Please help me with my Systems Analysis Homework

1 An initial investment will be paid off at the end of the _____ period 

discount rate

net present value

Payback

return on investment

2 Eddie, a scrum team member consistently shows up late for the daily scrum. Other than Eddie, who is responsible for the integrity of Eddie's agreements with his team?

The product owner, who is in charge

The scrum master, who manages the team

The team and the scrum master must help create the circumstances for the team to take this responsibility. This may include techniques such as nudging people and modeling behavior.

3 According to Bill Wake, the INVEST acronym can help you remember what a well-formed product backlog Items looks like. What do the last three letters stand for?

Ecclesiastical, Sacred, Truthful

Easy, Sane, Traceable

Estimable, Small, Testable

Effective, Secure, Trusted

Enormous, Severe, Tricky

4 Who estimates the effort to complete a product backlog Item?

The product owner, with input from the Scrum development team

The Scrum development team, after clarifying the requirement

The Scrum Master, with input from the Scrum development team

The most senior people in the organization, such as engineering managers or the software architect

5 How many sprints are planned during a sprint planning meeting?

One sprint only. Once the team has established a consistent velocity, the product owner can use this philosophy to make longer range forecasts and release plans.

All the sprints left in the project. We know more on the first day of a project than we will know in the future.

Four sprints

6 In scrum, how often is the Sprint Retrospective Meeting conducted?

Every day

Every sprint

Every project

7 If we keep the product backlog visible and encourage open communication, will the product backlog usually get bigger or smaller over time?

The product backlog will grow because people ask for things in response to what they've seen.

The product backlog will shrink because scrum teams work so fast

8 When specifying the user interface, you might consider all of the following except _____.

Branding graphics

communication protocols

data validation guidelines

navigation links that will appear on every screen

9 The goal is to specify the requirements precisely enough that a developer knows what to build and a tester can determine if it was built correctly.

True

False

10 One-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many are possible _____ one might specify for relationships between entities in an ERD.

Cardinalities

Designations

Primitives

Stores

11 Which of the following user stories specifies a quality attribute?

As a chemist, I want to request a chemical, so I can perform experiments

As a help desk technician, I want the knowledge base to respond to queries within five seconds, so the customer doesn’t get frustrated and hang up

As a mother, I want to take recognizable pictures of my daughter during school performances, so that I can share them with her grandparents

As a student, I want to be able to check my grades online, so I don’t have to wait until I get to school to see how I’m doing in the class

12 Which of the following types of prototypes focuses on technical soundness?

Preliminary

Mock-up

Proof-of-concept

Terminal

13 All but which of the following is a technique for prioritizing requirements.

Duck duck goose

In or out

MoSCoW

Three-level scale

14 When testing a use case, you should check all but which of the following?

Alternative flows

Deletions

Exceptions

Normal flow

15 You can deliver a product that has all the desired functionality but that user's hate because it doesn't match their (often unstated) quality expectations.

True

False

16 Which adaptive approach works well for projects with highly uncertain or volatile requirements?

Agile

Object oriented

Sequential design

Waterfall

17 In the product backlog, user stories have a designated status. For which status is the scrum master needed most?

Blocked

Completed

Defined

In Progress

18 Scope change is welcome in which of the following development methods?

Agile

Traditional

Waterfall

All of the above

19 After decision makers define a requirements _____, the business analyst should place the requirements under change control.

Baseline

Metric

Snapshot

Standard

20 Match the requirements development tasks listed below with the appropriate descriptions.

 

21 Business analysts do most of their work in seclusion, rarely interacting with others.

True

False

22 Many agile projects conduct an upfront planning iteration to define the overarching product vision and other business requirements for the project.

True

False

23 Customer involvement is a critical factor in delivering excellent software.

True

False

24 During elicitation, one effective technique is to create a "Wall of Wonder" where participants can write and post their ideas.

True

False

25 User stories contain all but which of the following. Department

Goal

Rationale

Type of user

 Elicitation

Validation

Specification

Analysis

    Ask some stake holders to confirm that what you’ve captured is accurate and complete and to correct any errors

 Ask customers questions, listen to what they say, watch what they do.

Structure customer input and derived requirements as written requirements statements and diagrams

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  Relate customer needs to possible software requirements