System Analysis and Design Flashcards

The process of identifying long-term organizational goals, strategies, and resources.

A document that describes the company for its stakeholders and states the company's overall purpose, products, services, and values.

<p>Crucial steps companies take to perform to achieve their goals and objectives and implement strategies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>threats</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>What are our strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats?</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The reasons or justification for a proposal.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>More Information</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Technology</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A combination of hardware, software, and services</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Step-by-step process for developing high-quality information systems</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Technology, people, and data</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Analysis and design of information systems</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Set of related components that produces specific results</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An information system vital to a company's operations</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Data converted into a meaningful and useful context</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Software</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Machines, wiring, and other physical components of a computer or electronic system</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Physical or virtual infrastructures used to house computer, server, and networking systems</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The number of transistors on an integrated circuit chip doubles about every 24 months</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Programs that control the hardware and produce desired information or results</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Software that manages hardware components and provides data security</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Programs that support day-to-day business functions</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A basic system commonly used by a variety of companies</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A system designed to meet the unique requirements of a specific business or industry</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Older information systems that remain in use because they still function</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The exponential growth in the volume, variety, and velocity of information</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Databases that manipulate structured and unstructured data</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Influence project outcomes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Whether it meets the needs of the users</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rapidly increasing globalization</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The process of conducting business online</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Commercial exchange between business and consumers conducted over the Internet</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Businesses buying from and selling to each other over the Internet</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The computer-to-computer exchange of business documents</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Planning and coordinating the movement of products along the supply chain</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The connected chain of all business entities that support logistics</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A graphical representation of a concept or process</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A definition of a company's overall functions and relationships</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A graphical representation of business functions</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A practice that develops a set of related system models</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Description of specific events, tasks, and desired results</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Standard set of terms and notations for documenting business processes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Business management software for collecting and interpreting data</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Process data generated by day-to-day business operations</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Customer order processing, accounts receivable, warranty claim processing</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They process transaction-related commands as a group</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They ensure that if any single element fails, the system does not process the rest</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Systems that provide job-related information support</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Analyze transactional data, generate management information, enable decision making</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A business function that facilitates decision making and problem solving</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A small computer chip attached to an item to track movement</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Models information to support managers during decision-making</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Systems for managing knowledge in organizations</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A system development technique using collaboration among users and IT professionals</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Instructions that direct a knowledge management system to identify patterns</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Systems that include various productivity applications</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Specialized collaborative software applications</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A program responding to user requests through a natural interface</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An application of AI that uses automated approaches to pattern recognition</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Long-range plans defining the corporate mission and goals</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Employees whose main contribution is specialized knowledge</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A systems development technique using phases to support an IS</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An approach that views the system in terms of objects combining data and processes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Incremental systems development methods using prototypes</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A systemized approach to defining and controlling projects</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Activities typically performed in developing information systems</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Systems Analysis</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A visual model of the sequential flow and control logic of activities</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>How a system handles data and produces useful information</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A graphical description of the flow of data within an organization</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An SDLC approach that assumes phases can be completed sequentially</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A polished, final product suitable for its intended use</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The first phase of the SDLC, where the project proposal is evaluated</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A formal way of asking for IT support and project initiation</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An initial analysis to clearly identify the business opportunity or problem</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The second SDLC phase where a logical model of the new system is built</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Used in the systems planning phase to identify requirements for a new system</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Deliverable describing management and user requirements and strategies</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The third SDLC phase focused on creating a blueprint for the system</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A document presenting the complete design for the new information system</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The fourth SDLC phase where the new system is constructed and tested</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An assessment conducted during implementation to check system functionality</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The IT staff maintains, enhances, and protects the system</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A term indicating a collection of similar objects</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Characteristics that objects inherit or possess</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Built-in processes that can change an object's properties</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Requests specific behavior or information from another object</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An adaptive method using a spiral development model</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A development model with iterations based on user feedback</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An early, rapidly constructed working version of the proposed system</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Powerful software used in computer-aided systems engineering</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Activities covering the entire SDLC from requirements to management</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Software technology managing a product's lifecycle from concept to manufacture</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Applications for building software applications</p> Signup and view all the answers