Information Systems Analysis Practice Exam
Course Introduction
Information Systems Analysis explores the methodologies and tools used to understand and model complex information systems within organizations. This course covers processes for collecting and analyzing system requirements, evaluating existing systems, and designing effective solutions to meet business needs. Students will learn about various system development life cycles, tools for documenting business processes and data flows, and techniques for engaging users and stakeholders. Emphasis is placed on bridging the gap between technical system capabilities and organizational goals, enabling students to contribute actively to system design, implementation, and management projects.
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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 organizational role most responsible for the analysis and design of information systems best describes a:
A) business manager.
B) systems analyst.
C) chief information officer.
D) database analyst.
E) network administrator.
Answer: B
Q2) The information system includes all of the following EXCEPT:
A) hardware and software.
B) training materials.
C) people who use the software.
D) capital investment.
Answer: D
Q3) Logical design is tied to a specific hardware and software platform.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: The Sources of Software
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Q1) Discuss the future market for cloud computing.
Answer: According to Merrill Lynch, by 2013, twelve percent of corporate computing will be done by cloud computing.The total market for cloud computing is expected to be $160 billion.Companies that are expected to profit most are the ones that can react quickly to adjust their profit lines to include cloud computing.
Q2) Outsourcing can include having a firm develop and run another firm's application on its computers.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The reuse of object class libraries has been found to reduce defect density. A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q4) The source code itself is not freely available for open-source software. A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Managing the Information Systems Project
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Q1) Gantt charts visually show the time overlap of tasks whereas a Network diagram does not show time overlap but does show which tasks could be done in parallel.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The Constructive Cost Model is a method for estimating a software project's size and cost.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Within the context of the SDLC, project closedown occurs when the design phase is completed.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) An activity on the critical path will have a slack time of 1.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Systems Planning and Selection
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a project initiation activity?
A) Establishing management procedures
B) Dividing the project into manageable tasks
C) Establishing a relationship with the customer
D) Establishing the project initiation team
E) Establishing the project initiation plan
Q2) A department head deciding which project requests to submit is an example of:
A) a preliminary investigation of the system problem or opportunity.
B) identifying potential development projects.
C) requirements determination.
D) generating alternative initial designs.
E) requirements structuring.
Q3) A cost associated with an information system that cannot be easily measured in terms of dollars or with certainty refers to a(n):
A) economic cost.
B) tangible cost.
C) intangible cost.
D) one-time cost.
E) nonconsumable cost.
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) In order to promote more truthful responses, the general nature of the interview should not be explained to the interviewee in advance.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In terms of expense, it can be high.
Q3) Requirements determination, and requirements structuring, are the two parts to analysis.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Began in the late 1970s at IBM as a means to bring together the key users, managers, and systems analysts involved in the analysis of a current system
A)Business Process Reengineering
B)Disruptive Technologies
C)Joint Application Design
D)Key Business Processes
E)Prototyping
Q5) A JAD is an inexpensive, popular requirements determination technique. A)True
B)False
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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 data-flow diagram (DFD) is a graphical tool that allows analysts to illustrate the flow of data in an information system.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The part of a decision table that links conditions to actions is the section that contains the:
A) action statements.
B) rules.
C) condition statements.
D) decision stubs.
E) relationship stubs.
Q4) Briefly describe the data-flow diagramming symbols.Provide one example of each.
Q5) On a data-flow diagram, a diamond represents a process.
A)True
B)False
Q6) A process can have only inputs. Page 8
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Chapter 7: Structuring System Requirements: Conceptual Data Modeling
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Q1) Briefly discuss generating alternative design strategies.
Q2) The bottom-up approach to data modeling derives a data model by reviewing specific business documents.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The goal of conceptual data modeling is to identify as much of the processing activity as possible.
Q4) Asking system users and business managers "How many instances of each object might exist?" would help determine:
A) the data entities and their descriptions.
B) the candidate key.
C) attributes and secondary keys.
D) relationships and their cardinality and degrees.
E) integrity rules, minimum and maximum cardinality, and time dimensions of data.
Q5) These alternatives represent compromise solutions.
A)High-end alternatives
B)Midrange alternatives
C)Low-end alternatives
Q6) Contrast data modeling to process modeling and logic modeling.
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Chapter 8: Designing the Human Interface
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Q1) Where possible, text should appear in all uppercase on forms.
A)True
B)False
Q2) When a transcripting data error occurs, additional characters have been added to a field.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The ability to provide field-level help is often referred to as:
A) context-sensitive help.
B) screen-level help.
C) systems-level help.
D) application-level help.
E) user-level help.
Q4) The guidelines for displaying text include case, spacing, and justification guidelines.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Identify four sources of data errors.
Q6) Briefly discuss the SOS guidelines.
Q7) Identify the three-step process for designing dialogues.
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Chapter 9: Designing Databases
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Q1) Sequential retrieval on the primary key is very fast with the hashed file organization.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Place the primary key of either entity in the relation for the other entity or do this for both entities.
A)Regular entity
B)Weak entity
C)Binary or unary 1:1 relationship
D)Binary 1:N relationship
E)Binary or unary M:N relationship or associative entity
F)Binary or unary M:N relationship or associative entity with its own key
Q3) The process of splitting or combining normalized relations into physical tables based on affinity of use of rows and fields best describes:
A) normalization.
B) simplification.
C) denormalization.
D) data structure.
E) nullifying.
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Chapter 10: Systems Implementation and Operation
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Q1) Many organizations are deploying Web-based ticketing systems to provide a way to track support requests.
A)True
B)False
Q2) All of the following are types of user documentation EXCEPT:
A) release description.
B) reference guide.
C) acceptance sign-off.
D) entity-relationship diagrams.
E) user's guide.
Q3) Running the old information system and the new one at the same time until management decides the old system can be turned off
A)Direct installation
B)Installation
C)Parallel installation
D)Phased installation
E)Single location installation
Q4) Walkthroughs are a very effective method for identifying errors in code.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: object-Oriented Analysis and Design
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Q1) An object is an entity that has a well-defined role in the application domain, and has state, behavior, and identity.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Class diagrams represent the functional requirements or the "what" of the system.
A)True
B)False
Q3) A diagram that depicts the use-cases and actors for a system
A)Actor
B)Behavior
C)State
D)Object
E)Object class
F)Class diagram
G)Use case
H)Use-case diagram
Q4) On a state diagram, a guard condition is shown in square brackets.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Agile Methodologies
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Q1) When dealing with a lack of predictability, Agile Methodologies employ:
A) use-case modeling.
B) structured analysis.
C) iterative development.
D) structured programming.
E) logic modeling.
Q2) Untested on safety critical products
Q3) The key principles of the Agile Methodologies include:
A) a focus on adaptive rather than predictive methodologies.
B) a focus on people rather than roles.
C) a self-adaptive process.
D) all of the above.
E) none of the above.
Q4) Agile Methodologies are more planning-based and less adaptive than the traditional approaches to systems development.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Build projects around pressing problems.
Q6) Methods evolved to handle highly critical products
Q7) Methods evolved to handle large products and teams.
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