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SystemsAnalysisQuiz
Systems Analysis Quiz 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| (Blank) is a technique for organizing and documenting the structure and flow of data through a system's processes and /or the logic, policies and procedures to be implemented by a system's processes. | Process Modeling |
| What diagram is used to do a process model? | Data Flow Diagram |
| (Blank) is a technique for organizing and documenting a systems data. | Data Modeling |
| What diagram does the Data Modeling technique employ? | Entity Relationship Diagram or ERD. |
| (Blank) is anything real or abstract about which you want to store data. | Entity (example is customer, order, registration). |
| (Blank) is the measure of how beneficial or practical an information system will be to an agency. | Feasibility |
| What are the six types of feasibility? | Operational, Technical, Schedule, Economic, Legal & Cultural/Political. |
| (Blank) is a systems design approach that utilizes structured prototyping and JAD techniques to quickly develop systems. | Rapid Application Development or RAD |
| (Blank) is a technique that complements other systems analysis and design techniques by emphasizing participative development among system owners, users, designers and builders. | Joint Application Development or JAD |
| Data about data is referred to as (Blank) | Metadata |
| A (Blank) is a formal document that communicates the need for information so that an RFP could be written | Request for Information |
| A (blank) is a formal document that communicates business, technical, and support requirements for an application to vendors that may wish to compete for the sole of that application and services. | Request for Proposal |
| When you have already decided on the specific product, but that product can be acquired from different vendors or distributors, what would you use to solicit a proposal from a vendor? | Request for Qoute |
| (Blank) is the technique for determining if and when an investment will pay for itself. | Payback Analysis |
| (Blank)is an analysis technique that compares the annual discounted costs and benefits of alternative solutions. | Net Present Value |
| A technique that compares the lifetime profitability of alternative solutions is called | Return on Investment |
| A business requirement specifies the... | "What" |
| (Blank) refers to the minimum and maximum number of occurrences of one entity that may be related to a single occurrence of the other entity. | Cardinality |
| An attribute, or a group of attributes, that assumes a unique value for each entity instance is called... | An Identifier or Key |
| A data analysis technique that organizes data into groups to form non-redundant, stable, flexible, and adaptive entities is called... | Normalization |
| (Blank) are those benefits believed to be difficult or impossible to quantify. | Intangible Benefits |
| The period of time that will elapse before accrued benefits overtake accrued costs is called the... | Sunk Cost Period |
| The tasks to complete the design phase of a system development strategy are: | Design the application architecture, Design the system database, Design the Interface, Package design specifications and Update the project plan. |
| The steps involved in purchasing are: | Identify and research specific products that could support requirements, Solicit, Eval & Rank, Select & Recommend and Contract with the awarded vendor to obtain the product. |
| The purpose of the Award Contract activity is to (blank) a contract with the vendor who supplied the winning proposal. | Negotiate |
| The last step in the processing of purchasing the system after you award the contract and debrief the losing vendors is | Installing |
| The purpose of debriefing the losing vendors is to inform the losing vendors of precise (Blank) in their proposals and/products. | Weakness |