What is an Information System? - Answers A set of interrelated components that collect, process,
store, and output information, supporting all areas of business organizations.
What is a Computer Application? - Answers A software program that performs specific functions,
often referred to as an app, differing from an information system as it usually refers only to software.
What is the focus of Systems Analysis? - Answers Activities aimed at understanding and specifying
what the system must accomplish, identifying business needs, system requirements, and detailed
functions.
What does Systems Design entail? - Answers Activities focused on describing how the system will be
implemented, specifying system components, architecture, and how components work together.
What role does a Systems Analyst play? - Answers Acts as a bridge between system users and
programmers, capturing the system vision and communicating specifications.
What are the seven steps in the Systems Development Process? - Answers 1. Understand the business
need, 2. Capture the system vision, 3. Define the solution, 4. Communicate requirements and design,
5. Build the system, 6. Confirm the system meets the need, 7. Launch the application.
What is the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC)? - Answers A framework that identifies all activities
needed to build and deploy an information system.
What are the six core processes of the SDLC? - Answers 1. Identify the problem or need, 2. Plan and
monitor the project, 3. Discover and understand requirements, 4. Design system components, 5.
Build, test, and integrate components, 6. Complete testing and deploy the system.
What is Agile methodology? - Answers A methodology based on the idea that requirements are not
fully understood at the start, allowing changes and new requirements throughout the project.
What does Iterative development involve? - Answers An approach where the system is built gradually
over time, developing core components first and adding additional components later.
What are the Pre-Project Activities in the SDLC? - Answers Activities including identifying the problem,
obtaining project approval, creating a System Vision Document, and defining major components.
What is included in the Systems Analysis phase? - Answers Fact-finding tasks to understand
requirements, developing use cases and diagrams, and documenting detailed workflows.
What does the Design System Components phase involve? - Answers Designing the database
structure, high-level system structure, and defining design class diagrams.
What is the purpose of Testing & Deployment in the SDLC? - Answers To conduct functional testing,
verify that the system meets business requirements, and prepare the system for deployment.
What is the benefit of using Iterative development? - Answers It produces working software every
iteration and allows for changes based on user feedback.
What is a model in the context of systems analysis? - Answers A representation of an important
aspect of the real world, used to record information, communicate ideas, and understand complex
systems.
What are tools in systems development? - Answers Software that supports system development
tasks, such as creating models, managing schedules, and testing code.
What are techniques in the context of systems analysis? - Answers Step-by-step guidelines for
completing a task or activity.
What is the goal of the first iteration in the SDLC? - Answers To learn and build one working part of
the system while introducing all six core SDLC processes.
What is the significance of user acceptance testing? - Answers It verifies that the system meets the
business requirements and is ready for deployment.
What is a use case diagram? - Answers A visual representation of the interactions between users and
the system, showing the system's functionality.
What is the purpose of a System Vision Document? - Answers To outline the benefits and capabilities
of the proposed system.
What is the role of fact-finding in Systems Analysis? - Answers To gather detailed information about
user needs and system requirements.
What is the importance of defining iterations in the SDLC? - Answers It helps organize the
development process by assigning functional areas to specific iterations.
What does 'OOP' stand for in systems design? - Answers Object-Oriented Programming, a
programming paradigm based on the concept of objects.