| Question 1 of 20 |
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The first phase of the systems development life cycle is Systems:
| A. Planning and Selection. |
| B. Study. |
| C. Analysis. |
| D. Implementation and Operation. |
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| Question 2 of 20 |
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Which one of the following is one of the three primary activities associated with identifying and selecting IS development projects?
| A. Preliminary investigation of the system problem or opportunity |
| B. Identification of potential development projects |
| C. Requirements determination |
| D. Generate alternative initial designs |
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| Question 3 of 20 |
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Projects identified by top management more often:
| A. have a narrow, tactical focus. |
| B. reflect diversity and have a cross-functional focus. |
| C. have a strategic, organizational focus. |
| D. have a very low systems development priority. |
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| Question 4 of 20 |
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Which one of the following alternative methods for making information systems identification and selection decisions has the highest associated cost?
| A. Development group |
| B. User department |
| C. Steering committee |
| D. Top management |
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| Question 5 of 20 |
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Which one of the following alternative methods for making information systems identification and selection decisions has as its focus integration with existing systems?
| A. Development group |
| B. User department |
| C. Steering committee |
| D. Top management |
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| Question 6 of 20 |
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The extent to which the project is viewed as helping the organization achieve its strategic objectives and long-term goals describes:
| A. potential benefits. |
| B. strategic alignment. |
| C. resource availability. |
| D. value chain analysis. |
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| Question 7 of 20 |
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Value chain analysis is best described by which one of the following?
| A. The amount and type of resources the project requires and their availability. |
| B. The extent to which the project is viewed as improving profits, customer service, etc., and the duration of these benefits. |
| C. Analyzing an organization’s activities to determine where value is added to products and/or services and the costs incurred. |
| D. The extent to which the project is viewed as improving profits, customer service, etc., and the duration of these benefits. |
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| Question 8 of 20 |
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The primary deliverable from the project identification and selection phase is:
| A. a context data flow diagram. |
| B. at least three substantively different system design strategies for building the replacement information system. |
| C. the development of a new version of the software and new versions of all design documents. |
| D. a schedule of specific IS development projects. |
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| Question 9 of 20 |
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If the project team and organizational officials reassess the project after each subsequent SDLC phase to determine if the business conditions have changed or if a more detailed understanding of a system’s costs, benefits, and risks suggest that the project is not as worthy as previously thought, they are:
| A. adhering to the incremental commitment principal. |
| B. overly cautious. |
| C. using a staged approached to systems development. |
| D. adhering to a bottom-up commitment principal. |
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| Question 10 of 20 |
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Activities designed to assist in organizing a team to conduct project planning is one of the goals of:
| A. project development. |
| B. project identification and selection. |
| C. project initiation. |
| D. analysis. |
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| Question 11 of 20 |
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Activities performed during project planning include:
| A. developing a statement of work. |
| B. establishing a relationship with the customer. |
| C. establishing management procedures. |
| D. establishing the project management environment and project workbook. |
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| Question 12 of 20 |
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Which one of the following is a project initiation activity?
| A. Developing a preliminary schedule |
| B. Setting a baseline project plan |
| C. Determining project standards and procedures |
| D. Establishing a relationship with the customer |
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| Question 13 of 20 |
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The objective of the project planning process is the development of:
| A. a Systems Service Request. |
| B. transitional operations plans. |
| C. a Baseline Project Plan and Statement of Work. |
| D. an entity-relationship diagram. |
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| Question 14 of 20 |
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The Baseline Project Plan is:
| A. a document prepared for the customer during project initiation and planning that describes what the project will deliver and outlines, generally at a high level, all work required to complete the project. |
| B. the outcome and deliverable from the project initiation and planning, containing an estimate of the project’s scope, benefits, costs, risks, and resource requirements. |
| C. useful for ensuring that both you and your customer gain a common understanding of the project. |
| D. a short document prepared for the customer that describes what the project will deliver and outlines all work required to complete the project. |
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| Question 15 of 20 |
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Which one of the following is NOT a project planning activity?
| A. Determining project standards and procedures |
| B. Establishing management procedures |
| C. Developing a Statement of Work |
| D. Dividing the project into manageable tasks |
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| Question 16 of 20 |
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An intangible benefit can be described by which one of the following?
| A. A benefit that cannot be easily measured in dollars or with certainty |
| B. A benefit derived from the creation of an information system that can be measured in dollars and with certainty |
| C. A savings of $5,000 resulting from a data entry error correction |
| D. Cost reduction and avoidance, error reduction, and increased flexibility |
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| Question 17 of 20 |
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Tangible costs refer to costs:
| A. resulting from the ongoing evolution and use of a system. |
| B. related to application software maintenance, new software and hardware leases, and incremental communications. |
| C. associated with an information system that can be easily measured in terms of dollars or with certainty. |
| D. associated with project startup and development or system startup. |
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| Question 18 of 20 |
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Break-even analysis (BEA) is the:
| A. ratio of the net cash receipts of the project divided by the cash outlays of the project, enabling tradeoff analysis to be made between competing projects. |
| B. analysis technique that uses a discount rate determined from the company’s cost of capital to establish the present value of a project. |
| C. current value of a future cash flow. |
| D. analysis technique that finds the amount of time required for the cumulative cash flow from a project to equal its initial and ongoing investment. |
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| Question 19 of 20 |
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Technical feasibility is best described by which of one the following?
| A. To gain an understanding of the organization’s ability to construct the proposed system |
| B. To assess the degree to which the potential time frame and completion dates meet organizational deadlines and constraints |
| C. To understand the degree to which the proposed system will likely solve the business problems |
| D. To understand how key stakeholders within the organization view the proposed system |
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| Question 20 of 20 |
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An intranet is best described as:
| A. a large worldwide network of networks that use a common protocol to communicate with each other. |
| B. an Internet-based communication that that supports business-to-business activities. |
| C. using telecommunications technologies to transfer business documents directly between different organizations. |
| D. Internet-based communication to support business activities within a single organization. |
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