System analysis involves which of the following?

• A. Obtaining the System Requirements
• B. Designing the Components of the System
• C. Testing a System for Errors
• D. Constructing a Personal Health Record System

Answer: (A)

System analysis centers on identifying and documenting what the system must do. It involves eliciting needs from stakeholders, analyzing workflows, and translating these into a structured set of requirements—functional requirements (what the system should do) and nonfunctional requirements (how it should perform, such as security, reliability, and usability). This activity establishes the foundation for design and development and guides decisions about data models, interfaces, and processes. In practice, you would interview clinicians and administrators, observe current workflows, and produce a requirements specification that others use to design and build the system.

The other activities belong to different phases: designing the components describes how to implement the system; testing for errors occurs during verification and validation; constructing a Personal Health Record System would be an implementation/build task. So obtaining the system requirements best captures system analysis.