Exam 3: Requirements Determination

A technique where the analyst watches how people perform their activities is _______

The SDLC phases are all very unique and sharply delineated.

Blaine is using a requirements gathering technique that begins with non-threatening questions,avoids abbreviations,groups items into logically coherent sections,and might best be used with outside users.He probably is using:

In the SDLC (Systems Development Life Cycle),what comes after the analysis phase?

In your JAD session,you have a range of participants - from hourly workers to managers and executives.As you are conducting the JAD session,you sense that Chris,an accounts receivable processor is reluctant to talk - and it seems that is because Karen,the manager of the accounting department is also involved.The BEST plan might be to:

Wayne is a senior director of finance.His company only recently came under Sarbanes-Oxley regulations and is the project sponsor to become compliant.He realizes that examining the as-is system may not be much help as the regulations are so radical that a major analysis and design project must be completed to make the company compliant.He is leaning towards: ______________

In conducting a JAD session,you can tell Bruce (senior financial analyst)is not pleased with the direction the session is going.Bruce has become sarcastic and negative.He has insisted on going over an important point at least four times.The next time Bruce interrupts you should be prepared to cut him off and demand his attention and respect as he is wasting the time and good faith efforts of 14 other people.

The most commonly used requirements gathering technique is the interview..

Which is NOT a good practice in conducting interviews?

In studying duration analysis of a paper-based loan improvement process,you should be able to get all the information you need about the length of time sub-processes require from interviewing.

Hamid has selected one middle manager from each department that will be affected by the updated system and one lower-level manager from each department,along with a few senior staff as well as the project sponsor for a JAD session.He is trying to: _________

During an interview,the analyst has asked several open-ended questions regarding the procedures that are followed to handle a delinquent customer.Although the supervisor being interviewed has answered the questions,the analyst is still unclear about several details of the process.The analyst's best course of action is to _____.

Michael,a systems analyst,is working on a project.One thing he can do is to rank the business requirements as "high","medium",or "low" importance.

During an interview,the interviewee expresses a strong opinion on a topic,like "SOA will not work here".What should you do? How would you approach this?

Theresa would like to gain a broad understanding of just the as-is system,but the IS department has not fully budgeted this phase of the analysis process and she has not been given permission to contact the users.She could probably use which of the following techniques?

Yuri wants to interview both managers and staff in the accounting department for the updated credit analysis project.This is an appropriate group for first round interviews.

Jona's project is to take a fairly straight-forward manual process and make it an electronic process.This will make the processing more efficient.Which of the following requirements analysis strategies is she using?

The most important purpose of the requirements definition is to define the scope of the system.

Which is generally NOT true of non-functional requirements?

In preparing for an interview,TJ does research as to areas in which the interviewee has knowledge so that he does not ask questions that an interviewee cannot answer.