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ACC/546 MSBE0N5J91

Chapter 5

System Development and Program Change Activities

Review Questions

1)Distinguish between systems professionals, end users, and stakeholders.

2. What is the role of the accountant in the SDLC? Why might accountants be called on for input into the development of a nonaccounting information system?

3. What are the three problems that account for most system failures?

4. Why is it often difficult to obtain competent and meaningful user involvement in the SDLC?

5. Who should sit on the systems steering committee? What are its typical responsibilities?

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6. Why is strategic systems planning not technically considered to be part of the SDLC?

7. What is strategic systems planning, and why should it be done?

8. What is the purpose of project planning, and what are the various steps?

9. What is the object­oriented design (OOD) approach?

10. What are the broad classes of facts that need to be gathered in the systems survey?

11. What are the primary fact­gathering techniques?

12. What are the relative merits and disadvantages of a current systems survey?

13. Distinguish among data sources, data stores, and data flows.

14. What are some of the key documents that may be reviewed in a current systems survey?

15. What is the purpose of a systems analysis, and what type of information should be included in the systems analysis report?

16. What is the primary objective of the conceptual systems design phase?

17. What are two approaches to conceptual systems design?

18. How much design detail is needed in the conceptual design phase?

19. What is an object, and what are its characteristics in the object­oriented approach? Give two examples.

20. What is the auditor’s primary role in the conceptual design of the system?

21. Who should be included in the group of independent evaluators performing the detailed feasibility study?

22. What makes the cost­benefit analysis more difficult for information systems than for most other investments an organization may make?

23. Classify each of the following as either one­time or recurring costs:

24. Distinguish between turnkey and backbone systems. Which is more flexible?