Exam 9: Systems Development and Project Management: Corporate Responsibility

An organization must identify what it wants to do and how it is going to do it. What does the "what" part of this question focus on?

What is the most important part of the project plan?

What is a project plan?

What is schedule feasibility?

Detailed user documentation is created that highlights how to use the system and how to troubleshoot issues or problems.

What verifies that the units or pieces of code function correctly when integrated together?

Which of the following is a characteristic of a successful project?

Rational unified process (RUP) methodology, owned by IBM, provides a framework for breaking down the development of software into four "gates."

Fourth-generation languages (4GL) are programming languages that look similar to human languages. For example, a typical 4GL command might state, "FIND ALL RECORDS WHERE NAME IS "SMITH"."

The waterfall approach is a business-driven enterprise architecture that supports integrating a business as linked, repeatable activities, tasks, or services.

What are the three primary variables (or triple constraints) in any project?

A kill switch is a trigger that enables a project manager to close the project before completion.

What measures the cost-effectiveness of a project?

Which gate in the RUP methodology expands on the agreed-upon details of the system, including the ability to provide an architecture to support and build it?

Corrective maintenance makes system changes to repair design flaws, coding errors, or implementation issues.

Information system control reports ensure the reliability of information, consisting of policies and their physical implementation, access restrictions, or recordkeeping of actions and transactions.

What is a service-oriented architecture?

What defines the how, what, when, and who regarding the flow of project information to stakeholders and is key for managing expectations?

What is a service?

Nearshore outsourcing occurs when using organizations from developing countries to write code and develop systems. In offshore outsourcing the country is geographically far away.