Exam 3: Information Systems Development

Fact-finding is the formal process of using research, interviews, meetings, questionnaires, sampling and other techniques to collect information about systems, requirements, and preferences.

Process management is an ongoing activity that documents, manages the use of, and improves an organization's chosen methodology for systems development. It is concerned with the activities, deliverables, and quality standards to be applied to all projects.

________________ is defined as the result obtained by striking a balance between the cost of developing and operating a system, and the benefits derived from that system.

Schedule feasibility is used to determine if the performance of the proposed system will fit into the users' working schedules.

Which one is NOT an ongoing activity of systems support?

The scope definition phase must consider the question, "Is this project worth looking at?"

Computer aided systems engineering (CASE) tools are software programs that automate or support the drawing and analysis of system models and provide for the translation of system models into application programs.

Presentation is the activity of communicating findings, recommendations, and documentation for review by interested users and managers. It may be written or verbal.

Increasingly, organizations adopt and follow a standardized systems development process.

Data modeling is a process-centered technique popularized .by the structured analysis and design methodology.

A systems development methodology is a formal approach to the system development process that defines a set of activities, methods, best practices, deliverables and automated tools for system developers and project managers to use to develop and maintain most or all information systems and software.

System designers and system builders can frequently skip the requirements analysis phase because they have performed this step in the past and know what the users need.

Documentation is the formal process of using research, interviews, meetings, questionnaires, sampling and other techniques to collect information about systems, requirements and preferences.

List the components of the PIECES framework_________________--

When using a COTS solution a gap analysis is often performed.

Feasibility is a measure of how beneficial the development of an information system would be to an organization.

__________________________________ activities are activities that overlap many or all phases of the methodology.

________________________________ asks the question: Can the solution be designed and implemented within an acceptable time period?

Operational feasibility is used to determine if the design team has the technical skills needed to actually get the proposed solution into operation.

____________________________ is the measure of how beneficial the development of an information system would be to an organization.