IST 6450 Quiz Questions for Final
Agile Manifesto Principles
1. Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done. 2. Working software is the primary measure of progress. 3. The sponsors , developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
Final output of the analysis phase
A description of the alternate solution
Most of the available tools have a set of common features that include all of the following except ________
Accurate automated timed tasks
In which phase of the SDLC are the system requirements studied and structured?
Analysis
__________ would be classified as software designed to support the payroll function.
Application Software
A(n) ________ is an entity type that associates the instances of one or more entity types and contains attributes that are peculiar to the relationship between those entity instances.
Associative Entity
If an analyst can recognize that all of the facts must fit with every other fact, the analyst is displaying ________.
Attention to details
A functional dependency is a particular relationship between two ________.
Attributes
A ________ relationship is a relationship between instances of two entity types and is the most common type of relationship encountered in data modeling.
Binary
The overall process by which current methods are replaced with new methods is referred to as ________.
Business process reengineering
A ________ key is an attribute (or combination of attributes) that uniquely identifies each instance of an entity type.
Candidate
A network diagram will never be used when the tasks ______
Cannot be worked on independently of other tasks
Ranking items in order of importance is what type of interview question?
Close-ended
Rating a response or idea on a scale, say from bad to good or strongly agree to strongly disagree, is what type of interview question?
Close-ended
You should choose ___ for instant access to an application or when the supported task is generic
Cloud Computing
What is an organization that hosts and runs computer applications for other companies, typicaly on a per use or liscence basis?
Cloud Computing Application Provider
What is a method for organizations to obtain applications for rent from a third party provider who runs the application as a remote site?
Cloud computing
What is delivered after the completion of the implementation phase?
Code, documentation, training procedures, and support capabilities
Under eXtreme Programming, ________ and ________ are intimately related parts of the same process.
Coding & Testing
What is at the core of systems analysis?
Collection of Information
In logical database modeling and design, we translate the ________ E-R data model for the application or enterprise, developed without explicit consideration of specific user interfaces, into normalized data requirements.
Conceptual
Managing conflict within a project team, ensuring conflict is nether too low or too high, refers to the _____ activity of a project manager
Conflict management
What is the benefit of a packaged data model: Purchased data models are very general, covering almost all options employed by the associated functional area or industry.
Consistent and Complete
COCOMO
Constructive Cost Model
In a data flow diagram, a ________ is modeled using an arrow.
Data Flow
A ________ is a diagram of process logic where the logic is reasonably complicated.
Decision Table
The ________ of a relationship is the number of entity types that participate in that relationship.
Degree
Delivered at the completion of the analysis phase
Description of current systems , where problems and opportunities are, and recommendations to fix, enhance, or replace them.
Which of the following are delivered after the completion of the planning phase?
Detailed steps, or a work plan, for a project
he long-held organizational rule "information can appear in only one place at a time" is disrupted by which of the following technology?
Distributed databases allow for the sharing of information
All of the following are advantages to incorporating business rules in the repository except ________.
Does not promote ease of use of the database
___ software solution consist of a series of integrated modules.
Enterprise Pesource Planning
_____ are large, complex systems that consists of a series of independent system modules.
Enterprise-wide Systems
You would choose ___ for computer systems that cross functional boundaries.
Enterprise-wide solutions vendors
A(n) ________ is a person, place, object, event, or concept in the user environment about which the organization wishes to maintain data.
Entity
Business Rules
Entity Integrity, Referential Integrity, Domains, Triggering Operations
What is the result of normalization?
Every nonprimary key attribute depends on the whole primary key and nothing but the primary key.
If the prototyping is successful during ________, it eventually becomes the system.
Evolutionary prototyping
First Activity in the project execution phase
Executing the Baseline project plan
True statement regarding iterative development
Feeback is provided to BOTH developers and customers
Which criterion refers to how easy it is to customize the software?
Flexibility
During logical database design, the ________ attribute is indicated by a dashed underline.
Foreign Key
___ refers to the tasks the software can perform and the mandatory, essential, and desired system features.
Functionality
You should choose ___ when you require custom support and the system can't be built internally.
IT Service Firms
If a systems analyst is questioning everything, they are showing the _____ characteristic.
Impertinance
Functions of vendor support
Includes assistance to installing software, training users, and providing help with problems after installation
___ periodically evaluates software and collcts user opinions, thus prociding a range of options about possible software packages.
Independent software testing services
A(n) ________ is a file organization in which rows are stored either sequentially or non-sequentially, and an index is created that allows software to locate individual rows.
Indexed file organization
Necessary project manager skills
Interpersonal, leadership, and technical skills
Which site layout and navigation characteristic feature is concerned with "navigation menu and logo placement should remain consistent throughout the entire site"?
Layout and Design
A ________ is a DFD that represents a system's major processes, data flows, and data stores at a high level of detail.
Level-0 Diagram
A ________ diagram is a DFD that is generated from n nested decompositions from a level-0 diagram.
Level-n
Balancing is the conservation of inputs and outputs to a DFD process when that process is decomposed to a ________ level.
Lower
In which phase of the SDLC is an information system systematically repaired and improved/
Maintenance
In the commitment phase, the business analysts sorts Story Cards into all of the following stacks except ________.
Management Driven Essentials
Projects produce ____ that are often reviewed by people outside of the team.
Milestones
While you execute the Baseline Project Plan, you should _____
Monitor your progress
Compared to traditional coding practices, what are advantages of pair programming? (3)
More communication among developers, higher levels of productivity, and higher-quality code
Which site layout and navigation characteristic feature is concerned with "users should always be aware of what section they are currently in"?
Navigation
The diagram that shows the sequence of dependencies between tasks
Network Diagram
Which of the following is a drawback for prototyping?
No formal documentation
Joshua is a new project manager. He's unsure how much time a new task requires to be completed. He decides to use ____ to estimate a realistic time frame.
PERT
If a company has a generic software need, they should consider acquiring its software from a ___.
Packaged software producer
In choosing an off-the-shelf software solution and the supported task is generic, which type of software package would you use?
Packaged software producer
Examples of company outsourcing
Payroll, IT, running applications at your site
Part of the SDLC design phase logical specifications are transformed into technology-specific details from which all programming and system construction can be accomplished.
Physical design
Which SDLC phase focuses on the needs of the entire organization?
Planning
The lowest level of a DFD is called a ________ data flow diagram.
Primitive
A ________ is the work or actions performed on data so that they are transformed, stored, or distributed.
Process
Third phase of the project management process
Project Execution
During _____, the project manager performs several activities to assess the size, scope, and complexity of the project and to establish procedures to support subsequent activities.
Project initiation
Cindy tried to delete a customer but the customer still had open invoices so the system would not allow her to delete the customer. More than likely ________ was enforced.
Referential Integrity
In a relation, the sequence of columns can be interchanged without changing the meaning or use of the ________.
Relation
What is a characteristic of the agile methodologies group?
Requirements are usually well-understood
Identifying, assessing, and managing the risks and day-to-day changes that occur during is attributed to _____
Risk and change management
A traditional methodology used to develop, maintain, and replace information systems
SDLC
When using Scum, ______ is there to teach and enforce the rules.
Scum Master
Primary concern of IT managers as it relates to cloud computing.
Security
The critical path represents the _____ time in which a project can be completed
Shortest
A ________ is the origin and/or destination of the data, and these are sometimes referred to as external entities because they are outside the system.
Source
A ________ is used in both conventions for sources/sinks and has a name that states what the external agent is, such as Customer, Teller, EPA Office, or Inventory Control System.
Square
In some situations, two or more attributes may have different names but the same meaning, as when they describe the same characteristic of an entity. Such attributes are called ________.
Synonym
In ________ normal form, nonprimary key attributes do not depend on each other (what we call no transitive dependencies).
Third (3NF)
A ternary relationship is a simultaneous relationship among instances of ________ entity type(s).
Three
What is the purpose of gathering system records?
To gain an objective view of employee interaction with information systems
Peter had to correct an E-R model because an entity instance of the supertype was not a member of some subtype in the relationship. The E-R model broke the ________ rule.
Total Specialization
A(n) ________ is an assertion or rule that governs the validity of data manipulation operations such as insert, update, and delete.
Triggering Operation
The business rule that protects the validity of attribute values.
Triggering Operations
What is the first step in the BPR effort?
Understand the key processes.
A data flow to a data store means ________.
Update
Major drawback to the traditional waterfall SDLC approach
Users are locked into requirements
Benefits of ERP
Uses a single repository, has flexible modules, and less maintenance
When considering off-the-shelf software, which choice is one of the most important criteria to consider?
Vendor support
Agile methods critical factor "Size"
Well-matched to small products and teams
What can analysis of work procedure documents reveal?
When a procedure is missing
The ________ is a document written to describe how a particular job is performed.
Work procedure
The following development approach is known for its short cycles.
eXtreme Programming
Agile Development value
individuals and Interactions over Processes and Tools
What is the first phase of the SDLC?
planning
The agile methods critical factor "Criticality" refers to...
untested on safety-critical products
