Information Systems Analysis Practice Exam
Course Introduction
Information Systems Analysis focuses on the methodologies and techniques used to examine, design, and improve information systems within organizations. The course provides a comprehensive overview of requirements gathering, process modeling, data analysis, and system specification, integrating both technical and business perspectives. Students learn to identify organizational needs, analyze workflows, model business processes using tools such as data flow diagrams and Unified Modeling Language (UML), and recommend effective solutions. Emphasis is placed on communication skills, teamwork, and the use of various analytical frameworks to ensure information systems align with organizational goals and facilitate decision-making.
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Essentials of Systems Analysis and Design 6th Edition by Joseph Valacich
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Chapter 1: The Systems Development Environment
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Q1) Discuss the types of skills needed in order to succeed as a systems analyst.
Answer: Systems analysts need to develop four types of skills in order to succeed. Analytical skills are needed to understand the organization and its functions, identify opportunities and problems and to analyze and solve problems. Technical skills help you to understand the potential and limitation of information technology. Management skills help you to manage projects as well as the people involved. Finally, interpersonal skills help you to work with users as well as other members of the technical team.
Q2) The overall goal or function of a system best defines:
A) purpose.
B) goal.
C) objective.
D) scope.
E) mission.
Answer: A
Q3) The phases of the systems development life cycle are circular in nature.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The Sources of Software
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Q1) In enterprise solutions, the difference between the modules and traditional approaches is that the modules are integrated to focus on the business functional areas, rather than on business processes.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The benefits of reuse grow as more corporate experience is gained from it.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The best organization to go to when a supported task is generic is a(n):
A) open-source software provider.
B) cloud computing service provider.
C) in-house development group.
D) packaged software producer.
E) IT service firm.
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: Managing the Information Systems Project
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Q1) Task sequence depends on which tasks produce deliverables needed in other tasks, when critical resources are available, the constraints placed on the project by the client, and the process outlined in the SDLC.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The ability to easily make changes to a project is a very powerful feature of most project management environments.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Risks can arise from:
A) the use of new technology.
B) resistance to change.
C) availability of critical resources.
D) member inexperience with technology or the business area.
E) all of the above.
Answer: E
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Chapter 4: Systems Planning and Selection
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Q1) A cost associated with an information system that can be measured in dollars and with certainty best describes:
A) economic cost.
B) tangible cost.
C) intangible cost.
D) one-time cost.
E) measurable cost.
Q2) Which of the following is a project initiation activity?
A) Developing a preliminary schedule
B) Setting a baseline project plan
C) Determining project standards and procedures
D) Establishing a relationship with the customer
E) Developing a communication plan
Q3) Using a discount rate of 14 percent, the present value of a $10,000 benefit received five years from now is $5,500.49.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The construction of an information system can have political ramifications. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Determining System Requirements
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Q1) Briefly identify and describe the participants of a JAD session.
Q2) Disruptive technologies include:
A) cash.
B) accounts receivable.
C) a calculator.
D) high-performance computing.
E) systems analysis.
Q3) The official way a system works as described in organizational documentation is referred to as a(n):
A) formal system.
B) informal system.
C) official system.
D) desired system.
E) primary system.
Q4) While being observed, employees may follow exact procedures more carefully than they typically do.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Briefly identify several characteristics for a good systems analyst to have during requirements determination.
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Chapter 6: Structuring System Requirements: Process
Modeling
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Q1) On a data-flow diagram, a rectangle with the right vertical line missing represents a: A) data store.
B) data flow.
C) process.
D) source.
E) relationship.
Q2) Completeness, consistency, timing, iterative development, and primitive DFDs are guidelines for drawing DFDs.
A)True
B)False
Q3) As a rule of thumb, no data-flow diagram should have more than about seven processes on it.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A primitive level data-flow diagram is the first deliverable produced during requirements structuring.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What is gap analysis? Why is gap analysis useful?
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Chapter 7: Structuring System Requirements: Conceptual Data Modeling
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Q1) A deliverable from conceptual data modeling is a set of entries about data objects to be stored in the project dictionary or repository.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Enumerating different potential implementation environments that could be used to deliver the different sets of capabilities occurs during the:
A) requirements structuring step of the analysis phase.
B) shaping alternative system design strategies phase.
C) testing step of the implementation and operation phase.
D) project initiation and planning step of the planning and selection phase.
E) designing the human interface step of the design phase.
Q3) The number of entity types that participate in a relationship refers to:
A) cardinality.
B) association.
C) count.
D) degree.
E) normalization.
Q4) Contrast data modeling to process modeling and logic modeling.
Q5) Briefly discuss generating alternative design strategies.
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Chapter 8: Designing the Human Interface
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Q1) Interface and dialogue design focuses on how information is provided to and captured from users.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When an appending data error has occurred, characters have been lost from the field.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Testing to ensure that data conforms to a standard format is the purpose of the:
A) missing data validation test.
B) pictures/templates validation test.
C) reasonableness validation test.
D) size validation test.
E) self-checking digits validation test.
Q4) Reversing the sequence of one or more characters in a field is called:
A) transposing.
B) transcripting.
C) appending.
D) truncating.
E) hashing.
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Chapter 9: Designing Databases
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Q1) What is meant by Agile Methodologies? Identify the three key principles that the Agile Methodologies share.
Q2) Referential integrity specifies that the value of an attribute of one relation depends on the existence of the same attribute in another relation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) According to the Agile Software Development Manifesto, the seventeen anarchists agreed that projects should be built around motivated individuals.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Structure charts, logic models, and data models are the major deliverables associated with the object-oriented modeling approach.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Identify four benefits of the object-oriented modeling approach.
Q6) Outline the four key steps in logical database modeling and design.
Q7) Identify four advantages to using pair programming.
Q8) Discuss the rules for normalization.
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Chapter 10: Systems Implementation and Operation
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Q1) The deliverables from the coding, testing, and installation processes include:
A) the creation of a document that will consolidate the information that must be considered when implementing a physically distributed systems design.
B) structured descriptions and diagrams that outline the logic contained within each DFD process.
C) the code, program documentation, test scenarios and test data, results of program and system testing, user guides, user training plan, and an installation and conversion plan.
D) a database prototype.
E) the creation of an analysis plan.
Q2) A system administrator's guide is an example of external system documentation.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The systems administration plan answers such questions as when and where the new system will be installed, what people and resources are required, which data will be converted and cleansed, and how long the installation process will take.
A)True
B)False
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