Questions

1. What is the definition of software engineering?
2. What are some of the questions that every SWE should be able to answer?
3. Compare the role of an SWE and an SRE. What are the key differences between the two roles?
4. Name some of the deficiencies of the waterfall model. Explain how the iterative enhancement model attempts to address those deficiencies.
5. What are the most common sources of waste according to the lean development model? 
6. Provide an example where focusing all the optimization efforts on a single step of the development process can have a negative effect on the efficiency of the end-to-end process. 
7. What are the key responsibilities of the PO and the SM in the Scrum framework?
8. What is the role of retrospectives in Scrum? What topics should the team be discussing and what should be the expected outcome of each retrospective session?
9. Why are automation and measuring important when following the DevOps model?
10. You are working for ACME Gaming System, a company with the vision to disrupt the already mature and highly competitive gaming console market. To this end, the company has partnered with Advanced GPU Devices, a well-known graphics chip manufacturer, to prototype a new GPU design that should allow the upcoming gaming console to blow competitor consoles out of the water. Your task, as the project's lead engineer, is to design and build the software that will power the new console. Which software development model would you choose? Explain the reasoning behind your decision.