CBIS 3210 Test 1 Actual Exam with Practice
Questions and Verified Answers
1. InformationSystemsAnalysis and Design: The processof deṿelopingandmaintainingan
information system
2. ApplicationSoftware: Software designed to process data and support users in an organization. Exam
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include spreadsheets, word processors, and database management systems.
3. System: A group of interrelatedproceduresused for a business function, with an identifiableboundary,
working togetherfor somepurpose
4. Component:An irreduciblepart or aggregationof parts thatmakesup a system;also calleda subsystem
5. Interrelated:Dependenceof onepart of the systemon oneor moreothersystemparts
6. Boundary: The line that marks the inside and outside of a system and that sets ott the system from its
enṿironment
7. Purpose: The oṿerall goal or functionof a system
8. Enṿironment:Eṿerythingexternalto a systemthat interactswith the system
9. Interface: Point of contactwhere a system meetsits enṿironmentor where subsystemsmeeteach other
10. Constraint: A limit to what a systemcan accomplish
11. Decomposition:The processof breakingthedescriptionof a systemdowninto small components;also
knownas functionaldecomposition
12. Modularity:Diṿiding a systemup into chunks or modulesof a relatiṿely uniformsize
13. Coupling: The extentto which subsystemsdependon eachother
14. Cohesion: The extent to which a system or subsystemperforms a single function
15. Systems Analyst: The organizationalrole most responsiblefor the analysis and designof information
systems
16. Systems DeṿelopmentMethodology:A standard process followed in an organization to con-duct
all the steps necessary to analyze, design, implement, and maintain information systems
17. Systems DeṿelopmentLife Cycle (SDLC): The series of steps used to mark the phases of
deṿelopmentfor an informationsystem
18. Systems Planning and Selection: The
first phaseof theSDLC, in which an organization'stotal
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, information system needs are analyzed and arranged, and in which a potential information systems project is
identified and an argument for continuing or not continuing with the project is presented
19. SystemsAnalysis: Phaseof theSDLC in which thecurrentsystemis studiedand alternatiṿe replacement
systems are proposed
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Questions and Verified Answers
1. InformationSystemsAnalysis and Design: The processof deṿelopingandmaintainingan
information system
2. ApplicationSoftware: Software designed to process data and support users in an organization. Exam
-ples
include spreadsheets, word processors, and database management systems.
3. System: A group of interrelatedproceduresused for a business function, with an identifiableboundary,
working togetherfor somepurpose
4. Component:An irreduciblepart or aggregationof parts thatmakesup a system;also calleda subsystem
5. Interrelated:Dependenceof onepart of the systemon oneor moreothersystemparts
6. Boundary: The line that marks the inside and outside of a system and that sets ott the system from its
enṿironment
7. Purpose: The oṿerall goal or functionof a system
8. Enṿironment:Eṿerythingexternalto a systemthat interactswith the system
9. Interface: Point of contactwhere a system meetsits enṿironmentor where subsystemsmeeteach other
10. Constraint: A limit to what a systemcan accomplish
11. Decomposition:The processof breakingthedescriptionof a systemdowninto small components;also
knownas functionaldecomposition
12. Modularity:Diṿiding a systemup into chunks or modulesof a relatiṿely uniformsize
13. Coupling: The extentto which subsystemsdependon eachother
14. Cohesion: The extent to which a system or subsystemperforms a single function
15. Systems Analyst: The organizationalrole most responsiblefor the analysis and designof information
systems
16. Systems DeṿelopmentMethodology:A standard process followed in an organization to con-duct
all the steps necessary to analyze, design, implement, and maintain information systems
17. Systems DeṿelopmentLife Cycle (SDLC): The series of steps used to mark the phases of
deṿelopmentfor an informationsystem
18. Systems Planning and Selection: The
first phaseof theSDLC, in which an organization'stotal
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, information system needs are analyzed and arranged, and in which a potential information systems project is
identified and an argument for continuing or not continuing with the project is presented
19. SystemsAnalysis: Phaseof theSDLC in which thecurrentsystemis studiedand alternatiṿe replacement
systems are proposed
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