Exam 9: Systems Development and Project Management: Corporate Responsibility

Which phase establishes a high-level plan of the intended project and determines project goals?

Project objectives are quantifiable criteria that must be met for the project to be considered a success.

Help desk is a group of people who respond to user's questions.

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

What is a business requirement?

Detailed internal reports present information with little or no filtering or restrictions of the data.

Preventing liabilities is a business-related consequence of failed software.

What detail the steps the system must perform along with the expected result of each step in the implementation phase the organization places the system into production so users can begin to perform actual business operations with it?

The waterfall approach is a business-driven enterprise architecture that supports integrating a business as linked,repeatable activities,tasks,or services.

Corrective maintenance makes system changes to repair design flaws,coding errors,or implementation issues.

Offshore outsourcing occurs when engaging another company within the same country for services.

Which of the following is an issue related to the waterfall methodology?

Interoperability is a business task.

Which software supports general business processes and does not require any specific software customization to meet the organization's needs?

What defines the specifications for product/output of the project and is key for managing expectations,controlling scope,and completing other planning efforts?

What language groups data and corresponding processes into objects?

A Web service is an open-standards way of supporting interoperability.Web services are application programming interfaces (API)that can be accessed over a network,such as the Internet,and executed on a remote system hosting the requested services.

A PERT chart is a simple bar chart that lists project tasks vertically against the project's time frame,listed horizontally.

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

What are quantifiable criteria that must be met for the project to be considered a success?