Exam 12: Information Systems Development

The ________ phase of the systems development life cycle (SDLC) involves determining hardware and program specifications, designing the database and procedures, and creating job definitions.

The first phase of the systems development life cycle (SDLC) is ________.

Business process management applies only to commercial, profit-making organizations.

Organizational feasibility concerns ________.

In the system implementation phase of the systems development life cycle (SDLC), with plunge installation, existing systems are used by the organization until the new one is fully operational.

In a business process, ________ are defined as collections of related tasks that receive inputs and produce outputs.

In Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), diamonds represent decisions and usually contain a question that is answered with yes or no.

In Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), dotted arrows depict the flow or sequence of the activities in a process.

Describe the composition of a development team for an information system (IS).

Systems analysts integrate the work of programmers, testers, and users.

The final work breakdown structure (WBS) plan shows planned tasks, dependencies, durations, and resource assignments. It is denoted as ________ WBS.

In the system definition phase of the systems development life cycle (SDLC), schedule feasibility is difficult to determine because it is hard to estimate the time it will take to build the system.

The total number of points of work a team can accomplish in each scrum period is called velocity.

The ________ is a sequence of activities that determine the earliest date by which a project can be completed.

A project team that opts for custom-developed programs during the component design phase of the systems development life cycle (SDLC) must determine candidate products and evaluate them against the requirements.

User involvement is critical throughout the system development process.

The activities in a business process often involve information systems.

In a business process, only a single resource is assigned to a role.

An information system need not relate to any business process, but a business process should relate to at least one information system.

In the system definition phase of the systems development life cycle (SDLC), organizational feasibility concerns whether a new system fits within an organization's customs, culture, charter, or legal requirements.