Info Systems Chapter 13 – Flashcards

The information systems planning process proceeds in which order?

Evaluating the benefits of IT projects is more complex than evaluating their costs for all of the following reasons except:

A company's IT architecture includes all of the following except:

Which of the following statements about determining the costs and benefits of IT investments is false?

Which of the following is not an advantage of the buy option for acquiring IS applications?

Which of the following systems acquisition methods requires staff to systematically go through every step in the development process and has a lower probability of missing important user requirements?

Which of the following systems acquisition methods is time consuming, costly, and may produce excessive documentation?

_____ is a method of delivering software in which a vendor hosts the applications and customers access these applications over the Internet.

Place the stages of the systems development life cycle in order:

The _____ that changes are made in the systems development life cycle, the _____ expensive these changes become.

Systems design answers the question, _____:

When users ask for added functionality during a systems development project, this is called:

________ conversion is the riskiest type of conversion process.

A firm shuts down its old COBOL legacy system and immediately starts up its new PeopleSoft ERP system. This process is called __________ conversion.

Which of the following systems acquisition methods helps clarify user requirements, promotes genuine user participation, and may produce part of the final system?

Which of the following systems acquisition methods may encourage inadequate problem analysis, is not practical with large numbers of users, and may result in a company's purchasing a lower-quality system?

The _____ approach to systems development is a group-based tool for collecting user requirements.

Agile development

Object-oriented development

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