Exam 4: Identifying and Selecting Systems Development Projects

To benefit from a planning-based approach for identifying and selecting projects,an organization must analyze its information needs and plan its projects carefully.

An orderly means of assessing the information needs of an organization and defining the systems,databases,and technologies that will best satisfy those needs best defines:

Organizations that have Intranets dictate what applications will run over the Intranet and the speed and quality of the hardware connected to the Intranet.

An IS manager,a formal planning group,a user department,and a development group are possible sources for information systems development projects.

A statement that makes it clear what business a company is in is called a:

________ is the competitive strategy that reflects competing in an industry on the basis of product or service cost to the consumer.

________ is a strategy in systems analysis and design in which the project is reviewed after each phase and continuation of the project is rejustified.

What is incremental commitment? Does it always result in a working system? Why or why not?

Mission statements are often referred to as critical success factors.

Gaining a clear idea of where an organization is,its vision of where it wants to be in the future,and a plan of how to make the transition to its desired state is:

The ________ is a large worldwide network of networks that use a common protocol to communicate with each other.

When classifying and ranking projects,resource availability,potential benefits,and project size/duration are possible evaluation criteria.

The extent to which the project is viewed as helping the organization achieve its strategic objectives and long-term goals describes:

Which of the following is a CASE tool feature that can help you make sense out of matrices?

A unit-to-function matrix identifies the relationship between organizational entities and each business function.

An advantage of the bottom-up planning approach is:

If the project team and organizational officials reassess the project after each subsequent SDLC phase to determine if the business conditions have changed or if a more detailed understanding of a system's costs,benefits,and risks suggest that the project is not as worthy as previously thought,they are:

Which of the following is a true statement regarding a planning-based approach?

To build the most effective information systems,an organization must clearly understand its mission,objectives,and strategy.

________ is a matrix that identifies which data are captured,used,updated,or deleted within each process.