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Systems Analysis and Design
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1. Organizations are complex systems composed of interrelated and interdependent subsystems.


2. System and subsystem boundaries and environments have an impact on information system analysis and
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3. Systems are described as either open, with free flowing information, or closed with restricted access to
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4. A virtual organization is one that has parts of the organization in different physical locations. They use
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A. Design of employees’ work
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7. Many issues must be overcome for the ERP installation is to be declared a success:

A. User acceptance
B. Integration with legacy systems and the supply chain
C. Upgrading functionality (and complexity) of ERP modules
D. Reorganizing work life of users and decision makers
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E. Expanded reach across several organizations
F. Strategic repositioning of the company


8. A context-level data flow diagram is an important tool for showing data used and information produced by a
system. It provides an overview of the setting or environment the system exists within—which entities
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supply and receive data/information.

9. The context-level data flow diagram is one way to show scope, or what is to be included in the system. The
project has a budget that helps to define scope.
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10. Entity-relationship diagrams help the analyst understand the organizational system and the data stored by the
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A. Fundamental entity, describing a person, place, or thing.
B. Associative entity (also called a gerund, junction, intersection, or concatenated entity), joining two
entities. It can only exist between two entities.
C. Attributive entity, to describe attributes and repeating groups.


12. Relationships are shown with a zero or circle representing none, a vertical line representing one, or crow’s
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B. One to many
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14. A use case model partitions the way the system works into behaviors, services, and responses that are
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B. Use case scenarios that describe variations of the primary use case


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A. Communicates—used to connect an actor to a use case.

B. Includes—describes the situation where a use case contains a behavior that is common to
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C. Extends—describes the situation where one use case possesses the behavior that allows
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the new use case to handle a variation or exception.

D. Generalizes—implies that one thing is more typical than the other thing.
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18. The steps required to create a use case model are:


A. Review the business specifications and identify the actors within the problem domain.




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B. Identify the high-level events and develop the primary use cases that describe the events
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K. Postconditions, what has been accomplished by the use case

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20. Use case levels describe how global or detailed the use case description is. Levels are:

A. White (like clouds): enterprise level
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