Exam 5: IT Governance

When a company is revising systems, there are intangible benefits that are difficult to estimate in dollars.These intangible benefits should be included in the project team's report.

The economic feasibility study would answer the question about whether the benefits of the proposed IT system outweigh the costs.

The detailed examination of documentation that exists about the system to gain an understanding of the system under study is called an):

When attempting to prioritize IT projects, the IT governance committee needs to consider:

The process of designing the outputs, inputs, user interfaces, databases, manual procedures, security and controls, and documentation of the new system is referred to as:

Either the IT governance or the system development life cycle is necessary in the strategic management of IT systems.

Each organization may approach IT governance in a different manner, but each organization should establish procedures for IT governance.

The regular, ongoing, functioning of the IT system and the processes to fix smaller problems, or bugs, in the IT system is called:

When the manager of the primary users of the system is satisfied with the system, an acceptance agreement will be signed , the enforce of which makes it much more likely that project teams will seek user input and that the project team will work hard to meet user needs.

The phases of the SDLC include all of the following except:

The assessment of the realism of the possibility that technology exists to meet the need identified in the proposed change to the IT system is called:

Each of the following are methods for implementing a new application system except:

Which of the following relationships would be allowed for a CPA firm?

Watching the steps that employees take as they process transactions in the system is referred to as:

Which of the following is not part of the system design phase of the SDLC?

Which of the following steps within the systems implementation phase could not occur concurrently with other steps, but would occur at the end?

In order to meets it obligation of corporate governance, the board of directors must oversee IT.

The fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to bring about dramatic improvements in performance is called:

The realistic possibility of affording, implementing, and using the IT systems being considered is referred to as:

The systems development life cycle is responsible for the oversight and management of the IT governance committee.