OCUP 2 Certification Guide: Preparing for the OMG Certified UML 2.5 Professional 2 Foundation Exam

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OCUP 2 CertificationGuide: Preparing for the OMG Certified UML 2.5
Professional 2 Foundation Exam
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Foreword
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1 What is OCUP 2?
1.1 The OCUP Programs
1.1.1 OMG Certified UML Professional 1
1.1.2 OMG Certified UML Professional 2
1.1.3 Why Does OMG Offer It?
1.1.4 Why Should You Take It?
1.2 The Levels
1.2.1 Foundation Level
1.2.2 Intermediate Level
1.2.3 Advanced Level
1.3 What Do You Get If You Pass?
1.4 Taking the Exam
1.4.1 Signing Up for the Exam
1.5 How to Prepare
1.5.1 Cheating
1.5.2 Coverage Map
1.6 What an Exam Is Like
1.6.1 Exam Structure
1.6.2 Question Structure
1.7 How We Wrote the Examinations
1.7.1 Team
1.7.2 Review Process and Criteria
1.7.3 Beta Review and Criteria
2 What is UML?
2.1 What Does UML Stand for?
2.1.1 How is UML a Language?
2.1.2 How is UML a Modeling Language?
2.1.3 How is UML a Unified Modeling Language?
2.2 UML Goals
2.2.1 The Original Goals of UML
2.2.2 Updated Goals for UML
2.3 What is the Object Management Group (OMG)?
2.3.1 The Standards-Making Process of OMG
2.3.2 The History of UML
2.4 Modeling
2.4.1 What Kind of Modeling
2.4.2 Purposes for UML Modeling
2.4.2.1 Analysis
2.4.2.2 Design
2.4.2.3 Implementation
2.4.2.4 Communication
2.4.3 Principles of Modeling
2.4.3.1 Risk Mitigation
2.4.3.2 Information Hiding and Simplicity
2.4.3.3 Whole-Part Relationships
2.4.3.4 Classification and Generalization
3 Questions for Chapter 2
Answers for Chapter 2
4 The Organization of UML
4.1 The UML 2.5 Specification
4.1.1 Target Audience
4.1.2 The Document Layout
4.2 The Language Definition—The Clauses
4.3 The Subclauses
4.4 The Abstract Syntax
4.5 The Layered Metamodel
4.6 Diagrams
4.6.1 Structure Diagrams
4.6.2 Behavior Diagrams
4.6.3 General Diagram Features
4.6.3.1 Views
4.6.3.2 Diagram Frame and Header
4.6.3.3 Diagram Kind
4.6.3.4 Namespace
4.6.3.5 Comments
4.6.3.6 Constraints
5 Questions for Chapter 4
Answers for Chapter 4
6 Objects and Classes
6.1 Finding Objects and Classes
6.1.1 Attributes
6.1.2 Operations
6.1.3 Referring to a Member Feature
6.1.4 Static Features
6.2 Types
6.2.1 Class Versus Datatype
6.2.2 Primitive Types
6.2.3 Enumerations
6.2.4 DataTypes
6.2.4.1 Abstraction
6.3 Modifiers
6.3.1 Derived Properties
6.3.2 Default Value
6.3.2.1 Default Values for Attributes/Properties
6.3.2.2 Default Values for Arguments/Parameters
6.3.3 Protecting from Change
6.3.3.1 ReadOnly
6.3.3.2 Queries
6.3.4 Parameter Direction
6.4 Assigning Value
6.4.1 Literals
6.4.2 Instance Specifications
6.4.3 Expressions
7 Questions for Chapter 6
Answers for Chapter 6
8 Packages and Namespaces
8.1 Package Notation
8.1.1 Packages and Their Contents
8.1.2 Diagrams of Packages
8.1.3 Uniform Resource Identifiers
8.2 Packages and Visibility
8.2.1 Package Member Visibility
8.2.2 Inner and Outer Names
8.2.3 Namespaces and Distinguishable Names
8.3 Packages and Their Contents
8.3.1 Package Dependencies
8.3.2 Specific Elements from Other Packages
8.3.2.1 Package Import
8.3.2.2 Element Import
8.3.2.3 Comparison of Package vs Element Import
8.3.2.4 Access
8.3.2.5 Package Dependencies and Cycles
8.3.2.6 Package Merge
8.4 Package Stereotypes
8.4.1 Packages and Models
8.4.2 Miscellaneous Stereotypes of Packages
8.4.2.1 ModelLibrary
8.4.2.2 Framework
8.4.2.3 Profiles
8.4.2.4 Diagrams
9 Questions for Chapter 8
Answers for Chapter 8
10 Finishing the Static Model
10.1 Multiplicity
10.1.1 Representing the Multiplicity of Attributes
10.1.2 Representing Argument Multiplicity
10.1.3 Multiplicity Properties and Collection Types
10.1.3.1 Set
10.1.3.2 Ordered Set
10.1.3.3 Unique
10.1.3.4 Bag
10.1.3.5 Sequence
10.1.4 Discontinuity
10.2 Associations
10.2.1 Attribute and Role Adornments
10.2.2 Reading Associations
10.2.3 Associations and Datatypes
10.2.4 Links and Instances
10.2.5 Composition and Aggregation
10.2.5.1 Composition
10.2.5.2 Aggregation
10.2.5.3 Physical vs Catalog Composition
10.3 Generalization, Specialization, and Inheritance
10.3.1 Reflexive Structures Using Generalization
10.3.2 The Process
10.3.2.1 The Generalization Process
10.3.2.2 The Specialization Process
10.3.3 Polymorphism
11 Questions for Chapter 10
Answers for Chapter 10
12 Use Cases
12.1 Finding Use Cases
12.1.1 Naming Use Cases
12.1.2 Actors
12.1.2.1 Human Actors
12.1.2.2 External System Actors
12.1.2.3 Database Actors
12.1.3 Subject
12.1.4 Other Use Cases
12.2 Simplifying Use Cases
12.2.1 Generalization
12.2.2 Include
12.2.3 Extend
12.2.3.1 Using an Extension
12.2.3.2 The «Extend» Notation
12.2.3.3 Extension Points
12.2.4 Owners
12.2.5 Use Case Diagrams
13 Questions for Chapter 12
Answers for Chapter 12
14 Behavior: Sequence Diagrams
14.1 Sequence Diagram History
14.2 Lifelines
14.3 Messages
14.3.1 Synchronous Messages
14.3.2 Asynchronous Messages
14.4 Time & Occurrences
14.5 Execution Specification
14.6 Sequence Diagrams
14.7 Practical Sequence Diagrams
15 Questions for Chapter 14
Answers for Chapter 14
16 Behavior: Activity Diagrams
16.1 What is an Activity Diagram?
16.1.1 Activity Diagram History
16.1.2 Single Token Diagrams
16.1.3 Concurrent (Multi-Token) Diagrams
16.1.3.1 Explicit Token Creation
16.1.3.2 Implicit Token Creation: Forking a New Path
16.1.3.3 Multiple Forks
16.1.3.4 Forking vs Spawning
16.1.4 Consuming Tokens
16.1.4.1 Multiple Forks
16.1.4.2 Flow Final
16.1.5 Joining at an Action
16.2 Timers and Timing Events
16.3 Object Flows/Edges
16.4 Advanced Topics
16.4.1 Weights
16.4.2 Stream
16.4.3 Send/Receive Messages/Events
16.4.4 Local Pre/Postconditions
16.5 Activity Diagrams
16.5.1 Activities
16.5.2 Invoking an Activity
16.5.3 Calling an Operation
17 Questions for Chapter 16
Answers for Chapter 16
18 Behavior: State Machine Diagrams
18.1 What is a State and State Machine
18.1.1 States and Modes
18.1.2 Differences Between States
18.1.3 Qualitatively Different States
18.1.4 Naming States
18.1.5 Overlapping States
18.1.6 Finding States
18.2 Transitions
18.2.1 Events
18.2.2 Simple State Machine
18.2.3 Guard Conditions
18.2.4 Transition Effect
18.2.5 Transition Syntax
18.2.6 Ongoing Behavior
18.2.6.1 Implicit Behavior
18.2.6.2 Do Behavior
18.2.7 State Setup and Teardown
18.2.8 Exit/Entry Action Equivalents
18.2.9 Completion
18.2.10 Internal Transitions
18.3 State Machine Processing
18.3.1 Run-to-Completion
18.3.2 States and Pseudostates
18.3.3 Types of Transitions
18.3.4 State Diagrams and Machines
18.3.5 Hierarchy of States
18.3.6 States Contours
18.4 State vs Activity Semantics
19 Questions for Chapter 18
Answers for Chapter 18
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