INCOSE Exam 2023 Study Guide with complete solution
Concept, development, production, utilization, support, and retirement.
Chapter 1: What are the six stages of an informative life cycle model?
Technical process, technical management process, agreement process,
organizational project enabling process
Chapter 1: ISO/IEEE/IEC identifies what 4 process groups?
Includes business or mission analysis, stakeholder needs and requirements
definition, system requirements definition, architecture definition, design
definition, system analysis, implementation, integration, verification, transition,
validation, operation, maintenance, and disposal.
Chapter 1: What does the Technical processes include?
Includes project planning, project assessment and control, decision
management, risk management,
configuration management, information management, measurement, and quality
assurance. (Chapter 4)
Chapter 1: What does the technical management processes include?
Includes acquisition and supply. (Chapter 5)
Chapter 1: What does the Agreement processes include?
Includes life cycle model management, infrastructure management, portfolio
management, human resource management, quality management, and knowledge
management. (Chapter 6)
Chapter 1: What does the Organizational project‐enabling processes include?
Tailoring processes and application of systems engineering (Chapter 8) include
information on how to adapt and scale the SE processes and how to apply those
processes in various applications.
Chapter 1: Beyond the 4 process groups what else is there when it comes to adaptation
and scaling?
Crosscutting systems engineering methods (Chapter 9) provide insights into
methods that can apply across all processes, reflecting various aspects of the
itera- tive and recursive nature of SE.
Chapter 1: Beyond the 4 process groups what else is there when it comes to methods
that apply across all processes?
Specialty engineering activities (Chapter 10) include practical information so
systems engineers can understand and appreciate the importance of various
specialty engineering topics.
Chapter 1: Beyond the 4 process groups what else is there when it comes to specialty?
A process that showing key inputs, process activities, and resulting outputs with
controls and enablers. (CAEIO)
Chapter 1: What is an input-process-output (IPO)?
Process overview, Purpose, Description, Inputs/outputs, Process activities,
Process elaboration
Chapter 1: What is the structure of consistency in processes?
Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1950, 1968) in which a system is regarded as a "whole"
consisting of interacting "parts."
Chapter 2: The concept of system is traced back since?
, The INCOSE and ISO/IEC/IEEE definitions draw from this view of a system:
... an integrated set of elements, subsystems, or assemblies that accomplish a
defined objective. These elements include products (hardware, software,
firmware), processes, people, information, techniques, facilities, services, and
other support elements. (INCOSE)
[4.1.46] ... combination of interacting elements orga-nized to achieve one or more
stated purposes. (ISO/IEC/ IEEE 15288)
Chapter 2: What is the definition of a system?
An external view of a system that introduce elements that specifically do not
belong to the system but do interact with the system.
Chapter 2: What is operation environment or context?
In practice, the system boundary is a "line of demarcation" between the system
itself and its greater context of internal and external views. It defines what
belongs to the system and what does not.
Chapter 2: What is system boundary when it comes to operation environment?
It is the fundamental concepts or properties of a system in its environment
embodied in its elements, relationships, and in the principles of its design and
evolution.
Chapter 2: What is system architecture?
In general, engineering can be regarded as the practice of creating and sustaining
services, systems, devices, machines, structures, processes, and products to
improve the quality of life—getting things done effectively and efficiently.
Chapter 2: In general what is engineering?
An attribute of a system (or system element) is an observable characteristic or
property of the system (or system element).
Chapter 2: What is an attribute?
A variable is a symbol or name that identifies an attribute. Every variable has a
domain, which could be but is not necessarily measurable.
Chapter 2: What is a variable and what is its relationship to an attribute?
A measurement is the outcome of a process in which the system of interest (SOI)
interacts with an observation system under specified conditions.
Chapter 2: What is a measurement?
Dynamic behavior of a system is the time evolution of the system state.
Chapter 2: What is a dynamic behavior of a system?
Emergent behavior is a behavior of the system that cannot be understood
exclusively in terms of the behavior of the individual system elements.
Chapter 2: What is Emergent behavior?
The key concept used for problem solving is the black box/white box system
representation.
The black box rep- resentation is based on an external view of the system
(attributes). The white box representation is based on an internal view of the
system (attributes and structure of the elements). There must also be an
understanding of the relationship between the two. A system, then, is
Concept, development, production, utilization, support, and retirement.
Chapter 1: What are the six stages of an informative life cycle model?
Technical process, technical management process, agreement process,
organizational project enabling process
Chapter 1: ISO/IEEE/IEC identifies what 4 process groups?
Includes business or mission analysis, stakeholder needs and requirements
definition, system requirements definition, architecture definition, design
definition, system analysis, implementation, integration, verification, transition,
validation, operation, maintenance, and disposal.
Chapter 1: What does the Technical processes include?
Includes project planning, project assessment and control, decision
management, risk management,
configuration management, information management, measurement, and quality
assurance. (Chapter 4)
Chapter 1: What does the technical management processes include?
Includes acquisition and supply. (Chapter 5)
Chapter 1: What does the Agreement processes include?
Includes life cycle model management, infrastructure management, portfolio
management, human resource management, quality management, and knowledge
management. (Chapter 6)
Chapter 1: What does the Organizational project‐enabling processes include?
Tailoring processes and application of systems engineering (Chapter 8) include
information on how to adapt and scale the SE processes and how to apply those
processes in various applications.
Chapter 1: Beyond the 4 process groups what else is there when it comes to adaptation
and scaling?
Crosscutting systems engineering methods (Chapter 9) provide insights into
methods that can apply across all processes, reflecting various aspects of the
itera- tive and recursive nature of SE.
Chapter 1: Beyond the 4 process groups what else is there when it comes to methods
that apply across all processes?
Specialty engineering activities (Chapter 10) include practical information so
systems engineers can understand and appreciate the importance of various
specialty engineering topics.
Chapter 1: Beyond the 4 process groups what else is there when it comes to specialty?
A process that showing key inputs, process activities, and resulting outputs with
controls and enablers. (CAEIO)
Chapter 1: What is an input-process-output (IPO)?
Process overview, Purpose, Description, Inputs/outputs, Process activities,
Process elaboration
Chapter 1: What is the structure of consistency in processes?
Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1950, 1968) in which a system is regarded as a "whole"
consisting of interacting "parts."
Chapter 2: The concept of system is traced back since?
, The INCOSE and ISO/IEC/IEEE definitions draw from this view of a system:
... an integrated set of elements, subsystems, or assemblies that accomplish a
defined objective. These elements include products (hardware, software,
firmware), processes, people, information, techniques, facilities, services, and
other support elements. (INCOSE)
[4.1.46] ... combination of interacting elements orga-nized to achieve one or more
stated purposes. (ISO/IEC/ IEEE 15288)
Chapter 2: What is the definition of a system?
An external view of a system that introduce elements that specifically do not
belong to the system but do interact with the system.
Chapter 2: What is operation environment or context?
In practice, the system boundary is a "line of demarcation" between the system
itself and its greater context of internal and external views. It defines what
belongs to the system and what does not.
Chapter 2: What is system boundary when it comes to operation environment?
It is the fundamental concepts or properties of a system in its environment
embodied in its elements, relationships, and in the principles of its design and
evolution.
Chapter 2: What is system architecture?
In general, engineering can be regarded as the practice of creating and sustaining
services, systems, devices, machines, structures, processes, and products to
improve the quality of life—getting things done effectively and efficiently.
Chapter 2: In general what is engineering?
An attribute of a system (or system element) is an observable characteristic or
property of the system (or system element).
Chapter 2: What is an attribute?
A variable is a symbol or name that identifies an attribute. Every variable has a
domain, which could be but is not necessarily measurable.
Chapter 2: What is a variable and what is its relationship to an attribute?
A measurement is the outcome of a process in which the system of interest (SOI)
interacts with an observation system under specified conditions.
Chapter 2: What is a measurement?
Dynamic behavior of a system is the time evolution of the system state.
Chapter 2: What is a dynamic behavior of a system?
Emergent behavior is a behavior of the system that cannot be understood
exclusively in terms of the behavior of the individual system elements.
Chapter 2: What is Emergent behavior?
The key concept used for problem solving is the black box/white box system
representation.
The black box rep- resentation is based on an external view of the system
(attributes). The white box representation is based on an internal view of the
system (attributes and structure of the elements). There must also be an
understanding of the relationship between the two. A system, then, is
