Determining System Requirements

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a good system analyst?

• Impertinence

• Impartiality

• Inattention to details

• Reframing

Requirements determination from existing written documents can be obtained from the following, EXCEPT

• Mission and strategy statements

• Business forms

• Reports from existing systems

• Training manuals

An interview guide is a document for developing, planning, and conducting an observation

• True

• False

Which of the following is the drawback of group interviews?

• Contradictions and inconsistencies between interviewees

• Follow-up discussions are time consuming

• New interview may reveal new questions that require additional interviews

• Difficult to schedule for an interview

Which of the following is not true about direct observation?

• Watching users do their jobs

• Can cause people to change their normal operating behavior

• Used to obtain more second-hand and objective measures of employee interaction with IS

• Time consuming and limited time to observe

True/False: The chances to explore and inquire more is higher for observation as compared to document analysis.

• True

• False

Which of the following is not a contemporary methods for determining system requirements?

• JAD

• CASE Tools

• System Prototypes

• Document Analysis

Prototyping is an __________ process of systems development which __________ are converted to a working system that is continually revised.

• iterative, requirements

• iterative, design

• non-repetitive, requirements

• non-repetitive, design

True/False: Business Process Reengineering (BPR) is the search for and impementation of radical change in business processes to achieve breakthrough improvements in products and services.

• True

• False

True/False: Disruptive technologies are technologies that enable the breaking of short-held business rules that inhibit organizations from making radical business changes

• True

• False