Exam 1: The Systems Development Environment

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__________ is the second phase of the SDLC in which system requirements are studied and structured.

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What is RAD? Compare and contrast RAD to the traditional SDLC.

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RAD follows the traditional SDLC phases,but the phases are shortened and combined with each other to produce a more streamlined development technique.

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The systems development life cycle is a sequentially ordered set of phases.

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Which of the following grew out of the convergence of the increased speed and turbulence of doing business in the late 1980s and early 1990s and the ready availability of high-powered,computer-based tools to support systems development and easy maintenance?

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Iterative development focuses on the frequent production of working versions of a system that have a subset of the total number of required features.

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__________ is computer software designed to support organizational functions or processes.

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Match each of the following terms with its corresponding definition. -The property that occurs when entity types or object classes are arranged in a hierarchy and each entity type or object class assumes the attributes and methods of its ancestors.

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Match each of the following terms with its corresponding definition. -A logical grouping of objects that have the same attributes and behaviors.

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Which of the following are deliverables for the implementation phase?

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List and define the five major SDLC phases.

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An example of a service is a credit check.

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What is object-oriented analysis and design?

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Analysts convert the description of the recommended alternative solution into logical and then physical system specifications during:

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During physical design,the logical specifications of the system from the logical design are transformed into technology-specific details from which all programming and system construction can be accomplished.

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The first phase in the systems development life cycle (SDLC)is planning.

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__________ is the first phase of the SDLC in which an organization's total information system needs are identified,analyzed,prioritized,and arranged.

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Match each of the following phases with its corresponding products,outputs,or deliverables.(Answers may occur more than once.) -Detailed steps,or work plan,for a project; specification of system scope and high-level system requirements or features; assignment of team members and other resources; system justification or business case.

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Involving the end user in analysis and design is a key advantage to the prototyping technique.

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A central __________ enables the integrated storage of specifications,diagrams,reports and project management information.

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