Exam 5: Determining System Requirements

One advantage of open-ended questions in an interview is:

Collection of information is at the core of systems analysis.

Challenging yourself to look at the organization in new ways describes the impertinence characteristic that a systems analyst should exhibit during the requirements determination phase.

Meeting notes, procedure manuals, and consultant reports are specific deliverables that might be obtained during the requirements determination process.

Open-ended questions can put interviewees at ease because they can respond in their own words using their own structure.

When comparing observations and document analysis, the time required for document analysis is rated as low to moderate.

A report:

Briefly identify several characteristics for a good systems analyst to have during requirements determination.

Forms are important for understanding a business because they:

The purpose of requirements structuring is to:

Briefly identify and describe the participants of a JAD session.

When performing observations, it is best to select typical people and sites as opposed to atypical people and sites.

In order to promote more truthful responses, the general nature of the interview should not be explained to the interviewee in advance.

Technologies that enable the breaking of long-held business rules that inhibit organizations from making radical business changes best defines:

While being observed, employees may follow exact procedures more carefully than they typically do.

The prototyping process usually includes formal documentation of system requirements.

Which of the following technologies disrupted the business rule of you having to find out where things are?

As a general guideline, you should prepare an agenda with approximate time limits for different sections of the interview.

Assuming anything is possible and eliminating the infeasible best describes:

The idea behind BPR is to reorganize the complete flow of data in major sections of an organization to eliminate unnecessary steps, achieve synergies among previously separate steps, and become more responsive to future changes.