Configuration Management

Question 1

Configuration management

Answer 1

• CM is essential for projects to control changes made.

Question 2

CM activities

Answer 2

• Version management
• System building
• Change management
• Release management

Question 3

Configuration management and agile

Answer 3

• Cannot do agile without CM.

Question 4

Development system platform

Answer 4

• Platform in which source code is created and edited

Question 5

Build server platform

Answer 5

• Platform in which source code is compiled and managed

Question 6

Target environment platform

Answer 6

• Platform in which the built system is executed

Question 7

Change management process objectives

Answer 7

• Analyzing the costs and benefits of proposed changes, approving changes that are worthwhile, and tracking which components of the system have been changed

Question 8

System version

Answer 8

• An instance of a system that differs, in some ways, from other instances

Question 9

System release

Answer 9

• A version that is released to customers

Question 10

Large systems and configuration management

Answer 10

• For large systems, never just one working version of the system

Question 11

Version management

Answer 11

• Keeping track of different versions of software components

Question 12

Public repository and private workspaces

Answer 12

• Project repository (master version) and private workspace (checked out developer copy)

Question 13

Most popular open source version management system

Answer 13

• Git

Question 14

Release management

Answer 14

• Version of a software system that is distributed to customers

Question 15

Release tracking

Answer 15

• Need to be able to exactly reproduce software that has been delivered to a particular customer

Question 16

Software as a service

Answer 16

• Reduces problems of release management
• Software provider is responsible for replacing existing release with a new release