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Systems Analysis Quiz 2

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(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  
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What diagram is used to do a process model?   Data Flow Diagram  
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(Blank) is a technique for organizing and documenting a systems data.   Data Modeling  
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What diagram does the Data Modeling technique employ?   Entity Relationship Diagram or ERD.  
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(Blank) is anything real or abstract about which you want to store data.   Entity (example is customer, order, registration).  
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(Blank) is the measure of how beneficial or practical an information system will be to an agency.   Feasibility  
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What are the six types of feasibility?   Operational, Technical, Schedule, Economic, Legal & Cultural/Political.  
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(Blank) is a systems design approach that utilizes structured prototyping and JAD techniques to quickly develop systems.   Rapid Application Development or RAD  
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(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  
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Data about data is referred to as (Blank)   Metadata  
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A (Blank) is a formal document that communicates the need for information so that an RFP could be written   Request for Information  
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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  
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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  
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(Blank) is the technique for determining if and when an investment will pay for itself.   Payback Analysis  
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(Blank)is an analysis technique that compares the annual discounted costs and benefits of alternative solutions.   Net Present Value  
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A technique that compares the lifetime profitability of alternative solutions is called   Return on Investment  
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A business requirement specifies the...   "What"  
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(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  
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An attribute, or a group of attributes, that assumes a unique value for each entity instance is called...   An Identifier or Key  
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A data analysis technique that organizes data into groups to form non-redundant, stable, flexible, and adaptive entities is called...   Normalization  
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(Blank) are those benefits believed to be difficult or impossible to quantify.   Intangible Benefits  
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The period of time that will elapse before accrued benefits overtake accrued costs is called the...   Sunk Cost Period  
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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.  
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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.  
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The purpose of the Award Contract activity is to (blank) a contract with the vendor who supplied the winning proposal.   Negotiate  
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The last step in the processing of purchasing the system after you award the contract and debrief the losing vendors is   Installing  
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The purpose of debriefing the losing vendors is to inform the losing vendors of precise (Blank) in their proposals and/products.   Weakness  
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