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Management Information Systems Test Bank Chapter 13 Building Information Systems 1 True-False Questions 1) The most common form of IT-enabled organizational change is automation. Answer: TRUE 2) Rationalization of procedures describes a radical rethinking of the business models. Answer: FALSE 3) Systems development activities always take place in sequential order. Answer: FALSE 4) Faulty requirements analysis is a leading cause of systems failure and high systems development costs. Answer: TRUE 5) End users should not be included in the design process, but must be involved later. Answer: FALSE 6) The amount of testing time needed for a new system is consistently underrated. Answer: TRUE 7) The system is not in production until conversion is complete. Answer: TRUE 8) A data flow diagram offers a logical and graphical model of information flow, partitioning a system into modules that show manageable levels of detail. Answer: TRUE 9) Object-oriented development is more iterative and incremental than traditional structured development. Answer: TRUE 10) Object-oriented frameworks have been developed to provide reusable, semi-complete applications a company can customize into finished applications. Answer: TRUE 11) Prototyping is more iterative than the conventional lifecycle. Answer: TRUE 12) A problem with prototyping is that the systems constructed using this method may not be able to handle large quantities of data in a production environment. Answer: TRUE 13) End-user-developed systems can be completed more rapidly than those developed through the conventional systems lifecycle. Answer: TRUE 14) In some forms of outsourcing, a company hires an external vendor to create the software for its system, but operates the software on its own computers. Answer: TRUE 15) Systems development activities always take place in sequential order. Answer: FALSE 2 Multiple-Choice Questions 1) The four kinds of structural organizational ch