IT Project Management
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Course Introduction
IT Project Management focuses on the principles, methodologies, and best practices essential for successfully managing information technology projects. The course covers project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure, with an emphasis on meeting stakeholder requirements, managing project scope, time, and cost constraints, and ensuring quality outcomes. Students will explore topics such as risk management, team leadership, resource allocation, agile and traditional project management frameworks, and the use of project management software tools. Through case studies and practical exercises, learners develop the skills necessary to manage IT projects effectively in dynamic and complex business environments.
Recommended Textbook Essentials of Systems Analysis and Design 5th Edition by Joseph Valacich
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Chapter 1: The Systems Development Environment
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Q1) The second task in systems analysis is to investigate the system and determine the proposed system's scope.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) A systems development methodology created to radically decrease the time needed to design and implement information systems
A)Participatory Design
B)Joint Application Design
C)Rapid Application Development
D)Prototyping
E)Agile Methodologies
F)Repository
G)CASE
Answer: C
Q3) Interfaces exist between subsystems.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: The Sources of Software
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Q1) Reuse is most commonly applied to object-oriented and component-based development.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The use of previously written software resources is also referred to as:
A) reuse.
B) reengineering.
C) reprocessing.
D) re-analysis.
E) restructuring.
Answer: A
Q3) Reuse should increase development time.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Open-source software is developed by employees of a particular company.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Managing the Information Systems Project
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Q1) Optimistic time refers to:
A) the maximum period of time for an activity to be completed.
B) the minimum period of time for an activity to be completed.
C) the planner's "best guess" of the amount of time the activity actually will require for completion.
D) the maximum period of time for an entire project to be completed.
E) the average period of time for an activity to be completed.
Answer: B
Q2) Project time estimates for task completion and overall system quality are not significantly influenced by the assignment of people to tasks.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Project initiation is the second phase of the project management process, which focuses on defining clear, discrete activities and the work needed to complete each activity within a single project.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Systems Planning and Selection
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Q1) To gain an understanding of the organization's ability to construct the proposed system is the goal of:
A) operational feasibility.
B) schedule feasibility.
C) technical feasibility.
D) political feasibility.
E) construction feasibility.
Q2) Referencing a walkthrough, the maintenance oracle ensures that the work product adheres to organizational technical standards.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The extent to which the project is viewed as helping the organization achieve its strategic objectives and long-term goals describes:
A) potential benefits.
B) resource availability.
C) technical difficulty or risks.
D) strategic alignment.
E) value chain analysis.
Q4) Briefly define walkthrough and describe the role of each participant.
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Chapter 5: Determining System Requirements
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Q1) The most useful forms do not contain data.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Closed-ended questions work well when the major answers to the questions are known.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Neutrality is a guideline for effective interviewing.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Information refinement means taking the system requirements you find during requirements determination and ordering them into tables, diagrams, and other formats that make them easier to translate into technical system specifications.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Decision support tools aiding nonmanagers is an example of a disruptive technology.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Structuring System Requirements: Process
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Q1) The extent to which all necessary components of a data-flow diagram have been included and fully described
A)Gap analysis
B)Functional decomposition
C)Process modeling
D)Balancing
E)DFD completeness
Q2) As a rule of thumb, no data-flow diagram should have more than about seven processes on it, because the diagram would be too crowded and difficult to understand.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Data can move directly from a source to a sink.
Q4) The calculation of a student's grade is represented on a data-flow diagram as a data flow.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Context diagrams have only one process labeled "P-1."
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Structuring System Requirements: Conceptual
Data
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Q1) The number of entity types that participate in a relationship refers to:
A) cardinality.
B) association.
C) count.
D) degree.
E) normalization.
Q2) A good number of alternatives to generate is five.
A)True
B)False
Q3) During the alternative generation and selection step of the analysis phase, you would propose different ways to source or acquire the various sets of capabilities for the different implementation environments.
A)True
B)False
Q4) These alternatives represent compromise solutions.
A)High-end alternatives
B)Midrange alternatives
C)Low-end alternatives
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Q5) On E-R diagrams, relationships are labeled with verb phrases.
Q6) The name of the identifier of each entity is underlined on an E-R diagram.
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Chapter 8: Designing the Human Interface
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Q1) When structuring data entry fields, captions are not always necessary.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A record of the sequence of data entries and the date of those entries
A)Audit trail
B)Cookie crumbs
C)Dialogue
D)Dialogue diagramming
E)Form
F)Lightweight graphics
G)Report
H)Template-based HTML
Q3) Which of the following is a method for representing human-computer dialogues?
A) Logic modeling
B) Sequence modeling
C) Process modeling
D) Dialogue diagramming
E) Transition diagramming
Q4) Identify the three-step process for designing dialogues.
Q5) Identify four sources of data errors.
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Chapter 9: Designing Databases
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Q1) Outline the four key steps in logical database modeling and design.
Q2) If order number serves as the primary key in the order relation and also appears as a nonkey attribute in the invoice relation, then order number is said to be a:
A) foreign key.
B) candidate key. C) pointer.
D) relationship key.
E) marker.
Q3) Random key retrieval on the primary key is comparatively slow with the hashed file organization.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Normalization helps build a data model that is simple, not redundant, and requires minimum maintenance.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Each entity type in an ER Diagram becomes an attribute.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Systems Implementation and Operation
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Q1) The process of bringing together all of the modules that comprise a program for testing purposes
A)Integration testing
B)System testing
C)Stub testing
D)Acceptance testing
E)Alpha testing
F)Beta testing
G)Recovery testing
H)Security testing
I)Stress testing
J)Performance testing
Q2) Which of the following maintenance cost elements is the most significant?
A) Tools
B) Software structure
C) Personnel
D) Customers
E) Hardware
Q3) Define system documentation, user documentation, internal documentation, and external documentation.
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Chapter 11: object-Oriented Analysis and Design
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Q1) In UML, a class is represented by a rounded rectangle with two compartments separated by horizontal lines.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A type of use-case relationship that adds new behaviors or actions is a(n):
A) generalized relationship.
B) extends relationship.
C) recursive relationship.
D) abstract relationship.
E) complex relationship.
Q3) Sequence diagrams represent dynamic models of how objects change their states in response to events.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A class that can have direct instances best defines: A) abstract class. B) complete class. C) concrete class. D) superclass.
E) complex class.
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Chapter 12: Agile Methodologies
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Q1) A stylized approach to development that seeks to maximize fruitful interaction between those who need a new system and those who build it
A)Iterative Development
B)Pair Programming
C)Planning Game
D)Story Cards
E)Simple Design
F)Refactoring
Q2) Making a program simpler after adding a new feature
A)Iterative Development
B)Pair Programming
C)Planning Game
D)Story Cards
E)Simple Design
F)Refactoring
Q3) Identify four advantages to using pair programming.
Q4) Limited user participation is a major criticism of the Agile Methodologies.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Well-matched to small products and teams
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