Exam 1: The Systems Development Environment

Techniques generally only provide support for one task.

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

All of the following are constraints EXCEPT:

Which of the following is NOT a system characteristic?

The extent to which subsystems depend on each other is called:

Breaking a system down into its smaller components is called:

Components are parts, or an aggregation of parts of the system.

List and briefly describe the four major SDLC phases.

The ability to see organizations as systems is called:

List and briefly discuss six approaches to systems development.

The final phase of the SDLC is:

A structured process in which users, managers, and analysts work together for several days in a series of intensive meetings to specify or review system requirements is called:

Systems analysts are key to the systems development process.

A centralized database that contains all diagrams, forms and report definitions, data structure, data definitions, process flows and logic, and definitions of other organizational and system components best describes a(n):

A system's capacity can be viewed as a(n):

The particular processes that an analyst will follow to help ensure that his work is complete, well done, and understood by project team members best defines:

What are methodologies, techniques, and tools?

The output of the systems planning and selection phase is:

Organizations use a standard set of steps to develop and support their information systems, which is called the:

The phases of the systems development life cycle are circular in nature.