Exam 3: Information Systems Development

A(n) _________________________ is a new requirement that is imposed by management or some external influence.

Object-oriented analysis and design is an object-centered, data-sensitive technique used to model business requirements in terms of objects and entities using entity relationship diagrams to prototype an information system.

A(n) _____________________________ divides the life of an information system into two stages: systems development and systems operation and support.

Risk management is the process of identifying, evaluating and controlling what might go wrong in a project before it becomes a threat to the successful completion of the project or implementation of the information system.

The earliest that a systems analyst can project the staffing for a project, estimate its budget and prepare a schedule is during the requirements analysis phase.

Documentation is the activity of recording facts and specifications for a system for current and future reference.

A directive is a new requirement that's imposed by management, government or some external influence.

The first solution an analyst finds is usually the best solution. It is not cost effective to consider alternatives.

Some organizations develop their own system development methodologies.

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

Timeboxing is the imposition of a nonextendable period of time, usually 6 to 9 days.

System development documentation is stored in a _____________________.

The primary deliverable of the problem analysis phase is system improvement objectives. These objectives do not define inputs, outputs or processes. Instead, they define the business criteria on which any new system will be evaluated.

Project management ensures that an information system is developed at minimum cost, within a specific time frame, and with acceptable quality.

System support is the operating system and technology architecture used in the design of the information system.

_________________________________ asks the question: Does the staff have the technical expertise to design and build the solution?

A repository is a database or other filing mechanism where system developers store all documentation, knowledge, and products for one or more information systems or projects.

____________________________________ techniques emphasize extensive user involvement in the rapid and evolutionary construction of work prototypes of a system to accelerate the system development process. It is sometimes called a spiral approach because you repeatedly spiral through the phases to construct a system in various degrees of completeness and complexity.

The Capability Quality Model (CQM) is a framework to assess the quality level of an organization's information systems development and management processes and products.

Opportunities are chances to improve the organization in the absence of specific problems.