ACQ 101 Module 10 System Engineering
Discipline Questions and Answers
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What are system elements? ✔✔system elements include configuration items, subsystems,
segments, components, assemblies, and parts.
What i
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ACQ 101 Module 10 System Engineering
Discipline Questions and Answers
Rated A+
What are system elements? ✔✔system elements include configuration items, subsystems,
segments, components, assemblies, and parts.
What is a system? ✔✔A system is a combination of related parts organized into a complex
whole that achieves a given purpose or provides a needed capability
What are enabling system elements? ✔✔provide the means for delivering a capability into
service, keeping it in service, or ending its service and may include those processes or products
necessary for developing, producing, testing, deploying and sustaining the system. each enabling
system element may include but is not limited to hardware, software, people, data, processes,
facilities and tools.
What is the goal of the production, quality, and manufacturing PQM management discipline?
✔✔to ensure producibility of the system design
Who monitors program technical progress through IPTs, technical reviews and periodic program
reviews? ✔✔government role
Who translates the system performance specifications into technical design specifications?
✔✔contractor role
Who manages and integrates technical design progress using internal management standards?
✔✔contractor role
Who verifies component system performance through internal testing and participation in
government developmental testing? ✔✔contractor role
In which document should the contractor's system engineering (SE) process that responds to and
is synchronized with the government's system engineering plan SEP be documented? ✔✔SEMP
systems engineering master plan
Low rate initial production LRIP focuses on developing the manufacturing capability that will
produce the produce or system? ✔✔true
Operation and support is the shortest and least expensive phase of the systems engineering
process? ✔✔false, O&S is the longest and most expensive phase of the systems engineering
process
Mandatory tables are used in the SEP to support more detailed technical planning during the
system life cycle? ✔✔true, intended to support more detailed technical planning during the
system life cycle in order to provide effective management and control of the program's technical
progress, and the execution of risk mitigation activities.
Which of the following are technical processes? ✔✔requirements analysis, integration
Who is responsible for supporting the stakeholder requirements definition process and should
work with the end user to establish and refine operational needs, attributes, performance
parameters, and constraints documented in JCIDS documents? ✔✔PM and systems engineer
Good SE process requirements have which of the following attributes? ✔✔unique, complete,
traceable
Which process produces the physical products that make up the lowest-level system elements in
the system hierarchy? ✔✔implementation is the process that actually produces the physical
products that make up the lowest-level system elements in the system hierarchy
In which document should all of the program's external interfaces and dependencies be
documented? ✔✔SEP systems engineering plan
In which documents can you find guidance for managing and coordinating integrated testing
activities? ✔✔Dodi 5000.02 and DAG defense acquisition guidebook
Which part of the process answers the question, "is it the right solution to the problem?"
✔✔validation, is it the right solution to the problem?
What are the primary techniques used in PSA within the SE process? ✔✔LORA, FMECA, FTA,
MTA
What technique used in PSA identifies the likely modes of failure, the possible effects of each
failure and the criticality of each effect on mission completion, environmental impacts, health
hazards, and system safety? ✔✔FMECA
Which program documents should address risks and describe the program's risk management
process? ✔✔AS acquisition strategy and SEP systems engineering plan should address risks and
describe the program's risk management process
Which process allows technical insights into all levels of the system design and is the principal
methodology for establishing and maintaining consistency of a system's functional, performance,
and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operation information throughout the
system's life cycle? ✔✔configuration management
Which of the following are activities of technical data management? ✔✔receive, verify and
accept data; use and exchange data; store, maintain, and control data
A standard is a technical description of a product or service, in contrast to the specification,
which describes a process? ✔✔false, a standard is a description of a process that describes the
practices that are recommended for accomplishing the objectives of that process. both industrial
standards and military standards
What explicitly describes the design and materials that will be used to achieve a desired
performance? ✔✔detailed specifications
Which technical discipline has the following goal: to demonstrate new and emerging
technologies that have a direct application to military systems? ✔✔science and technology
If the government is primarily concerned with managing the total program, what is the
contractor's primary concern? ✔✔designing and developing the system
In which phase of the life cycle is the effort made to develop and demonstrate manufacturing
processes? ✔✔engineering and manufacturing development EMD
Which activity of the following technical management process is defined as, "measuring
technical progress and the effectiveness of plans and requirements?" ✔✔technical assessment
What is the definition of a specification? ✔✔a technical description of a product or service
In which phase of the life cycle are initial technology, engineering, integration and life-cycle cost
risk-reduction activities conducted? ✔✔technology maturation and risk reduction TMRR
The right side of the Systems Engineering triangle model represents? ✔✔realization
Which of the following technical management processes addresses the scope of the technical
effort required to develop the system? ✔✔technical planning
Which of the following activities is typically accomplished by the Government in the
Systems Engineering Process as it relates to translating user needs? ✔✔translate the operational
need into a system performance specification
Which Systems Engineering supporting discipline has the goal to ensure that support
considerations are an integral part of the system's design requirements so that the system can be
cost-effectively supported throughout its life cycle? ✔✔life cycle logistics
Which document contains a format for the Systems Engineering Plan (SEP)? ✔✔systems
engineering plan outline
Which of the following technical processes involve the primary efforts of design and realization?
✔✔
Government contracts require that contractors perform at high levels of quality, and ask that the
contractors specify in their proposals the specific quality standards with which their processes
will be compliant? ✔✔true
In which phase are systems-level requirements stabilized and detailed designs developed based
on these requirements? ✔✔engineering & manufacturing development
Which Systems Engineering supporting discipline has the goal to compare a system or
components
against requirements and specifications? ✔✔test and evaluation
Which of the following technical processes involve the primary efforts of design and realization?
✔✔implementation
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