System analysis and design method
Chapter 1:
Short question:
1. Who are the stakeholders? What is their responsibility?
System owners; system users; system designers; system builder; system analysts; information
technology vendors and consultants.
2. What is a system owner’s role?
3. What is system analyst role in system development as it relates to other stakeholder?
4. What should system analyst facilitate?
名词解释(Noun explanation)
TQM; BPR; CPI; ERP; EC; CMM; legacy system;
Chapter 2:
名词解释(Noun explanation)
IS; IT; MIS; Transaction Processing; DSS; ES; OA; Information systems architecture; Prototyping
Short question:
1. Why communication focus omitted from the framework in 5th.
2. Why are businesses interested in cross-functional systems?
3. What is the role of network in information systems?
4. What is information system architecture?
Question:
1. Please draw the information system building blocks.
2. Explain the perspectives of stakeholders on DATA, processes and interfaces.
3. Explain the three focuses represented in information systems architecture.
Chapter 3:
名词解释(Noun explanation)
CMM; system life cycle; system development methodology; Steering committee; system support;
cross life cycle activities; process management; project management; MDD; RAD; COTS; CASE;
Development process; timeboxing; Forward and reverse engineering.
Short question:
1. Which level is Methodology in CMM? Why and how the companies use it?
2. What is creeping commitment approach?
3. Name the six problem classes of PIECES?
4. What the differentiate between development stage and operation and support stage of life
cycle?
5. Give an example about directive trigger for system development project.
6. Describe five types of feasibility.
7. What is timeboxing?
Question:
1. Please explain the eight underlying principles for systems development.
2. Please draw the figure about the FAST system development phases.
3. Please explain the five level of CMM.
Chapter 4:
名词解释(Noun explanation)
Project; Scope creep; Feature creep; JRP; WBS; OD; PD; Forward scheduling; Reverse
scheduling; Critical Path; Slack time; Change management; expectations management
Short question:
1. What are project manager competencies?
2. Explain the eight project manage functions.
3. Give the four stages of team maturity.
Question:
1. Please analyses the project and give critical path and slack time.
Chapter 5:
名词解释(Noun explanation)
System analysis; structure analysis; information analysis; discovery prototyping; JRP;
Fact-finding; Steering body; ERD; DFD; Cause-and-effect analysis; Functional requirement and
nonfunctional requirement; Logical design; Timeboxing;
Short question:
1. What is the difference between systems analysis and logical design?
2. What role does CASE play in system modeling?
3. What are the possible final outcomes of the preliminary investigation phase.
4. Why is the vocabulary of a business problem so important during analysis?
5. Why does requirements analysis never really end for a project?
Question:
1. Give the context of system analysis.
2. Give and explain the four phase of system analysis.
3. What are the possible final outcomes of the requirement analysis?
4. Why did several system analysis phases conclude with a presentation task when appropriate
system owners and users were included in virtually all the system analysis tasks?
Chapter 6:
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Requirements discovery; Problem analysis; Ishikawa diagram; Fishbone diagram; Open-ended
questions; Closed-ended questions; Structured interview; Unstructured interview; JRP; Use case.
Short question:
1. Please give an example of Fishbone diagram.
2. List the seven criteria to define system requirement.
3. During system analysis phases, which of a business and a system the analyst learns about?
4. List five possible problems in requirements.
5. Why formalizing and validating requirement?
6. Why using document and file sampling techniques? List the common used techniques.
7. Why observation is important fact-finding techniques?
8. List the JRP participants.
Question:
1. List advantage and disadvantage of observation.
2. List advantage and disadvantage of questionnaire.
3. List advantage and disadvantage of interview.
4. Give some example of fixed-format questionnaire.
5. Please design interview guide for a course management system.
6. Design an agenda for one day JRP.
Chapter 7:
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Logical Model; Physical Model; ERD; Entity; Entity instance; Compound attribute; Domain;
concatenated key; Primary key; Alternate key; Relationship; Cardinality; Degree; One to one; One
to many; Many to many; Recursive relationship; Associative relationship; foreign Key; Identifying
relationship; nonspecific relationship; Generalization; super-type; Metadata; Data
normalization(1NF 2NF 3NF);
Short question:
1. List the stages when developing a logical data model.
Question:
1. P300.2
2. P300.11
3. P301.17
4. P301.18
5. P301.19
Chapter 8:
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Process modeling; DFD; Systems thinking; Process decomposition; Logical processes; function;
Event; Elementary; Structured English; Decision Table; (converging, diverging)Data flow; Data
structure; External Agent;
Short question:
1. List the three common mechanical errors with process.
2. What is event partitioning?
3. What is the relationship between a policy and a decision table?
4. Differentiate between an enterprise and application process model?
Question:
1. P357.15, P357.16
2. P357.18
3. P316.figure 8.5 (explain)
4. P325.figure.8.13 (explain)
5. P348.figure 8.26, P350.figure.8.27(explain)
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