Exam 10: Building Successful Information Systems

____________________ feasibility assesses a system's costs and benefits.

Self-sourcing improves flexibility in responding to users' information needs.

Examples of tangible benefits include improved employee morale,better customer satisfaction,and improved communication.

____ centers on a structured workshop in which users and system professionals come together to develop an application.

In ____ conversion,as each module of the new system is converted,the corresponding part of the old system is retired.

Once a project has been deemed feasible there is no reason to continue to assess feasibility since it will not change.

To assess economic feasibility,the systems analyst team tallies tangible development and operating costs for the system and compares them with expected financial benefits of the system.

____________________ is a series of well-defined phases performed in sequence that serves as a framework for developing a system or project.

What are the five major dimensions of a feasibility study?

Establishing evaluation criteria ensures objectivity throughout the SDLC process.

The ____________________ approach treats process and data independently and is a sequential approach that requires completing the analysis before beginning the design.

A ____ shows a process at a more general level and is helpful for showing top management and the task force how a process works.

____ feasibility assesses a system's costs and benefits.

In ____ conversion,the old and new systems run simultaneously for a short time to ensure the new system works correctly.

A ____________________ is a modeling tool that illustrates the logical steps in a process but does not show data elements and associations.

In pair programming,each programmer performs the action the other programmer is not currently performing.

____________________ feasibility is the measure of how well the proposed solution will work in the organization and how internal and external customers will react to it.

The conceptual design is an overview of the system and does not include hardware or software choices.

Flowcharts are modeling tools used for process analysis.

How can tangible benefits be quantified?