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You are expected to do your own work to prepare complete answers to as many of the exam questions as you determine should be done.

There will be several questions from each of the chapters covered thus far (Chapters 1 – 6).You may answer one or more than one question for each chapter, thus a minimum of 10 questions must be answered.You will need to select the questions, allocate your time, organize your thoughts for each question and prepare your answers.

Chapter One – The Systems Analyst and Information Systems Development

  • What are the major roles on a project team and what makes them important?
  • Describe how the predominance of the major roles on a project team changes during the major phases of the System Development Life Cycle.
  • Describe the components of Feasibility Analysis.Could there be more than the textbook describes?

Chapter Two – Project Selection and Management

  • Compare and contrast the major components and elements of two development methodologies.
  • What are the key factors in selecting a methodology?
  • What are the best ways to motivate a team?What are the worst ways?

Chapter Three – Requirements Determination

  • What is the value of producing a requirements definition and having the project sponsor and key users review and approve it?
  • What are the three basic steps of the analysis process?Is each step performed in every project?Why or why not?
  • Is the primary purpose of requirements determination to discover facts or to discover opinions?Explain your answer.

Chapter Four – Use Case Analysis

  • What is the purpose of developing use cases during system analysis?
  • What is the purpose of an event-response list in the process of developing use cases?
  • Describe the best way to validate the content of the use cases?

Chapter Five – Process Modeling

  • What is a process model?What is a data flow diagram (DFD)? Are the two related?If so, how?
  • Why is a process model typically composed of a set of DFDs?What is meant by decomposition of a business process?
  • Discuss how the analyst knows how to stop decomposing the process model into more and more levels of detail.

Chapter Six – Data Modeling

  • What are metadata? Why are they important to system developers?
  • Define what is meant by a relationship in a data model.How should a relationship be named?
  • What is the purpose of normalization?
 
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