BIS 261 Chapter Quizzes

Project identification and selection is also known as ________.

A preproject step

Which of the following is NOT a part of the project management process? Correct! Adjoining Executing Initiating Planning

Adjoining

The overall IS plan may influence ________.

All development projects

The second phase in the SDLC is ________.

Analysis

________ is designed to support organizational functions or processes.

Application software

According to the DFD conventions, the data flow is always depicted by a(n) ________.

Arrow

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

Asking them questions

Which of the following is NOT a function of vendor support?

Assistance with choosing software

A(n) ________ is a named property or characteristic of an entity that is of interest to the organization.

Attribute

A functional dependency is a particular relationship between two ________.

Attributes

Use cases written at the ________ level focus on user goals.

Blue

As an analyst, which type of project would you most likely have contact with in the beginning of your career?

Bottom-up projects

The ________ shows the static structure of an object-oriented model: the object classes, their internal structure, and the relationships in which they participate.

Class diagram

Each ________ in a relation corresponds to an attribute of that relation.

Column

A(n) ________ is an attribute that has meaningful component parts.

Composite attribute

A(n) ________ data model is a detailed model that captures the overall structure of organizational data that is independent of any database management system or other implementation considerations.

Conceptual

All of the following are included in the Baseline Project Plan except ________.

Conclusion

COCOMO stands for ________.

Constructive Cost Model

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

Contact point for developers

Which of the following is NOT a part of project initiation?

Create a project budget

Which of the following issues should be addressed when considering reuse?

Customer support

Which of the following is NOT a source for IS development requests?

Customers

________ will mostly likely choose projects that are easy to integrate with the current hardware and software.

Development group

Which of the following is NOT a useful document in the analysis process?

E-mails

Together, SAP controls the largest share of the ________ market.

ERP

What of the following is NOT a purpose for a baseline project plan?

Eliminate risks

________ software solutions consist of a series of integrated modules.

Enterprise Resource Planning

________ are large, complex systems that consist of a series of independent system modules.

Enterprise-wide systems

Event entity types should be named for the result of the ________, not the activity or process of the event.

Event

________ and ________ are the two processes of prototypes.

Evolutionary; throwaway

A data store is data at rest and may represent only one physical location for data.

False

A project must have a positive ROI to be approved for continuation.

False

Software that can be modified to meet the needs of an organization are called turnkey systems.

False

Today's system analysts only have a few languages to choose from when creating applications.

False

The completion of the ________ forms the business case to justify project expenditure resources.

Feasibility analyses

A(n) ________ is the smallest unit of application data recognized by system software, such as a programming language or database management system.

Field

A ________ is an attribute that appears as a non-primary key attribute in one relation and as a primary key attribute (or part of a primary key) in another relation.

Foreign key

________ refers to the tasks the software can perform and the mandatory, essential, and desired system features.

Functionality

JAD is similar to a ________ because it brings together the key users, managers, and systems analysts involved in the analysis of a current system.

Group interview

If a systems analyst is questioning everything, they are showing the ________ characteristic.

Impertinence

All of the following are needed to calculate time present value except ________.

Inflation rate

In logical database modeling and design, we combine normalized data requirements from all user interfaces into one consolidated logical database model; this step is called view ________.

Integration

To successfully orchestrate the construction of a complex information system, a project manager must have ________, leadership, and technical skills.

Interpersonal

What is another term for nonintegrated systems?

Islands of information

Which of the following is NOT a fact about JAD?

It was started in the late 1970s by Google.

Both the white and ________ levels provide a summary of the use case goals.

Kite

A ________ diagram is a DFD that is generated from n nested decompositions from a level-0 diagram.

Level-n

What did Mintzberg observe about a manager's day?

Managers experience a lot of interruptions.

________ is NOT a skill pertaining to the conflict management activity of a project manager. Correct! Monitoring Problem solving Compromising Smoothing out personality differences

Monitoring

Each entity type in an E-R model is given a ________ because it represents a class or set, it is singular.

Name

________ is a critical path scheduling technique used for controlling resources. Network programming Network scheduling Correct! Network diagramming Networking

Network diagramming

In logical database design, we use a process called ________, which is a way to build a data model that has the properties of simplicity, non-redundancy, and minimal maintenance.

Normalization

________ current system users is a more direct way of seeing how an existing system operates.

Observing

A unary relationship is a relationship between the instances of ________ entity type(s).

One

A new hardware purchase is classified as a(n) ________.

One-time cost

No process can have only ________. It would be making data from nothing (a miracle). If an object has only outputs, then it must be a source.

Outputs

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

Outsourcing

The ________ rule specifies that an entity instance can simultaneously be a member of two (or more) subtypes.

Overlap

In which part of the design phase of the SDLC are the logical specifications of the system from logical design transformed into technology-specific details from which all programming and system construction can be accomplished?

Physical design

Jim had to give a presentation and list the reasons why the system should not be developed during the organization because the project is in the ________.

Planning phase

What are the five major phases of the SDLC?

Planning, Analysis, Design, Implementation, and Maintenance

In a relation, each row is unique and uniqueness is guaranteed because the relation has a non-empty ________ key value.

Primary

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

The SDLC planning phase consists of which activity?

Project selection

________ is a process of considering short- and long- term projects.

Project selection

Which of the following is NOT a criticism of the traditional waterfall SDLC approach?

Prototypes do not work properly.

________ is NOT one of the levels of details suggested by Cockburn.

Red

One purpose of database design is to structure the data in stable structures, called normalized tables, that are not likely to change over time and that have minimal ________.

Redundancy

Each ________ of a relation corresponds to a record that contains data values for an entity.

Row

Which of the below is a traditional methodology used to develop, maintain, and replace information systems?

SDLC

Which of the following is NOT true during the first 48 hours after an interview?

Schedule a follow up interview.

What is the primary disadvantage of a group interview?

Scheduling

All of the following are categories of feasibility except ________.

Scope

What is the primary concern of IT managers as it relates to cloud computing?

Security

Information systems planning includes all of the following steps except ________.

Selection of projects

A Project Scope Statement can be used to ________.

Serve as a contract

All of the following are guidelines for choosing indexes for relational databases except ________.

Specify multiple keys for each table

Which of the following is NOT a primary activity in project identification?

Stop current projects.

A ________ is an entity type that is meaningful to the organization and that shares common attributes or relationships distinct from other sub-groupings.

Subtype

Who is typically responsible for performing the PIP process?

Systems analyst

Managing the project team for effective team performance represents a ________ activity of a project manager. Change management Leadership Risk management Correct! Team management

Team management

________ is NOT a skill pertaining to the risk and change management activity of a project manager.

Team-building

Which of the following factors does NOT have any influence on the selection of a potential project?

The IS manager list

Which of the following is a new, faster, and more flexible technique for analysis gathering requirements?

The planning game

What is the purpose of gathering system records?

To gain an objective view of employee interaction with information systems

What is the primary purpose of JAD?

To gather systems requirements simultaneously

A(n) ________ is an assertion or rule that governs the validity of data manipulation operations such as insert, update, and delete.

Triggering operation

Context DFD is one of the deliverables for process modeling.

True

Information systems analysis and design is a process to develop and maintain computer-based information systems.

True

Sources/sinks are sometimes referred to as external entities because they are outside the system.

True

The analysis and design of computer-based information systems began in the 1950s.

True

To be effective, techniques and tools must both be consistent with an organization's systems development methodology.

True

Understanding free slack and total slack allows the project manager to better identify where trade-offs can be made if changes to the project schedule need to be made.

True

What makes all projects feasible?

Unlimited resource and infinite time

Which of the following is NOT a potential consequence of not managing risks?

Unqualified project management

A data flow to a data store means ________.

Update

Which of the following is a disadvantage of closed-ended questions?

Useful information that does not quite fit into the defined answers may be overlooked

________ are peer group reviews of any product created during the systems development process.

Walk-throughs

When choosing a weighted system to determine project viability, what should the organization keep in mind?

Weights are subjective.

All of the following are examples of company outsourcing except ________.

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