CIS 454 EXAM 1 DILLON | PRACTICE QUESTIONS & ANSWERS | COMPREHENSIVE
STUDY GUIDE 2026/2027
Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - ANS ✔✔planning, analysis, design, implementation
SDLC: Planning - ANS ✔✔WHY should we build this info system?
1. Project Initiation
2. Project Management
1. Project Initiation - ANS ✔✔The systems business value to the organization is identified
-How will it lower costs or increase revenues?
System Request - ANS ✔✔Presents a brief summary of a business need, and it explains how a
system that supports the need will create business value.
Project Sponsor - ANS ✔✔The person who provides the direction and funding for a project,
conducts a feasibility analysis
Approval committee - ANS ✔✔Steering committee, decides whether the project should be
undertaken
2. Project Management - ANS ✔✔Project manager creates a workplan, staffs the project, and
puts techniques in place to help the project team control and direct the project though the
entire SDLC
SDLC: Analysis - ANS ✔✔WHO will use the system? WHAT will the system do? WHERE/WHEN it
will be used?
Team investigates any current systems, improvements, and concept for new system
,1. Analysis Strategy
2. Requirements Gathering
3. Systems Proposal
1. Analysis Strategy - ANS ✔✔Developed to guide the project teams efforts
-Analysis or as-is and to-be system
2. Requirements Gathering - ANS ✔✔analysis of interviews/questionnaires used to establish a
system concept
Develop analysis models which describe how the business will operate if the new system is
developed
3. Systems Proposal - ANS ✔✔Document which includes- analyses, system concept and models
Presented to the project sponsor
Initial deliverable that describes what business requirements the new system should meet
SDLC: Design - ANS ✔✔HOW the system will operate in terms of hardware, software, and
network infrastructure?
1. Design strategy
2. Architecture design
3. Database and file specifications
4. Program design
1. Design strategy - ANS ✔✔Clarifies whether the system will be developed in-house or
outsourced
or buy a COTS
, 2. Architecture/Infrastructure design - ANS ✔✔Describes the hardware, software, and network
infrastructure to be used.
How users will move through the system ex. forms reports
3. Database and file specs - ANS ✔✔Define exactly what data will be stored and where
4. Program design - ANS ✔✔Defines the programs that need to be written and exactly what
each program will do
System specs - ANS ✔✔handed to the programming team for implementation
After design phase, feasibility analysis is reexamined and revised
SDLC: Implementation - ANS ✔✔Programmers begin converting the models from the previous
steps into the actual system, for instance, by developing databases and other software
programs that will be needed. This step also includes installing hardware, testing the system,
and training the end-users (Longest and most expensive)
1. Construction
2. Installation
3. Support Plan
1. Construction - ANS ✔✔System is built and tested to ensure that it performs as designed, lots
of time dedicated to testing
2. Installation - ANS ✔✔Process by which the old system is turned off and new one is turned on
Development of training plan
3. Support Plan - ANS ✔✔Post implementation review as well as a systematic way for
identifying changes to the system
STUDY GUIDE 2026/2027
Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - ANS ✔✔planning, analysis, design, implementation
SDLC: Planning - ANS ✔✔WHY should we build this info system?
1. Project Initiation
2. Project Management
1. Project Initiation - ANS ✔✔The systems business value to the organization is identified
-How will it lower costs or increase revenues?
System Request - ANS ✔✔Presents a brief summary of a business need, and it explains how a
system that supports the need will create business value.
Project Sponsor - ANS ✔✔The person who provides the direction and funding for a project,
conducts a feasibility analysis
Approval committee - ANS ✔✔Steering committee, decides whether the project should be
undertaken
2. Project Management - ANS ✔✔Project manager creates a workplan, staffs the project, and
puts techniques in place to help the project team control and direct the project though the
entire SDLC
SDLC: Analysis - ANS ✔✔WHO will use the system? WHAT will the system do? WHERE/WHEN it
will be used?
Team investigates any current systems, improvements, and concept for new system
,1. Analysis Strategy
2. Requirements Gathering
3. Systems Proposal
1. Analysis Strategy - ANS ✔✔Developed to guide the project teams efforts
-Analysis or as-is and to-be system
2. Requirements Gathering - ANS ✔✔analysis of interviews/questionnaires used to establish a
system concept
Develop analysis models which describe how the business will operate if the new system is
developed
3. Systems Proposal - ANS ✔✔Document which includes- analyses, system concept and models
Presented to the project sponsor
Initial deliverable that describes what business requirements the new system should meet
SDLC: Design - ANS ✔✔HOW the system will operate in terms of hardware, software, and
network infrastructure?
1. Design strategy
2. Architecture design
3. Database and file specifications
4. Program design
1. Design strategy - ANS ✔✔Clarifies whether the system will be developed in-house or
outsourced
or buy a COTS
, 2. Architecture/Infrastructure design - ANS ✔✔Describes the hardware, software, and network
infrastructure to be used.
How users will move through the system ex. forms reports
3. Database and file specs - ANS ✔✔Define exactly what data will be stored and where
4. Program design - ANS ✔✔Defines the programs that need to be written and exactly what
each program will do
System specs - ANS ✔✔handed to the programming team for implementation
After design phase, feasibility analysis is reexamined and revised
SDLC: Implementation - ANS ✔✔Programmers begin converting the models from the previous
steps into the actual system, for instance, by developing databases and other software
programs that will be needed. This step also includes installing hardware, testing the system,
and training the end-users (Longest and most expensive)
1. Construction
2. Installation
3. Support Plan
1. Construction - ANS ✔✔System is built and tested to ensure that it performs as designed, lots
of time dedicated to testing
2. Installation - ANS ✔✔Process by which the old system is turned off and new one is turned on
Development of training plan
3. Support Plan - ANS ✔✔Post implementation review as well as a systematic way for
identifying changes to the system
