Exam 9: Systems Development and Project Management: Corporate Responsibility

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

In-sourcing is an arrangement by which one organization provides a service or services for another organization that chooses not to perform them in-house.

The development 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.

Explain the business benefits associated with successful software development.

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

__________ testing tests individual units or pieces of code for a system.

What statement links the project to the organization's overall business goals.It describes the business need (the problem the project will solve)and the justification,requirements,and current boundaries for the project?

What is the design phase in the SDLC?

____________ acceptance testing (UAT)determines if the system satisfies the user and business requirements.

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

All of the following are challenges of outsourcing,except:

User acceptance testing tests individual units or pieces of code for a system.

What makes system changes to reduce the chance of future system failure?

___________ outsourcing refers to contracting an outsourcing arrangement with a company in a nearby country.

Requirements management is the process of managing changes to the business requirements throughout the project.

What are project objectives?

Business requirements are the specific business requests the system must meet to be successful,so the analysis phase is critical because business requirements drive the entire systems development effort.

Pilot implementation is a small group of people use the new system until it is verified that it works correctly then the remaining users migrate.

What languages are programming languages that look similar to human languages?

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"."