Exam 10: Development Processes

During the requirements definition stage of the SDLC, the team will be heavy with business and systems analysts.

Organizations should avoid the plunge installation conversion style unless the new system provides a new capability that will not disrupt the operation of the organization if it fails.

Information systems and business processes are the same thing.

BPMN cannot be used to document processes for training employees.

In BPMN, dotted arrows depict the flow or sequence of the activities in a process.

In BPMN diagrams, a square with a plus sign means that ________.

The ________ is a sequence of activities that determines the earliest date by which a project will be completed.

In BPMN, diamonds represent decisions and usually contain a question that is answered with yes or no.

Tasks in the ________ phase of the SDLC are to build and test system components and to convert users to the new system.

In a business process, resources are ________.

A Gantt chart, shows tasks, dates, and dependencies.

A ________ installation is the riskiest because the old system is shut down and the new system is introduced.

In BPMN notation, ________ represent decisions and usually contain a question that is answered with yes or no.

The critical path is the sequence of activities that determine the earliest date by which the project can be completed.

In a business process, only a single resource is assigned to a role.

Plunge installation is sometimes called ________ installation.

Not all information systems have applications or software components.

In a BPMN process diagram, all activities for a given role are shown in that role's ________.

________ include identifying what is to be produced, how frequently and how fast it is to be produced.

Describe the composition of a development team for an information system.