SSAD

Deliverables

Each phases is composed of steps, which rely on techniques that produce ________.

Planning

This phase is the essential process of recognizing why an information system should be built and determining how the project team will go about building it.

Interpersonal

Skills that require effective communication.

Methodologies

a formalized approach to implementing the SDLC.

System Request

Presents a brief summary of a business need, and it explains how a system that supports the need will create business value.

Better performance

The current system may need improvement on performance.

Project Sponsor

The IS department works together with the requesting person/department which they call as _______.

Project Initiation

The system's business value to the organization is identified, how will it lower costs or increase revenues.

IS Issues

System analyst focus on the _______ surrounding the system.

Technical Issues

Infrastructure Analyst focuses on _______ on how the system will interact with the organization's technical infrastructure.

Design

Represents the third phase of SDLC.

Analysis Strategy

This is developed to guide the projects team's efforts. This includes a study of the current system (as-is system) and its problems, and envisioning ways to design a new system (to-be system).

Installation

The old system is turned off and the new system is turned on.

Implementation

This phase is usually the longest and most expensive part of the process.

Support Plan

Includes a post-implementation review as well as a systematic way for identifying changes needed for the system

SDLC

All systems development projects follow this process.

Structure Development

An example of this methodology is Waterfall Development.

System Construction

The system is built and tested to make sure it performs as designed.

Management Skills

Skills of a system analyst that need to manage people and to manage pressure and risks.

Agile Methodologies

An example of this methodology is a SCRUM Development.

Business Analyst

Focuses on business issues surrounding the system

Requirement analyst

Focuses on eliciting the requirements from the stakeholders

Change Management Analyst

focuses on the people and management issues surrounding the system installation.

Project Manager

Ensures that the project is completed on time and within budget, and that the system delivers the expected value to the organization.

Stronger Controls

A system must have efficient controls to guarantee that data is secure.

Reduced Cost

The current system may incur a big expense to run or sustain, resulting to technical problems, design weaknesses, or the changing demands of the business and accurate.

More Information

The system might produce information that is insufficient,incomplete, or unable to support the company's changing information needs

More support for new Products and Services

New products and services often need new forms or levels of IT support.

Feasibility Analysis

The system request and ____________ are presented to an IS approval / steering committee which decides whether the project will be undertaken.

Project Management

During _______________, the project manager creates a work plan, staffs the project, and puts techniques in place to help the project team control and direct the project through the entire SDLC.

Requirements Gathering

The analysis of this information leads to the development of a concept for a new system. This concept is used to build a set of analysis models - that describes how the business will operate if the new system were developed.

System Proposal

A document presented to the project sponsor and other key individuals who decide whether the project should continue to move forward.

Design Strategy

This clarifies whether the system will be developed by the company (in-house) or outside the company (outsourced) or whether the company will buy an existing software package; generates the architecture and interface designs.

Architecture Design

Describes the hardware, software, and network infrastructure that will be used; the Interface Design which specifies how the users will move through the system and the forms and reports that will be used.

Databases and File Specifications

These documents define what data will be stored and where the data will be stored.

Program Design

Defines what programs need to be written and what exactly each will do.

Techniques

Processes that the analyst follows to ensure thorough,

complete and comprehensive analysis and design

Tools

Computer programs that aid in applying techniques

Decomposition

The process of breaking down a system into

smaller components

System Integration

Allows hardware and software from

different vendors to work together

FALSE

All system development projects follow different process

TRUE

The system analyst needs a variety of skills and plays a number of different roles.

FALSE

Part of interpersonal skill of a system analyst is to understand the technology

FALSE

Each of the phases in SDLC is composed of steps, which rely on techniques that produce milestone (specific documents that explain various elements of the system)

TRUE

The system might produce information that is insufficient, incomplete or unable to support the company's changing information needs.

TRUE

Analytical skills must be a problem solver

TRUE

Technical analyst works together with all project team members to ensure that the team builds the proper system in a successful way

FALSE

Training plan is when the system is built and tested to make sure it performs as designed

TRUE

Installation part is when the old system is turned off and the new one is turned on; requires a training plan that used to teach users how to use the new system and help manage the changes caused by it

FALSE

Design plan includes a post-implementation review as well as a systematic way for identifying changes needed for the system.

TRUE

During project management, the project manager creates a work plan, staffs the project, and puts techniques in place to help the project team control and direct the project through the entire SDLC.

FALSE

The planning phase answers the questions of who will use the system, what the system will do, and where and when it will be used.

FALSE

In System Implementation, a document presented to the project sponsor and other key individuals who decide whether the project should continue to move forward.

TRUE

The analysis model describes how the business will operate if the new system were developed.

FALSE

The interface design describes the hardware, software, and network infrastructure that will be used.

FALSE

Architecture design which specifies how the users will move through the system and the forms and reports that will be used.

TRUE

Program design defines what programs need to be written and what exactly each will do.

TRUE

The implementation phase is usually the longest and most expensive part of the process.

TRUE

In system construction, the system is built and tested to make sure it performs as designed

TRUE

The question "how long does a system will it take to build?" is part of the analysis phase.

FALSE

Requirement analyst focuses on the business issues surrounding the system.

FALSE

Infrastructure analyst focuses on eliciting the requirements from the stakeholders.

TRUE

SDLC is composed of four fundamental phases which are Planning, Analysis, Design and Implementation

TRUE

During Project management, the deliverable in this stage is the project plan.

TRUE

The analysis phase answers the questions of who will use the system, what the system will do, and where and when it will be used.

FALSE

Data oriented approach: Focus is on flow, use and transformation of data in an information system.

FALSE

Process-oriented Approach: Depicts ideal organization of data, independent of where and how data are used.

TRUE

Database: a shared collection of logically related data.

FALSE

Joint Application Development: Utilizes prototyping to delay producing system design until after user requirements are clear.

TRUE

SDLC: Series of steps used to manage the

phases of development for an

information system