Exam 13: Systems Development: Design, Implementation, Maintenance, and Review

The ____________________ is a document used to communicate an organization's needs for hardware, software, or database systems to one or more vendors.

____________________ is a formal agreement the user signs stating that a phase of the installation or the complete system is approved.

Which of the following denotes a software development technique that allows programmers to develop programs that can run on computer systems having different hardware and operating systems?

Developing new systems in an environmentally sensitive way is becoming a less and less important consideration.

During physical design, the characteristics of the hardware, software, database, telecommunications, personnel, and procedures and control specifications must be detailed.

From the purchaser's perspective, which of the following should be included in a vendor's standard contract for purchase of new computer hardware or software?

In executing the request for proposal process to acquire hardware or software, the number of vendors considered is low during the preliminary evaluation and then increases as more is learned during the final evaluation.

____________________ is an evaluation approach that involves expressing all the costs and benefits of a new system in monetary terms.

Which of the following is a possible benefit of a new system?

Which of the following activities is included in site preparation?

Which of the following should be included in a good contract for new computer equipment?

The location of the new system needs to be made ready-a process called ____________________.

Increasingly, organizations are using virtualization to create a cold site that keeps applications and databases available on a virtual computer that can take over if a disaster renders the main information system inoperable.

____________________ is a set of written details used by computer operators to execute the program and by analysts and programmers to solve problems or modify the program.

What examination compares batch payroll processing under a WINDOWS system and under a UNIX system?

Security is not an important consideration of logical design, but comes later in the systems development process.

During unit testing, each program is tested with abnormal data to determine how it will handle problems.

A(n) ____________________ requiring identification numbers, passwords, and other safeguards is available with most systems to improve security and unauthorized use.

Prudent Enterprise has opened a plant in an area with a high risk of earthquakes so the CEO requests a plan to mitigate such risk.What is the name given to such a plan?

Tessa asks the 10 members of her testing team to each load their 20 testing scripts to ensure that the modified information system is operating as intended.What type of testing is that?