Exam 7: Systems Development

A ___________ is a signal that things are going better or worse than planned.

What is the basis for project management and how can this be illustrated?

The methodology that was intended to produce systems quickly without sacrificing quality is referred to as:

When the mental process of a single manager selects the best alternative, he/she is using:

Which of the following is not an attraction to prototyping?

A ___________ is a graphic representation of a system that uses four symbol shapes to illustrate how data flows through interconnected processes.

The definition effort phase is usually stimulated by a problem trigger.

The systems approach involves a series of steps broken into four phases.

A requirements prototype is developed as a way to define the functional requirements of the new system when the users are unable to articulate exactly what they want.

A ____________ is a condition that is produced by the problem and is usually more obvious than the root cause of the problem.

The stage of phased development that is not iterative is:

List the five steps involved in the solution effort of the systems approach.

Technical quality is a measure of what a system does, while functional quality is a measure of how it does it.

Which phase of the systems approach prepares the problem solver by providing a systems orientation?

Which project management mechanism is a horizontal bar chart that includes a bar for each task to be performed?

When management is evaluated during the definition effort, the organizational structure is also evaluated.

A Figure 0 diagram documents a single process of a DFD in a greater amount of detail.

During which stage of phased development is project and system feasibility evaluated?

John Dewey is credited for originating a systematic problem- solving process.

The term that is used to describe the hierarchy of diagrams to document a system is called: