Deck 4: Use Case Analysis

Question 1

Marta has asked the users of a system to picture themselves performing the processes and to write down those processes in a sequential order.She should get a good idea of ________.

A)The major steps for each use case
B)The use case
C)The elements within steps
D)The temporal triggers
E)The external actors

Answer 1

A

Question 2

A 'temporal' trigger might be which of the following:

A)A patient calls to make an appointment with a doctor
B)The accounting department needs information for a report
C)The human resources department needs a tax withholding form to be filled out by a new employee
D)The date changes to the first day of the month
E)A new shipping of goods arrives and needs to be added to the inventory

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Ralph wants to illustrate how a system interacts with the environment.The best solution for him would be to use a ________:

A)Requirements flow chart
B)Storyboard
C)HIPO chart (hierarchy,input,process,output)
D)Use case
E)Gantt chart

Answer 3

D

Question 4

A use case helps:

A)Define interview questions
B)Clarify ongoing costs for a system
C)Identify risks with the project
D)Refine project management milestones
E)Understand system activities and requirements

Question 5

Use cases are used to more fully delineate _____.

A)Resources used in the system
B)System boundaries
C)System proposals
D)System requirements
E)Data flows

Question 6

Which of the following is probably NOT a part of most use cases?

A)Primary Actor
B)Secondary Actor
C)Major inputs descriptions
D)Major steps performed
E)Identification of the trigger

Question 7

Destination would be described on a use case in which of the following areas?:

A)Trigger
B)Major inputs
C)Major outputs
D)Primary actor
E)Importance level

Question 8

Omar is an analyst building a use case.Which of the following project roles might be the most important in terms of getting information about building the use case?

A)Users
B)Programmers
C)Other analysts
D)Project Sponsor
E)Equipment vendors

Question 9

The primary actor in a use case is generally:

A)An external user of the system
B)The Project Sponsor
C)The Champion
D)The Project manager
E)The Systems Analyst

Question 10

Which of the following is probably NOT a step for writing a use case?

A)Identify the use case
B)Identify the major steps within each use case
C)Identify elements within steps
D)Identify the analyst
E)Confirm the use case

Question 11

Barb is an analyst developing a use case.Which of the following will probably NOT be on her use case?

A)Importance level
B)Short Description
C)Information for steps
D)Destination for the major inputs
E)Type of trigger

Question 12

What is probably NOT a part of a Use Case?

A)Name
B)Number
C)Trigger
D)Major inputs
E)Statement of business value

Question 13

Role-playing the use case with actual users is a good way to:

A)Identify the use case
B)Identify the major steps within each use case
C)Identify elements within steps
D)Confirm the use case
E)Identify the primary actor

Question 14

Austin is a systems analyst.Which of the follow people might be the most valuable to him in developing a use case for an accounts payable system upgrade?

A)Beth,a software vendor for Peachtree Accounting Software
B)Amy,a team manager in the accounts payable department
C)Lisa,the project manager for the project
D)Casey,a fellow analyst who is more experienced in making use cases
E)Bill,a Java programmer in the applications development area.

Question 15

Which is NOT true of use cases?

A)They are formal ways of representing how a business system interacts with its environment
B)They illustrates the activities that are performed by the users of the system
C)They can be thought of as an external or functional view of a business process
D)They illustrate what starts (or triggers)an event,all the people that are involved,and how the system provides value
E)They sometimes are called 'business scenarios' (although 'use case' is generally preferred)

Question 16

Barton is an analyst developing a use case.Which of the following will probably NOT be on his use case?

A)Description of data flows
B)Use case name
C)A use case number
D)Source for the major inputs
E)Type of trigger

Question 17

Special cases (like customer cancels an appointment or returns an item)are: ____________

A)Frequently overlooked by users
B)Described on special 'exception' use cases
C)Not of importance at this stage
D)Written as exceptions at the bottom of the relevant use case
E)Given use case ID's of "SC" (for special case)and a number

Question 18

Use cases generally have three parts: _____.

A)Basic information,details,and event-driven modeling
B)Inputs and outputs,and events
C)Details,event-driven modeling,basic information
D)Technical feasibility,economic feasibility and organizational feasibility
E)Basic information,inputs and outputs,and details

Question 19

You might have to go back and adjust the steps in a use case,if ____________

A)There are more than three major inputs to a step
B)The steps are of varying size
C)The trigger is an external one
D)The importance level is 'high'
E)The primary actor is an external customer

Question 20

Which is probably NOT true about building use cases?

A)Analysts are involved
B)Users are involved
C)Major processes are analyzed
D)Major costs are analyzed
E)External or internal triggers are analyzed

Question 21

Which is NOT true of use cases?

A)They contain all the information needed to build one part of a process model
B)Each use case has a name,a number,importance level,brief description,primary actor,trigger,major inputs and outputs,and a list of major steps
C)Use cases can be identified by reviewing the functional requirements
D)Use cases should be confirmed by users
E)Use cases normally contain ten to twelve major steps

Question 22

After working with Chris (who is a staff member in the registrar's office)on major steps in the registration process,Maureen (a systems analyst)will:

A)Discuss these steps with Thomas,the project manager
B)Create data-entity maps
C)Create use cases
D)Create user interface screens
E)Create narrative storyboards

Question 23

Use cases are always internal and rarely shared or discussed with business users.

Question 24

The Major Steps Performed section on a use case will give the _________

A)Name of the user for each step
B)What triggers each step
C)Where the processes will run (such as manual processes,client-server processes,etc. )
D)The telecommunications infrastructure requirements for that step
E)Information for each step

Question 25

The second principal part of use cases is 'input and output'.Another name might be:

A)Origin and ending
B)Data normalization
C)Data flows
D)Parallelism
E)Program specifications

Question 26

A use case depicts a set of activities performed to produce some output result.

Question 27

A Use Case is a formal way of representing how a business system interacts with its environment.

Question 28

As a last step in building a use case for the study-abroad registration system,Brianna will:

A)Ask Patrick in the study abroad office to confirm the use case
B)Ask Wendy in the registrar's office to confirm the use case
C)Ask Jonathan,a student who just completed a study-abroad experience,to confirm the use case
D)Ask Drew in the students affairs office to confirm the use case
E)Ask Taylor,another systems analyst to confirm the use case

Question 29

Use Cases give more detail about requirements.

Question 30

The Major Inputs section on a use case will give the _____________

A)Sources of that input
B)Destinations of that input
C)Creator of that input
D)User of that input
E)What triggers the input to occur

Question 31

Use cases are a type of 'event-driven modeling'.

Question 32

The Major Inputs section of a use case describes their:

A)File structure
B)Cardinality
C)Modality
D)Source
E)Destination

Question 33

Use cases illustrate the activities that are performed by the users of the system.

Question 34

Arianna is an analyst studying credit card fraud.She is working on developing a use case for when a stolen credit card is used.The trigger would be:

A)Customer starts to buy gas
B)Alarm is activated for stolen credit card use
C)Gas attendant asks for customer's driver's license
D)When the card-holder reports the card as stolen
E)When car pulls into gas station

Question 35

Use cases are diagrams with three components: selection,process,iteration.

Question 36

Which is NOT true of use cases?

A)They contain all the information needed to build one part of a process model
B)Each use case has a name,a number,importance level,brief description,primary actor,trigger,major inputs and outputs,and a list of major steps
C)Use cases can be identified by reviewing the functional requirements
D)Use cases should be confirmed by users
E)Use cases normally contain ten to twelve major steps

Question 37

When developing the Major Inputs and Major Outputs for a use case,the analyst and users should consider:

A)Only the common inputs and outputs
B)Developing separate use cases for every possible input and every possible output
C)All possible inputs and outputs (even with rare occurrences)
D)What triggers these inputs and outputs
E)Using activity elimination to see if these inputs and outputs are really needed

Question 38

The Major Outputs section on a use case will give the _________

A)Sources of that input
B)Destinations of that input
C)Creator of that input
D)User of that input
E)What triggers the input to occur

Question 39

Use cases sometimes are called 'business scenarios'.

Question 40

Use cases are the same as process diagrams.

Question 41

Use cases can vary from one organization to another in terms of the degree of formality employed?

Question 42

Each use case contains a fairly complete description of all the activities that occur in response to a trigger event.

Question 43

The most common ways to gather information for use cases is with questionnaires of the affected users.

Question 44

Use cases generally have up to 20 major steps spelled out in great detail.

Question 45

Tina is a systems analysis and is describing how a system should react to an event.She is creating a use case.

Question 46

Liang has identified the payroll authorization office as the primary actor in a use case.This would be incorrect as primary actors need to be singular like a customer or a patient or a student.

Question 47

A temporal trigger might be related to time,such as 30 days have passed and a late fee needs to be assessed.

Question 48

Project managers,business analysts and systems analysts create all use cases without user input.

Question 49

External triggers might be something like a customer calling a doctor for an appointment or a student registering for a class.

Question 50

Each use case has a name and a number.

Question 51

Use cases can vary from one organization to another in terms of the content included?

Question 52

Use cases will have inputs and outputs.

Question 53

The 'primary actor' is the internal action that occurs based on a SQL query (like: sort,select).

Question 54

The 'primary actor' is the external user that triggers the event to which the system responds.

Question 55

The final step in Building Use Cases is to use a CASE analysis tool to verify that the inputs and outputs are discrete items triggered by external events.

Question 56

A trigger is based on cost/benefit analysis,like an employee labor report,a sale of an item,or the purchase of new hardware.

Question 57

Dr.O'Brien's dental office calls a patient three days before an appointment.This could be an example of a temporal trigger.

Question 58

Use cases are always numbered sequentially from start to finish.

Question 59

Use cases are a type of 'data-driven modeling'.

Question 60

The actor of a use case refers to only a person that interacts with the system?

Question 61

Vanessa is a manager in the department that has requested an updated system.Chad is the systems analyst who has been working with Vanessa on the project.He interviewed her (and others in her department);he developed a set of requirements for the project;he has created use cases for the project.What might be Vanessa's duty now that Chad has created the use cases?

Question 62

What are the steps for writing a use case?

Question 63

Cynthia is an expert in the supply-chain system at B&W Manufacturing.She has worked with Miguel (a systems analysis)on use cases.As she reviews and confirms the use case (by role playing - and like following a recipe),she realizes she has missed special cases (like cancelled orders,out-of-stock orders,over supplied quantities,incorrect quantities,and other special cases).What should she (and Miguel)do now?

Question 64

Matt has identified 15 major steps in a use case.What should he do now?

Question 65

Shaunti has trouble identifying (a)the primary actor and (b)the trigger for a use case.What directions would you suggest to her?

Question 66

It is common practice to create smaller,more focused use cases breaking the whole process down into parts.

Question 67

The event that causes the use case to begin is referred to as the Name?

Question 68

What are the most common ways to gather information for use cases?

Question 69

Triggers are referred to as external or internal?