IS 431 - Midterm
Activity
Resource estimates may need to be revised based upon the skills of the actual person (or people) assigned to a particular ________.
Incremental commitment
The term ________ is used when a project is reviewed after each stage to determine its continuance.
Collection of information
What is at the core of systems analysis?
Selecting an IS project
What is the final activity in the project identification and selection process?
Classifying IS development projects
What is the second major activity in the project identification and selection process?
Employees may miss work
What of the following is NOT a consequence of employees knowing they are being observed in their work?
Project Scope document
Which document outlines all work required to complete the project?
Economic
Which feasibility category deals with identifying financial benefits associated with the project?
Operational feasibility
Which feasibility is concerned with the project attaining its desired objectives?
Its current IS project list
Which of the following does a company NOT need to understand in order to build effective information systems?
The IS manager list
Which of the following factors does NOT have any influence on the selection of a potential project?
It will not have the project manager's name and contact information.
Which of the following is FALSE in the context of the project charter?
Less concern with cost-benefit analysis
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a steering committee when making IS identification and selections?
The new systems analyst
Which of the following is NOT a common source used to find out about the current issues in a system?
It was started in the late 1970s by Google.
Which of the following is NOT a fact about JAD?
A 45-hour work week
Which of the following is NOT a factor in determining schedule feasibility?
End-user development
Which of the following is NOT a factor when making a project selection decision?
Create a project budget
Which of the following is NOT a part of project initiation?
Stop current projects.
Which of the following is NOT a primary activity in project identification?
E-mails
Which of the following is NOT a useful document in the analysis process?
Establishing a relationship with the developer
Which of the following is NOT an activity found in the project initiation phase?
System conversion
Which of the following is NOT an example of a recurring cost?
Completely accurate information
Which of the following is NOT an example of what an analysis of documents can reveal about the future system?
Unnatural termination of a project can never happen
Which of the following is NOT true about project close-down?
customer goodwill
Which of the following is an example of an intangible cost?
What is the main issue with the current computer system?
Which of the following is an example of an open ended question?
The highest ranking IS manager typically selects the projects.
Which of the following is true as it pertains to project identification and small organizations?
Technical Feasibility
Which of the options below means the organization has the ability to build the requested system?
Iterative
________ DFD development recognizes that requirements determination and requirements structuring are interacting, not sequential, subphases of the analysis phase of the SDLC.
Project Management
________ is a controlled process of initiating, planning, executing, and closing down a project.
Work breakdown structure
________ is the process of dividing the project into manageable tasks and logically ordering them to ensure a smooth evolution between tasks.
Total Slack
________ refers to the amount of time a task can be delayed without delaying the completion of the project.
Project
A ________ is a planned undertaking of a series of related activities to reach an objective that has a beginning and an end
Feasibility Study
A ________, which is conducted by the project manager, involves determining if the information system makes sense for the organization from an economic and operational standpoint.
Data Flow
A __________ can be best understood as data in motion, moving from one place in a system to another.
Level-0 diagram
A __________ is a DFD diagram that represents a system's major processes, data flows, and data stores at a high level of detail.
Source
A __________ is the origin and/or destination of the data, and these are sometimes referred to as external entities because they are outside the system.
Process
A __________ is the work or actions performed on data so that they are transformed, stored, or distributed.
Reviewing
At the end of the project planning phase, ________ of the Baseline Project Plan is conducted to double-check all information in the plan.
Lower
Balancing is the conservation of inputs and outputs to a DFD process when that process is decomposed to a ________ level.
Failure to assess and manage risks
Failure to integrate the new system with the old system is an example of ________.
Iterative
Functional decomposition is a(n) ________ process of breaking the description of a system down into finer and finer detail, which creates a set of charts in which one process on a given chart is explained in greater detail on another chart.
Attention to details
If an analyst can recognize that all of the facts must fit with every other fact, the analyst is displaying ________.
Scribe
If you are entering diagrams into a CASE tool during a JAD, you are probably the ________.
Session leader
If you organize and run the JAD session, you are most likely the ________.
Selection of projects
Information systems planning includes all of the following steps except ________.
System description
The ________ outlines possible alternative solutions.
Consistency
The concept of DFD ________ refers to whether or not the depiction of the system shown at one level of a nested set of DFDs is compatible with the depictions of the system shown at other levels.
Completeness
The concept of DFD ________ refers to whether you have included in your DFDs all of the components necessary for the system you are modeling.
Primitive
The lowest level of a DFD is called a ________ data flow diagram.
