Chapter 5 Flashcards
Systems Analysis
- __________________________ and ____________________________ are examples of traditional approaches to systems analysis.
Answer: Structured analysis and information engineering Page: 162-163
- The processes of an object are called _____________.
Answer: methods Page: 163 LOD: Hard
- _______________________ is a model-driven technique that integrates data and process concerns.
Answer: Objected oriented analysis (OOA) Page: 163 LOD: Hard
- _______________________ approaches emphasize the construction of prototypes to more rapidly identify business and user requirements for a new system.
Answer: Accelerated analysis Page: 163 LOD: Hard
- _______________________ is used to identify the user’s business requirements by having them react to a quick and dirty implementation of those requirements.
Answer: Discovery prototyping Page: 164 LOD: Hard
- _______________________ technology reads the program code for an existing database, application program, and/or user interface and automatically generates the equivalent system model.
Answer: Reverse engineering Page: 165 LOD: Medium
- _______________________ is a classical set of techniques used to collect information about system problems, opportunities, solution requirements and priorities.
Answer: Fact finding Page: 165 LOD: Hard
- _______________________ is the application of systems analysis methods to the goal of dramatically changing and improving the fundamental business processes of an organization, independent of information technology.
Answer: Business process redesign Page: 166 LOD: Medium
- The _______________________ looks at the question “Is this project worth looking at?”
Answer: scope definition phase Page: 167 LOD: Medium
- The context for the scope definition phase is primarily concerned with the _______________________ perspectives.
Answer: system owners’ Page: 167 LOD: Medium
- A _______________________ defines the project scope, plan, methodology, and standards for a project. It is the first major milestone.
Answer: project charter Page: 174 LOD: Medium
- All systems documentation is kept in a _______________________ .
Answer: repository Page: 160 LOD: Medium
- _______________________ is a problem-solving technique that decomposes a system into its component pieces for the purpose of studying how well those component parts work and interact to accomplish their purpose.
Answer: Systems analysis Page: 160 LOD: Medium
- Systems analysis is a problem-solving technique that decomposes a system into its component pieces for the purpose of studying how well those component parts work and interact to accomplish their purpose.
Answer: True Page: 160 LOD: Easy
- Systems design is a complementary problem solving technique to systems analysis that reassembles a system’s component pieces into a (hopefully improved) complete system.
Answer: True Page: 160 LOD: Easy
- Information systems analysis is defined as those development phases in a project that primarily focus on the business problem, independent of any technology that can or will be used to implement a solution to that problem.
Answer: True Page: 160 LOD: Easy
- Model driven analysis emphasizes the development of application prototypes to quickly implement a new system without the need for requirements analysis.
Answer: False Page: 161 LOD: Easy Rationale: Model driven analysis emphasizes the drawing of pictorial system models to document and validate both existing and/or proposed systems. Ultimately the system model becomes the blueprint for designing and constructing an improved system.
- Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs) can only be used to depict proposed new processes in a system, along with their inputs, outputs and files.
Answer: True Page: 162 LOD: Medium
- CASE tools offer the advantage of consistency and completeness analysis as well as rule-based error checking.
Answer: True Page: 162 LOD: Easy
- Structured analysis is a traditional approach to system analysis and design.
Answer: True Page: 162 LOD: Easy
- Information engineering (IE) is a data-driven, process-centered, but model-sensitive technique to plan, analyze and design information systems.
Answer: False Page: 163 LOD: Medium Rationale: Information engineering (IE) is a model driven and data-centered but process sensitive technique to plan, analyze, and design information systems.
- Objected oriented analysis (OOA) is model-driven technique that integrates Data and Process concerns into constructs called Objects. OOA models are pictures that illustrate the system’s objects from various perspectives such as structure and behavior.
Answer: True Page: 163 LOD: Easy
- The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is used in information engineering.
Answer: False Page: 163 LOD: Medium Rationale: The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is used with the object-oriented approach.
- Accelerated analysis approaches emphasize the construction of prototypes to more rapidly identify business and user requirements for a new system.
Answer: True Page: 163-164 LOD: Easy
- Many analysts use parts of structured analysis and information engineering in a complementary way to model an information system.
Answer: True Page: 163 LOD: Medium
- Rapid architecture analysis attempts to derive system models from existing systems or discovery prototypes.
Answer: True Page: 165 LOD: Easy
- Reverse engineering technology reads the program code for an existing database, application program, and/or user interface and automatically generates the equivalent system model.
Answer: True Page: 165 LOD: Easy
- Requirements discovery is the process of identifying system problems and solution requirements from the user community.
Answer: True Page: 165 LOD: Easy
- Analytical discovery includes those techniques to be used by a systems analyst to identify or extract system problems and solution requirements from the user community.
Answer: False Page: 165 LOD: Medium Rationale: Requirements discovery includes those techniques to be used by a systems analyst to identify or extract system problems and solution requirements from the user community.
- Examples of fact-finding techniques include: sampling of existing documentation; research of relevant literature; observation of the current system; questionnaires and surveys of the management and user community; and interviews of appropriate managers, users, and technical staff.
Answer: True Page: 165-166 LOD: Easy
- Joint requirements planning (JRP) techniques use facilitated workshops to bring together all the system owners, system users, systems analysts and some systems designers and builders to jointly perform systems analysis.
Answer: True Page: 166 LOD: Easy
- Joint application development (JAD) is considered a part of Joint Requirements Planning (JRP), which is a more comprehensive application of the techniques to the entire system development process.
Answer: False Page: 166 LOD: Medium Rationale: Joint requirements planning (JRP) is considered a part of joint application development (JAD), which is a more comprehensive application of the techniques to the entire system development process.
- BPR is often triggered by total quality management and continuous process improvement.
Answer: True Page: 166 LOD: Easy
- Business process redesign is often applied within the context of information systems development when the projects include a study of existing business processes to identify problems, bureaucracy and inefficiencies that need to be addressed in requirements for new and improved information systems.
Answer: True Page: 166 LOD: Easy
- The purpose of a context diagram is to analyze how the system interacts with the world around it.
Answer: True Page: 178 LOD: Easy
- The scope definition phase is the first phase of the classic systems development process. It is also known as initial study phase, survey phase, or planning phase.
Answer: True Page: 167 LOD: Easy
- The scope definition phase looks at the question “Is this project worth looking at?”
Answer: True Page: 167 LOD: Easy
- The scope definition phase looks at the economic and operational feasibility of the project under consideration.
Answer: False Page: 167 LOD: Easy Rationale: The scope definition phase looks at the question “Is this project worth looking at?”