Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Project milestones 
B)  Project objectives 
C)  Project assumptions 
D)  Project deliverable

Question 2

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.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Categorize projects 
B)  Perform a financial analysis 
C)  Focus on organizational goals 
D)  Develop a project plan

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

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.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

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.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Joint application development 
B)  Requirements management 
C)  Process modeling 
D)  Data flow diagram

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Service-oriented architecture 
B)  Service 
C)  Loose coupling 
D)  Interoperability

Question 10

What is a data flow diagram (DFD)?

Accepted Answer

A)  Illustrates the movement of information between external entities and the processes and data stores within the system. 
B)  Software suites that automate systems analysis, design, and development. 
C)  A formal, approved document that manages and controls the entire project. 
D)  Involves graphically representing the processes that capture, manipulate, store, and distribute information between a system and its environment.

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

What is a status report?

Accepted Answer

A)  Difficult to quantify or measure. 
B)  Easy to quantify and typically measured to determine the success or failure of a project. 
C)  The measure of the tangible and intangible benefits of an information system. 
D)  A periodic reviews of actual performance versus expected performance.

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

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.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Economic feasibility 
B)  Operational feasibility 
C)  Schedule feasibility 
D)  Technical feasibility

Question 16

Conversion modifies software to meet specific user or business requirements.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

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?

Accepted Answer

A)  Testing phase 
B)  Testing documentation 
C)  Test conditions 
D)  All of the above

Question 18

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.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

What is technical feasibility?

Accepted Answer

A)  Measures the cost-effectiveness of a project. 
B)  Measures how well a solution meets the identified system requirements to solve the problems and take advantage of opportunities. 
C)  Measures the project time frame to ensure that it can be completed on time. 
D)  Measures the practicality of a technical solution and the availability of technical resources and expertise.

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?