Exam 12: Acquiring Information Systems and Applications

RAD uses _________ tools to quickly structure requirements and develop prototypes.

Purchasing a prewritten application is always the most cost-effective and time-saving solution.

Capital One's in-house development process began to use ________.

If a company wants to write some computer code,it would choose to ________.

The _________ identifies the firm's overall mission,the goals that follow from that mission,and the broad steps required to reach these goals.

IT people are supposed to identify the system requirements in the systems analysis stage.

___ are a method of developing applications that run independently of the base operating system of the server.

_________ feasibility determines whether the project is an acceptable financial risk and,if so,whether the organization has the necessary time and money to successfully complete the project.

List and describe the four common approaches for conducting a cost-benefit analysis.What are the difficulties associated with conducting these approaches for IT projects? What approach would you use to justify the implementation of a website that allows customers to post comments on it and why?

Small organizations do not need a formal process for planning for and justifying IT applications.

Communication,control,and cost are the three benefits of outsourcing.

_________ involves system developers writing a business case to justify funding one or more specific applications or projects.

The IT architecture focuses on the technical aspects of information resources.

Peoples State Bank decided IT _________ a core function; therefore,it decided to ________.

Companies can buy or lease prewritten applications.

___ is the process of steadily adding new computer code to a software project when the new computer code is written and tested.

Users have the greatest involvement in the _________ stage of the SDLC.

The _________ represents the business users and any other stakeholders in the project.

Geoff Wilson's first product took _________ months to develop; today,his company can bring a minimum viable product to customers in _________ month(s).

SaaS is a method of delivering _________ in which a vendor hosts the applications and provides them as a service to customers over a network,typically the internet.