Exam 6: Determining System Requirements
What is the difference between open-ended and closed-ended questions? Assume you are analyzing a classroom scheduling system.Identify two open-ended questions and two closed-ended questions you might ask.
Open-ended questions are usually used to probe for information for which you cannot anticipate all possible responses or for which you do not know the precise question to ask.Open-ended questions might include the following: What information is currently provided by the scheduling system? What information would you like to have that the current scheduling system does not provide? Closed-ended questions provide a range of answers from which the interviewee may choose.Closed-ended questions might ask the system users to rate a response to the following questions: Does the existing system provide hourly-scheduling information in a timely manner? Is the existing system easy to use?
Which of the following is NOT a useful document in the analysis process?
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Identify four disadvantages to using prototyping as a requirements determination tool.
The four drawbacks mentioned in the textbook are: (1)a tendency to avoid creating formal documentation of system requirements; (2)prototypes become very idiosyncratic to the initial user and difficult to diffuse or adapt to other potential users; (3)prototypes are often built as stand-alone systems,often ignoring issues of sharing data,interactions with other existing systems,and scaling up applications; and (4)checks in the SDLC are bypassed so that some more subtle system requirements might be forgotten.
All of the following are documents that are helpful in understanding future systems,except ________.
Which of the following is a new,faster,and more flexible technique for analysis gathering requirements?
Describe the contemporary methods for collection systems requirements.
Which of the following is NOT a part of the guidelines for effective interviewing?
Which of the following is NOT source of information for deliverables?
What is the Nominal Group Technique? How is it beneficial to requirements determination?
JADs are best held at the corporate office where everyone's office is nearby.
Which of the following is a primary way to gather information?
Which of the following is NOT a reason why people sometimes do not report accurate information?
The ________ is a document written to describe how a particular job is performed.
The first page of the interview guide contains all of the following except ________.
________ are recognized in official documentation of the organization.
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