Exam 13: Business Process Management and Systems Development

Project resources must be managed according to the Gantt chart.

After decades of reengineering attempts,organizations no longer duplicate processes or perform non-core tasks that should be outsourced.

Options for the acquisition of complex IT applications are all of the following except:

The success of a project manager depends on all of the following except:

During the implementation stage,__________ tests are conducted by technical experts who attest that the process is integrated correctly with inputs and outputs of other processes and data sources and data stores

Business processes integrate __________.

In the long term,business process management (BPM)helps companies __________.

SOA and BPM both focus on creating a more flexible IT architecture and optimizing the way actual work gets done.

When you break it down,you see that a business process is actually __________.

Project managers need to recognize the risk of __________,which is the piling up of small changes that by themselves are manageable,but collectively can cause significant project growth.

The purpose of the __________ is to recognize which activities are on the critical path so that managers know where to focus their efforts.

During the implementation stage,__________ tests are critical because they determine whether the process is designed well from users' perspective.

Project managers must manage the __________,which consists of tasks that must start and finish on schedule or the project will be delayed unless corrective action is taken.

The BPR and JIT approaches were both based on assumptions.And if those assumptions are not met,then they will fail to achieve the great expected results.

The goal of loose coupling of apps is to reduce dependencies between systems to improve flexibility and agility.

After decades of business process reengineering attempts,organizations still have problems with their business operations.What are those problems?

__________ is a technology approach to implementing a business process,but it's only part of the technology required to implement business processes.

In a __________ conversion,the old system and the new system operate simultaneously for a period of time,which is the most expensive,but also the least risky approach.

The SDLC is a structured framework that consists of sequential processes by which information systems are developed.

When the system's logical and physical designs specifications are agreed upon and approved by all participants,they __________.