Cis 305 Chapter 2

Front 1

CH2: Project initiation begins when someone (or some group) in the organization (called the project sponsor) indentifies some business value that can be gained from using information technology.

Back 1

True

Front 2

__________________ value is important, but includes hard to measure benefits to the organization (such as improved customer service, better competitive position).

Back 2

Intangible

Front 3

A system request describes the business reasons for building a system and the value that system is expected to provide. Which statement is FALSE about a system request?

Back 3

the system request will be the final document in the approval process for coding to begin.

Front 4

Feasibility analysis may be defined as a(n)_____.

Back 4

guide to determining whether to proceed with a project.

Front 5

Match the term with the correct phrase.

Back 5

Technical Feasibility - Can we Build

Economic Feasibility - Should we build it

Organizational Feasibility - If we build it

Time Value of Money - A dollar today is not worth a dollar tomorrow

Front 6

Which of the following factors would tend to increase the technical risk of a project?

Back 6

large project size

Front 7

Break-even point is determined by looking at the cash flow over time and identifying the year (or moment) in which the benefits are larger than the costs.

Back 7

True

Front 8

ROI is an acronym that stands for

Back 8

Return on Investment

Front 9

The project champion is a(n)_____.

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high-level non-IS executive who is usually but not always the project sponsor who initiated the system request.

Front 10

A limitation of a formal cost-benefits analysis is that it contains the costs and benefits for just one year.

Back 10

False

Front 11

How well a system is accepted by the users and incorporated into the ongoing operations of the business is defined in the technical feasibility.

Back 11

False

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Project size is an important consideration in technical feasibility. Larger projects create more risk, both because they are more complicated to manage and because there is a greater chance that some important system requirements will be overlooked or misunderstood.

Back 12

True

Front 13

Economic feasibility focuses on whether the system can be built by examining the risks associated with the users’ and analysts’ familiarity with the application, familiarity with the technology, and project size.

Back 13

False

Front 14

The following characteristics describe a "jelled team"

Back 14

all of the above