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ISDS 406 Midterm Exam: Questions & Accurate Answers
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Which of the following is NOT a duty of the Project Manager?
1. Establish a staffing plan.
2. Create ways to coordinate and control the project.
3. Develop a project work plan.
4. Create a use case Right Ans - 1. Establish a staffing plan.
2. Create ways to coordinate and control the project.
3. Develop a project work plan.
4. Create a use case
Which of the following is true about systems analysts?
A. They work with a combination of business and technical people.
B. They primarily work on technical issues with programmers to develop new
systems.
C. They primarily work with business analysts and rarely see technical work.
Right Ans - A. They work with a combination of business and technical people.
What are the ways you can manage risk? Right Ans - Avoidance, Reduction,
Transfer, Acceptance
What is a best practice for motivating people on the project team? Right
Ans - Provide awards/recognition
What are the "pros and cons" of an analysts work? Right Ans - Pros:
Challenging, Technology, Variety, Constant Change, Problem Solving
Cons: Management's lack of communication/recognition, End-user mistakes
and demands, Stress/pressure/burnout, Ever-changing business technology,
Unrealistic deadlines
,What 5 elements must be captured in a Systems Request? Right Ans - 1.
Project Sponsor - The person who initiates the project and servers as the
primary point of contact for the project on the business side
2. Business Need - The business-related reason for initiating the system.
3. Business Requirements - The new or enhanced business capabilities that
the system will provide.
4. Business Value - The benefits that the system will create for the
organization.
5. Special Issues or Constraints - Issues that pertain to the approval
committee's decision.
What are the benefits and weaknesses of having a V-Model? Right Ans -
The V-Model is simple and straight forward. Each part of testing is linked to
the Analysis and Design phase where it helps ensure high quality and relevant
testing.
Weaknesses include the rigid process of waterfall development and might not
always be appropriate for the dynamic nature of a business environment.
Why might the project sponsor not be someone who works in IT? Right
Ans - The project sponsor has to make sure that the project aligns with the
business needs and the business perspective, which at times, the person in IT
might not be the best fit to have that understanding. It is better to have
someone who is apart of the business functions in the organization such as
someone who works in the Marketing department if their purpose is to reach
out to a new type of customer through this project.
What are several project standards that helps projects be successful within
their team? Examples? Right Ans - Documentation Standards - All margins
should be one inch, all words should be in Times New Roman.
Coding Standards - All modules of code should include a header that lists the
programmer.
Procedural Standards - Report all updates to project meeting every Friday at
10 AM.
User interface design Standards - Labels will all be bold.
4. What are the two common ways to obtain information for use cases?
Right Ans - Through interviews and JAD sessions.
,What is true about project managers?
A. They are ALWAYS the project manager
B. They are not always the project sponsor
C. They are more important than project stakeholders Right Ans - B. They
are not always the project sponsor
Closed-ended questions are typically used in JAD sessions. T/F Right Ans -
False. Closed-ended questions are rarely used during JAD sessions because
they prevent participants from having a frank and open discussion. The top
down approach is preferred when gathering information via JAD sessions.
What are the three key functions the JAD facilitator performs? Right Ans -
1. Must ensure group sticks to agenda by firmly, but politely leading
discussion back to agenda
2. Help group understand technical terms and jargon related to system
development process and specific analysis techniques used
3. Record group's input public display area and help to recognize key issues
and solutions while remaining neutral.
What is the purpose of the requirements definition statement? Right Ans -
The obvious purpose is to provide a clear statement of what the new system
should do in order to achieve the system vision described in the system
request.
The critically important purpose is to define the scope of the system and what
the final system needs to do.
The statement also establishes users' expectations or the system.
What is the cost-benefit analysis as part of the systems development life
cycle? Right Ans - Part of the feasibility analysis in a project's planning
phase
Also known as economic feasibility
Process of identifying costs and benefits associated with the system and
assigning values to them, calculating future cash flows, and measuring
financial worthiness
4 step process comprised of: (1) identifying costs and benefits (2) assigning
values to costs and benefits (3) determining cash flow (4) assessing project's
economic value, which includes computations of Return on Investment (ROI),
Break-Even Point (BEP), and Net Present Value (NPV)
, The project sponsor can be the systems analyst or the project manager?
Right Ans - False. A project sponsor can be the person requesting the change
or sometimes it is someone different; it can be the CEO, a manager of an
individual department, or even an IT person
The project sponsor is not the one in charge of the project, just the one who
needs it and is involved to make sure it succeeds.
What are the pros and cons of an analyst's work? Right Ans - Pros:
Challenge, Technology, Variety, Constant change, Problem Solving
Cons: Management's lack of communication/recognition, end-user mistakes
and demands, stress/pressure/burnout, ever-changing business technology,
unrealistic demands
The SDLC is a feasibility model. True or False? Right Ans - False - it is the
process of determining how an IS. can support business needs, designing the
system, building it, and delivering it to users.
What are the 4 stages of the SDLC? Right Ans - Planning, Analysis, Design,
Implementation.............. (tip - use pad i, pronounced patty to remember)
Most important purpose of the requirements definition is to define the scope
of the system. True or False Right Ans - True
What is the definition of a business requirement? Right Ans - The new or
enhanced business capabilities that the system will provide
Parallel Development Right Ans - Variation of waterfall development. It
reduces the time required to deliver a system, so changes in the business
environment are less likely to produce the need for rework. The approach still
suffers from problems caused by voluminous deliverables. It also adds a new
problem: If the subprojects are not completely independent, design decisions
in one subproject may affect another, and at the project end, integrating the
subprojects may be quite challenging.
What are the 3 categories of feasibility analysis? Right Ans - 1. Technical
2. economic
3. organizational
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