MIS306 Chapter 1

the question "Can we build it" is asked in the design phase.

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Using net present value in calculating economic feasibility will allow for variations in the time value of money.

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When compared to a systems analyst, the business analyst will probably have more responsibility for determine business value.

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Because of the need to be focused on providing information about the business value of a system, a systems analyst will probably have much training or experience in programming or application development.

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Determining business requirements is generally done in the planning phase of the SDLC.

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If the development team of an organization is not familiar with the technologies that may be used, the project should be cancelled.

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In BPA and BPI, analysis is generally divided into three steps: understanding the as-is system, developing a cost-befit analysis, and understanding the technical feasibility.

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Juan is creating use cases. He is working in the design phase of the SDLC.

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Systems analysis and design projects are highly effective, with less than 3% of all projects cancelled or abandoned.

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Systems analysts are generally experts in business, finance, and application development.

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The document that describes the business reasons for building a system and the value that the system is expected to bring is called the system proposal.

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The planning phase of the SDLC will have two steps: project initiation and requirements determination.

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To be compatible, all costs and benefits should use the current value of money since variations over time will not affect the return on investment and it is difficult or impossible to estimate the future value of money.

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When compared to a business analyst, the systems analyst will identify how the system will provide business value.

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A support plan for the system is established in the implementation phase of the SDLC.

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A system request will generally have: project sponsor, business need, business requirements, business value, special issues or constraints.

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Anna has asked users and managers to identify problems with as-is system to describe how to solve them in the to-be system. She is probably doing the business process automation in this case.

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Developing navigation methods, database and file specifications and what architecture to use would occur in the design phase of the SDLC.

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Interviewing is generally done in the analysis phase of the SDLC.

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Numerous studies report that project involving technology experience failure rates from 30-70%.

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Online loan companies (like LendingTree) attempt to return quotes for loans within an hour. With more traditional banks, getting a quote on a loan may take weeks or months. Two techniques that were probably carefully analyzed in creating online loan quotation systems would be duration analysis and activity elimination.

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Systems that are not cancelled or abandoned are frequently delivered to the users significantly late or costing more than expected.

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The SDLC generally can be broken into four phases: planing, analysis, design, and implementation.

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The business analyst role focuses on the business issues surrounding the system.

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The champion supports the project with resource and political clout.

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The key person in the SDLC is the systems analyst who analyzed the business situation, identifies opportunities for improvements and design an information system to implement the improvements.

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The normal sequence of SDLC phase outputs (from beginning to end) would be: system request, system proposal, system specifications, and installed system.

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The primary goal of a system is to create value for the organization.

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The primary output of the analysis phase is the system proposal.

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The primary output of the planning phase is the systems request.

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The project sponsor should have an idea of the business value to be gained form the system.

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The requirements analyst role includes complete and accurate determination of what the systems requirements consist of for all stakeholders.

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The three factors in the test for a feasibility analysis are: technical, organization, and economic.

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The three feasibility analyses in the text were: organizational, technical, and economic feasibility.

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User frustration with a proposed system would fall under intangible costs.

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