Architectural Design MCQs Archives

11. Which of the following is an architectural conflict ?

A. Using large-grain components improves performance but reduces maintainability

B. Introducing redundant data improves availability but makes security more difficult

C. Localizing safety-related features usually means more communication so degraded performance

D. All of the mentioned

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Explanation: High availability architecture can be affected by several design factors that are required to be maintained to ensure that no single points of failure exist in such design.

12. Which of the following view shows that the system is composed of interacting processes at run time ?

A. physical

B. development

C. logical

D. process

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Explanation: This view is useful for making judgments about non-functional system characteristics such as performance and availability.

13. ETL stands for____________________?

A. Data Extraction Transformation & Loading

B. Data Execution Transformation & Loading

C. Extraction Transformation & Loading

D. Execution Transformation & Loading

✅ The correct answer is option A.

14. A monitoring system examines its environment through __________________?

A. operating system

B. communication

C. set of sensors

D. none of the mentioned

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Explanation: If some exceptional event or sensor state is detected by the system, the monitoring system takes some action. Often, this involves raising an alarm to draw an operator’s attention to the event.

15. Which of the following is not included in Architectural design decisions ?

A. type of application

B. distribution of the system

C. architectural styles

D. testing the system

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Explanation: Architectural design decisions include decisions on the type of application, the distribution of the system, the architectural styles to be used, and the ways in which the architecture should be documented and evaluated.

16. Which of these following sensor is a useful as part of a burglar alarm system for commercial buildings ?

A. Movement detector

B. Door sensor

C. Window sensor

D. All of the mentioned

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Explanation: A burglar alarm system for commercial buildings include movement detectors in individual rooms, door sensors that detect corridor doors opening, and window sensors on ground-floor windows that can detect when a window has been opened

17. Which of the following is applicable on software radio ?

A. Environmental Control

B. Process Pipeline

C. Distributed system

D. None of the mentioned

✅ The correct answer is option B.
Explanation: A software radio accepts incoming packets of digital data representing the radio transmission and transforms these into a sound signal that people can listen to.

18. Control systems may make use of the Environmental Control pattern, which is a general control pattern that includes ______________processes?

A. sensor

B. actuator

C. pipeline

D. both sensor and actuator

✅ The correct answer is option D.
Explanation: Such patterns are quite common in Environmental Control Systems

19. What translates a natural or an artificial language into another representation of that language and, for programming languages also execute the resulting code ?

A. ERP systems

B. Transaction-based information systems

C. Language processing systems

D. None of the mentioned

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Explanation: In software engineering, compilers translate an artificial programming language into machine code

20. Which view in architectural design shows the key abstractions in the system as objects or object classes ?

A. physical

B. development

C. logical

D. process

✅ The correct answer is option C.
Explanation: It is possible to relate the system requirements to entities in a logical view.