Systems Analysis

Essentials of System Analysis and Design, 4e (Valacich)
Chapter 1 The Systems Development Environment

1) The end user is not the person in the organization most involved in the systems analysis and design process.
Answer: TRUE
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2) Systems analysis is the second phase of the systems development life cycle.
Answer: TRUE
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3) The main goal of systems analysis and design is to improve organizational systems, typically through applying software that can help employees accomplish key business tasks more easily and efficiently.
Answer: TRUE
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4) Components are parts, or aggregation of parts of the system.
Answer: TRUE
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5) A boundary is the point of contact where a system meets its environment or where subsystems meet each other.
Answer: FALSE
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6) An information system interacts with its environment when it processes data.
Answer: FALSE
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7) An interface separates a system from other systems.
Answer: FALSE
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8) A system's environment is everything outside a system's boundary that influences the system.
Answer: TRUE
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9) Interfaces exist between subsystems.
Answer: TRUE
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10) A system's capacity can be viewed as a system constraint.
Answer: TRUE
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11) Cohesion is the process of breaking down a system into its smaller components.
Answer: FALSE
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12) Coupling results in smaller and less complex systems that are easier to understand than larger, complicated systems.
Answer: FALSE
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13) Decomposition allows the systems analyst to build different parts of the system at independent times and have the help of different analysts.
Answer: TRUE
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14) Component focusing allows the systems analyst to break a system into small, manageable, and understandable subsystems.