Exam 13: Acquiring Information Systems and Applications

___ is a method of delivering software in which a vendor hosts the applications and provides them as a service to customers over a network, typically the internet.

A _________ conversion introduces components of the new system in stages.

_________ 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.

SA Homes utilized _______ to allow apps to run on any operating system regardless of where the apps are developed.

List and describe the four fundamental questions/decisions/strategies for acquiring IT applications (including the sub-parts). You've justified your IT investment, so now you need to decide how you want to pursue it. You are an entrepreneur who wants to start your own small business; how would you answer these questions? Now assume you are the CEO of a multi-billion-dollar company; how would you answer these questions?

Paychex original development model was _______.

___ is the process of steadily adding new computer code to a software project when the new computer code is written and tested.

The _________ is the scrum approach typically replaces a project manager.

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

Conrad and his team are under pressure to develop their product for the university before the semester starts and they have only two weeks. Which type of development would be least helpful for them?

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

_________ feasibility determines whether the project is an acceptable financial risk and, if so, whether the organization has the necessary time and money to successfully complete the project.

_________ are employees from all functional areas and levels of the organization who interact with the system, either directly or indirectly.

DevOps is a methodology combining IT developments teams with operations teams throughout the development and deployment of IT solutions.

_________ conversion is the least expensive.

Joseph and his marketing team want to create a new app where customers can give feedback on various products. They have asked the technical team to develop the app with four sprints, each two weeks apart. It is important to them that they be able to change the specs of the app based on customer feedback. This app would best be be developed using ____________ development.

_________ is a technical aspect of the IT architecture.

Lower CASE tools automate the programming, testing, operation, and maintenance stages of the SDLC.

___ are a method of developing applications that run independently of the base operating system of the server.

Which of the following is the correct order of the SDLC?