UPDATE 2025-2026
1. Pressure to increase profitability and improve operational efficiencies often drives
organizations to implement new approaches and technology.
a. True
b. False - Answers True
2. The purpose of studying a system is to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the existing
system and examine current inputs, outputs, processes, security and controls, and system
performance.
a. True
b. False - Answers True
3. Joint application development (JAD) sessions with a cross section of users and stakeholders
in a project are an effective way to define system requirements.
a. True
b. False - Answers True
4. Security and control considerations are a negligible part of the entire system development
process.
a. True
b. False - Answers False
5. A data flow diagram (DFD) does not provide any information about process timing.
a. True
b. False - Answers True
6. Feasibility analysis assesses the technical, economic, legal, operational, and schedule
feasibility of a project.
a. True
b. False - Answers True
7. The disaster recovery plan focuses on technology recovery and identifies the people or the
teams that are responsible to take action in the event of a disaster, what exactly these people
will do when a disaster strikes, and the information system resources required to support
, critical business processes.
a. True
b. False - Answers True
8. All members of a system investigation team must be co-located to ensure a successful start
to a project.
a. True
b. False - Answers False
9. Operational feasibility takes into account the need to meet certain system performance
requirements that are considered important to system users and stakeholders.
a. True
b. False - Answers True
10. The primary outcome of systems analysis is a prioritized list of system requirements and a
recommendation of how to proceed with a project.
a. True
b. False - Answers True
11. System testing is often done by independent testers who are not involved in developing
program code.
a. True
b. False - Answers True
12. Even if unit testing is successful, developers cannot assume they can combine individual
components into a working system without any problems.
a. True
b. False - Answers True
13. While discussing the preliminary feasibility of a project, your colleague insists that figures
used in economic feasibility be very accurate down to the last cent. His claim is appropriate and
not uncommon.
a. True
b. False - Answers False