Deck 12: Systems Development

Question 1

​The success or failure of a joint application development (JAD) session depends on the budget of a project.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Information systems planning identifies those information systems development initiatives needed to support organizational strategic goals.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

​Determining the schedule feasibility is critical when new technology is first being considered for use within an organization, prior to its widespread use.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

In the context of systems development, users can only be the employees of an organization.

Question 5

A systems analyst is responsible for modifying or developing programs to satisfy user requirements.

Question 6

Security and control considerations are a negligible part of the entire system development process.

Question 7

Managers and employees in all functional work areas shun working on systems development projects.

Question 8

​Direct observation provides an opportunity for project sponsors to state their concerns and express their ideas for improvement.

Question 9

System users and system stakeholders are essentially the same set of people.

Question 10

A steering team consists of programmers to simplify the decision-making process.

Question 11

The project sponsor coordinates all people and resources required to complete a project successfully.

Question 12

​Members of a systems development team stay the same throughout a project.

Question 13

​Joint application development (JAD) sessions with a cross section of users and stakeholders in a project are an effective way to define system requirements.

Question 14

A systems investigation report is reviewed with a steering team to gain their input and counsel.

Question 15

​The traditional systems development life cycle (SDLC) has low management control.

Question 16

​The members of a systems investigation team are responsible for gathering and analyzing data, preparing an investigation phase report, and presenting the results to a project steering team.

Question 17

The systems development team is responsible for determining the information system objectives and delivering a system that meets those objectives.

Question 18

​Effective systems development requires a team effort.

Question 19

​The purpose of studying a system is to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the existing system and examine current inputs, outputs, processes, security and controls, and system performance.

Question 20

A project manager is a person who performs all of the system development roles, including systems analyst, programmer, and technical specialist.

Question 21

​_____ is a technique used primarily during the investigation phase of systems development to define the business processes included within the scope of a system.

A) ​Joint application development
B) ​Direct observation
C) ​Functional decomposition
D) ​Agile development

Question 22

​In the context of system performance, _____ is the hours a system is actually available for use divided by the hours the system is scheduled to be available and is expressed as a percentage.

A) ​reliability
B) ​availability
C) ​scalability
D) ​system response time

Question 23

All members of a system investigation team must be co-located to ensure a successful start to a project.

Question 24

​_____ begins during systems analysis and identifies the two or three strongest contenders among the vendors.

A) ​Feasibility analysis
B) ​Systems investigation
C) ​Performance evaluation test
D) ​Preliminary evaluation

Question 25

A professional who specializes in analyzing and designing business systems is called a(n) ____.

A) systems analyst
B) project manager
C) individual systems developer
D) programmer

Question 26

​The systems design phase of a systems development life cycle (SDLC) identifies areas where system security and controls need to be defined.

Question 27

The primary outcome of systems analysis is a prioritized list of system requirements and a recommendation of how to proceed with a project.

Question 28

​The disaster recovery plan focuses on technology recovery and identifies the people or the teams responsible to take action in the event of a disaster, what exactly these people will do when a disaster strikes, and the information system resources required to support critical business processes.

Question 29

A data flow diagram (DFD) is a technique to show relationships among data entities.

Question 30

​_____ is a structured meeting process that can accelerate and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of not only the investigation phase, but also the analysis and design phases of a systems development project.

A) ​Direct observation
B) ​Agile systems development
C) ​Functional decomposition
D) ​Joint application development

Question 31

Feasibility analysis assesses the technical, economic, legal, operational, and schedule feasibility of a project.

Question 32

The overall purpose of systems investigation is to determine user, stakeholder, and organizational needs for a new or modified system.

Question 33

_____ requires unbiased and careful questioning of whether system elements are related in the most effective ways, considering new or different relationships among system elements, and possibly introducing new elements into the system.

A) Causal analysis
B) Creative analysis
C) Critical analysis
D) Data flow analysis

Question 34

A disaster recovery plan is a component of an organization's overall business continuity plan.

Question 35

​A(n) _____ is a formal document that outlines an organization's hardware or software needs and requests vendors to develop a detailed plan of how they would meet those needs and at what cost.

A) systems request form
B) ​in-stock request
C) ​systems investigation request
D) ​request for proposal

Question 36

A data flow diagram (DFD) does not provide any information about process timing.

Question 37

​In the context of data-flow diagrams (DFDs), the process symbol _____.

A) ​identifies the function being performed
B) ​reveals a storage location for data
C) ​shows either the source or destination of the data
D) ​includes arrows that show the direction of data movement

Question 38

​The Pareto principle is also known as the _____.

A) ​result rule
B) ​cause rule
C) ​50-50 rule
D) ​80-20 rule

Question 39

​Operational feasibility takes into account the need to meet certain system performance requirements that are considered important to system users and stakeholders.

Question 40

​In the context of data-flow diagrams (DFDs), a(n) _____ shows either the source or destination of the data.

A) ​data-flow line
B) ​entity symbol
C) ​process symbol
D) ​data store symbol

Question 41

​_____ determines whether the expected benefits associated with a project outweigh the expected costs sufficiently to make the project financially attractive.

A) ​Economic feasibility
B) ​Technical feasibility
C) ​Legal feasibility
D) ​Operational feasibility

Question 42

_____ document key points, issues, next steps, and decisions throughout a joint application development (JAD) session.

A) Facilitators
B) Users
C) Scribes
D) System developers

Question 43

During the _____ phase of the systems development life cycle, people attempt to answer the questions, "What must the information system do to solve the problem?"

A) systems investigation
B) systems implementation
C) systems design
D) systems analysis

Question 44

Which of the following is a disadvantage of a traditional systems development life cycle (SDLC)?

A) Lack of formal review at the end of each phase leads to minimum management control.
B) System requirements are difficult to trace back to stated business needs.
C) This approach does not produce any intermediate product.
D) Documentation is expensive and time consuming to create.

Question 45

______ are people who ultimately will be affected (for better or worse) by a systems development project.

Question 46

_____ are processes that play a pivotal role in an organization's continued operations and goal attainment.

Question 47

The _____ is a sequential multistage process where work on the next stage cannot begin until the results of the previous stage are reviewed and approved or modified as necessary.​

A) ​agile systems development life cycle
B) ​object-oriented systems development life cycle
C) ​traditional systems development life cycle
D) ​end-user systems development life cycle

Question 48

Who among the following has final approval of all requests for changes in project scope, budget, and schedule?

A) The steering team
B) The systems analyst
C) The project manager
D) The project sponsor

Question 49

______ are factors that are essential to the success of a functional area of an organization.

Question 50

​A(n) _____ is a backup copy of all files changed during the last few days or the last week.

Question 51

The _____ is a key member and leader of a steering team who plays such a critical role that lack of this essential individual raises the probability of project failure.​

A) ​systems analyst
B) ​project sponsor
C) ​user
D) ​project manager

Question 52

​_____ determines whether a project can be completed in a reasonable amount of time.

A) ​Technical feasibility
B) ​Schedule feasibility
C) ​Operational feasibility
D) ​Economic feasibility

Question 53

​A(n) _____ is a duplicate operational hardware system or immediate access to one through a specialized vendor.

A) ​image log
B) ​hot site
C) ​incremental backup
D) ​data dictionary

Question 54

​In the context of data-flow diagrams (DFDs), the _____ includes arrows that show the direction of data movement.

A) ​process symbol
B) ​entity symbol
C) ​data-flow line
D) ​data store symbol

Question 55

Ideally, how many members should be there in a steering team for systems development?

A) Five to seven
B) Upto fifty
C) Minimum ten
D) Three to five

Question 56

​_____ creates a complete set of technical specifications that can be used to construct an information system.

A) ​Systems design
B) ​Systems investigation
C) ​Systems analysis
D) ​Systems development

Question 57

​A _____ is a description of the logical and physical structure of data and the relationships among the data for each user.

A) ​data dictionary
B) ​process
C) ​schema
D) ​cold site

Question 58

A(n) _____ is a computer environment that includes rooms, electrical service, telecommunications links, data storage devices, and the like.

Question 59

_____ are the people who will regularly interact with a system as they complete their work. ​

A) ​Users
B) ​Programmers
C) ​Stakeholders
D) Systems analysts​

Question 60

Which of the following is an advantage of a traditional systems development life cycle (SDLC)?

A) Users can easily evaluate whether a particular product meets their business requirements.
B) Documentation is inexpensive and takes less time to create.
C) Formal review at the end of each phase allows maximum management control.
D) User needs are well communicated and understood.

Question 61

​_____ is concerned with how a system will be accepted by people and how well it will meet various system performance expectations.

Question 62

The _____ is a rule of thumb used in business that helps people focus on the vital 20 percent that generate 80 percent of the results.

Question 63

_____ is the first phase in the traditional systems development life cycle (SDLC) of a new or modified business information system.

Question 64

A(n) _____ is a collection of instructions and commands that define and describe data and relationships in a specific database.

Question 65

​Directly observing an existing system in action by one or more members of the analysis team is called _____.

Question 66

Determining the _____ involves an analysis of existing and future laws to determine the likelihood of legal action against a systems development project and possible consequences of such action.

Question 67

In a ​user interface design, when users want to know more about a program or feature or what type of response is expected, they can activate the _____.

Question 68

​In a user interface design, with a(n) _____ system, users select what they want to do from a list of alternatives.

Question 69

The systems development process is also called a(n) _____ because the activities associated with it are ongoing.

Question 70

_____ is the stage of systems development that answers the question, "How will the information system solve a problem?"

Question 71

​A(n) _____ is a separate file that contains only changes to applications.

Question 72

​In the context of data flow diagrams (DFDs), a(n) _____ reveals a storage location for data.

Question 73

A(n) _____ is a small group of senior managers representing the business and information system organizations that provide guidance and support to a project.

Question 74

​A(n) _____ is a documented process to recover an organization's business information system assets including hardware, software, data, networks, and facilities in the event of a disaster.

Question 75

​The _____ is an evaluation that begins with a detailed investigation of contenders' proposals as well as discussions with two or three customers of each vendor.

Question 76

​The decision regarding whether to obtain the necessary software from internal or external sources is called _____.

Question 77

A(n) _____ is a detailed description of all data used in a database.

Question 78

​A(n) _____ is a comparison of vendor options conducted in a computing environment and with a workload that matches its intended operating conditions.

Question 79

​In a user interface design, most systems provide a(n) _____ that requires identification numbers, passwords, and other safeguards to improve security and prevent unauthorized use.

Question 80

A(n) _____ is a diagram used during both the analysis and design phases of a systems development life cycle (SDLC) to document the processes of the current system or to provide a model of a proposed new system.