Exam 12: Developing Businessit Solutions

Systems thinking means that an individual sees:

Systems analysts may recycle back at any time during the systems development cycle in order to modify and improve a system under development, but users do not.

According to the textbook case, IT departments are focusing too much on technology to solve a problem rather than on the problem itself.

Recording and communicating detailed system specifications, including procedures for end users and IS personnel and examples of input screens, output displays, and reports, is a(n) _______________ activity.

All of the following are done during the systems implementation stage of application development, except:

Fast retrieval and update of data from product, pricing, and customer databases is an example of a _______________ requirement.

Evaluating and acquiring necessary hardware and software resources and information system services is a(n) _______________ activity.

Educating management, end users, customers, and other business stakeholders to develop user competencies is a(n) _______________ activity.

According to the text, _______________ maintenance includes making changes to an existing system that are intended to improve the performance of a function or interface.

The most important objective to achieve during the _______________ phase is the clear and succinct statement of the problem that the project is to solve, or the goals that it is to achieve.

_______________ requirements are end user information requirements that are not tied to the hardware, software, network, data, and people resources that end users presently use or might use in the new system.

The four basic categories of maintenance are corrective, adaptive, perfective, and _______________.

Which of the following activities would normally be performed during the closing project management phase?

Which of the following statements most accurately applies to the concept of prototyping?

Which of the following are activities performed during the closing project management phase?

All of the following would be a focus of a legal/political feasibility study except:

The parallel conversion approach takes the most time and, thus, creates the most disruption to the organization over time.

Some of the coolest stuff on the Web, such as streaming video, can't be accessed by most Web surfers.

Control measures for end user applications vary greatly depending upon the:

The resource allocation report contains information related to the difference between actual and planned project progress.