Answer the following questions.

List the categories of information systems that the analyst may be involved with. List the roles that the systems analyst plays. Provide a definition for each one. List the seven phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). List the four reasons for adopting CASE tools. What are the advantages of using lower CASE tools for generating computer source code? List the five steps in interview preparation. Give five advantages and three drawbacks of using open-ended interview questions. List the three potential drawbacks of using JAD. Which are the four situations that make the use of questionnaires appropriate? What are some rules for designing a good questionnaire? What is a context-level data flow diagram? Compare it to a level 0 DFD. List the reasons for partitioning a data flow diagram into separate computer programs List reasons for creating a logical data flow diagram. How can an event table be used to create a data flow diagram? What is partitioning and how is it used? What information is contained in the data repository? Name the algebraic notations used to represent the data structure. What are physical data structures? Give examples of physical design elements. What is the difference between base and derived elements? What are the main benefits of using a data dictionary? What are the three goals of producing process specifications? What are the two blocks of structured English? What is the advantage of using structured English to communicate with people in the organization? What are the main uses of decision trees in systems analysis? What are the rules for horizontal balancing? List six output design objectives for designing system output. List three main ways in which presentations of output are unintentionally biased. What are the four primary considerations the analyst has when designing graphical output? List the guidelines for creating good Web sites. List seven ideas for improving the presentation of Web sites. List the four guidelines for form design. What are the basic duties for controlling forms? What are the ways to make an easy movement from one screen to another? List the top five most legible combinations of foreground lettering on backgrounds. List five design guidelines for a Web-based fill-in form. What are the effectiveness objectives of a database? List and define the three integrity constraints. List the eight steps for retrieving and presenting data. Define denormalization. Explain the differences between traditional databases and data warehouses. Name the five objectives that systems analysts should address to design a good user interface? List the six guidelines of GUI menus used to control PC software. What are the three guidelines for designing screen dialog? What are the seven situations that require feedback for users? List four practical ways to design easy, one-click navigation for an ecommerce site. List the five general purposes for coding data. Define the block sequence code. List the eight general guidelines for establishing a coding system. Define the term bottleneck in the context of data entry. 50. List four advantages of data accuracy in ecommerce environments. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49.

Divyakant Meva MEFGI

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