ITM 102- Final Review Exam Prep
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Core competency strategy - - Answer-organization chooses to focus specifically on its
core competency and forms partnerships with other organizations to handle
nonstrategic business processes.
Information Partnership: - Answer-• Occurs when two or more organizations cooperate
by integrating their IT systems, thereby providing customers with the best of what each
can offer
Collaboration System: - Answer-• An IT-based set of tools that supports the work of
teams by facilitating the sharing and flow of information
Unstructured collaboration (information collaboration) - - Answer-includes document
exchange, shared whiteboards, discussion forums, and email. Generally ad hoc.
Structured collaboration (process collaboration) - - Answer-involves shared participation
in business processes such as workflow in which knowledge is hardcoded as rules
Collaboration Process Integrates: - Answer-• Content Management System
• Workflow Management System
• Groupware System
Content management system (CMS) - - Answer-provides tools to manage the creation,
storage, editing, and publication of information in a collaborative environment
Content Management Systems include: - Answer-oDocument management system
(DMS)
oDigital asset management system (DAM)
oWeb content management system (WCM)
Wikis - - Answer-Collaborative Web pages that allow users to add, remove, and change
content, which can be easily organization and reorganized as required.
Employees use wikis to set internal meeting agendas to posting documents relating to
new products.
workflow management system - Answer-facilitates the automation and management of
business processes and controls the movement of work through the business process
,Workflow - Answer-defines all the steps or business rules, from beginning to end,
required for a business process
Groupware Systems - Answer-applications that facilitate information sharing and
interactions between members of a workgroup
Virtual Conferencing - Answer-a set of interstice telecommunications technologies that
allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio simultaneous
transmissions
web conferencing - Answer-blends audio, video, and document-sharing technologies to
create virtual meeting rooms where people "gather" at a password-protected website
m-learning - Answer-Mobile learning. Use of mobile devices to teach and learn.
Enterprise Portals - Answer-Single-point Web browser interfaces used within an
organization to promote the gathering, sharing, and dissemination of information
throughout an enterprise.
System Development - Answer-•Information systems that are built correctly can
transform as the organization and its business transform
•In digital age, system success or failure can lead directly to business success or failure
local vs global - Answer-global standardization of data definitions allow for sharing data
among international businesses
System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - Answer-planning, analysis, design,
development, testing, implementation, maintenance
Planning Phase - Answer-establishes a high-level plan of the intended project and
determines project goals
Analysis Phase - Answer-Involves analyzing end-user business requirements and
refining project goals into defined functions and operations of the intended system
Business Requirement - Answer-the specific business requests the system must meet
to be successful
Design Phase - Answer-Establishes descriptions of the desired features and operations
of the system including screen layouts, business rules, process diagrams, pseudo code,
and other documentation
Development Phase - Answer-Involves taking all of the detailed design documents from
the design phase and transforming them into the actual system
, testing phase - Answer-Involves bringing all the project pieces together into a special
testing environment to eliminate errors and bugs, and verify that the system meets all of
the business requirements defined in the analysis phase
implementation phase - Answer-Involves placing the system into production so users
can begin to perform actual business operations with it
maintenance phase - Answer-Involves performing changes, corrections, additions, and
upgrades to ensure the system continues to meet its business goals
methodology - Answer-a set of policies, procedures, standards, processes, practices,
tools, techniques, and tasks that people apply to technical and management challenges
Agile Methodology - Answer-Aims for customer satisfaction through early and
continuous delivery of useful software components developed by an iterative process
using the bare minimum requirements
interactive development - Answer-consists of a series of tiny projects
Agile Methodologies consist of... - Answer-•Rapid prototyping/application development
•Extreme programming
•Rational unified process
•SCRUM
Rapid application development methodology - Answer-(RAD) emphasizes extensive
user involvement in the rapid and evolutionary construction of working prototypes of a
system to accelerate the systems development process
prototype - Answer-A smaller-scale representation or working model of the users'
requirements or a proposed design for an information system
Extreme Programming - Answer-Breaks a project into tiny phases, and developers
cannot continue on to the next phase until the first phase is complete
Rational Unified Process (RUP) - Answer-Breaks down into 4 gates...
1. inception
2. Collaboration
3. Construction
4. Transition
•Users can reject the project and force the developer to go back to gate one.
SCRUM - Answer-Uses small teams to produce small pieces of deliverable software
using sprints, or 30-day intervals, to achieve an appointed goal
Questions with 100% Correct
Answers
Core competency strategy - - Answer-organization chooses to focus specifically on its
core competency and forms partnerships with other organizations to handle
nonstrategic business processes.
Information Partnership: - Answer-• Occurs when two or more organizations cooperate
by integrating their IT systems, thereby providing customers with the best of what each
can offer
Collaboration System: - Answer-• An IT-based set of tools that supports the work of
teams by facilitating the sharing and flow of information
Unstructured collaboration (information collaboration) - - Answer-includes document
exchange, shared whiteboards, discussion forums, and email. Generally ad hoc.
Structured collaboration (process collaboration) - - Answer-involves shared participation
in business processes such as workflow in which knowledge is hardcoded as rules
Collaboration Process Integrates: - Answer-• Content Management System
• Workflow Management System
• Groupware System
Content management system (CMS) - - Answer-provides tools to manage the creation,
storage, editing, and publication of information in a collaborative environment
Content Management Systems include: - Answer-oDocument management system
(DMS)
oDigital asset management system (DAM)
oWeb content management system (WCM)
Wikis - - Answer-Collaborative Web pages that allow users to add, remove, and change
content, which can be easily organization and reorganized as required.
Employees use wikis to set internal meeting agendas to posting documents relating to
new products.
workflow management system - Answer-facilitates the automation and management of
business processes and controls the movement of work through the business process
,Workflow - Answer-defines all the steps or business rules, from beginning to end,
required for a business process
Groupware Systems - Answer-applications that facilitate information sharing and
interactions between members of a workgroup
Virtual Conferencing - Answer-a set of interstice telecommunications technologies that
allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video and audio simultaneous
transmissions
web conferencing - Answer-blends audio, video, and document-sharing technologies to
create virtual meeting rooms where people "gather" at a password-protected website
m-learning - Answer-Mobile learning. Use of mobile devices to teach and learn.
Enterprise Portals - Answer-Single-point Web browser interfaces used within an
organization to promote the gathering, sharing, and dissemination of information
throughout an enterprise.
System Development - Answer-•Information systems that are built correctly can
transform as the organization and its business transform
•In digital age, system success or failure can lead directly to business success or failure
local vs global - Answer-global standardization of data definitions allow for sharing data
among international businesses
System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) - Answer-planning, analysis, design,
development, testing, implementation, maintenance
Planning Phase - Answer-establishes a high-level plan of the intended project and
determines project goals
Analysis Phase - Answer-Involves analyzing end-user business requirements and
refining project goals into defined functions and operations of the intended system
Business Requirement - Answer-the specific business requests the system must meet
to be successful
Design Phase - Answer-Establishes descriptions of the desired features and operations
of the system including screen layouts, business rules, process diagrams, pseudo code,
and other documentation
Development Phase - Answer-Involves taking all of the detailed design documents from
the design phase and transforming them into the actual system
, testing phase - Answer-Involves bringing all the project pieces together into a special
testing environment to eliminate errors and bugs, and verify that the system meets all of
the business requirements defined in the analysis phase
implementation phase - Answer-Involves placing the system into production so users
can begin to perform actual business operations with it
maintenance phase - Answer-Involves performing changes, corrections, additions, and
upgrades to ensure the system continues to meet its business goals
methodology - Answer-a set of policies, procedures, standards, processes, practices,
tools, techniques, and tasks that people apply to technical and management challenges
Agile Methodology - Answer-Aims for customer satisfaction through early and
continuous delivery of useful software components developed by an iterative process
using the bare minimum requirements
interactive development - Answer-consists of a series of tiny projects
Agile Methodologies consist of... - Answer-•Rapid prototyping/application development
•Extreme programming
•Rational unified process
•SCRUM
Rapid application development methodology - Answer-(RAD) emphasizes extensive
user involvement in the rapid and evolutionary construction of working prototypes of a
system to accelerate the systems development process
prototype - Answer-A smaller-scale representation or working model of the users'
requirements or a proposed design for an information system
Extreme Programming - Answer-Breaks a project into tiny phases, and developers
cannot continue on to the next phase until the first phase is complete
Rational Unified Process (RUP) - Answer-Breaks down into 4 gates...
1. inception
2. Collaboration
3. Construction
4. Transition
•Users can reject the project and force the developer to go back to gate one.
SCRUM - Answer-Uses small teams to produce small pieces of deliverable software
using sprints, or 30-day intervals, to achieve an appointed goal
