CIT Midterm practice quiz

What are the advantages of packaged software?

- Lower costs - Requires less time to implement - Proven reliability and performance benchmarks - Requires less technical development staff - Future upgrades provided by vendor - Input from other companies

Bottom-Up identification

-Business unit or IS group -Don't reflect overall goals of the organization

Top-Down Identification

-Senior management or steering committee -Focus is on global needs of organization

ISP three key activities

-describe the current situation -describe the target (or future) situation -develop a transition plan and strategy

Project identification and selection is also known as _____.

A preproject step

Which of the following activities happen during the SDLC planning phase?

A presentation of why the system should or should not be developed by the organization is given.

What is Agile Methodology

An iterative approach to system development focusing oncollaboration, customer feedback, and small, rapid releases.

Information Systems Planning (ISP)

An orderly means of assessing the information needs of an organization and defining the systems, databases, and technologies that will best satisfy those needs.

Which SDLC phases involves gathering and interpreting system requirements?

Analysis

If an analyst can recognize that all of the facts must fit with every other fact, the analyst is displaying ______.

Attention to details

Top Management

CEO of a small or medium organization or senior executive in a larger organization

What is at the core of systems analysis

Collection of Information

What does the term 'outsourcing' refer to in software development?

Contracting external companies to handle system development or IT functions.

Current, Future, Strategy.

Current, Future, Strategy.

data store

Data at rest, which may take the form of many different physical representations

What is the primary purpose of the planning phase in project management?

Defining project scope, timelines, and resources.

________ will mostly likely choose projects that are easy tointegrate with the current hardware and software

Development Group or IS department

decision trees

Diagrams where answers to yes or no questions lead decision makers to address additional questions until they reach the end of the tree.

Name two advantages of Agile over Waterfall.

Faster feedback, more flexibility to adapt to changes.

A ___, which is conducted by the project manager, involves determining if the information system makes sense for the organization form an economic and operational standpoint.

Feasibility Study

logical data flow diagram

Focus on the business operations, not concerned with how the system will be constructed, and described business events that take place and the data required and produced by each event.

Which tool is used to visualize the timeline of a project?

Gantt Chart

What are the three sources of software used in system development?

In-house development, enterprise solutions software, packaged software providers

top outsourcing countries

India, China, Philippine's, Mexico, and Poland

What are the four phases of project management?

Initiating, planning, executing, closing down

Which of the following is a primary way to gather information?

Interviewing

Which of the following is an example of an open-ended question?

List the three most frequently used menu options.

Which of the below is NOT one of the three elements that work together to form an organizational approach to systems analysis and design?

Milestones

All of the following can create bias when observing an employee working except________.

Observation yields too much data

Which of the following is NOT a major category of sources of software?

Offshore

hat is the focus of the maintenance phase in the SDLC?

Ongoing system support, error fixing, and updates.

What is the practice of a company running a computer application for another organization?

Outsourcing

What is the first phase of the SDLC method?

Planning

What are the five phases of the systems of the SDLC?

Planning, Analysis, Design, Implementation, and Maintenance

Which role in Scrum is responsible for connecting with thecustomer, creating a roadmap, managing the backlog, andsupporting the team to deliver value?

Product Owner

What is a critical path in project management?

The sequence of tasks that determines the maximum project completion time.

What does in-house development satisfy?

Unique business requirements -not possible with standard commercial software packages -minimizes changes in business procedures and policies -meets constraints of existing systems and technology -develops internal resources and capabilities

What makes all projects feasible?

Unlimited resources and infinite time

How does Waterfall methodology differ from Agile?

Waterfall is a linear, sequential approach, while Agile is iterative and flexible.

Which of the following is NOT a question asked to determine if project initiation and planning (PIP) has ended and analysis has begun?

Who is goring to pay for PIP?

what are the 3 principles of agile?

adaptive methodologies, people focus, and self-adaptive

Information systems _____ is an organizational improvement process.

analysis and design

An effective way to gather information about the system from users is _____

asking them questions

Legal and Contractual feasibility

asses legal ramifications of a sytem

Technical Feasibility

asses the ability to construct a proposed system

Scheduling Feasibility

asses the timeframe to meet the organization deadline

Operational Feasability

assess whether the system will solve a problem or take advantage of a business opportunity

Advantages of Top-Down Planning

broader perspective, improved integration, improved management support, and better understanding.

A data model is an abstract representation of the data pertaining to

business topics, events, and activities

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

business unit

steering commitee

composed of cross section of managers

nearshoring

contracting with companies in countries nearby, usually no more than one time zone away.

What is a project manager's role during the execution phase?

coordinating tasks, tracking progress, and managing the project team

in a data flow diagram, a ______ is modeled using an arrow

data flow

a _____is a picture of the movement of data between external entities and the processes and data stores within a system.

data flow diagram

What three things do data flow diagrams model

data flow relationships, where data is stored, processes that change data

_______ are not a component of data flow diagrams symbols

data programs

effective project management

ensures helps to ensure that systems development projects meet customer expectations and are delivered within budget and time constraints

Political Feasibility

evaluates how key stakeholders view the proposed system

Top-Down Planning

generic methodology that attempts to gain a broad understanding of the information system needs of the entire organization.

Bottom-Up Planning

generic methodology that identifies and defines IS development projects based upon solving operational business problems or taking advantage of business opportunities

offshoring

global outsourcing, out of country

Not having a clear understanding of goals of a project can cause projects to

go over budget, delayed, or fail

aligning projects with the _____ of the organization is essential for project success

goals

user departments

head of the requesting department

IT Service Firms

help companies develop custom information systems for internal use

Economic Feasability

identify the financial benefits and costs

6 Sources of Software

in-house, packaged, IT services, ERP, Cloud computing, and open-source

organizations respond to and anticipate problems and opportunities through _____ use of information

innovative

(ERP) Enterprise Solutions Software

integrates individual traditional business functions into a series of integrated modules. All transactions in a singlular system.

Value Chain Analysis

method to analyze an organization activities to determine where value is added and costs are incurred.

Cloud Computing

online software in which applications and services are accessed and used through an internet connection

source/sink

origin and/or destination of data

_____ concentrate on the movement of data between processes

process models

organizations use projects to turn strategy into new ______

products and services

onshoring

relocating business process or operations to the same country where the company is based

context data flow diagram

scope of the system

development group

senior information systems manager

A project scope statement can be used to _____

serve as a contract

open-source software

software that is freely available and developed by a community of interested people

In Scrum, what is the term for the period during which a set of workmust be completed?

sprint

Physical data flow diagram

systems perspective, how data flows, and structure to store the data

What are the three elements that form an organizational approach to systems analysis and design?

tools, techniques, and methodologies

a data flow diagram is a tool for

visualizing and analyzing the data flow within a system

data flow diagrams show

which process move and transform data, and where inputs and outputs occur

process

work or actions performed on data so that they are transformed, stored, or distributed

A ___ is a planned undertaking of a series of related activities to reach an objective that has a beginning and an end.

Project

The ___ is a systems analyst with a diverse set of skills-management, leadership, technical, conflict management, and customer relationship- who is responsible for initiating, planning, executing, and closing down a project?

Project manager

What is packaged software?

Purchasing a software package (off-the-shelf)

What enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is commonly used to manage business operations in large organizations?

SAP

Name two advantages of using cloud computing for system development.

Scalability, cost savings

Which group chooses projects that most often reflect the largerneeds of the organization?

Steering Committee

Who has the primary responsibility for the design and analysis of information systems.

Systems Analyst

Who is typically responsible for performing the project initiation and planning process?

Systems Analyst

Which evaluation criteria for classifying and ranking projects deals with level of difficulty of the project?

Technical difficulty

What is the purpose of a Scrum Master in Agile?

To facilitate the Scrum process and remove obstacles for the team.

Projects are identified by

Top management, steering committee, user departments, development group, or IS staff

Any activity on the critical path that is delayed in completion delays the entire project? True or False?

True

Companies outsources their information systems because they want to reduce their time to market. True or false?

True