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• This quiz covers Chapters 5 and 6.

• This quiz covers COs 3 and 4.

• There are 10 multiple choice questions, worth 3 points each, for a total of 30 points.

• You will have 1 hour to take the quiz.

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Question 1

(TCO 3) The impartiality characteristic of a good systems analyst is represented by which of the following statements?

• You must challenge yourself to look at the organization in new ways.

• Your role is to find the best solution to a business problem or opportunity.

• Assume anything is possible, and eliminate the infeasible.

• You should question everything.

• Every fact must fit with every other fact.

Question 2

(TCO 3) Which of the following is a traditional method of collecting systems requirements?

 Business process reengineering

• Observations

• Joint application design

• Rapid application development

• Prototyping

Question 3

(TCO 3) Which of the following can be considered an advantage of open-ended questions?

• The interviewer can explore unexpected lines of inquiry.

• Open-ended questions often put the interviewee at ease.

• The interviewee has a sense of involvement and control in the interview.

• Interviewees can respond in their own words using their own structure.

• All of the above

Question 4

(TCO 3) Which of the following is a reason for directly observing end users?

• The analyst gets a snapshot image of the person or task being observed.

• Observations are not very time consuming.

• People often do not have a completely accurate appreciation of what they do or how they do it.

• Employees will alter their performance if they know that they are being observed.

• Interviewing is less rich, passive, and often provides ambiguous data.

Question 5

(TCO 3) Which of the following is a true statement regarding JAD?

• A working system is the end result of a JAD.

• JAD sessions are usually conducted in the organization's conference room.

• The primary purpose of using JAD in the analysis phase is to collect systems requirements simultaneously from the key people involved with the system.

• A JAD session is inexpensive to conduct.

• JADs benefit greatly from computer support.

Question 6

(TCO 4) Graphically representing the processes that capture, manipulate, store, and distribute data between a system and its environment and among components within a system refers to

• data modeling.

• structure modeling.

• process modeling.

• transition modeling.

• logic modeling.

Question 7

(TCO 4) Data in motion, moving from one place in a system to another, best describes a

• data store.

• process.

• source.

• data flow.

• relationship.

Question 8

(TCO 4) Data at rest, which may take the form of many different physical representations, best describes a

• source.

• data store.

• data flow.

• process.

• relationship.

Question 9

(TCO 4) An arrow on a data-flow diagram represents a(n)

• data store.

• data flow.

• process.

• source.

• action sequence.

Question 10

(TCO 4) On a data-flow diagram, a rectangle with the right vertical line missing represents a

• data store.

• data flow.

• process.

• source.

• relationship.