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| 1 |  |  A business process, such as the sales process, can be viewed as a system. |
|  | A) | True |
|  | B) | False |
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| 2 |  |  The traditional information systems development cycle has five steps that are based on the stages of the systems approach. These activities are highly related and independent. |
|  | A) | True |
|  | B) | False |
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| 3 |  |  Of the five categories of feasibility studies that are part of the systems development process, the technical feasibility focuses on how well the proposed system will fit with the existing organizational structure. |
|  | A) | True |
|  | B) | False |
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| 4 |  |  During the systems design stage of systems development, the development team focuses on data design, process design, and user interface design. |
|  | A) | True |
|  | B) | False |
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| 5 |  |  Prototyping is the rapid development and testing of working models of new applications in an interactive, iterative process that can be used by either IS specialists or end-user business professionals. |
|  | A) | True |
|  | B) | False |
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| 6 |  |  When end users do their own system development, they must still remember to focus on the fundamental activities of any information system, concentrating first on process, then on input and output. |
|  | A) | True |
|  | B) | False |
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| 7 |  |  Ineffective project management, whether a project is large or small, can contribute to a project being completed late and/or over budget. |
|  | A) | True |
|  | B) | False |
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| 8 |  |  When evaluating and selecting hardware or software, many of the evaluation factors are similar, such as performance, cost, reliability, compatibility, and support. |
|  | A) | True |
|  | B) | False |
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| 9 |  |  When a new system is ready for initial operation, a company has to consider which conversion strategy to use. When a parallel conversion strategy is used, the old and new systems are run simultaneously until the end users and project coordinators are fully satisfied that the new is functioning correctly. |
|  | A) | True |
|  | B) | False |
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| 10 |  |  A key way management can reduce end user resistance to the changes of new systems is to directly involve end users in the planning and application development stages before the new system is implemented. |
|  | A) | True |
|  | B) | False |
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