Systems Analysis and Design Quiz 1

Systems Analysis and Design Quiz 1.   

True or False

1. Projects identified by a steering committee generally have a narrow, tactical focus.
2. Projects identified by top management and steering committees most often reflect the broader needs of the organization.
3. Fewer development delays is characteristic of the information system identification and selection decisions made by top management.
4. Longest project duration is characteristic of information system identification and selection decisions made by the development group.
5. Value chain analysis is the extent to which activities add value and costs when developing products and/or services.
6. Information systems have become one of the primary ways for organizations to make changes and improvements in their value chains.
7. Conditional approval is a strategy in systems analysis and design in which the project is reviewed after each phase and continuation of the project is rejustified in each of these reviews.
8. A major advantage of the planning-based approaches is that an organization's informational needs are less likely to change than its business processes.
9. Business systems planning is an ongoing process that defines the mission, objectives, and strategies of an organization.
10. "We are in the business of selling quality shoes at an affordable price." is an example of a mission statement.
11. Business methods are a series of statements that express an organization's qualitative and quantitative goals for reaching a desired future position.
12. Product focus or niche is a strategy similar to both the low-cost and differentiation strategies but with a much narrower market focus.
13. The bottom-up planning approach begins by conducting an extensive analysis of the organization's mission, objectives, and strategy and determining the information requirements needed to meet each objective.
14. A process-to-data entity matrix identifies which functions are essential or desirable in achieving each organizational objective.
15. Business data interchange refers to the use of telecommunications technologies to directly transfer business documents between organizations.
16. Creating and implementing successful projects requires managing resources, activities, and tasks needed to complete the information systems project.
17. The Systems Service Request is an example of a project deliverable.
18. The establishing management procedures activity involves organizing an initial core of project team members to assist in accomplishing the project initiation activities.
19. Interpreting system requests and specifications is a technical problem-solving skill required of project managers.
20. Problem solving, smoothing out personality differences, and compromising are leadership skills required for a project manager.
21. A project workbook is an online or hardcopy repository for all project correspondence, inputs, outputs, deliverables, procedures, and standards that is used for performing project audits, orienting new team members, communicating with management and customers, identifying future projects, and performing postproject reviews.
22. The purpose of the describing project scope, alternatives, and feasibility activity is to understand the content and complexity of the project.
23. Network diagrams do not show how tasks must be ordered; they simply show when an activity should begin and end.
24. A task has well-accepted predecessor and successor steps.
25. Creating a work breakdown structure requires the analyst to decompose phases into activities and then decompose these activities into tasks.
26. During the developing a communications plan activity, the analyst specifies how various deliverables are produced and tested by the project team.
27. A decision tree is a graphical depiction of project tasks and their interrelationships.
28. The Baseline Project Plan provides an estimate of the project's task and resource requirements and is used to guide the project execution phase.
29. The purpose of the conducting postproject reviews activity is to ensure that all contractual terms of the project have been met.
30. A network diagram is more likely to be used than a Gantt chart to help manage