Exam 3: Managing the Information Systems Project

Project time estimates for task completion and overall system quality are significantly influenced by the assignment of people to tasks.

Which of the following states correctly the formality and use of a project workbook?

In order to determine the resources required for project completion,an organization should analyze the project's scope and determine the project's probability of successful completion.

Project planning is the first phase of the project management process in which activities are performed to assess the size,scope,and complexity of the project and to establish procedures to support later project activities.

What would be the estimated time for completion if time estimates for installation are as follows: optimistic = 1 week;pessimistic = 1 week;realistic = 1 week?

A project can terminate naturally or unnaturally.

The amount of time that an activity can be delayed without delaying the project refers to:

Pessimistic time is:

Which of the following is true regarding Gantt chart construction?

________ are any person,group of people,piece of equipment,or material used in accomplishing an activity.

In OOSAD,during inception the primary focus is analysis,during elaboration the primary focus is design,during construction the primary focus is making the system truly operational,and during transition the primary focus is on implementation.

Another characteristic of the OOSAD approach is that it tackles the ________ first.

During which of the following activities do you use the information regarding tasks and resource availability to assign time estimates to each activity in the work breakdown structure?

Skills that include interpreting system requests and specifications,site preparation and user training,and contact point for customers best represent:

Indicating when and how written and oral reports will be provided by the team,how team members will coordinate work,what messages will be sent to announce the project to interested parties,and what kinds of information will be shared with vendors and external contractors involved with the project describes:

The third phase of the project management process in which the plans created in the prior phases are put into action is:

A major disadvantage of the network diagram is its inability to represent completion times and show interrelationships between activities.

One outcome of defining the overall system as a collection of components is the likelihood that the components constructed earlier in the project will require greater rework than those developed later in the project.

The Project Scope Statement provides a detailed estimate of the project's tasks and resource requirements.

If an activity's optimistic time is 3 months,its realistic time is 5 months,and its pessimistic time is 10 months,then its estimated time would be 5.5 months.