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Systems Analysis and Design - Chapter 1 |45 questions and answers.
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Systems Analysis and Design - Chapter 1 |45 questions and answers.
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Systems Analysis and Design - Chapter1 45 questions and answers
What are the first steps? - answer First steps in the process are to identify a project that will
deliver value to the business and to create a system request that provides the basic information
abut the proposed system.
SLDC - answer System Developement Life Cycle- the process of determining how an information
system (IS) can support business needs, designing the system, building it, and delivering it to its
users.
Systems Analyst - answer Key Person in SDLC!
- analyzes the business solution, identifies opportunites for improvement, and designs
information systems to implement improvements
- they also may serve as change agents who identify organizational improvement needed,
design systems to implement those changes, and motivate others to use the system.
What is the primary goal? - answer is to create value (profit) for the organization.
Whate are the Systems Analyst Skills? - answer Technical, business, analytical, Interpersonal,
Management, and Ethical
Systems Analyst Role - answer focuses on IS issues. This person develops ideas and suggestions
for ways that IT can support and improve business processes and helps designs new business
processes and policies.
Business Analyst Role - answer focuses on the business issues surrounding the system and
understands the business value that the system will create, develops ideas for improving the
business processes and helps design new business processes and policies.
, Requirements Analyst Role - answer Focuses on eliciting the requirements form the
stakeholders associated with the new system
Infrastructure Analyst Role - answer focuses on the technical issues surrounding the ways the
system will interact with the organizations technical infrastructure. (hardware, software,
network, and databases)
Change Management Analyst - answer Focuses on the people and management issues
surrounding the system installation. They ensure adequate documentation and support is
available to users and provides users with training on the new system. They also develop
strategies to overcome resistance.
Project Manager Role - answer Ensures the project gets done on time and within budget. Makes
sure the value was given to the organizaiton
What do software architects do? - answer This person takes a holistic view of the organizations
entire IT environment and guides application design decisions.
What are deliverables? - answer Specific documents and files that explain various elements of
the system.
** It is what you turn in at the end of each phase of the SDLC and the prereq of the next.
What is a system request? - answer a system request presents a brief summary of a business
need. It also explains how a system supports need and will create business value.
Planning Phase (1) - answer understand why an IS should be built and determine how the
project team will go about building it.
1. Project Initialization: how it will lower costs and increase revenues. IS deparrment works with
project sponser to conduct feasibility analysis
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