Exam 12: Developing Businessit Solutions

Tools that have been created to assist in the sequencing of project activities include dependence diagrams, program evaluation and review (PERT), critical path method (CPM), and a commonly used timeline diagram known as a __________ chart.

According to the text, adaptive maintenance includes:

Installing a new application may require converting the data elements in databases that are affected by the new application into new formats.

Switching from the use of a present system to the operation of a new or improved system is a(n) _______________ activity.

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

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

The danger of a technical feasibility study is finding technology that does not yet exist in a stable form.

Assessing and making necessary corrections to the programs, procedures, and hardware used by a new system is a(n) _______________ activity.

Which of the following is done during the systems analysis stage of application development?

Which of the following is done during the systems maintenance stage of application development?

A feasibility study is a preliminary study to investigate the information needs of prospective users and is used to determine the proposed system's _______________.

Which of the following is related to human factors feasibility?

Dealing with patents, copyrights, and licensing for a proposed system is related to _______________ feasibility.

According to the text case, some organizations using PPM simply end projects that go bad.

Other users are frequently the best source of the information needed to evaluate the claims of manufacturers and suppliers.

All of the following would be a focus of a human factors feasibility study except:

Most successful Web sites are built to specifications that satisfy executives, rather than customers or users.

There is little that can be learned from studying the system that will be replaced.

Which of the following is a function of the systems analysis stage?

Every project objective and every activity associated with that objective must be identified and sequenced.