Deck 6: Systems Development Project Management

Question 1

What is the systems development life cycle (SDLC)?

A) Involves establishing a high-level plan of the intended project and determining project goals
B) Involves analysing end-user business requirements and refining project goals into defined functions and operations of the intended system
C) Involves describing the desired features and operations of the system
D) The overall process for developing information systems from planning and analysis through implementation and maintenance

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Which of the following is a business-related consequence of failing software?

A) Decrease productivity
B) Damage to brand reputation
C) Increased liabilities
D) All the answers are correct

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What is the design phase in the SDLC?

A) Involves establishing a high-level plan of the intended project and determining project goals
B) Involves analysing end-user business requirements and refining project goals into defined functions and operations of the intended system
C) Involves describing the desired features and operations of the system
D) Involves placing the system into production so users can begin to perform actual business operations with the system
This is the definition of the design phase in the SDLC.

Answer 3

C

Question 4

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

Question 5

Which of the following is a business-related consequence of successful software?

A) Increased revenues
B) Damage to brand reputation
C) Increased liabilities
D) Increased expenses

Question 6

What is the overall process for developing information systems from planning and analysis through implementation and maintenance?

A) Systems development life cycle
B) Project management
C) Systems management
D) Project development life cycle

Question 7

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

Question 8

Which of the following is an issue related to the waterfall methodology?

A) Flaws in accurately defining and articulating the business problem
B) Managing costs,resources and time constraints
C) Assumes users can specify all business requirements in advance
D) All the answers are correct

Question 9

What is the analysis phase in the SDLC?

A) Involves establishing a high-level plan of the intended project and determining project goals
B) Involves analysing end-user business requirements and refining project goals into defined functions and operations of the intended system
C) Involves describing the desired features and operations of the system
D) Involves placing the system into production so users can begin to perform actual business operations with the system
This is the definition of the analysis phase in the SDLC.

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

A) SDLC
B) Methodology
C) Waterfall
D) Agile

Question 12

What is a business requirement?

A) The non-specific business requests the system must meet to be successful
B) The specific business requests the system must meet to be successful
C) The non-specific methodology the system must meet to be successful
D) The specific methodology the system must meet to be successful

Question 13

Which phase of the SDLC gathers business requirements?

A) Plan
B) Analysis
C) Test
D) Design

Question 14

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 15

Which of the following describes agile?

A) Fast and efficient
B) Small and nimble
C) Lower cost
D) All the answers are correct

Question 16

Which software development methodology aims for customer satisfaction through early and continuous delivery of useful software components developed by an iterative process with a design point that uses the bare minimum requirements?

A) RAD methodology
B) Agile methodology
C) Waterfall methodology
D) Extreme programming

Question 17

Which of the following represents the phases in the SDLC?

A) Plan,analysis,design,test,maintain,develop,implement
B) Analysis,plan,design,test,develop,maintain,implement
C) Plan,analysis,design,develop,test,implement,maintain
D) Analysis,plan,develop,design,test,implement,maintain

Question 18

What development style consists of a series of tiny projects?

A) Waterfall methodology
B) Iterative development
C) Agile methodology
D) All the answers are correct

Question 19

Project milestones are any measurable,tangible,verifiable outcome,result or item that is produced to complete a project or part of a project.

Question 20

What is the implementation phase in the SDLC?

A) Involves establishing a high-level plan of the intended project and determining project goals
B) Involves analysing end-user business requirements and refining project goals into defined functions and operations of the intended system
C) Involves describing the desired features and operations of the system
D) Involves placing the system into production so users can begin to perform actual business operations with the system
This is the definition of the implementation phase in the SDLC.

Question 21

What methodology emphasises extensive user involvement in the rapid and evolutionary construction of working prototypes of a system to accelerate the systems development process?

A) RAD methodology
B) Agile methodology
C) Waterfall methodology
D) Extreme programming
This is the definition of RAD.

Question 22

Which methodology uses small teams to produce small pieces of deliverable software using sprints,or 30-day intervals,to achieve an appointed goal?

A) Scrum
B) XP
C) RUP
D) RAD

Question 23

Which of the following is a fundamental of the RAD methodology?

A) Focus initially on creating a prototype that looks and acts like the desired system
B) Actively involve system users in the analysis,design and development phases
C) Accelerate collecting the business requirements through an interactive and iterative construction approach
D) All the answers are correct

Question 24

Which of the following is the primary reason why companies outsource?

A) Tap outside sources of expertise
B) Concentrate resources on core business
C) Reduce headcount and related expenses
D) Better manage the costs of internal processes

Question 25

Which of the following is a characteristic of a successful project?

A) Delivered on time
B) Delivered within budget
C) Meets the business' requirements
D) All the answers are correct

Question 26

Which of the following is not one of the four gates in the RUP methodology?

A) Inception
B) Collaboration
C) Construction
D) Transition

Question 27

What is it called when a company uses organisations from developing countries to write code and develop systems?

A) In-sourcing
B) Outsourcing
C) Business process outsourcing
D) Offshore outsourcing

Question 28

What breaks a project into tiny phases and means that developers cannot continue on to the next phase until the first phase is complete?

A) RAD methodology
B) Agile methodology
C) Waterfall methodology
D) Extreme programming

Question 29

Which gate in the RUP methodology includes building and developing the project?

A) Inception
B) Elaboration
C) Construction
D) Transition

Question 30

How many days is a typical sprint in the Scrum methodology?

A) 2 days
B) 10 days
C) 30 days
D) 90 days

Question 31

What is an arrangement by which one organisation provides a service or services for another organisation that chooses not to perform them in-house?

A) In-sourcing
B) Outsourcing
C) Business process outsourcing
D) Offshore outsourcing

Question 32

What is the number one reason that IT projects fall behind schedule or fail?

A) Change in business goals during the project
B) Lack of support from business management
C) Poor planning or poor project management
D) Change in technology during the project

Question 33

Which of the following is not a primary form of agile methodology?

A) RAD
B) SDLC
C) RUP
D) Scrum

Question 34

Which methodology provides a framework for breaking down the development of software into four gates?

A) Scrum
B) XP
C) RAD
D) RUP

Question 35

What are the three primary variables (or triple constraints)in any project?

A) Time,cost,expense
B) Time,expense,requirements
C) Time,cost,scope
D) Time,cost,quality

Question 36

What is the application of knowledge,skills,tools and techniques to project activities to meet project requirements?

A) Project management
B) Project management software
C) Scope
D) None of the above

Question 37

Which methodology ends each day or begins with a stand-up meeting to monitor and control the development effort?

A) Scrum
B) XP
C) RUP
D) RAD

Question 38

Which of the following is a benefit an organisation can receive from outsourcing?

A) Financial savings
B) Increase technical abilities
C) Market agility
D) All the answers are correct

Question 39

What is a common approach using the professional expertise within an organisation to develop and maintain the organisation's information technology systems?

A) In-sourcing
B) Outsourcing
C) Business process outsourcing
D) Offshore outsourcing

Question 40

Which gate in the RUP methodology expands on the agreed-upon details of the system,including the ability to provide an architecture to support and build it?

A) Inception
B) Elaboration
C) Construction
D) Transition

Question 41

Who are individuals and organisations actively involved in the project or whose interests might be affected as a result of project execution or project completion?

A) Project manager
B) Project stakeholders
C) Executive sponsor
D) All the answers are correct

Question 42

What is a project?

A) A temporary activity undertaken to create a unique product,service,or result
B) The application of knowledge,skills,tools,and techniques to project activities in order to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations from a project
C) Any measurable,tangible,verifiable outcome,result,or item that is produced to complete a project or part of a project
D) Represent key dates when a certain group of activities must be performed

Question 43

What is a project charter?

A) Specific factors that can limit options
B) Factors that are considered to be true,real,or certain without proof or demonstration
C) Quantifiable criteria that must be met for the project to be considered a success
D) A document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorises the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organisational resources to project activities

Question 44

What are project objectives?

A) Quantifiable criteria that must be met for the project to be considered a success
B) Products,services,or processes that are not specifically a part of the project
C) Any measurable,tangible,verifiable outcome,result or item that is produced to complete a project or part of a project
D) Defines the work that must be completed to deliver a product with the specified features and functions

Question 45

What are project constraints?

A) Specific factors that can limit options
B) Factors that are considered to be true,real,or certain without proof or demonstration
C) Quantifiable criteria that must be met for the project to be considered a success
D) A document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorises the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organisational resources to project activities

Question 46

What is the logical relationship that exists between the project tasks,or between a project task and a milestone?

A) Resource
B) Task
C) Dependency
D) Activity

Question 47

What are project assumptions?

A) Specific factors that can limit options
B) Factors that are considered to be true,real,or certain without proof or demonstration
C) Quantifiable criteria that must be met for the project to be considered a success
D) A document issued by the project initiator or sponsor that formally authorises the existence of a project and provides the project manager with the authority to apply organisational resources to project activities

Question 48

An organisation must identify what it wants to do and how it is going to do it.What does the 'how' part of this question focus on?

A) Justification of the project
B) Definition of the project
C) Analysis of project risks
D) Expected results of the project

Question 49

What is an internal department that oversees all organisational projects?

A) Project deliverables
B) Project scope
C) Project management office
D) Project milestones

Question 50

What type of chart typically displays the critical path?

A) Gantt chart
B) PERT chart
C) All the answers are correct
D) None of the answers is correct

Question 51

What do SMART criteria for successful objective creation include?

A) Specific,metrics,agreed upon,real,time valued
B) Specific,measurable,agreed upon,realistic,time framed
C) Specific,measurable,accurate,real,time valued
D) Specific,metrics,agreed upon,realistic,time framed

Question 52

What is a project manager?

A) The application of knowledge,skills,tools,and techniques to project activities in order to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations from a project
B) Any measurable,tangible,verifiable outcome,result,or item that is produced to complete a project or part of a project
C) Represent key dates when a certain group of activities must be performed
D) An individual who is an expert in project planning and management

Question 53

What is a simple bar chart that depicts project tasks against a calendar?

A) Gantt chart
B) PERT chart
C) Dependency
D) All the answers are correct

Question 54

Which of the following is not a technique for choosing strategic projects?

A) Categorise projects
B) Perform a financial analysis
C) Focus on organisational goals
D) Develop a project plan

Question 55

What are project deliverables?

A) A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service
B) The application of knowledge,skills,tools,and techniques to project activities in order to meet or exceed stakeholder needs and expectations from a project
C) Any measurable,tangible,verifiable outcome,result,or item that is produced to complete a project or part of a project
D) Represent key dates when a certain group of activities must be performed

Question 56

An organisation must identify what it wants to do and how it is going to do it.What does the 'what' part of this question focus on?

A) Justification of the project
B) Definition of the project
C) Expected results of the project
D) All the answers are correct

Question 57

What is a graphical network model that depicts a project's tasks and the relationships between those tasks?

A) Gantt chart
B) PERT chart
C) Dependency
D) All the answers are correct

Question 58

Which of the following does a project manager perform?

A) Defines and develops the project plan
B) Tracks the plan to ensure all key project milestones are completed on time
C) Expert in project planning and management
D) All the answers are correct

Question 59

Who is the person or group who provides the financial resources for the project?

A) Project manager
B) Project stakeholders
C) Executive sponsor
D) All the answers are correct

Question 60

What is project scope?

A) Quantifiable criteria that must be met for the project to be considered a success
B) Products,services,or processes that are not specifically a part of the project
C) Any measurable,tangible,verifiable outcome,result or item that is produced to complete a project or part of a project
D) Defines the work that must be completed to deliver a product with the specified features and functions

Question 61

The _________ phase involves placing the system into production so users can begin to perform actual business operations with the system.

Question 62

Time,cost and ___________ are the three primary variables in any project.

Question 63

Identify the three primary areas a project manager must focus on managing to ensure success.

Question 64

Which of the following includes a common reason why change occurs?

A) A misunderstanding of the initial scope
B) Shifts in planned technology that force unexpected and significant changes to the business
C) An omission in defining initial scope
D) All the answers are correct

Question 65

Which of the following is an outsourcing challenge caused by contract length?

A) Difficulties in getting out of a contract
B) Problems in foreseeing future issues
C) Problems in reforming an internal IT department
D) All the answers are correct

Question 66

All of the following are challenges of outsourcing,except:

A) Contract length
B) Competitive edge
C) Confidentiality
D) Reduced frustration and expense related to hiring and retaining employees in an exceptionally tight job market

Question 67

Which of the following is not a guideline for effectively dealing with change management?

A) Institute change management policies
B) Seek change
C) Anticipate change
D) Stop change

Question 68

What is the critical path?

A) The path from resource to task that passes through all critical components of a project plan
B) The path between tasks to the projects finish that passes through all critical components of a project plan
C) The path from start to finish that passes through all the tasks that are critical to completing the project in the shortest amount of time
D) The path from start to finish that passes through all the tasks that are critical to completing the project in the longest amount of time

Question 69

Summarise the different software development methodologies.

Question 70

The R in the SMART criteria for successful objective creation stands for _________.

Question 71

The rapid application development methodology emphasises extensive user involvement in the rapid and evolutionary construction of working __________ of a system to accelerate the systems development process.

Question 72

Describe the seven phases of the systems development life cycle.

Question 73

Describe the two primary diagrams most frequently used in project planning.

Question 74

Explain the three different types of outsourcing along with their benefits and challenges.

Question 75

Explain the business benefits associated with successful software development.

Question 76

Explain project management and the role the triple constraints play when managing a project.

Question 77

The _________ methodology aims for customer satisfaction through early and continuous delivery of useful software components developed by an iterative process with a design point that uses the bare minimum requirement.