Exam 14: Managing Projects

You have been hired as a consultant for a nationwide real estate firm,Cross & Deptford,who are interested in achieving better organization between branches by updating their information systems,but are not sure what will suit their needs.What will you recommend they do in order to determine the most effective IT projects?

Which of the following types of projects is most likely to fail?

Which of the following is not an organizational factor in systems planning and implementation?

Which of the following refers to all organizational activities working toward the adoption,management,and routinization of a new information system?

Which of the following statements best describes the effect that project structure has on overall project risk?

You are a senior manager at a mid-sized regional retail chain.The company's IT manager approaches you with a project that would completely overhaul the company's information system infrastructure,generating significant risk;but if executed successfully,would dramatically improve the company's overall efficiency.How should you proceed?

The goal of sociotechnical design is to create systems where the organization and the technology change and adjust to one another.

Which of the following best describes the central method used in a scoring model?

Which of the following statements about the user-designer communications gap is not true?

All of the following are intangible benefits of information systems except:

Which of the following is not a tangible benefit of information systems?

An information system project's scope is directly related to its business requirements.

All of the following are indications of a failed information systems project except:

What is counterimplementation and what are some of the strategies that organizations can use to avoid it?

You are the senior project manager for a web development company with upwards of 100 current client projects.You have been assigned to evaluate two upcoming projects.One project is to develop a time-tracking solution that would allow your 20 freelancers to submit daily time sheets and would report on the time spent on each project.The other project is to redesign the client interface to the company extranet to make it easier to use.The extranet allows clients to log in and view their current websites under development,as well as view project statistics,documents,and progress reports.Compare the two projects in terms of risk factors.

Mandatory use of a system is one effective way of overcoming user resistance to an information system.

What are Gantt charts and PERT charts? In what way might a PERT chart be a better option than a Gantt chart?

Which of the following is an example of using an internal integration tool?

User concerns and designer concerns are usually the same at the beginning of the project but may diverge later as the system is built.

Which of the following helps project managers identify bottlenecks in project development?