Exam 10: Systems Development

To determine if the proposed information system is justified economically, organizations must assess the:

UML stands for Uniform Markup Language.

If a company installs and tests only a portion of the new system, then repeatedly installs and tests portions of the new system until it is complete, this known as a _________ conversion.

Which of the following is the main activity of the maintenance phase of the SDLC?

Brooke's Law states that one easy way to get a project back on track is to add more people to the team.

Software vendors often bundle large bunches of fixes for low- priority problems into groups called:

The risk associated with developing large, new information systems can be usually characterized as:

SDLC moves a project from systems definition through multiple phases until it reaches system maintenance..

Because it is difficult to estimate the time it will take to create and build a system, management should consider the________ .

Large complex information systems such as for order entry or inventory management were most likely to be developed using the ________approach.

It is not unusual for information system projects to be 200- 300 percent over budget.

Users are always involved in all phases of _________ .

Teams of systems analysts and users determine the job descriptions and functions of people who will use the new system in the _________ phase of the SDLC.

The single most important criterion for success of an information system is to be well- designed..

________change as the system is developed.

System ________are difficult to determine.

UML does not require that any one particular development process be used.

Both ________feasibility are difficult to estimate.

XP or "eXtensible Programming" is an emerging technique from developing computer programs.

CASE tools have a________ , which is a special database.