30 Jan a distributed presentation

CIS321 Structured Analysis & Design

Week 6 Quiz

Question 1

(TCO 2) Which of the following is NOT a question that addresses cultural or political feasibility?

Does management support the system?

How do end users feel about their role in the new system?

What users or managers may resist or not use the system?

How will the working environment of users change?

None of the above

Question 2

(TCO 2) When determining the cost-effectiveness of a project, which of the following is an important concept to understand?

The feelings of the end users about their role in the system

Whether we currently possess the necessary technology

The time value of money

Whether the system offers adequate controls against embezzlement and fraud

All of the above

Question 3

(TCO 2) Which of the following is NOT a suggestion for keeping people listening during a presentation?

Stop talking.

Ask a question.

Try humor.

Talk faster.

Do something unexpected.

Question 4

(TCO 2) Which kind of feasibility is concerned with whether the organization has the skills needed to properly apply a given technology?

Operational feasibility

Technical feasibility

Schedule feasibility

Legal feasibility

Cultural or political feasibility

Question 5

(TCO 2) Which kind of feasibility can be impacted by government mandates?

Operational feasibility

Technical feasibility

Schedule feasibility

Legal feasibility

Cultural or political feasibility

Question 6

(TCO 6) Which of the following is a purpose of the procurement and decision analysis phase?

Identify and research specific products that could support our recommended solution for the target information system.

Solicit, evaluate, and rank vendor proposals.

Select and recommend the best vendor proposal.

Contract with the awarded vendor to obtain the product.

All of the above

Question 7

(TCO 6) A structure chart

is derived by studying the flow of data through the program.

is created during systems design.

does not address all aspects of design.

is the software model derived from structured design.

All of the above

Question 8

(TCO 6) Which of the following are examples of model-driven approaches?

Structured design, rapid application development, and CASE

Information engineering, CASE, and joint application design

Object-oriented design, joint application, and rapid application development

Structured design, information engineering, and object-oriented design

None of the above

Question 9

(TCO 6) The merger of various structured techniques (especially data-driven information engineering) with prototyping techniques and joint application techniques to accelerate systems developmen, is known as

application architecture.

object-oriented design.

model-driven design.

rapid application development.

None of the above

Question 10

(TCO 6) Which of the following emphasizes the drawing of pictorial system models to document the technical or implementation aspects of a new system?

Model-driven design

Rapid application development

Joint application development

Both rapid application development and joint application design

None of the above

Question 11

(TCO 6) Which of the following is represented in a physical data flow?

The planned implementation of an input to or output from a physical process

A database command or action, such as create, read, update, or delete

The import of data or the export of data to another information system across the network

The flow of data between two modules of subroutines within the same program

All of the above

Question 12

(TCO 6) In which application architecture does the client PC do virtually all the actual work?

File server

Distributed data client/server

Network computing

Distributed presentation client/server

Distributed data and application client/server

Question 13

(TCO 6) Which of the following is NOT an implementation method?

A purchased application software package

A system or utility program

An existing application program from a program library

A program to be written

All of the above are implementation methods

Question 14

(TCO 6) A server that hosts services for e-mail, calendaring, and other work group functionality is known as a(n)

database server.

transaction server.

application server.

messaging server.

None of the above

Question 15

(TCO 6) A solution in which the presentation and presentation logic layers are shifted from the server of a legacy system to reside in the client is known as

a distributed presentation client/server system.

a distributed data client/server system.

a distributed data client/server system OR two-tiered client/server computing.

a distributed presentation client/server system OR two-tiered client/server computing.

None of the above