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| What are the advantages of explicity designing and documenting a software architecture? |
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| Stakeholder communication, system analysis, and large scale reuse. p149 |
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| What are the two ways in which an architectural model of a system may be used? |
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1 facilitating discussion about the system design.
2 As a way of documenting an architecture that has been designed. p150 |
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| What 4 fundamental questions that should be addressed in architectural design? |
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1 How will the system be distributed across a number of cores or processors?
2 What architectural patterns or styles might be used?
3 What will be the fundamental approach used to structure the system?
4 What strategy will be used to control the operation of the components in the system? |
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| What is an architectural pattern? |
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| Is a stylized abstract description of good design practice, which has been tried and tested in different environments. |
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| What is the fundamental characteristic of a repository architecture? |
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| All data in a system is managed in a central repository that is accessible to all system components (which can ONLY interact through it). |
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| What is the most important advantage of a client-server architecture? |
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| that servers can be distributed across a network. |
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| Briefly describe pipe and filter architecture? |
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| Data flows from one filter to another and is transformed as it moves through the sequence. |
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| Briefly describe a layered architecture? |
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Organizes the system into layers with related functionality associated with each layer.
A layer provides services to the layer above it so the lowest-level layers represent core
services that are likely to be used throughout the system. |
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