MIS 581 Week 8 Final Exam (Version 4)

MIS 581 Week 8 Final Exam/Test
MIS 581 - Systems Analysis, Planning And Control
Keller Graduate School of Management
Question 2. (TCO A) List and describe four of the seven phases of the systems development life cycle.
Question 2. (TCO B) Why is it usually more advantageous to a company to buy a commercial software
product than to attempt to produce one in-house or through outsourcing.
Question 3. (TCO C) Describe why traditional engineering methodologies, like waterfall, do not work for
software development.
Question 4. (TCOs G and H) List and describe the four major guidelines an analyst should use to set up
training for a new system.
Question 5. (TCOs G and H) What are seven essential items that the analyst should include in
performing a website traffic analysis?
Question 6. (TCO F) List five of the seven design guidelines for a web-based fill-in form.
Question 7. (TCO F) List five of the eight ways to minimize user action when keying in data.
Question 8. (TCO D) Why are structural records used?
Question 9. Extra Credit Question: (TCO D) Describe some of the technical differences between
relational and non-relational databases.