System Life Cycle and ICT Impact Quiz

Purpose of system life cycle:

• Ensures systems meet stakeholder needs, minimising risks

• Increases risks

• Ignores stakeholders

• Maximizes inefficiency

The first stage of system life cycle is:

• Analysis

• Deployment

• Testing

• Creation

Purpose of analysis stage:

• Gather detailed requirements from stakeholders

• Finalize deployment

• Ignore user input

• Skip research

What are research methods?

• Different ways a systems analyst analyses the current IT system

• Guessing improvements

• Ignoring the system

• Destroying old data

Research methods help to:

• Identify areas for improvement

• Maintain status quo

• Increase problems

• Delete data

One research method:

• Observation - watching users interact

• Daydreaming

• Sleeping

• Gaming

Another method:

• Questionnaires - structured questions for views

• Random shouts

• Silent observation only

• No questions

What is interviews in research?

• One-to-one question and answer sessions

• Group chants

• Written notes only

• No dialogue

Last research method:

• Looking at existing system (including paperwork)

• Inventing new systems

• Forgetting old ones

• Burning documents

In looking at existing system, check:

• Training manuals

• Fictional stories

• Weather reports

• Recipes