Exam 1: Computer Technology: Your Need To Know

Consolidation in periodical publishers has created large corporate families of technology-related Web sites and publications.

The mix of activities in each iteration of the UP is tailored to each development project.

The knowledge required to perform business and requirements modeling covers a narrow range of current technology.

When dealing with publicly accessible information sources, be sure to use information from several unrelated sources to balance the biases of each source.

​When developing an information system, IS professionals follow a series of steps called a ____.

____ Web sites have detailed information on their products and offer technical and customer support services.

​Most people feel comfortable purchasing complex devices, such as cars, home theater systems, and computers.

Each iteration of the UP includes whatever activities are needed to produce testable models or working software.

By far, the most important of activity to keep your knowledge current is taking training courses from hardware and software vendors.

____ Web sites are oriented toward sales, but they usually contain detailed information on specific products or links to other Web sites.

​Managers of _____ collections of information systems and supporting infrastructure must contend with a great deal of technical complexity.

The steps in the Unified Process are called ____________________.

Large computer systems and the software that runs on them use more complex technology than smaller ones do.

The membership of the Association for Information Technology Professionals (AITP) represents a broad cross-section of the computer community including IS managers and application developers.

Activities in the business modeling discipline and the ____ discipline are primarily concerned with building models of the organization that will own and operate the system, models of the system's environment, and models of system and user requirements.

The ____ discipline includes activities that verify correct functioning of infrastructure and application software components and ensure that they satisfy system requirements.

Efforts in each discipline of the UP are generally distributed across all of the iterations in the same way for each project.

The membership of the ACM represents a broad cross-section of the computer community, including hardware and software manufacturers, educators, researchers, IT professionals, and students.

The UP design discipline can be decomposed into architectural and ____________________ design.

The purpose of building ____________________ and requirements models is to understand the environment in which the system will function and the tasks the system must perform or assist users to perform.