Chapter 3. Reading Quiz.
Name: __________________________
1. The _______________________ approach to development completes enough
analysis, design, and implementation to fully develop a part of the new system
and place it into operation as quickly as possible.
2. A modeling technique that attempts to merge data and process concerns is
called ______________________________
3. A(n) ________________________________ is a new requirement that is imposed
by management or some external influence.
4. List the components of the PIECES framework
5. _______________________ is defined as the result obtained by striking a
balance between the cost of developing and operating a system, and the
benefits derived from that system.
6. _______________________ is the ongoing maintenance of a system after it has
been placed into operation.
7. Activities that overlap many or all phases of the methodology are called
_______________________.
8. System development documentation is stored in a _________________________.
9. A(n) _____________________________________________ is a set of activities,
methods, best practices, deliverables, and automated tools that stakeholders
use to develop and maintain information systems and software.
10. A ________________________________________________ is a contract with
management and the user community to develop or enhance an information
system, specifying vision, scope, constraints, user requirements, schedule, and
budget.
11. The ______________________________________________ is a framework to
assess the maturity level of an organization's information systems development
and management processes and products.
12. A(n) ____________________________________ divides the life of an information
system into two stages: systems development and systems operation and
support.
13. A(n) __________________________________________ is a very formal and precise
system development process that defines a set of activities, methods, best
practices, deliverables and automated tools for system developers and project
managers to use to develop and maintain most or all information systems and
software.
14. With the ______________________________________ approach to systems
development, multiple feasibility checkpoints are built into any systems
development methodology. At each feasibility checkpoint, all costs are
considered sunk (i.e., not recoverable). Thus, the project should be re-evaluated
at each checkpoint to determine if it remains feasible to continue investing
time, effort and resources.
15. ________________________________________ asks the question: Does the staff
have the technical expertise to design and build the solution?
16. ________________________________________ asks the question: Is the solution
cost-effective such that the benefits outweigh the costs?
17. _______________________________________ asks the question: Can the solution
be designed and implemented within an acceptable time period?
18. _________________________________________ activities are activities that
overlap many or all phases of the methodology.
20. _______________________________ is the formal process of using research,
interviews, meetings, questionnaires, sampling and other techniques to collect
information about systems, requirements and preferences.
21. ______________________________________ is the activity of communicating
findings, recommendations, and documentation for review by interested users
and managers. It may be written or verbal.
22. ___________________________________ is the measure of how beneficial the
development of an information system would be to an organization.
23. _______________________________________________ techniques emphasize the
drawing of models to help visualize and analyze problems, define business
requirements, and design information systems.
24. ___________________________________________ techniques emphasize
extensive user involvement in the rapid and evolutionary construction of work
prototypes of a system to accelerate the system development process. It is
sometimes called a spiral approach because you repeatedly spiral through the
phases to construct a system in various degrees of completeness and
complexity.
25. A(n) ____________________________________ is a small-scale, representative or
working model of users' requirements or a proposed system design for an
information system.
26. A(n) _________________________________________ software package is a fully
integrated collection of information systems that span most basic business
functions required by a major corporation. These systems include accounting
and finances, human resources, sales and procurement, inventory management,
production planning and control, and so on.
27. __________________________________________________ are software programs
that automate or support the drawing and analysis of system models and
provide for the translation of system models into application programs.
28. A(n) ____________________________________ is a system developers' database.
It is a place where developers can store models, detailed descriptions and
specifications and other parts of systems development. Synonyms include
dictionary and encyclopedia.
29. ___________________________________________ requires the systems analyst to
draw system models either from scratch or from templates. The resulting
models are then automatically transformed into program code.
30. ___________________________________________ allows a CASE tool to read
existing program code and transform that code into a representative system
model that can be edited and refined by the systems analyst.
31. _________________________________________________ are integrated software
development tools that provide all the facilities necessary to develop new
application software with maximum speed and quality.