Exam 14: Maintaining Information Systems

Corrective maintenance repairs design and programming errors.

Which of the following maintenance organizational structures has as its advantage the formal transfer of systems between groups improves the system and documentation quality?

All things not being documented,so the maintenance group may not know critical information about the system is a disadvantage of:

The last phase of the systems development life cycle is:

__________ is the ease with which software can be understood,corrected,adapted,and enhanced.

Which of the following is a major activity that occurs during maintenance?

Match each of the following maintenance organizational structures to corresponding descriptions.(Answers may occur more than once.) -An advantage is that the formal transfer of systems between groups improves the system and documentation quality.

The systems implementation SDLC phase is analogous to the maintenance process of implementing changes.

The quality of system documentation influences maintenance costs.

Build routines are software modules that have been tested,documented,and approved to be included in the most recently created version of a system.

Which of the following configuration management tools addresses interrelated files?

Personnel having limited job mobility and lacking access to adequate human and technical resources is a disadvantage of:

What is maintainability? Identify several factors that influence the maintainability of a system.

__________ refers to changes made to a system to repair flaws in its design,coding,or implementation.

Analysis is analogous to the maintenance process of __________.

Match each of the following maintenance organizational structures to corresponding descriptions.(Answers may occur more than once.) -An advantage is that the maintenance group knows or has access to all assumptions and decisions behind the system's original design.

The systems analysis SDLC phase is analogous to the maintenance process of obtaining maintenance requests.

The first phase of the SDLC,planning,is analogous to the maintenance process of:

Personnel having a vested interest in effectively maintaining the system and having a better understanding of functional requirements is an advantage associated with the __________ maintenance organizational structure.

The maintenance group knowing or having access to all assumptions and decisions behind the system's original design is an advantage associated with the __________ maintenance organizational structure.