Deck 9: Systems Development and Project Management: Corporate Responsibility

Question 1

Control objects for information and related technology (COBIT)is a set of best practices that helps an organization to maximize the benefits of an information system,while at the same time establishing appropriate controls to ensure minimum errors.

Answer 1

True
Explanation: Control objects for information and related technology (COBIT)is a set of best practices that helps an organization to maximize the benefits of an information system,while at the same time establishing appropriate controls to ensure minimum errors.

Question 2

Conversion occurs when a person or event is the catalyst for implementing major changes for a system to meet business changes.

Answer 2

False
Explanation: A change agent is a person or event that is the catalyst for implementing major changes for a system to meet business changes.

Question 3

Software engineering is a disciplined approach for constructing information systems through the use of common methods,techniques,or tools.

Answer 3

True
Explanation: Software engineering is a disciplined approach for constructing information systems through the use of common methods,techniques,or tools.

Question 4

The analysis phase establishes descriptions of the desired features and operations of the system including screen layouts,business rules,process diagrams,pseudo code,and other documentation.

Question 5

The design phase establishes descriptions of the desired features and operations of the system including screen layouts,business rules,process diagrams,pseudo code,and other documentation.

Question 6

The planning phase establishes a high-level plan of the intended project and determines project goals.

Question 7

Business requirements are the specific business requests the system must meet to be successful,so the analysis phase is critical because business requirements drive the entire systems development effort.

Question 8

Object-oriented languages provide a programming method that provides for interactive modules to a website.

Question 9

Off-the-shelf application software supports general business processes and does not require any specific software customization to meet the organization's needs.

Question 10

The testing phase takes all the detailed design documents from the design phase and transforms them into the actual system.

Question 11

Sign-off is the users' actual signatures indicating they approve all of the business requirements.

Question 12

Conversion modifies software to meet specific user or business requirements.

Question 13

Brainstorming is a technique for generating ideas by encouraging participants to offer as many ideas as possible in a short period without any analysis until all the ideas have been exhausted.

Question 14

Business requirements include the process of transferring information from a legacy system to a new system.

Question 15

Requirements management is the process of managing changes to the business requirements throughout the project.

Question 16

The systems development life cycle (SDLC)is the overall process for developing information systems,from planning and analysis through implementation and maintenance.

Question 17

Projects are typically dynamic in nature,and change should be expected and anticipated for successful project completion.

Question 18

A joint application development session is where employees meet,sometimes for several days,to define or review the business requirements for the system.

Question 19

Software engineers use computer-aided software engineering (CASE),software tools that provide automated support for the development of the system.

Question 20

A requirements definition document prioritizes all of the business requirements by order of importance to the company.

Question 21

The development phase brings all the project pieces together into a special testing environment to eliminate errors and bugs and verifies that the system meets all the business requirements defined in the analysis phase.

Question 22

Help desk is a group of people who respond to user's questions.

Question 23

Training is also provided for the system users and can be online or in a classroom.

Question 24

Scripting languages group data and corresponding processes into objects.

Question 25

Fourth-generation languages (4GL)are programming languages that look similar to human languages.For example,a typical 4GL command might state,"FIND ALL RECORDS WHERE NAME IS 'SMITH'."

Question 26

User acceptance testing (UAT)determines if the system satisfies the user and business requirements.

Question 27

Online training runs over the Internet or on a CD or DVD,and employees complete the training on their own time at their own pace.

Question 28

Development testing verifies that separate systems can work together passing data back and forth correctly.

Question 29

Integration testing verifies that the units or pieces of code function correctly when integrated together.

Question 30

Development testing assesses if the entire system meets the design requirements of the users.

Question 31

Plunge implementation discards the legacy system completely and immediately migrates all users to the new system.

Question 32

Pilot implementation installs the new system in phases (for example by department)until it is verified that it works correctly.

Question 33

Workshop training is held in a classroom environment and led by an instructor.

Question 34

Test conditions detail the steps the system must perform along with the expected result of each step in the implementation phase the organization places the system into production so users can begin to perform actual business operations with it.

Question 35

Pilot implementation is a small group of people use the new system until it is verified that it works correctly.Then the remaining users migrate.

Question 36

Unit testing uses both the legacy system and new system until all users verifies that the new system functions correctly.

Question 37

User acceptance testing tests individual units or pieces of code for a system.

Question 38

Bugs are defects in the code of an information system.

Question 39

Detailed user documentation is created that highlights how to use the system and how to troubleshoot issues or problems.

Question 40

Alpha testing occurs when programmers test the system to ensure it is bug-free.

Question 41

Information systems audit reports assess a company's information system to determine necessary changes and to help ensure the information systems' availability,confidentiality,and integrity.

Question 42

Internal reports present data that is distributed inside the organization and is intended for employees within an organization.Internal reports typically support day-to-day operations monitoring that supports managerial decision making.

Question 43

Second generation assembly languages are difficult for people to understand.

Question 44

A data flow diagram (DFD)illustrates the movement of information between external entities and the processes and data stores within the system.

Question 45

Corrective maintenance makes system changes to reduce the chance of future system failure.

Question 46

Detailed internal reports present information with little or no filtering or restrictions of the data.

Question 47

Exception reports organize and categorize data for managerial perusal.

Question 48

Preventing liabilities is a business-related consequence of failed software.

Question 49

Information system control reports ensure the reliability of information,consisting of policies and their physical implementation,access restrictions,or recordkeeping of actions and transactions.

Question 50

Process modeling illustrates the movement of information between external entities and the processes and data stores within the system.

Question 51

Summary internal reports highlight situations occurring outside of the normal operating range for a condition or standard.

Question 52

Preventative maintenance makes system changes to reduce the chance of future system failure.

Question 53

First generation machine languages are difficult for people to understand.

Question 54

Control objects for information and related technology (COBIT)are software suites that automate systems analysis,design,and development.

Question 55

The implementation phase involves taking all of the detailed design documents from the design phase and transforming them into the actual system.

Question 56

Corrective maintenance makes system changes to repair design flaws,coding errors,or implementation issues.

Question 57

Computer-aided software engineering (CASE)tools are software suites that automate systems analysis,design,and development.

Question 58

Process modeling involves graphically representing the processes that capture,manipulate,store,and distribute information between a system and its environment.

Question 59

A data flow diagram involves graphically representing the processes that capture,manipulate,store,and distribute information between a system and its environment.

Question 60

Post-implementation reports are formal reports or audits of a project after it is up-and-running.

Question 61

Plunge implementation is a set of policies,procedures,standards,processes,practices,tools,techniques,and tasks that people apply to technical and management challenges.

Question 62

The oldest and the best known method is the waterfall methodology,a sequence of phases in which the output of each phase becomes the input for the next.

Question 63

Discovery prototyping builds a small-scale representation or working model of the system to ensure that it meets the user and business requirements.

Question 64

Gate two is elaboration,and this phase expands on the agreed-upon details of the system,including the ability to provide an architecture to support and build it.

Question 65

Extreme programming (XP)methodology,like other agile methods,breaks a project into four phases,and developers can't continue to the next phase until the previous phase is complete.

Question 66

A methodology is a set of policies,procedures,standards,processes,practices,tools,techniques,and tasks that people apply to technical and management challenges.

Question 67

Gate one includes inception,and this phase ensures that all stakeholders have a shared understanding of the proposed system and what it will do.

Question 68

Fourth generation programming languages look similar to human languages.

Question 69

Waterfall development consists of a series of tiny projects.It has become the foundation of multiple agile methodologies.

Question 70

The oldest and the best known method is the agile methodology,a sequence of phases in which the output of each phase becomes the input for the next.

Question 71

The rational unified process (RUP)methodology,owned by IBM,provides a framework for breaking down the development of software into four gates.

Question 72

SCRUM is a sequential,activity-based process in which each phase in the SDLC is performed sequentially from planning through implementation and maintenance.

Question 73

The traditional waterfall methodology is a sequential,activity-based process in which each phase in the SDLC is performed sequentially from planning through implementation and maintenance.

Question 74

Iterative development consists of a series of tiny projects.It has become the foundation of multiple agile methodologies.

Question 75

Third generation high-level programming languages are languages such as C+ and Java.

Question 76

Fifth generation programming languages for artificial intelligence and neural networks.

Question 77

An agile methodology aims for customer satisfaction through early and continuous delivery of useful software components developed by an iterative process using the bare minimum requirements.

Question 78

Rapid application development (RAD)methodology (also called rapid prototyping)emphasizes extensive user involvement in the rapid and evolutionary construction of working prototypes of a system,to accelerate the systems development process.

Question 79

Prototyping is a modern design approach by which the designers and system users use an iterative approach to building the system.

Question 80

A prototype is a smaller-scale representation or working model of the users' requirements or a proposed design for an information system.