Exam 10: Building Systems and Applications: Software Development, Programming, and Languages

In the make-or-buy decision,the systems analyst decides whether to have a program custom written or to purchase an existing software package.

During the first phase of the SDLC,called ________,alternative solutions are proposed,costs and benefits are described,and a preliminary plan with recommendations is submitted.

What is the job of a systems analyst?

Adjusting and improving a system by performing system audits and periodic evaluations and making changes based on new conditions is called systems implementation.

Object-oriented programming involves all these concepts EXCEPT ________.

The decision in which the systems analyst must decide whether to have a program custom-written or to purchase an existing software package is called the ________ decision.

During the third phase of the SDLC,called ________,a preliminary design,a detail design,and a report are created.

If the performance of a new system's individual parts is examined using test (made-up or sample)data,this is known as ________ testing.

Detection and removal of syntax and logical errors in a program is referred to as ________.

Over time,programming languages have evolved in phases called ________.

A tool for designing a program in narrative form using human-language statements to describe the logic and processing flow is called ________.

________ is a markup language that is used to create web pages and link them to other online documents.

Machine language-0s and 1s-would be very difficult for a programmer to write in; thus a low-level (second-generation)language,________ can be used to write a program with abbreviations and basic words,instead of numbers.

A(n)________ is a set of steps for solving a particular problem; examples are a recipe and driving instructions to someone's house.

Who should be involved in systems analysis and design projects and why?

Which of these is NOT a fourth-generation (very-high-level)programming language?

Real-world test data used to test a program should never include bad data.

In the third step of the programming process,the actual coding is done,using a programming language.

The rules of programming are called _________.

Programmers break the definition of a problem down into six mini-steps.List these steps.