C790 Nursing Informatics (WGU) System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Exam Questions and Answers

project - Answer-is a planned undertaking, with a beginning and end that produces a well-defined result or product. information system development project - Answer-a planned undertaking that produces a new information system predictive approach to the SDLC - Answer-assumes that the development project can be planned and organized and that the new information system can be developed according to the plan useful for building systems that are well understood and defined. company may want to convert its old networked client/server system to a newer Web-based system that includes a smartphone app. In this type of project, the staff already understands the requirements very well, and no new processes need to be added traditional (70s-90s) adaptive approach to the SDLC - Answer-is used when the system's requirements and/or the users' needs aren't well understood. In this situation, the project can't be planned completely. Some system requirements may need to be determined after preliminary development work. (late 90s-today) project initiation (predictive) - Answer-In predictive approaches, there is a group of activities that identifies the problem and secures approval to develop a new system Project planning (predictive) - Answer-In predictive approaches, there is a group of activities that identifies the problem and secures approval to develop a new systemmap out the project's overall structure analysis (predictive) - Answer-focuses on discovering and understanding the details of the problem or need. The intent here is to figure out exactly what the system must do to support the business processes design (predictive) - Answer-focuses on configuring and structuring the new system components. These activities use the requirements that were defined earlier to develop the program structure and the algorithms for the new system