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

Acceptance testing involves conducting any additional testing required by the ____________________.

Which one of the following terms accurately defines the process to help managers, decision makers, employees, stakeholders, and others to be ready for the new system?

Which of the following is a characteristic of a slipstream upgrade to a system?

The design of a new system is broken into two phases: ____________________ design and physical design.

What question does systems design aim to answer?

Unit testing is the testing of the entire system of programs.

An organization may have to hire and train new IS personnel as part of their effort to implement a new information system.

A parallel start-up involves running the new system for one group of users while the rest of the users still run the old system.

A technical description that details system outputs, inputs, and user interfaces as well as all hardware, software, databases, telecommunications, personnel, and procedure components is contained in the ____________________ report.

What evaluation approach compares systems operating under the same conditions?

Which of the following is a characteristic of user documentation?

Most application software for organizations is developed using internal resources rather than purchased.

Imaging Enterprises installed backup software that was configured to take a complete copy of the entire graphic files in the working directory every Monday.On Tuesday and subsequent weekdays, the system scans changes made to existing files and copies them.No backup is done on Saturdays and Sundays since the company is closed.What type of backup has been implemented?

Whenever an application is run, a(n) ____________________ is created that contains all changes to all files.

The logical design phase refers to how the tasks are accomplished, including how the components work together and what each component does.

Many organizations are turning to object-oriented development because of its increased flexibility.

SaaS allows individuals or organizations to access needed software applications over the Internet.

With in-house developed software, the organization has no opportunity to reuse software they developed for another application.

What is meant by environmental design? Provide some examples.

Two advantages of cloud computing are improved security and increased availability of critical applications.