Exam 9: Systems Development and Project Management: Corporate Responsibility

Which phase does the firm analyzes its end-user business requirements and refines project goals into defined functions and operations of the intended system?

Service-oriented architecture (SOA)is a business-driven enterprise architecture that supports integrating a business as linked,repeatable activities,tasks,or services.

What assesses if the entire system meets the design requirements of the users?

Which methodology uses small teams to produce small pieces of deliverable software using sprints,or 30-day intervals,to achieve an appointed goal?

Brainstorming is a technique for generating ideas by encouraging participants to offer as many ideas as possible in a short period without any analysis until all the ideas have been exhausted.

What is the critical path?

The project managers are individuals and organizations actively involved in the project or whose interests might be affected as a result of project execution or project completion.

Offshore outsourcing is using organizations from developing countries to write code and develop systems.

Which gate ensures that all stakeholders have a shared understanding of the proposed system and what it will do?

What measures the practicality of a technical solution and the availability of technical resources and expertise?

What is a project charter?

Which gate expands on the agreed-upon details of the system,including the ability to provide an architecture to support and build it?

What are project objectives?

A data flow diagram (DFD)illustrates the movement of information between external entities and the processes and data stores within the system.

What is legal feasibility?

The design phase establishes descriptions of the desired features and operations of the system including screen layouts,business rules,process diagrams,pseudo code,and other documentation.

An organization must identify what it wants to do and how it is going to do it.What does the "what" part of this question focus on?

Fourth-generation languages (4GL)are programming languages that look similar to human languages.For example,a typical 4GL command might state,"FIND ALL RECORDS WHERE NAME IS 'SMITH'."

A project objective is any measurable,tangible,verifiable outcome,result,or item that is produced to complete a project or part of a project.

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