Exam 3: Managing the Information Systems Project

A controlled process of initiating,planning,executing,and closing down a project best defines:

Identify the common activities and skills of a project manager.

Slack time is equal to:

Gantt charts visually show the time overlap of tasks whereas a network diagram does not show time overlap but does show which tasks could be done in parallel.

A work method is any person,group of people,piece of equipment,or material used in accomplishing an activity.

Which of the following is not a project closedown phase?

________ is a technique that uses optimistic,pessimistic,and realistic time estimates to calculate the expected time for a particular task.

Addressing hard problems first does not mitigate risk.

Which of the following project management activities is associated with project initiation?

Establishing a relationship with the customer is a project initiation activity.

Managing conflict within a project team to assure that conflict is not too high or too low describes the ________ project manager activity.

A systems development project may be undertaken to take advantage of business opportunities or to solve business problems.

Experienced OOSAD project managers typically use from six to nine iterations when designing and constructing a system.

A ________ determines if the proposed information system makes sense for the organization from an economic and operational standpoint.

In order to manage the project as a series of iterations,the project manager must subdivide the project into a set of components.

A ________ is the shortest time in which a project can be completed.

________ is the final phase of the project management process that focuses on ending the project.

Referring to OOSAD,in order to manage the project as a series of iterations,the project manager must subdivide the overall system into a set of ________.

An activity on the critical path will have a slack time of 1.

A ________ is an end product in a phase of the SDLC.