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System Analysis And Design
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Subject
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it-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Integration testing is performed by ____________
decision
programmers
users
analysts
2. the process that monitors current activity and performance levels - anticipates future activity - and forecasts the resources needed to provide desired levels of service.
parallel
Capacity Planning
Top-Down Approach
programmers
3. A complete computer system will consist of people - _________ - hardware - software and data.
program
users
procedures
implementation
4. Flow Chart: A _________ must have two flow line coming out of it
2-3 years
Configuration Management
decision
Version Control
5. Testing of two or more programs that depend on each other.
direct response
Coupling
Integration Testing
personal interviews
6. Flow Chart: comment
unit testing
rectangle
open ended rectangle
desk checking
7. Flow Chart: Decision/Conditional - a question or branch in the process
2-3 years
diamond
direct response
circle
8. A technique for representing program logic that a systems analyst can use to describe program actions.
Pseudocode
outflows
decision
Version Control
9. __________ - analyst compares the expenses against the advantages of a system
cost benefit analysis
Test Environment
string
phased implementation
10. Flow Chart: data - input - output
HIPO
parallelogram
terminator
decision
11. _________ Chart advantages: designs programs in testable models - creation of hierarchy of detail as design progresses - clear indication of necessary inputs and outputs
Partitioning
direct response
HIPO
acceptance notice
12. Flow Chart: Processing steps - "process blocks" - an operation or action step
Activity Diagram
algorithm process
rectangle
number
13. Of input - output - processing - storage methods - and procedures - the one designed first by the analyst is _________
Operations Documentation
parallelogram
output
Coupling
14. Data Flow Diagram: Circles will have numbers and ____________
system requirements plan
names
Cohesion
system documentation
15. testing attempts to make a system ____________
parallel
procedures
pilot
fail
16. The most common reason for the failure of an information system is _________ _________ _________
diamond
programmers
users
faulty problem identification
17. Flow Chart: Preparation: any process step that is a preparation such as a setup operation
hexagon
outflows
freeze point
Pseudocode
18. A flowchart represents an _____________ or process.
diamond
algorithm process
Release Methodology
pilot
19. A precise yet compact way to model complicated logic. Like if-then-else and switch-case statements - associate conditions with actions to perform. But - unlike the control structures found in traditional programming languages - they can associate man
decision table
users
unit
implementation
20. A design approach where the system's analyst defines the overall objectives of the system - and then breaks them down into subsystems and modules.
Top-Down Approach
system
Release Methodology
link
21. The overall time between a request for system activity and the delivery of the response
GANTT
diamond
Response Time
management
22. In a program flowchart - a _________ ________ serves to fetch initial data item for processing
faulty problem identification
priming read
users
parallel
23. Type of Chart: uses flow lines and process blocks
Integration Testing
Hierarchy Chart
desk checking
analysts
24. Data Flow Diagram: each circle is identified by a ___________
phased implementation
System Testing
priming read
number
25. The longest phase in the systems analysis and design process is the _______________ phase
systems development
link
integration
system
26. System testing is performed by ____________
problem analysis
Pseudocode
users
unit testing
27. The process of examining a program design and reviewing the logic of a program with test data
desk checking
procedures
data storage
Program Documentation
28. The process for controlling changes in system requirements during software development.
acceptance notice
interviews
Unit Testing
Configuration Management
29. Program testing is carried out by computer _________
RFP
programmers
Turnaround Time
diamond
30. Contains all the information needed for processing and distributing online and printed output
diamond
Operations Documentation
decision
rectangle
31. OLD: The total time required for an entire systems analysis and design process to be completed will most likely be _________ _________.
rectangle
data storage
parallel
2-3 years
32. __________________: written materials that accompany the system process
data flow diagram
system documentation
communication
pentagon
33. Used answer questions about specific scenarios that could potentially appear in a situation during capacity planning
algorithm process
Release Methodology
What-If Analysis
decision table
34. Measures a module's scope and processing characteristics
names
Response Time
Data Flow Diagram
Cohesion
35. The most significant output of the systems analysis phase of the entire analysis and design process is the _________ _________ _________
system requirements plan
decision
hexagon
2-3 years
36. Integration testing is also called ____________ testing
System Documentation
direct
link
data storage
37. During the design of input - the analyst establishes how to _________ _________
collect data
Response Time
System Testing
Integration Testing
38. The environment that analysts and programmers use to develop and maintain programs
communication
parallelogram
Test Environment
Configuration Management
39. Flow Chart: Represents start or stop/end. Pill shape (sometimes circle - oval - cigar or rounded rectangle)
terminator
link
direct
decision table
40. Data flow diagram shape: open ended (right) rectangle
data storage
Release Methodology
unit testing
desk checking
41. Describes the system at the beginning of system operation.
Product Baseline
Partitioning
RFP
What-If Analysis
42. A design that can be broken down into logical blocks - also known as partitioning - or top-down design. This approach is similar to constructing a leveled set of DFDs.
data storage
data flow diagram
Functional Baseline
Modular Design
43. The analyst may solicit hardware and software proposals from vendors. The analyst will prepare a(n) _________
Functional Baseline
cost benefit analysis
RFP
output
44. Applies to centralized batch processing operations - such as customer billing or credit card statement processing. It measures the time between submitting a request for information and the fulfillment of the request
hierarchy chart
Turnaround Time
communication
Program Documentation
45. Dtypically the riskiest method of systems conversion
direct
System Documentation
Release Methodology
Cohesion
46. The most important skill or requirement of the analyst is good_________ skills
faulty problem identification
program
communication
diamond
47. Which analysis and design tool used by the computer system analyst shows the levels and subdivisions of a computer system? _________ _________
hierarchy chart
personal interviews
Top-Down Approach
cost benefit analysis
48. A chronological listing of financial transactions is called a _________ _________
Cohesion
fail
direct
general journal
49. Graphical representations of workflows of stepwise activities and actions with support for choice - iteration and concurrency. Extension of flowchart.
Activity Diagram
procedures
circle
direct
50. Documents the system at the end of the design phase and identifies any changes since the functional baseline.
Allocated Baseline
pilot
Unit Testing
Version Control