6) Systems development projects require the balancing of three critical drivers: requirements, cost, and ________.
A) scope
B) time
C) performance
D) value
7) Increasing the cost of a project can reduce the time required to complete the project up to a certain point, beyond which, the time required would increase due to ________.
A) economies of scale
B) diseconomies of scale
C) economies of scope
D) diseconomies of scope
8) In the context of a systems development project, which of the following statements is true of the relationships between requirements, cost, and time?
A) Increasing the time for the completion of a project always increases the cost of the project.
B) Increasing the cost of a project will always reduce the time required to finish the project.
C) Reducing the requirements in a project rarely affects the time required to finish the project.
D) Reducing the number of requirements in a project reduces the overall cost of the project.
9) A plan that stipulates the tasks to be accomplished in a project, the labor and other resources assigned to those tasks, and the schedule for completion of the project is called the ________.
A) baseline
B) data model
C) line of code
D) scatter plot
10) The time involved in a project can always be reduced by increasing cost.
11) Larger projects with longer development intervals will find it easier to meet baseline requirements.
12) What are the trade-offs in a systems development project's requirements, cost, and time?