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 |