Exam 3: Project Management

Operational feasibility deals with the basic resources to consider, which are your time and that of the systems analysis team, the cost of doing a full systems study (including the time of employees you will be working with), the cost of the business employee time, the estimated cost of hardware, and the estimated cost of software or software development.

Which of the following is not a corporate objective affected by improvements to an information system?

A PERT diagram is useful when:

Tangible costs include losing a competitive edge, losing the reputation for being first with an innovation or the leader in a field, declining company image due to increased customer dissatisfaction, and ineffective decision making due to untimely or inaccessible information.

Prospective projects should be examined from a systems perspective in order to consider the impact of the proposed change on the entire organization.

A PERT diagram does not allow for easy identification of the critical path and thus critical activities.

What are the five important criteria for systems project selection?

When trying to define the problems, try to witness the problem first hand.

After the objectives are stated on a problem definition, the relative ________ of the issues or objectives must be determined.

Since ecommerce systems must link with the outside world, developing and implementing a security plan before the new system is in place is an absolute must.

Which of the following is concerned with the current technical resources that can be upgraded or added to in order to fulfill the requests under consideration?

Which of these is not a reason that goal setting motivates team members?

PERT is an acronym for Program Evaluation and Review Technique.

Analysts should have little interest in improving worker satisfaction with the system.

In ecommerce systems, the data is scattered across the organization.

By comparing costs alone, the systems analyst can use break-even analysis to determine the break-even capacity of the proposed information system.

Which of these is especially important in estimating project time?

Intangible costs are those that can be accurately projected by the systems analyst and the business's accounting personnel.

PERT diagrams are useful when activities can be done in parallel rather than in sequence.

Setting goals can motivate team members by clarifying for them and others what must be done in order to get results.