Question

QUESTION 1

_________ feasibility determines whether the company can develop or otherwise acquire the hardware, software, and communications components needed to solve the business problem.

Behavioral

Competitive

Economic

Technical

0.5 points   

QUESTION 2

The _________ identifies the firm's overall mission, the goals that follow from that mission, and the broad steps required to reach these goals.

IS operational plan

IS strategic plan

IT architecture

Organization strategic plan

0.5 points   

QUESTION 3

The _________ consists of a clear set of projects that the IS department and the functional area managers will execute in support of the IT strategic plan.

IS operational plan

IT architecture

organization mission

organization strategic plan

0.5 points   

QUESTION 4

_________ conversion is the least expensive.

Direct

Parallel

Phased

Pilot

0.5 points   

QUESTION 5

_________ conversion is the most risky.

Direct

Parallel

Phased

Pilot

0.5 points   

QUESTION 6

Which of the following is an advantage of end-user development?

Bypasses the IS department and avoids delays

Enforces quality by maintaining standards

Involves many users in the development process

Works wells for ill-defined problems

0.5 points   

QUESTION 7

Your company decides to implement the manufacturing module of SAP before implementing payroll. This is an example of _________ conversion.

direct

parallel

phased

pilot

0.5 points   

QUESTION 8

_________ are experts on a certain type of technology.

Programmers

Systems analysts

Technical specialists

Users

0.5 points   

QUESTION 9

_________ is a group-based tool for collecting user requirements and creating system designs.

Agile development

End-user development

JAD

RAD

0.5 points   

QUESTION 10

_________ is an approach in which the organization's end users develop their own applications with little or no formal assistance from the IT department.

Agile development

End-user development

JAD

RAD

0.5 points   

QUESTION 11

_________ feasibility addresses the human issues of the systems development project.

Behavioral

Competitive

Economic

Technical

0.5 points   

QUESTION 12

_________ measures management's effectiveness in generating profits with its available assets by dividing the net income generated by a project by the average assets invested in the project.

Breakeven analysis

The business case approach

NPV

ROI

0.5 points   

QUESTION 13

The IT steering committee is comprised of ________.

board members

C-level executives

top-level IT managers

managers from each functional organizational area

0.5 points   

QUESTION 14

The _________ delineates the way an organization should utilize its information resources to accomplish its mission.

IS operational plan

IS strategic plan

IT architecture

Organization strategic plan

0.5 points   

QUESTION 15

The _________ is/are a summary of the information needs of the individual functional areas and of the organization as a whole.

application portfolio

constraints of the IS function

IS environment

objectives of the IS function

0.5 points   

QUESTION 16

_________ is a software development methodology that delivers functionality in rapid iterations which are usually measured in weeks.

Agile development

End-user development

JAD

RAD

0.5 points   

QUESTION 17

Which of the following is an advantage of prototyping?

Bypasses the IS department and avoids delays

Enforces quality by maintaining standards

Involves many users in the development process

Works wells for ill-defined problems

0.5 points   

QUESTION 18

The _________ is/are a prioritized inventory of present applications and a detailed plan of projects to be developed or continued during the current year.

application portfolio

constraints of the IS function

IS environment

objectives of the IS function

0.5 points   

QUESTION 19

A(n) ____________ is an agent or a vendor who assembles the software needed by enterprises and then packages it with services such as development, operations, and maintenance.

ASP

ERP

PaaS

SaaS

0.5 points   

QUESTION 20

_________ is a method to convert future values of benefits to their present-value equivalent by "discounting" them at the organization's cost of funds.

Breakeven analysis

The business case approach

NPV

ROI

Answer 1

Q1)

Techinical

Q 2)

Organization Strategic Plan

Q 3)

IS operational plan

Q4)

Direct Conversion

Q5)

Phased Conversion

Q6)

Involves many users in the development process

Q7)

Phased

Q8)

Technical Specialists

Q9)

JAD (joint application design)

Q 10)

End-user development