final examination questions....need assistance please...

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During the ____ phase of the system development process, potential problems and opportunities are identified and considered in light of the goals of the business.
a. systems design c. systems investigation
b. systems analysis d. systems implementation


____ 52. During the _____ phase of the systems development life cycle, people attempt to answer the questions “What must the information system do to solve the problem?”
a. systems investigation c. systems design
b. systems implementation d. systems analysis


____ 53. ____ results in an installed, operational information system that meets the business needs for which it was developed.
a. systems implementation c. systems design
b. systems investigation d. systems maintenance and review


____ 54. The training of end users is an important task in the ____ phase of a systems development project.
a. systems design c. systems implementation
b. systems maintenance and review d. none of the above


____ 55. _____ takes an iterative approach to the systems development process.
a. Rapid application development c. Traditional systems development
b. Prototyping d. None of the above


____ 56. The _____ system development approach requires cooperation and frequent face-to-face meetings with all project participants as they modify, refine, and test how the system meets users’ needs and what its capabilities are.
a. prototyping c. extreme programming
b. agile development d. none of the above


____ 57. Organizations are using outsourcing for system development in order to ____.
a. reduce costs c. increase technological flexibility
b. obtain state-of-the-art technology d. all of the above


____ 58. The second level in the capability maturity model is ____.
a. repeatable c. defined
b. optimized d. managed


____ 59. Activities on the critical path of a project have ____ slack time.
a. infinite c. minimum
b. maximum d. zero


____ 60. Based on _____, managers make decisions regarding the initiation of each system investigation for potential IS projects.
a. the overall IS plan c. the estimated value and priority
b. the organization’s needs and goals d. all of the above


____ 61. ____ is an assessment of whether the hardware, software, and other system components can be acquired or developed to solve the problem.
a. Systems investigation c. Technical feasibility
b. Feasibility analysis d. None of the above


____ 62. ____ determines whether the project can be completed in a reasonable amount of time.
a. Economic feasibility c. Operational feasibility
b. Legal feasibility d. Schedule feasibility


____ 63. The systems steering committee ____.
a. consists of middle level managers from the IS department c. might suggest a change in project focus
b. never includes end users d. none of the above


____ 64. The primary outcome of the systems analysis phase is ____.
a. a prioritized list of system requirements
b. data models needed to build the new system
c. case diagrams to be used in system design
d. identified sources of data for the new system


____ 65. Data flow diagrams ____.
a. are used to model data entities and their relationships
b. are quite complicated and seldom used or understood by nontechnical people
c. describe the activities that accomplish a business task
d. all of the above


____ 66. In a data flow diagram, the ____ symbol reveals a function that is being performed.
a. data flow c. entity
b. process d. data store