MGMT 340 Final Exam

MGMT 340
Final Exam
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1. (TCO 1) When developing information systems, an organization could
use:
2. (TCO 1)
The practice of turning over
responsibility of some or all of an organization’s information systems
applications and operations to an outside firm is referred to as:
3. (TCO 2) Identifying, assessing, and managing the risks and
day-to-day changes that occur during a project best defines which of the
following project manager activities?
4. (TCO 2) Which of the following is NOT a project management phase?
5. (TCO 2) Which of the following would be classified as an intangible
cost?
6. (TCO 2)
The primary deliverable from the
project identification and selection phase is:
7. (TCO 3) The term that refers to systems development projects bogged
down in an abundance of analysis work is:
8. (TCO 3) Good interview guidelines consist of:
9. (TCO 3)
The search for, and implementation
of, radical change in business processes to achieve breakthrough improvements
in products and services best defines:
10. (TCO
3) The purpose of requirements
structuring is to:
11. (TCO
4) The diagram that shows the scope of
the system, indicating what elements are inside and outside the system, is
called a:
12. (TCO
5) The number of instances of entity B
that can (or must) be associated with each instance of entity A refers to:
13. (TCO
6) Shaping alternative system design
strategies involves:
14. (TCO
7) Which of the following are general
guidelines for displaying tables and lists?
15. (TCO
7)Which of the following is a
guideline for displaying text?
16. (TCO
7)Reversing the sequence of one or
more characters in a field is called:
17. (TCO
8) A notation that allows the modeler
to specify, visualize, and construct the artifacts of software systems, as well
as business models, best defines:
18. (TCO
8)Benefits of the object-oriented
modeling approach include:
19. (TCO
9) System documentation that is part
of the program source code or is generated at compile time best defines:
20. (TCO
9) User testing of a completed
information system using simulated data refers to:

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1. (TCO 1) Describe the role of a systems analyst.
2. (TCO 2) Discuss the six major categories of feasibility.
3. (TCO 3)
Identify and describe the
traditional methods for determining requirements.
4. (TCO 4) What is gap analysis? Why is gap analysis useful?
5. (TCO 5) Contrast data modeling to process modeling and logic
modeling.
6. (TCO 6) Suppose that an analysis team did not generate alternative
design strategies for consideration by a project steering committee or client.
What might the consequences be of having only one design strategy? What might
happen during the oral presentation of project progress if only one design
strategy is offered?
7. (TCO 7)
Describe the three-step process for
designing dialogues.
8. (TCO 8) What is meant by Agile Methodologies? Identify the three
key principles that the Agile Methodologies share.
9. (TCO 9)
Describe four types of installation.
10. (TCO
9)Describe four types of maintenance.