Deck 3: Information Systems Development

Question 1

Increasingly, organizations adopt and follow a standardized systems development process.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Most information systems meet expectations and come in within budget.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Organizations that develop software for the U.S. government must adhere to certain quality management requirements.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

The Capability Quality Model (CQM) is a framework to assess the quality level of an organization's information systems development and management processes and products.

Question 5

A system life cycle divides the life of an information system into two major stages: (1) systems development; and (2) systems operation and support. First you build it; then you use it, keep it running and support it.

Question 6

A systems development methodology is a formal approach to the system development process that defines a set of activities, methods, best practices, deliverables and automated tools for system developers and project managers to use to develop and maintain most or all information systems and software.

Question 7

The first principle of a systems development methodology is to get the system owners and system users involved.

Question 8

Some organizations develop their own system development methodologies.

Question 9

A problem could be a real problem, an opportunity for improvement or a directive from management.

Question 10

The number and scope of phases and activities in a methodology varies.

Question 11

All life cycle methodologies prescribe phases and activities.

Question 12

The final phase in most system development methodologies is documentation.

Question 13

Process management involves the scoping, planning, staffing, organizing, directing, and controlling a project to develop an information system.

Question 14

Project management ensures that an information system is developed at minimum cost, within a specific time frame, and with acceptable quality.

Question 15

Cost effectiveness is the result obtained by striking a balance between the lifetime costs of developing, maintaining, and operating an information system and the benefits derived from the system.

Question 16

A feasibility study is done to determine if a system development project is cost-effective. After that point, the project will not be cancelled.

Question 17

The first solution an analyst finds is usually the best solution. It is not cost effective to consider alternatives.

Question 18

Project management is defined as the result obtained by striking a balance between the cost of developing and operating information systems and the benefits derived from that system.

Question 19

Risk management is the process of identifying, evaluating and controlling what might go wrong in a project before it becomes a threat to the successful completion of the project or implementation of the information system.

Question 20

By dividing a larger problem (system) into more easily manage pieces (subsystems); the analyst can simplify the problem-solving process.

Question 21

According to best practices, it is important to consider the information system as a whole if one is going to get the best solution. Dividing it into smaller pieces is an obsolete way to design and develop the system.

Question 22

Information systems should be designed for growth and change. Where possible, flexibility and adaptability are important to the overall success and longevity of an information system.

Question 23

The sole focus of system development should be to meet today's user requirements. It is impossible to anticipate ways to meet future needs since they are unknown. It is better to develop the system as quickly as possible with the requirements that are known today.

Question 24

Problems are undesirable situations that prevent the organization from fully achieving its purpose, goals and/or objectives.

Question 25

Opportunities are chances to improve the organization in the absence of specific problems.

Question 26

A directive is a new requirement that's imposed by management, government or some external influence.

Question 27

FAST is a leading commercial methodology.

Question 28

Projects are always planned.

Question 29

A steering committee is comprised of system owners and IT managers who determine which requests and projects get approved and scheduled.

Question 30

Requests that are approved and placed on the schedule are considered to be backlogged because the resources are available to implement them.

Question 31

The scope definition phase must consider the question, "Is this project worth looking at?"

Question 32

Scope frequently changes during a project.

Question 33

Scope defines how big the project is or will be.

Question 34

Given the initial scope of the project, the analyst can staff the project team, estimate the budget for systems development and prepare a schedule for the remaining phases of development.

Question 35

The earliest that a systems analyst can project the staffing for a project, estimate its budget and prepare a schedule is during the requirements analysis phase.

Question 36

The problem analysis phase provides for a study and analysis of the requirements for the new system.

Question 37

The primary deliverable of the problem analysis phase is system improvement objectives. These objectives do not define inputs, outputs or processes. Instead, they define the business criteria on which any new system will be evaluated.

Question 38

System designers and system builders can frequently skip the requirements analysis phase because they have performed this step in the past and know what the users need.

Question 39

The decision analysis phase (1) identifies candidate solutions that fulfill system requirements, (2) analyzes those solutions for feasibility, and (3) recommends a candidate system as the target solution.

Question 40

The purpose for the decision analysis phase is to identify all of the decision-making situations potentially faced by management that must be addressed in the design and development of a new system.

Question 41

Technical feasibility is used to determine if a solution is technically feasible and if the staff has the technical expertise to design and build the solution.

Question 42

Operational feasibility is used to determine if the design team has the technical skills needed to actually get the proposed solution into operation.

Question 43

Economic feasibility is used to determine if a solution is cost-effective, which means that there is a favorable balance between the cost of developing the solution and the benefits derived from that solution.

Question 44

Schedule feasibility is used to determine if the performance of the proposed system will fit into the users' working schedules.

Question 45

Risk feasibility is the probability of a successful implementation using the chosen technology and approach.

Question 46

System support is the ongoing technical support for users, as well as the maintenance required to fix any errors, omissions or new requirements that may arise.

Question 47

System support is the operating system and technology architecture used in the design of the information system.

Question 48

Cross life cycle activities are activities that overlap many or all phases of the methodology.

Question 49

Fact-finding is the formal process of using research, interviews, meetings, questionnaires, sampling and other techniques to collect information about systems, requirements, and preferences.

Question 50

Documentation is the activity of recording facts and specifications for a system for current and future reference.

Question 51

Documentation is the formal process of using research, interviews, meetings, questionnaires, sampling and other techniques to collect information about systems, requirements and preferences.

Question 52

Presentation is the activity of communicating findings, recommendations, and documentation for review by interested users and managers. It may be written or verbal.

Question 53

A repository is a database or other filing mechanism where system developers store all documentation, knowledge, and products for one or more information systems or projects.

Question 54

Feasibility is a measure of how beneficial the development of an information system would be to an organization.

Question 55

A repository is a measure of how beneficial the development of an information system would be to an organization.

Question 56

An iterative development methodology is often called a waterfall development approach.

Question 57

Process management is an ongoing activity that documents, manages the use of, and improves an organization's chosen methodology for systems development. It is concerned with the activities, deliverables, and quality standards to be applied to all projects.

Question 58

Project management is the activity of defining, planning, directing, monitoring and controlling a project to develop an acceptable system within the allotted time and budget.

Question 59

Project management is an ongoing activity that documents, manages the use of, and improves an organization's chosen methodology for systems development. It is concerned with the activities, deliverables, and quality standards to be applied to all projects.

Question 60

A logical model does not include implementation details.

Question 61

The sequential development approach has lost favor with most system developers..

Question 62

Timeboxing is the imposition of a nonextendable period of time, usually 6 to 9 days.

Question 63

Data modeling is a process-centered technique popularized .by the structured analysis and design methodology.

Question 64

Time-boxing fits with the iterative approach.

Question 65

An advantage of the model-driven approach is that it makes it easier to identify, conceptualize, and analyze alternative technical solutions.

Question 66

Object-oriented analysis and design attempts to merge the data and process concerns into singular constructs called objects. A system is documented in terms of its objects and their interactions.

Question 67

Object-oriented analysis and design is an object-centered, data-sensitive technique used to model business requirements in terms of objects and entities using entity relationship diagrams to prototype an information system.

Question 68

Commercial off-the-shelf software is a software package or solution that is purchased to support one or more business functions and information systems.

Question 69

An enterprise resource planning (ERP) software product is a fully integrated collection of information systems that span most basic business functions required by a major corporation.

Question 70

When using a COTS solution a gap analysis is often performed.

Question 71

Computer aided systems engineering (CASE) tools are software programs that automate or support the drawing and analysis of system models and provide for the translation of system models into application programs.

Question 72

Forward engineering allows a CASE tool to read existing program code and transform that code into a representative system model that can be edited and refined by the systems analyst.

Question 73

Reverse engineering requires the systems analyst to draw system models, either from scratch or from templates. The resulting models are subsequently transformed into program code.

Question 74

Which of the following is NOT one of the principles of Systems Development?

A) Use a problem-solving approach
B) Divide and conquer
C) Establish phases and activities
D) Establish standards for consistent development and documentation
E) Leave the users alone until you have a product they can use.

Question 75

RAD stands for:

A) Readily available deliveries
B) Rapid Application Data
C) Rapid Application Development
D) Real Analogy Data
E) None of these

Question 76

Which one is NOT an ongoing activity of systems support?

A) Assisting users
B) Continuing analysis of the system
C) Recovering the system
D) Fixing software bugs
E) Adapting the system to new requirements

Question 77

Which one is NOT one of the common facilities of CASE tools?

A) diagramming tools
B) dictionary tools
C) quality management tools
D) application development environment (ADE) tools
E) testing tools

Question 78

The definition of feasibility is:

A) An ongoing activity by which an analyst plans an acceptable system
B) Measure of how beneficial the development of an information system would be to an organization
C) An activity of measuring and analyzing developer productivity
D) An activity of approximating the time, effort, costs, and benefits of developing systems.
E) None of these

Question 79

The first CMM level at which consistent project management is practiced is:

A) Level 1
B) Level 2
C) Level 3
D) Level 4
E) Level 5

Question 80

Which of the following accurately identifies the categories of problems represented by the PIECES framework?

A) Performance, information, economics, control, efficiency, and service
B) Performance, information, economics, cost, efficiency and security
C) Performance, information, efficiency, costs, effectiveness, and services
D) Performance, information, economy, control, efficiency, and security
E) People, information, economy, costs, efficiency, and service