Chapter 1 System Analysis and Design

Transaction Processing (TP) systems are inefficient because they process a set of transaction-related commands individually rather than as a group

Network administration includes hardware and software maintenance, support, and security.

A mission-critical system is one that is unimportant to a company operations.

Many companies find that a trend called empowerment, which gives employees more responsibility and accountability, improves employee motivation and increases customer satisfaction

In an information system, data is information that has been transformed into input that is valuable to users.

In a typical organization model, top managers _________.

A(n) ______________ showed the data that flows in and out of a system processes.

Structured analysis is called a(n)______ technique because it focuses on processes that transform data into useful information.

Business support systems __________.

A(n) _________________ is the set of beliefs, rules, traditions, values, and attitudes that define a company and influence its way of doing business.

In a typical company organization model, middle manager _______________.

A large concentration of servers working together is called a ________________?

A(n) _______________ uses various symbols and shapes to represent data flow, processing and storage.,

Structured Analysis is a traditional systems development technique that uses a series of phases, called the _________, to plan, analyze, design, implement, and support an information system.