61.
Which of the following is an advantage of outsourcing?
62.
Which of the following is a disadvantage of outsourcing?
True / False Questions
63.
The systems development life cycle is an unstructured approach for
developing information systems.
64.
Project scope clearly defines the high-level system requirements.
65.
Adding additional features that were not part of the initial project definition
is an example of scope creep.
66.
Scope creep and feature creep lead to better systems development
projects.
67.
The project plan defines the what, when, and who questions of system
development.
68.
Joint application development is a meeting between users and IT specialists
69.
Sign-off occurs when users and IT specialists meet to define or review the
business requirements for the system.
70.
During the development phase, you develop a technical blueprint of how the
proposed system will work.
71.
Users are usually involved in the testing phase as they are the most familiar
with the business requirements and test conditions.
72.
Online training is excellent when employees need one-on-one time with a
trainer.
73.
Plunge implementation discards the old system completely and immediately
uses the new system.
74.
Once a system has been created and implemented, no changes should be
made to it.
75.
Component based development is a general approach to systems
development that focuses on building small self-contained blocks of code
that can be reused across a variety of applications within an organization.
76.
Rapid application development discourages end user involvement as it
tends to slow down the systems development process.
77.
Extreme programming (XP) methodology breaks the project down into many
smaller pieces or phases.
78.
The XP methodology, unlike the RAD methodology, relies heavily on reusing
existing software components contained in a software library.
79.
One of the reasons for XP’s success is that it stresses customer
satisfaction.
80.
The agile methodology is similar to XP but with more focus on team coding
and less on limiting project scope.
81.
The services within the SoA architecture perspective are exactly the same
as components in any of the component-based development
methodologies.
82.
End users often use tools like DBMSs and spreadsheets to develop
applications for their own needs.
83.
Rather than combating the trend toward end-user application development,
IT staff should leverage it to offload solution building to end users.
84.
When you’re developing a system just for yourself, you don’t need to
document how it works.
85.
One of the advantages of selfsourcing is that it increases the speed of
systems development.
86.
One of the potential pitfalls of selfsourcing is that it increases the invisible
backlog.
87.
Lack of organizational focus creates “privatized” IT systems.
88.
Lack of documentation and external support leads to short-lived systems.
89.
Prototyping is an essential part of the RAD methodology.
90.
An initial prototype cannot just include only user interfaces.
91.
Prototyping gives no indication of performance under operational
conditions.
92.
The Internet is one of the main reasons behind the rapid growth of the
outsourcing industry.
93.
A service level agreement is an informal agreement between two parties.
94.
A U.S. bank doing onshore outsourcing of some of its work is using another
U.S. company.
95.
A U.S. media company is paying an Indian company to do its help desk
support. This would be an example of nearshore outsourcing.
96.
Outsourcing increases the technical know-how for future innovation.
Fill in the Blank Questions
97.
_____ occurs when IT specialists within the company develop new systems.