ITPEC IP October 2018 Question 98

Planning — the process in which the computerization project is created, before any requirements are defined.

The software life cycle runs planning → requirements definition → development → operation → maintenance. In the planning process, the business issues and the information systems strategy are turned into a computerization plan: the purpose and scope of the system, expected effects, rough cost and schedule, and the project that will carry it out. The later processes work from that plan.

Answer (c)

Why not others:

• •(a) — operation runs the finished system in the business; the project was created long before
• •(b) — development designs, builds and tests the system that the plan and the requirements call for
• •(d) — requirements definition clarifies the functions and requirements of the system within the scope the plan has already set

Key rule: Planning decides whether and why to computerize and creates the project; requirements definition then decides what the system must do, and development how to build it.

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