Intro to System Analysis and Design Questions with Detailed Verified Answers

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Intro to System Analysis and Design
Questions with Detailed Verified Answers




Why do we need a formal process for building systems? Ans: - failures
occur (too) often

- creating systems is not intuitive

- projects are late, over budget or delivered with fewer features than
planned.

Who is the key person(s) in the formal process for building systems?
Ans: Business/Systems Analyst

What are the four phases in the SDLC Ans: 1. Planning

2. Analysis

3. Design

4. Implementation

In the planning phase of the SDLC what 3 questions should be asked?
Ans: 1. Why should we build this system?

2. What value does it provide?

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3. How long will it take to build?

In the analysis phase of the SDLC what 3 questions should be asked?
Ans: 1. who will use it?

2. what should the system do for us?

3. Where and when will it be used?

In the Design phase of the SDLC what question should be asked? Ans:
1. How should we build it?

In the Implementation phase of the SDLC what question should be
asked? Ans: 1. How do we use it?

In the planning phase what are 2 sub phases? Ans: 1. Project Initiation

2. Project management

In the project initiation sub phase of the planning phase what 2 things
should be done? Ans: 1. Develop/receive a system request

2. Conduct a feasibility analysis

In the project management sub phase of the planning phase what 3
things should be done? Ans: 1. develop the work plan

2. staff the project

3. monitor and control the project

In the Analysis phase what are 3 sub phases? Ans: 1. Develop an
analysis strategy