Exam 13: Choices in Systems Acquisition

List the benefits and risks to renting and using software through the Web.

The greatest disadvantage of tailored applications is their __________.

When requesting vendor bids,the project management team prepares a__________ ,a document specifying all the system requirements and soliciting a formal plan from each vendor contacted.

For many companies,IT is not their core competency and should not be a focus of their efforts.

Outsourcing allows a client to know exactly what the cost of its IS functions will be over the period of the contract,which is usually several years.This allows for better __________.

__________allows a client to know exactly what the cost of its IS functions will be over the period of the contract,which is usually several years.

Authorities usually deal with unauthorized use of computers as theft.

A paradoxical aspect to IT outsourcing is that while contracts are signed for long periods of time,they typically involve rapidly changing technologies.

The greatest advantage of tailored applications is their low cost.

Instead of spending money on the purchase of data storage devices,a company can contract with a(n)__________ and have all or some of its files stored remotely on the provider's devices.

Studies show that __________is not the most common reason for outsourcing.

_____ allows clients to take advantage of the vendor's experience that the vendor hasgained through work with many clients in different environments.

Among the methods for system development, __________is clearly the best option for many small companies.

Risks of outsourcing are high for __________IS services.

In-house development teams can usually complete a new application project in less time than an IT vendor can.

The concept in which an application service provider offers the use of computer programs through a network (the Internet or private network) is known as .

In________,nonprogrammer users write their own business applications.

The practice of outsourcing routine activities,such as customer order entry or human resource transactions,is called_____.

One of the risks of software licensing is the__________ .

One of the drawbacks of the software on demand approach is that it__________ .