IT Project Analysis
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IT Project Analysis explores the methodologies and tools used to assess and evaluate information technology projects throughout their lifecycle. The course covers the fundamentals of project feasibility, requirements gathering, risk assessment, cost and benefit analysis, and performance measurement. Students develop practical skills in analyzing project scope, stakeholder needs, technical constraints, and resource allocation. Through case studies and hands-on exercises, participants learn to identify potential challenges and propose solutions to drive successful project outcomes in diverse IT environments. This course equips students with analytical approaches essential for effective IT project planning, monitoring, and evaluation.
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Systems Analysis and Design 11th Edition by Scott Tilley
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Systems Analysis and Design
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Q1) _____ design and construct webpages, monitor traffic, manage hardware and software, and link web-based applications to a company's information systems.
A) User support specialists
B) Database administrators
C) Web support specialists
D) Network administrators
Answer: C
Q2) Who is a knowledge worker, and why this kind of worker is required by successful companies?
Answer: Knowledge workers include systems analysts, programmers, accountants, researchers, trainers, human resource specialists, and other professionals. Knowledge workers also use business support systems, knowledge management systems, and user productivity systems. Knowledge workers provide support for an organization's basic functions. Just as a military unit requires logistical support, a successful company needs knowledge workers to carry out its mission.
Q3) Most firms give their IT budgets a low priority in good economic times.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Analyzing the Business Case
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Q1) Many companies implement _____ systems that integrate all customer-related events and transactions.
A) CRM (Customer relationship management)
B) TCO (Total cost of ownership)
C) JIT (Just-in-time)
D) RFID (Radio frequency identification)
Answer: A
Q2) To avoid the problem of _____, a project's scope should be defined as clearly as possible.
A) project dilation
B) project expansion
C) project creep
D) project drift
Answer: C
Q3) Feasibility analysis is an ongoing task that must be performed throughout the systems development process.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Managing Systems Projects
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Q1) Tasks that must be completed before another task can start.
A)Project management
B)Project coordinator
C)Project leader
D)Milestone
E)Constraint
F)Weight
G)Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT)
H)dependent
I)Concurrent tasks
J)Predecessor tasks
Answer: J
Q2) The prior experience method to make time and cost estimates works best for large projects.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Requirements Modeling
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Q1) A(n) _____ shows the timing of interactions between objects as they occur.
A) timing diagram
B) class diagram
C) orientation diagram
D) sequence diagram
Q2) In an interview, _____ limit or restrict the response.
A) open-ended questions
B) closed-ended questions
C) leading questions
D) range-of-response questions
Q3) The personal interview usually is the least expensive fact-finding technique.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The _____ is a widely used method of visualizing and documenting software systems design.
A) Unified Modeling Language (UML)
B) total cost of ownership (TCO)
C) functional decomposition diagram (FDD)
D) Rapid Economic Justification (REJ)
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Chapter 5: Data and Process Modeling
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Q1) A data dictionary specifies a data element's _____, which is the set of values permitted for the data element.
A) index
B) domain
C) array
D) record
Q2) Later in the systems design phase, you build a logical model that describes how a system will be constructed.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The disadvantage of the four-model approach is that ____.
A) it gives an unclear picture of the current system functions before any modifications or improvements are made
B) the requirements of a new information system always are different from the current information system
C) additional time and cost are required to develop a logical and physical model of the current system
D) it does not take additional steps to avoid mistakes made earlier in systems development
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Chapter 6: Object Modeling
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Q1) After this is identified, the use cases are placed on the diagram, the actors are added, and the relationships are shown.
A)Class diagram
B)Business process models (BPM)
C)Lifeline
D)Object relationship diagram
E)State transition diagram
F)Activity diagram
G)CASE tools
H)Black box
I)Unified Modeling Language (UML)
J)System boundary
Q2) In an object-oriented system, objects can _____ certain attributes from other objects.
A) broadcast
B) concatenate
C) inherit
D) reformat
Q3) Explain a class diagram. Also, explain how a class diagram is like a data flow diagram (DFD).
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Chapter 7: Development Strategies
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Q1) Mergers and acquisitions typically have no impact on clients and customers of large, financially healthy firms.
A)True
B)False
Q2) _____ is the transfer of information systems development, operation, or maintenance to an outside firm that provides these services, for a fee, on a temporary or long-term basis.
A) Outsourcing
B) Commission
C) Subscription
D) External provisioning
Q3) _____ is an example of a nonprofit organization that publishes standards and reports for its members and the general public.
A) The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
B) Microsoft
C) The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC)
D) Oracle
Q4) Contrast logical and physical design.
Q5) Discuss the concerns and issues related to outsourcing.
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Chapter 8: User Interface Design
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Q1) A _____ is a data validation rule that identifies values that are questionable, but not necessarily wrong.
A) sequence check
B) range check
C) validity check
D) reasonableness check
Q2) Using batch input, data entry is performed continuously.
A)True
B)False
Q3) If Siobhan has a dialog box option that is either on or off, which of the following is she most likely to use?
A) Text box
B) List box
C) Drop-down list box
D) Toggle button
Q4) A(n) _____ produces one or more lines of output for each record processed.
A) detail report
B) exception report
C) summary report
D) exigency report
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Chapter 9: Data Design
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Q1) Defines only those portions of the database that a particular system or user needs or is allowed to access
A)Unified Modeling Language (UML)
B)Cardinality
C)Foreign key
D)Data mining
E)Referential integrity
F)Subschema
G)Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC)
H)Entity
I)Logical record
J)Logical storage
Q2) One type of validity check, called _____, is a set of rules that avoids data inconsistency and quality problems.
A) candidate integrity
B) foreign integrity
C) referential integrity
D) combinatorial integrity
Q3) Briefly describe the seven coding methods used by companies with examples.
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Chapter 10: System Architecture
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Q1) A web-based application encounters all of the connectivity and compatibility problems that typically arise when different hardware environments are involved.
A)True
B)False
Q2) One of Neil's clients, Ann, is looking for a highly redundant and reliable network topology Ann is not particularly concerned about the expenditure that would go behind the installation and maintenance of the network. Which of the following networks is Neil most likely to recommend?
A) A mesh network
B) A bus network
C) A star network
D) A hub network
Q3) When developing e-business systems, an in-house solution usually requires a _____ for a company that must adapt quickly in a dynamic ecommerce environment.
A) smaller initial investment and provides more flexibility
B) smaller initial investment but provides less flexibility
C) greater initial investment but provides more flexibility
D) greater initial investment and provides less flexibility
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Chapter 11: Managing Systems Implementation
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Q1) In a technique called _____, the programmer simulates each program outcome or result and displays a message to indicate whether or not the program executed successfully.
A) modular testing
B) stub testing
C) acceptance testing
D) unit testing
Q2) _____ involves more risk than other changeover methods.
A) Direct cutover
B) Pilot operation
C) Parallel cutover
D) Phased operation
Q3) In a structure chart, a curved arrow represents a _____, which indicates that one or more modules are repeated.
A) pie
B) status flag
C) loop
D) freeform
Q4) List the objectives of system testing.
Q5) Provide a step-by-step description of how to create a structure chart.
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Chapter 12: Managing Systems Support and Security
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Q1) A risk control strategy that shifts risks to another asset or party
A)Private key encryption
B)Public key encryption
C)Network interface
D)Asset
E)Mitigation
F)Transference
G)Attack
H)Security
I)Keystroke logger
J)Software reengineering
Q2) _____ is the process of tracking system releases.
A) Configuration control
B) Version control
C) Source control
D) Quality control
Q3) In a public key encryption environment, each user on the network has a pair of keys: a foreign key and a private key.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Appendix-The Systems Analysts Toolkit
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Q1) A presentation should be planned in three stages: the introduction, the information, and the summary.
A)True B)False
Q2) When preparing slides for a presentation, use a serif style (such as Times Roman) for all body text and a sans serif style (such as Arial) for just the titles.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In a report, the _________ section lists the advantages, disadvantages, expenses, and profits of each major system alternative.
Q4) In a report, the findings section is used to _____.
A) explain the logical design of a new system in a way that only technical managers can understand
B) list the costs and benefits of each major system alternative
C) locate the questionnaires at the end of the document
D) describe the major conclusions reached by a team
Q5) A(n) _________ is a tool used to identify words that do not appear in a word processing program's dictionary.
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Chapter 14: CASE Tools
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Q1) Computer-aided systems engineering (CASE) tools can reduce costs, speed up development, and provide comprehensive documentation that can be used for future maintenance or enhancements.
A)True
B)False
Q2) _________ are software programs that system developers use to help them design and construct information systems.
Q3) Using a forward engineering computer-aided systems engineering (CASE) tool, an analyst can transform existing application source code into a working model of the system.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A(n) _________, a construction tool, allows computer programs to be developed rapidly by translating a logical model directly into code.
Q5) Since non-procedural languages are _________, they make it easier to implement an object-oriented system design.
Q6) A(n) _________ is a database that serves as a central storage location for all information about the system being developed.
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Chapter 15: Financial Analysis Tools
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Q1) Positive benefits increase revenues, improve services, or otherwise contribute to an organization as a direct result of a new information system.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Developmental costs are incurred after a system is implemented and continue while the system is in use.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When determining economic feasibility, a systems analyst must consider a project's benefits compared to the project's _________, which includes ongoing support and maintenance costs as well as acquisition costs.
Q4) The time taken by payback analysis to recover an information system's costs is called the _________.
Q5) Cost-avoidance benefits refer to expenses that are necessary if a new system is not installed.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 16: Internet Resource Tools
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Q1) Everyone is familiar with what is called the _____, which refers to websites that are indexed by the major search engines and are publicly accessible.
A) deep web
B) visible web
C) dark web
D) invisible web
Q2) _________ is a term that refers to the delivery of educational or training content over the public Internet or an intranet.
Q3) A(n) _________, which uses e-mail to communicate, is similar to a newsgroup in that it provides a forum for people who want to exchange information about specific topics.
Q4) Companies increasingly are using intranets as a means of sharing information and working toward common solutions.
A)True
B)False
Q5) _________ is a system named after a British mathematician George Boole and refers to the relationships among search terms.
Q6) _____ are tools that can apply multiple search engines simultaneously.
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