Business Systems Development
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Course Introduction
Business Systems Development is a comprehensive course that explores the methodologies, tools, and techniques involved in designing, implementing, and managing information systems that address organizational needs. Students will learn about the entire systems development life cycle from initial requirements analysis and business process modeling to system design, implementation, testing, and maintenance. The course emphasizes both technical and managerial aspects, including project management, stakeholder engagement, agile and traditional development methodologies, and the integration of business strategy with IT solutions. Through case studies and hands-on projects, students will develop the skills necessary to create effective business systems and contribute to the digital transformation of modern enterprises.
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Essentials of Systems Analysis and Design 5th Edition by Joseph Valacich
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Chapter 1: The Systems Development Environment
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Q1) The process of breaking the description of a system down into its smaller components best defines:
A) coupling.
B) cohesion.
C) decomposition.
D) modularity.
E) scaling.
Answer: C
Q2) During logical design, the analyst team decides which programming languages the computer instructions should be written in, which database systems and file structures will be used for the data, and which hardware platform, operating system, and network environment the system will run under.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Cohesion is the process of breaking down a system into its smaller components.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The Sources of Software
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Q1) Ease of installation is a measure of the difficulty of loading the software and making it operational.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Enterprise solutions vendors are best for complete systems that cross functional boundaries.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q3) The benefits of reuse grow as more corporate experience is gained from it.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q4) Outsourcing refers to turning over responsibility of some or all of an organization's information systems applications and operations to an outside firm.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Managing the Information Systems Project
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Q1) The most instrumental person to the successful completion of a project is the database analyst.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) A slipped completion date for an activity may initiate a change to the Baseline Project Plan.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) A Network diagram depicts project tasks and their interrelationships.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q4) The hallway discussion project team communication method has a medium to a high formality rating.
A)True
B)False Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Systems Planning and Selection
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Q1) Proper and insightful project initiation and planning, including determining project scope and identifying project activities, can reduce the time needed to complete later project phases, including systems analysis.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following possible project sources most often reflects the broader needs of the organization?
A) User department
B) Development group
C) IS manager
D) Top management
E) Production manager
Q3) Which of the following is NOT a project planning activity?
A) Determining project standards and procedures
B) Establishing management procedures
C) Developing a Statement of Work
D) Dividing the project into manageable tasks
E) Developing a communication plan
Q4) Briefly identify three commonly used economic cost-benefit analysis techniques.
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Chapter 5: Determining System Requirements
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Q1) Traditional methods of collecting systems requirements include:
A) interviews.
B) agile methodologies.
C) joint application design.
D) rapid application development.
E) prototyping.
Q2) The types of customers to be supported by Pine Valley Furniture's new WebStore include:
A) corporate customers.
B) home office customers.
C) student customers.
D) all of the above.
E) none of the above.
Q3) The most useful forms do not contain data.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In terms of expense, it can be high.
Q5) Briefly identify and describe the participants of a JAD session.
Q6) Tools and data are readily available to build working systems rapidly.
Q7) In terms of confidentiality, the individual is known.
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Chapter 6: Structuring System Requirements: Process
Modeling
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Q1) The determination of which items are low in stock is represented on a data-flow diagram as a process.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A miracle process is one that:
A) has only inputs.
B) has only outputs.
C) cannot be exploded further.
D) has insufficient inputs to produce the associated processes.
E) is connected directly to a source.
Q3) Discuss the guidelines for drawing a DFD.
Q4) Teller
A)Process
B)Data flow
C)Source/sink
D)Data store
Q5) Data cannot move directly from a source to a sink.
A)True
B)False
Q6) A source/sink has a noun phrase label. Page 8
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Chapter 7: Structuring System Requirements: Conceptual
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Q1) A multivalued attribute is an attribute that may take on more than one value for each entity instance.
A)True
B)False
Q2) An entity instance is a single occurrence of an entity type.
A)True
B)False
Q3) item description
A)Attribute
B)Entity
C)Relationship
Q4) When generating alternative design strategies, a high-end alternative will provide all desired features using advanced technologies that often allow the system to expand to meet future requirements.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Constraints on systems development include time, finances, and legal and contractual restrictions.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Designing the Human Interface
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Q1) Reversing the sequence of one or more characters in a field is called:
A) transposing.
B) transcripting.
C) appending.
D) truncating.
E) hashing.
Q2) Briefly discuss the SOS guidelines.
Q3) Designing usable forms and reports requires:
A) prototyping.
B) data modeling.
C) active interaction with end users.
D) process modeling.
E) using structured analysis.
Q4) When a transcripting data error occurs, additional characters have been added to a field.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Invoices and mailing labels are examples of forms.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Designing Databases
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Q1) During logical database design, the work of all systems development team members is coordinated and shared through:
A) the project dictionary.
B) scheduled weekly meetings.
C) the project leader.
D) JAD sessions.
E) walkthroughs.
Q2) Designing the database for an Internet-based electronic commerce application differs significantly from the process followed when designing the database for other types of applications.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A named two-dimensional table of data is a(n):
A) network.
B) tree structure.
C) relation.
D) tuple.
E) object.
Q4) Briefly identify the three file organizations.
Q5) Identify the five properties of a relation.
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Chapter 10: Systems Implementation and Operation
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Q1) During beta testing, users test a completed information system using real data in the real user environment.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A risk associated with the parallel installation approach is that there may be a delay until benefits result.
A)True
B)False
Q3) During systems design, an overall test plan is developed.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The implementation and operation phase of the systems development life cycle is the most expensive and time-consuming phase of the entire life cycle.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Define system documentation, user documentation, internal documentation, and external documentation.
Q6) Briefly identify four types of installation.
Q7) Identify several types of user documentation.
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Chapter 11: object-Oriented Analysis and Design
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Q1) The object-oriented systems development life cycle progressively develops a representation of an object through the phases of analysis, design, and implementation.
A)True
B)False
Q2) On a use-case diagram, a linking relationship arises when one use case references another use case.
A)True
B)False
Q3) State diagrams represent dynamic models of interactions between objects.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A function or service that is provided by all the instances of a class
A)Activation
B)Encapsulation
C)Multiplicity
D)Operation
E)State
Q5) What is a use-case diagram? What are its components?
Q6) What is the Unified Modeling Language?
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Chapter 12: Agile Methodologies
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Q1) The Iteration Planning Game is played by:
A) business and development.
B) facilitators.
C) scribes.
D) sponsors.
E) programmers.
Q2) The three key principles of Agile Methodologies include a focus on adaptive rather than predictive methodologies, a focus on people rather than roles, and a focus on a self-adaptive process.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following focuses on the frequent production of working versions of a system that have a subset of the total number of required features?
A) Use-case modeling
B) Structured analysis
C) Iterative development
D) Structured programming
E) Limited production
Q4) Requires continuous presence of a critical mass of scarce experts
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