Exam 9: Systems Development and Project Management: Corporate Responsibility

What represents key dates when a certain group of activities must be performed?

The project managers are individuals and organizations actively involved in the project or whose interests might be affected as a result of project execution or project completion.

Which of the following is not a technique for choosing strategic projects?

A web service is an open-standards way of supporting interoperability.

Information systems audit reports assess a company's information system to determine necessary changes and to help ensure the information systems' availability, confidentiality, and integrity.

The traditional waterfall methodology is a sequential, activity-based process in which each phase in the SDLC is performed sequentially from planning through implementation and maintenance.

What is a session where employees meet, sometimes for several days, to define or review the business requirements for the system?

A requirements definition document prioritizes all of the business requirements by order of importance to the company.

What is a business-driven enterprise architecture that supports integrating a business as linked, repeatable activities, tasks, or services?

What is a data flow diagram (DFD)?

Conversion occurs when a person or event is the catalyst for implementing major changes for a system to meet business changes.

What is a status report?

A data flow diagram involves graphically representing the processes that capture, manipulate, store, and distribute information between a system and its environment.

In-sourcing is an arrangement by which one organization provides a service or services for another organization that chooses not to perform them in-house.

What measures the project time frame to ensure that it can be completed on time?

Conversion modifies software to meet specific user or business requirements.

What details the steps the system must perform along with the expected result of each step in the implementation phase the organization places the system into production so users can begin to perform actual business operations with it?

Loose coupling is the capability of services to be joined together on demand to create composite services, or disassembled just as easily into their functional component.

Prototyping is a modern design approach by which the designers and system users use an iterative approach to building the system.

What is technical feasibility?