Midterm CISP

Serve as a contract

A Project Scope Statement can be used to _____

A business unit

If a project has a small or narrow focus, it most likely was chosen by .........

Product niche

Which Porter strategy has a narrow market focus?

Run applications for customers

Which of the following is a function of an IT service firm?

Functionality

_refers to the task the software can perform and the mandatory, essential and desired system features

Enterprise Resource Planning

_software solutions consist of a series of integrated modules

Application software

_would be classified as software designed to support the payroll function

Outsourcing

A _is the practice of turning over responsibility of some to all of an organization's information systems applications and operations to an outside firm

Mission statement

A clearly states what business a company is in.

Expanding software license

A common legal and contractual development in new application development is ____

Request for proposal

A document provided to vendors that asks them to propose hardware and system software that will meet the requirements of a new system is called _

horizontal

A gantt chart is a graphical representation of a project that shows each task as a ___bar whose length is portional to its time for completion.

Object class

A logical grouping of objects that have the same attributes and behaviors is known as

One-time cost

A new hardware purchase is classified as a(n) ____

Tangible benefit

A(n) ____ comes from an information system that can be measured monetarily

Scope

All of the following are categories of feasibility except ____

Decreased flexibility

All of the following are tangible benefits except _____

Systems engineering

Attempts to make systems development less of an art and more a science are usually referred to as

India, China, and Malaysia

Choose a list that represents the top three countries that are used for outsourcing as of 2014

Shortest

Critical path represents the_time in which a project can be completed

Risks

Each organization has to decide its acceptable project mix of ____.

Failure to assess and manage risks

Failure to integrate the new system with the old system is an example of ___

Return rate

How long it takes the software package to respond to the user's requests in an interactive session refers to which software evaluation criteria?

Risk and change management

Identifying, assessing, and managing the risks and day to day changes that occur during a project attributed to __

Cloud computing

If an organization is using applications rented from a third party vendor from a remote location they are most likely using what type of software system?

Team management

Managing the project team for effective team performance represents the _ activity of a project manager

Systems development methodology

Most organizations find it most beneficial to use a standard set of steps called _____

Months

Most project management software tools support a broad range of task durations including minutes, hours, days, weeks, and _

RUP

One of the most popular realizations of the iterative approach for object oriented development

A preproject step

Project identification and selection is also known as ______

Ad hoc reuse

Software reuse approach that allows individuals to find or develop reusable assets on their own and has few or any organizational rewards for reusing assets best describes _

Project selection

The SDLC planning phase consists of which activity?

All development projects

The overall plan IS plan may influence .

Describe the target situation, trends, and constraints

The second activity in the ISP process is .

Incremental commitment

The term ..... Is used when a project is reviewed after each stage to determine its continuance.

Develop a transition strategy and plans

The third activity is in the ISP process is .......

the internet

What is a large network of networks?

Potential problems

What is an example of a project assumption

Islands of information

What is another term for nonintegrated systems?

Selecting an IS project

What is the final activity in the project identification and selection process?

Requirement gathering and analysis

What is the first phase in the SDLC?

Planning

What is the first phase of the SDLC method?

Testing

What is the fourth phase of SDLC?

Nearshoring

What is the practice of us firms contracting with countries in latin america?

A schedule of specific IS development projects

What is the primary deliverable in the initial part of the planning phase?

Reduced rework

What is the result of the reuse of object classes?

Reduced rework

What is the result reuse of object classes?

Unlimited resource and infinite time

What make all projects feasible?

During corporate strategic planning

When do executives develop a mission statement?

it is a description of the alternative solution.

Which of the following a false statement regarding the scope statement?

Calculates budget for a project

Which of the following is not a feature of PERT?

High risk

Which type of the project should companies not have too many of?

Enterprise-wide systems

_ are large complex systems that consist of a series of independent system modules

Application software

_ is designed to support organizational functions or processes

Monitoring

_ is not a skill pertaining to the conflict to management activity of a project manager

Recontextualization

_ is the software reuse step that involves making the reusable asset understandable to developers who want to use it in their systems.

Facilitated reuse

_ is where developers are not required to reuse, but encouraged to do so

Ease of installation

_ measures the difficulty of loading the software and making it operational

ERP

_ solutions integrate individual traditional business functions into a series of modules so that a single transaction occurs seamlessly within a single information system rather than several separate systems.

Computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tools

_ were developed to make systems developers work easier and more consistent

Cost of capital

_________ is/are the rate at which money can be borrowed.

Risks

_________ need to be managed in order to be minimized.

Contact point for developers

_is NOT a skill pertaining to the customer relations activity of a project manager.

Forecasting

_is NOT a skill pertaining to the management activity of a project manager.

A description of the alternative solution

_is the final output from the analysis phase

Inheritance

_is the property that occurs when entity types or object classes are arranged in a hierarchy or each entity type or object class assumes the attributes methods of its ancestors, that is, those higher up the hierarchy

Object oriented analysis and design

_is/are often called third approach to systems development after the process oriented and data oriented approaches

Techniques

is/are the process that an analyst will follow to help ensure his work is complete, well done and understood by project team members