MIS 306 Final

Ralph wants to illustrate how a system interacts with the environment. The best solution for him would be to use a ________:

use case

Destination would be described on a use case in which of the following areas?:

Major outputs

many things can cause risk on a project

true

Projects can be classified by: size, cost, purpose, length, programming language and hardware platform.

False

Ramona is preparing an economic feasibility study. She is calculating the payback period. She is calculating:

Break-even point

Extreme Programming (XP) is BEST characterized as:

A method for stressing customer satisfaction

Austin is a systems analyst. Which of the follow people might be the most valuable to him in developing a use case for an accounts payable system upgrade?

Amy, a team manager in the accounts payable department

Kallie is creating use cases, data flow diagrams and entity relationship diagrams. In what phase of the SDLC would she do this?

Analysis

Michaela is a systems analyst who is determining business requirements. What would most likely be the SDLC phase for her?

Analysis

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: ______________

Business Process Reengineering

Chang is working on "How will this system work". What SDLC phase is he in?

Design

PCM Incorporated will need to purchase new servers for a system. This would be a:

Development cost

Linda is a clerk in the accounting department. She was interviewed by David and is excited about the proposed system that will utilize electronic funds transfer. This would be an example of ______.

Intangible benefit

Rocky is dealing one-on-one with users and business managers (including some that have little experience with technology). He is demonstrating what system analyst skill?

Interpersonal

Agile development is a group of programming-centric methodologies that focus on:

Streamlining the SDLC

Because the cost can be immense, _________ is one of the most critical steps in implementation.

Testing

Marta has asked the users of a system to picture themselves performing the processes and to write down those processes in a sequential order. She should get a good idea of ________.

The major steps for each use case

which is probably not true about use cases

They illstrate what starts (or triggers) an event

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

True

Parallel methodology is BEST characterized as

a series of versions

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?

business process automation

which is propably not true about biulding use cases

major costs are analyzed

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

false

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

false

The science (or art) of project management is setting a schedule and sticking to it no matter what - even if that includes working weekends and adding staff to reach the deadline on time False

false

after conducting the feasibility analysis in the planning phase, if it is determined that the orgnazaition will use the new system

false

during the analysis phase, requirements are written

false

projects can be classified by size, cost, purpose, cost

false

Which of the following is probably NOT a step for writing a use case?

identify the analyst

which is true about IT projects

most it departments face a demand for It Projects

Which of the following is probably NOT a part of most use cases?

secondary actor

The V-model pays more explicit attention to ___________: Testing

testing

Garrett has been told by management that his project MUST be completed on time. His best estimates are more than two weeks after the absolute deadline. Which technique could he use to get a functional system on time?

timeboxing

The science (or art) of project management is in making ___________ of size, time and cost. Trade-offs

trade-offs

A Use Case is a formal way of representing how a business system interacts with its environment.

true

A critical success factor for project management is to start with a realistic assessment of the work that needs to be accomplished

true

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 to a month.

true

The question 'Can we build it' is asked in the planning phase.

true

a work plan is a dynamic schedule that records and keeps track of all the tasks that need to be accomplished over the course of the project

true

each use case contains a fairly complete descirption

true

systems analysts skills include: technology, team efoort

true

the SDLC is the process of determining how an information system runs

true

Omar is an analyst building a use case. Which of the following project roles might be the most important in terms of getting information about building the use case?

users