining, performing, managing, and evaluating systems engineering efforts in defense system acquisitions and technology developments. |
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| The comercial engineering standard SE. It specifies how to manage a system from initial concept through development, operations, and disposal. |
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| The American National Standard Institudes/Electronics Industries Alliance's standard for SE work. |
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| A recent Systems Engineering standard covering processes and life cycle stages. |
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1. Most importart security attributes considered at the beginning.
2. Security metric should be devised during the development of the verification and validation plans. (Steps 2 and 3)
3. Security features are defined and refined during the function/component design. (Steps 3 and 4)
3. Security Metrics are used during verification and validation. (Steps 6 through 9). |
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| Security Theory Attribute Construction (STAC) "V" Model. (Seven steps) |
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1. Construct security theory using important security attributes.
2. Devise verification and validation security metrics.
3. Design security features.
4. Build security features.
5. Verify security feature design with content metrics.
6. Verify security feature design with criterion metrics.
7. Validate theoretical security construct. |
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| What is a Design Basis Threat? |
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| Defined as the severity of attacks facilities will need to be prepared for in the current environment, it is a concept used heavility of physical security and a tool used to help establish performance requirements for the design of security systems. It is also used assess the effectiveness of the systems to counter adversaries by evaluating the systems’ performances against it. |
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| What are three general types of systems security? |
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1. Physical security.
2. Information security.
3. System security |
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| What is one way to arrive at a design basis threat (DBT)? |
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| What are the six main parts of crime pattern analysis? |
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1. Crime rate by opportunity.
2. Typical and preferred attack methods.
3. Typical and preferred attack timing.
4. Suspect characterisitics.
5. Crime reporting patterns.
6. Typical types and amounts of loss. |
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| What does threat modeling allow a security analyst to judge about a threat? |
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1. Existence
2. Capability
3. History
4. Intentions
5. Targeting |
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| What are the main parts of attack modeling? |
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| Consider how intelligent attackers might create plan to attack a system. What vulnerabilities can they exploit to thwart security? |
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| An ennumeration of all the different ways that a attack goal can be acheived. |
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