Exam 8: Systems Development

_____ involves teaching an information system or a robot to perform in a certain manner by demonstrating the new behavior instead of by programming it using machine commands.

The _____ phase of a traditional systems development life cycle attempts to answer the question "What must the information system do to solve the problem?"

A programmer develops detailed plans for a new or modified information system.

Which of the following is a disadvantage of agile development?

The critical path consists of all activities that,if delayed,would delay the entire project.

Corporations and nonprofit organizations do not use systems development process because information systems do not help them much.

In the context of data-flow diagrams,the _____ shows either the source or destination of the data.

The steering team consists of all the programmers to simplify the decision-making process.

_____ converts the system design into an operational system by acquiring and installing hardware and software,coding and testing software programs,creating and loading data into databases,and performing initial program testing.

_____ is a method employed to keep an agile system development effort focused and moving quickly.

Activities on the critical path of a project have _____ slack time.

A(n)_____ is a diagram used during both the analysis and design phases of a traditional systems development life cycle to document the processes of a current system or to provide a model of a proposed new system.

Which of the following is an advantage of prototyping?

_____ is a stage of systems development that involves changing and enhancing the system to make it more useful in achieving user and organizational goals or to enable it to take advantage of advances in technology.

Most mobile devices use a touch user interface,called a natural user interface (NUI).

A(n)_____ is the decision regarding whether to obtain the necessary software from internal or external sources.

The scope and the user and business requirements are frozen at the end of the _____ phase of a traditional systems development life cycle.

The role of a system developer in a joint application development (JAD)is to _____.

_____ is an approach to writing code that promotes incremental development of a system using short development cycles to improve productivity and to accommodate new customer requirements.

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of agile development.