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Chapter 6 - Review Exam 2

Architectural design is important because it affects key qualities like performance, robustness, distributability, and maintainability. Standard symbols like boxes and arrows are used to depict system components and relationships. Key advantages include stakeholder communication, system analysis, and reuse. Architectures should aim to optimize characteristics like performance, security, safety, availability, and maintainability. There are four common views: logical, physical, development, and process. Common patterns include pipes and filters, layered, client-server, model-view-controller, and repository. Application types include data processing, transaction processing, event processing, and language processing.

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Chapter 6 - Review Exam 2

Architectural design is important because it affects key qualities like performance, robustness, distributability, and maintainability. Standard symbols like boxes and arrows are used to depict system components and relationships. Key advantages include stakeholder communication, system analysis, and reuse. Architectures should aim to optimize characteristics like performance, security, safety, availability, and maintainability. There are four common views: logical, physical, development, and process. Common patterns include pipes and filters, layered, client-server, model-view-controller, and repository. Application types include data processing, transaction processing, event processing, and language processing.

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Chapter 6- Review exam 2

 Why is architectural design important?

Because it affects the performance, robustness, distributability, and maintainability of a


system

 What shapes are symbols are used to represent a system architecture?

Boxes: are used to represent different components


or modules of the system. Each box represents a particular function or group of functions.

- Arrows: Arrows are used to show the flow of data or control between different
components or modules.
- Lines: Lines are used to represent different types of relationships between components or
modules.

 Advantages of using a system architecture

- Stakeholder communication
- System analysis
- Large-scale reuse

 Performance, Security, Safety, Availability, and Maintainability. (characteristics)

- Performance: Architecture should be designed to localize operations and minimize


communications.
- Security: use a layered architecture with critical assets protected in the innermost layers.
means being free of risks associated with people who have a deliberate intention to do
harm.
- Safety: localize safety-critical features in a small number of sub-systems.
is the protection against risks caused by non-deliberate external factors (ie. accidents,
natural disasters, diseases, etc..).
- Availability: Include redundant components and mechanisms for fault tolerance
- Maintainability: Use fine-grain, self-contained components that may readily be changed.

 Four architectural views: Logical view, physical view, development view, and process view.
Know the meaning of each.

- Logical view: shows the key abstractions in the system as objects or object classes. Shows
functionality in these objects.

- Physical view: shows the system hardware and how software components are distributed
across the processors in the system.

- Development view: shows how the software is decomposed for development.

- Process view: shows how, at run-time, the system is composed of interacting processes.
This view is useful for making judgments about non-functional system characteristics such
as performance and availability.

 Architectural patterns you learned in this class and their meanings. Pipes and filters,
layered, client-server, model-view-controller, repository.

- Pipes and filters: The processing of the data in a system is organized so that each
processing component (filter) is discrete and carries out one type of data transformation.
The data flows (as in a water pipe) from one component to another for processing.
- Layered: Organizes the system into layers with related functionality associated with each
layer.

- Client-server: The functionality of the system is organized into services, with each service
delivered from a separate server. Clients are users of these services and access servers to
make use of them.

- Model-view-controller: This pattern is the basis of interaction management in many web-


based systems and is supported by most language frameworks.
- Repository: All data in a system is managed in a central repository that is accessible to all
system components. Components do not interact directly, only through the repository.

 Meanings and examples of application types: data processing, transaction processing,


event processing, and language processing.
- Data processing: Data-driven applications that process data in batches without explicit
user intervention during the processing. Ex: billing system

- Transaction processing applications: Data-centred applications that process user requests


and update information in a system database. Ex: Online shopping, banking, hotel
reservation systems

- Event processing systems: Applications where system actions depend on interpreting


events from the system’s environment. Ex: video games, vending machines

- Language processing systems: Applications where the users’ intentions are specified in a
formal language that is processed and interpreted by the system. Ex: compiler, google
assistant, web search engines

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