Exam 17: Acquiring and Implementing Accounting Information Systems

A benchmark is a representative workload, processed on each vendor's proposed system configuration, to obtain comparative throughput measures.

The logical specification items might include all of the following except:

After the analysis team studies and documents the current physical system they should next:

Specific reports and other documentation, called process documents, must be produced periodically during systems development to make development personnel accountable for faithful execution of systems development tasks

In which role might the accountant be the person who initiates the AIS acquisition cycle, and is in a prime position to recognize deficiencies and incompatibilities related to the existing AIS?

To write computer programs and interfaces, programmers use:

Of the three approaches to systems implementation presented in the text, the parallel approach is the riskiest.

The physical requirements of a proposed system would include all of the following except:

Which development phase has the task of post implementation review?

Indirect benefits are not directly attributable to the system or the system change.

The type of maintenance that is conducted to fix errors of an application is referred to as:

The design of conversions involves how the new or revised information system will talk with the existing system

A(n) _________________________ is a firm providing information processing services, including hardware and software for a fee

Insurance on a computer installation is an example of a(n) ____ cost.

A user-directed test of the complete system in a test environment is called a(n) ____________________ test.

Structured systems analysis is a set of procedures conducted to generate the specifications for a new (or modified) information system or subsystem.

Users, managers, and auditors are required to participate in the systems development project.These people generally provide approvals, often called signoffs, at preestablished management control points.

Which of the following statements related to implementation approaches is false?

As a user, the accountant could become deeply involved in systems implementation helping to design system inputs and outputs, or specify testing criteria.

Adaptive maintenance adjusts applications to reflect changing business needs and environmental challenges.