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What is chapter 9

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Managing business change

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Which persons should be appointed as the senor responsible owner (SRO)

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A senior executive

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What other name may the Senior Responsible Owner be given

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Project sponsor

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What is the SRO responsible for?

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Ensuring a project of change meets its objectives and projections

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What is a software development lifecycle (SDLC)

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A standardised process of developing information systems or applications through the completion of defined steps or phases

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What does the SDLC Recognize (3)

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Further the project is from completion, the greater the risk
Costs are lower at the beginning of the project
Changes are easier to make at the start of a project

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Standardized SDLC approaches - What is Terms of reference

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The management decides what capabilities and objectives it wishes the new system to incorporate.

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Standardized SDLC approaches - What is Feasibility Study

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This asks whether the concept of the new system is actually feasible to build & develop

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What is a waterfall model?

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The process of dividing the process into a number of phases. The first of which is requirements gathering.

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What is the fountain model

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Some phases of development overlap during the development process

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What are the 4 requirements of the requirements gathering stage that must be met for the waterfall model to enter the second stage.

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The requirements have:

  1. Gathered from users
  2. Fully understood by designers
  3. Fully documented buy the design team
  4. Signed of by the users
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What happens when there is an issue in a phases in the Waterfall model

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The solution is returned to the previous phase and the rework occurs before the next phase re-continues

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What are the four drawbacks to the waterfall method

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Customers may change their requirements
Estimating timing and costs is difficult
Paper to model is hard
Division of labor is not always easy or feasible

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What is the iterative/incremental model

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Various parts of the system are developed at different times or rates, and are integrated as they are completed

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What is the agile model?

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Minimizing risk by developing lots of small packages of software in short amounts of time

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What is prototyping

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Putting together a prototype to rigorously test and develop using customer feedback

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What is the spiral model

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Meant for larger & expensive projects. 4 prototypes and then an operational prototype is created

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What are the three drawbacks to the agile model

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Lack of formal documentation
The solution may ‘Drift’ from the optimal solution
Face-to-Face communication can be difficult to implement on large projects

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Agile software development is not usually recommended for what kind of projects…

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Large scale
Inexperienced developers
Geographically dispersed teams
Mission critical systems
Time critical developments

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For agile methodologies, what is the product (Or system) owner ?

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Most senior role in he group and is responsible for representing the stakeholders

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For agile methodologies, what is the scrum master (Or team lead) ?

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Project manager esk

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For agile methodologies, what is the Team members ?

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Leg workers. Analysts/developers/testers

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For agile methodologies, what is the Stakeholders ?

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Users/customers of the products. Also the regulators.

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What is Rapid Application Development? (RAD)

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A prototype is quickly constructed that looks like the end product

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What is User End Development?
Set of activities that allows individual, who are non-professional, developers to make their own changes to the system.
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What is Synchronize and Stabilize
An SDLC which teams work in parallel on a individual application module
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What does good PRINCE 2 Practice encourage?
Controlled start, middle & end Regular progress reviews Built in decision points Management of deviation from plan Good communication between stakeholdes
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What is a temporary and one-time endeavor
Undertaken to create a unique product or service, which brings about beneficial change or added value
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What is a set of inter-related and controlled activities?
Have start and finish dates and have a unique objective to conform specific requirements
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What is appointed during PRINE 2 during the stage of, Setting up a project (SU)
A project brief
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What does the Planning (PL) stage of PRINCE 2 advocate?
Product based planning
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What other key process happens during the PRINCE 2 setting up of a project stage (SU)
The project board, sponsor and manager are appointed
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What document does the Initiating a project (IP) stage of PRINCE 2 produce from the project brief?
The business case
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What does the Directing a Project (DP) stage of PRINCE 2 do?
How the project board should manage the sub-processes and provide ad hoc direction on how the project should be closed down
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What does the Managing Product Delivery (MP) of PRINCE 2 do?
The way the work package should be accepted, executed and delivered
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What does the Controlling a Stage (CS) of PRINCE 2 do?
Controls the sub-processes of the project
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What does the Managing stage boundaries (SB) of PRINCE 2 do?
If a stage goes outside of tolerance levels, how it is reported and how the plan, risk log and business case and amended..
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How many PRINCE 2 qualifications are there?
2
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What is the foundation examination for PRINCE 2?
That the principles and terminology have been understood. (Theory test effectively)
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What does the Closing a Project (CP) of PRINCE 2 do?
Covers the end of the project and the post evaluation and re-allocation of resources
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What is the practitioner examination for PRINCE 2
Can apply PRINCE 2 theory whilst managing a project (Practical test effectively)
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What is the Project Management Institute (PMI)
Formed in 1999 and a global body for Project Management with over 600,000 members in 214 countries
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How is the PMBOK divided?
Into two parts: Project Initiation & Exam Essentials
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What is the PMBOK Guide
a standard and guideline handbook for project management
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The guide recognizes 44 process that fall into 5 categories, what are they?
1. initiating 2. planning 3. executing 4. controlling and monitoring, and 5. closing.
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What is the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
ISO’s purpose is to facilitate international trade by providing a single set of standards that people everywhere can recognise and respect
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What is ISO 9000:2000
Quality Management systems - Fundamentals and vocabulary
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What is ISO 9001
Quality management systems – requirements
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What is ISO 9004
Quality management systems – guidelines for performance improvements
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What are the three audit processes typically addressed through ISO standards
* Tell me what you do * Show me where it says that * Prove the results
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Software defects are graded A-D, which is the most serious A or D?
A
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What is the the meaning of a Grade A software defect?
Serious issue. No workarounds for the users
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What is the the meaning of a Grade B software defect?
Important part is not working but the users can use the data in another way
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What is the the meaning of a Grade C software defect?
Minor part is not working but the users can use the data in another way
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What is the the meaning of a Grade D software defect?
Cosmetic error - A spelling mistake or UI error
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What is unit testing?
Each unit is tested in isolation
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What is intergration testing
Software cmponents are intergrated and testsed unti the system works
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What is functional testing
Tests at any level to ensure the functionality is working
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What is system testing
Tests a completely integrated system to verify that it meets its requirements.
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What is volume/load testing
Tests software for a certain data volume
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What is breakpoint testing?
Adding data until the system breaks
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What is system integration testing
Verifies that a system is integrated to any external or third party systems defined in requirements
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UAT - What is Alpha testing
Testing done by users inside the developers sit e
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UAT - What is Beta testing
Comes after alpha testing and sent to testers outside of the organization.
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What is regression testing
Testing against existing functionality in the system
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What is code walkthrough?
A manual testing technique where program logic is traced using a small set of test cases
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What is White box testing
The tester has access to the source code and can write specific code to the area of change
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What is Black box testing
Only tests the system through the eyes of a user. I.e what they can see
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What is Grey box testing
Combination of black and white testing. The tester does know the functionality and the code but does test in small test cases
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Why is grey box testing different to black box testing?
Because the tester during grey box testing is understanding of the source code and the functionality being tested
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What is Smoke, Sanity and Skim testing?
Examination of all basic components of a system
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What is agile testing
Tests are written before the code is deployed
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What is the handshake/rattle test
Proves that is possible to send and receive communications between two systems
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What is disruptive innovation
When technology improves a product the market does not expect. Like the low-cost motor vechile by ford or The first PC by apple
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Cloud computing - What is Software as a service (Saas)
IAAS + PAAS + All the application sofware
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Cloud computing - What is Infrastructure as a service (Iaas)
Basic infrastructure like network, servers, storage & processing power
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Cloud computing - What is Platform as a service (Paas)
IAAS + Operating system, security & backups
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What is Vision systems analysis (AI)
computers are developed to understand and make sense of their surrounding environment(s) and then act based on a set of preprogrammed rules, eg, spy planes working autonomously to search for predefined structures (such as missiles),
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What is Machine Learning (ML)
Machine learning is a discipline of AI that allows technology systems to automatically learn and improve from experience (a) Without being explicitly programmed programmed and (b) With minimal human interaction.
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What is open finance (
Open finance is the term employed to describe the extension of open banking data-sharing principles to enable organisations to access customer data across a range of financial sectors (including savings and investments).
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How is AI used in Asset Management
In high frequency trading (HFT)
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What is distributed ledger
a database that is shared and synchronised across multiple sites, firms or geographies
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