Exam 3: Requirements Determination

From a quality perspective, ___________ quality is related to the degree that the software meets the functional requirements.

Open-ended questions gather rich information because they are questions that permit the interviewee to elaborate on answer.

Briefly describe the information is typically included in a system proposal?

The standard approach to select who should complete a questionnaire during information gathering is to sample only those departments that do not have direct contact with the As-Is system.

A systems analyst has prepared an interview agenda that begins with a number of specific, detailed questions, and then asks the interviewee to make general statements about the policies and procedure of the business process. The analyst is following a top-down interview structure.

An interview style that seeks a broad and roughly defined set of information is commonly called the unstructured interview style.

A requirement is a statement of what the system must do and how it will be implemented.

Describe the appearance of a Joint Application Design (JAD) meeting room. Why is the room designed in this manner?

What are the methods used to identify improvement opportunities during business process improvement? How do the methods used for each analysis strategy affect the outcome of the "identify improvement" process?

Kristin, a systems analyst, needs to know detailed information about the accounts receivable process, but she is not concerned with accounts payable or general ledger, or the integration of this information. Her analysis will assist her in designing a To-Be system for the accounts receivable department. The appropriate requirements-gathering technique to be used would be interviewing.

The most comprehensive and complete deliverable of the analysis phase is _____.

What is the primary goal of observation? What are three ways to make observation more effective? How reliable are the results of observation?

Because it is important not to disrupt the normal business function, joint application design (JAD) sessions should be held at a location easily accessible to the participants' office staffs, and attendees should be those most easily released from regular duties and least likely to be missed.

Virtually all of the quality models differentiate functional and non-functional requirements.

A concept map is essentially a node-and-arc representation, where the nodes represent the individual requirements and the arcs represent the _______________ among the requirements.

Both story cards and task lists requirements documentation techniques are considered to be detail approaches to documenting and gathering requirements.

One of advantage of concept maps over typical textual approach is that concepts maps allow the relationships among the functional and nonfunctional requirements to be explicitly represented.

A JAD session can reduce scope creep by _____.

Questionnaires are often used when there is only a small number of people from which information and opinions are needed, because it is difficult to get a large number of participants to return questionnaires on a timely basis.

Which of the following analysis strategies incurs the highest risk yet has the potential to provide high value to the business?