Exam 9: Systems Development and Project Management: Corporate Responsibility

Preventative maintenance makes system changes to reduce the chance of future system failure.

_____________ report periodic reviews of actual performance versus expected performance.

What is an internal department that oversees all organizational projects?

Bugs are defects in the code of an information system.

The ____________ phase brings all the project pieces together into a special testing environment to eliminate errors and bugs,and verify that the system meets all the business requirements defined in the analysis phase.

The ___________ methodology is a sequential,activity-based process in which each phase in the SDLC is performed sequentially from planning through implementation and maintenance.

Discovery prototyping builds a small-scale representation or working model of the system to ensure it meets the user and business requirements.

What defines all project roles and indicates what responsibilities are associated with each role?

The ___________ phase involves performing changes,corrections,additions,and upgrades to ensure the system continues to meet the business goals.

Which of the following is an outsourcing challenge caused by contract length?

Which implementation discards the legacy system completely and immediately migrates all users to the new system?

The __________ phase establishes a high-level plan of the intended project and determines project goals.

Off-the-shelf application software supports general business processes and does not require any specific software customization to meet the organization's needs.

Which phase takes all the detailed design documents from the design phase and transforms them into the actual system?

Online training runs over the Internet or on a CD or DVD,and employees complete the training on their own time at their own pace.

A __________________ definition document prioritizes all of the business requirements by order of importance to the company.

The ________________ phase takes all the detailed design documents from the design phase and transforms them into the actual system.

Outsourcing is a common approach using the professional expertise within an organization to develop and maintain the organization's information technology systems.

What is the design phase in the SDLC?

A ____________ agent is a person or event that is the catalyst for implementing major changes for a system to meet business changes.