Exam 12: Construction

Changing the headings from "Calling the Help Desk", "How to Dial the Phone," and "Provide Important Details" to "Calling the Help Desk", "Dialing the Phone", and "Providing Important Details" is an example of implementing the "use parallel grammatical structures" guideline for crafting documentation.

Documentation should be written in long paragraphs so that users get large amounts of detail quickly.

Hall identified several cultural differences, and cultural issues add a new wrinkle in the management of developing a successful information system. From an information systems development perspective, _______________ could influence the ability of a team member to see (or not see) potential creative solutions that are out of the box or affect a team member's ability (or inability) to understand the entire problem under consideration.

A reference document describes how to perform a business task that typically requires several computer functions or steps.

The change from "Select the text you want to copy. Pressing the copy button will copy the marked text to the new location." to "Select the text you want to copy. Pressing the copy button will copy the selected text to the new location." is an application of the guideline "use consistent terms" for crafting documentation?

Paper-based user documentation is simpler to use because it is more familiar to users, is easier to flip through to gain a general understanding of its organization and topics, and can be used far away from the computer itself.

Which one in the following is NOT in the state of the system testing?

The number of errors found will be lowest in the unit testing stage of testing.

Unit test is the type of test performed to ensure that a class is performing the function as it is defined in the program specifications.

When writing documentation, all commands contain two parts, an index and an action.

The number one reason for project failure during implementation is testing in which the programmers and analysts test the system without formal test plans.

Performance testing (examining the ability of the system to perform under high loads) is an example of integration testing

Which of the following statements is true about testing object-oriented systems?

The larger the number of programmers assigned to a programming team, the shorter the time will be for programming to be completed.

The goal of acceptance testing is to confirm that the system is complete, meets the business needs that prompted the system to be developed, and is acceptable to the users.

System tests are conducted by the systems analysts to ensure that all classes work together without error.

One has to execute the system under test to know which implementation to be used when dynamic biding is implemented in the system.

In developing documentation use ______.

The cost of fixing one major bug after the system is installed can easily exceed the ______.

Terms for the index and search engine can come from technical terms the analyst used in creating the system.