Exam 11: Acquiring Information Systems and Applications

Jennifer is the owner of a start-up boutique that specializes in hard-to-find dress sizes for women.She has been keeping her financial books by using Excel and by hand.She researched available accounting packages for a business like hers and has decided on Boutique Accounting.What is the best way for Jennifer to implement Boutique Accounting?

Ryan works for a small consulting company.They want to do a better job of tracking their clients and the jobs they have bid on and either won or lost.There are no processes in place right now, and all users (consultants and managers)have different ideas.What is the best systems development approach for Ryan's company?

Which of the following systems acquisition methods may eventually require maintenance assistance from the IT department, can produce inadequate documentation, and might result in a company's acquiring a system with inadequate interfaces to existing systems?

Systems design answers the question, _____:

The information systems planning process proceeds in which order?

ICASE provides the link between upper CASE and lower CASE tools.

Agile development

You should always specific exactly what you are paying for when you are negotiating a contract with a vendor.

The application portfolio in an organization is a set of recommended applications resulting from the planning and justification process in application development.

__________ involves systems the only include immediate needs and important items.

The _____ approach to systems development is a group-based tool for collecting user requirements.

Jennifer is the owner of a start-up boutique that specializes in hard-to-find dress sizes for women.She has been keeping her financial books by using Excel and by hand.She thinks it's time to buy an accounting package.What question does she need to answer first?

When systems are created rapidly, without a formal development methodology:

The ___________ the ROI, the better.

Which of the following statements about determining the costs and benefits of IT investments is false?

Which of the following systems acquisition methods helps clarify user requirements, promotes genuine user participation, and may produce part of the final system?

Evaluating the benefits of IT projects is more complex than evaluating their costs for all of the following reasons except:

Which of the following is the correct order for vendor and software selection? 1 = choose the vendor and package 2 = determine the evaluation criteria 3 = establish an SLA 4 = evaluate vendors and packages 5 = identify potential vendors 6 = negotiate a contract

The earlier in the development process that errors are detected, the less expensive they are to correct.

________ CASE tools in SDLC automate the early stages of the SDLC