Deck 14: Acquiring Information Systems and Applications

Question 1

In joint application design, systems analysts interview or directly observe potential users of the new system individually to understand each user's needs.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Which of the following statements about the buy option for acquiring IS applications is true?

A) Many different types of off-the-shelf software are available.
B) The company can try out the software before purchasing it.
C) The company can save much time by buying rather than building.
D) All of these options

Answer 2

D

Question 3

The main advantage of rapid application development is the active involvement of users in the development process.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Leasing can be attractive to small- and medium-sized organizations that cannot afford major investments in software.

Question 5

Legacy systems were expensive to build, because they required on-premise hardware, software, and networking technologies.

Question 6

Which of the following is a reason why evaluating the benefits of IT projects is more complex than evaluating their costs?

A) Benefits are often intangible and harder to quantify.
B) IT can be used for several different purposes.
C) The probability of obtaining a return from an IT investment is based on the probability of implementation success.
D) All of these options

Question 7

In the case of _____, organizations obtain a license to implement a version of the software product and are then able to further customize it to suit their needs.

A) open-source software
B) software leasing
C) software-as-a-service (SaaS)
D) custom development

Question 8

The IT planning process begins with an analysis of the organization's IT infrastructure.

Question 9

Which of the following is the most difficult and crucial task in evaluating a vendor and a software package?

A) Identifying potential vendors
B) Determining the evaluation criteria
C) Evaluating vendors and packages
D) Choosing vendors and packages

Question 10

The _____ approach to systems development uses specialized tools to automate many of the tasks in the systems development life cycle.

A) integrated computer-assisted software engineering
B) joint application design
C) rapid application development
D) prototyping

Question 11

The feasibility study addresses which of the following issues?

A) Economic feasibility
B) Technical feasibility
C) Behavioral feasibility
D) All of these options

Question 12

_____ feasibility determines if the hardware, software, and communications components can be developed and/or acquired to solve the business problem.

A) Technical
B) Economic
C) Organizational
D) Behavioral

Question 13

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

A) Systems development life cycle
B) Prototyping
C) End-user development
D) Component-based development

Question 14

Which of the following is a disadvantage of prototyping?

A) It takes too long to progress from the original ideas to a working system.
B) It is impractical with large number of users.
C) It is often more expensive to build and maintain.
D) It is difficult to use with existing systems.

Question 15

_____ are employees from all functional areas and levels of the organization who interact with the system, either directly or indirectly.

A) Systems stakeholders
B) Programmers
C) Systems analysts
D) Users

Question 16

The goals of the _____ are to link corporate strategy and IT strategy, approve the allocation of resources for the MIS function, and establish performance measures for the MIS function and see that they are met.

A) CEO
B) Board of Directors
C) IT operational committee
D) IT steering committee

Question 17

The _____ is a set of long-range goals that describe the IT infrastructure and identify the major IT initiatives needed to achieve the goals of the organization.

A) IT operational plan
B) application portfolio
C) IT strategic plan
D) IT mission

Question 18

An application service provider is a vendor who assembles the software needed by an enterprise and packages the software with outsourced development, operations, maintenance, and other services.

Question 19

A request for proposal is a document that companies send to potential vendors inviting them to submit a proposal that describes their software package and how it would meet the company's needs.

Question 20

The _____ approach to systems development defines an initial list of user requirements, then develops the system in an iterative fashion.

A) integrated computer-assisted software engineering
B) joint application design
C) rapid application development
D) prototyping

Question 21

Which of the following statements about the FAA's Next Generation Air Transportation System is NOT true?

A) The purpose of NextGen is to transform America's air traffic control system from a ground-based system to a satellite-based system.
B) The slow pace of NextGen's implementation has drawn harsh criticism.
C) The FAA failed to set realistic goals, budgets, or expectations for NextGen.
D) All of these options

Question 22

Which of the following statements about Capital One's strategy is NOT true?

A) It focused on insourcing software development.
B) It implemented a 24-month training program that helped develop the rapid agile development culture.
C) It focused on implementing rigid development methodologies to improve quality and reduce the occurrence of errors.
D) It bought and operated a data center to support its new development methodologies.