I200 midterm review

Name____________________________ INFO 200 Midterm Review 1) Which of these systems processes large amounts of data for routine transactions? 2) Which of these is NOT considered to be a primary role of a system analyst? 3) In which phase of the systems development life cycle is the analyst most heavily involved in user training? 4) An encyclopedia that is used to store all project information is called: 5) Enterprise resource planning systems integrate: 6) Here is a list of things which you might find on a Data Flow Diagram. 1. Process(es) 2. Flow(s) 3. Data Store(s) 4. External(s) Which of them would you expect to find on a context level data flow diagram. 7) An external entity may be: 8) Which level of management is most dependent on external information? 9) Who has final responsibility for judging the feasibility of a systems project? 10) Anything external to an organizations boundaries is considered to be: 11) Which of the following is concerned with the analyst's time and the costs for system development, hardware, and business employee time? 12) Which of these is most valuable in estimating project time? 13) A Gantt chart contains: 14) The longest path through a PERT diagram is called: 15) Which of the following is clarified by the project charter? 16) Which of these steps in interview preparation is most helpful in allowing the interviewer to build a vocabulary common to the interviewee? 17) Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a management information system 18) Computer supported collaborative work might include software called. 19) Making one-time decisions is a characteristic of 20) User involvement in a systems project is best when it occurs 21) The context level data flow diagram depicts: 22) A basic principle of random sampling is 23) "Unobtrusive" data collection involves 24) A major goal of an interview should be 25) In an interview probing questions: 26) The written interview report: 27) Which of the following is NOT an advantage of using Joint Application Design (JAD)? 28) The biggest difference between the questions used for most interviews and those on questionnaires is: 29) Closed questions should be used when the analyst: 30) The following question is an example of: How would you rate the difficulty of this exam? 1 2 3 4 5 O O O O O 31) Which of following is NOT a specific criteria for project selection? 32) Improvements to systems include all the following except 33) Processes on a data flow diagram: 34) Which of these is the most personalized? 35) In which phase of the systems development life cycle is the analyst most heavily involved in user training? 36) Middle managers are highly dependent on external information. 37) Requirements on a problem definition include the word "not." 38) After the objectives are stated, the relative importance of the issues or objectives must be determined 39) The critical path is defined as the most expensive path. 40) No more than one session should be conducted with an interviewee. 41) A questionnaire is an excellent means of doing an in depth analysis of a manager's decision making processes. 42) Data gathering bias can be reduced by sampling 43) A management information system departs from the traditional transaction processing system in that it emphasizes the support of decision making in all its phases. 2