Exam 8: Systems Acquisition and Development

Your new software project manager is OK with requirements that are not fully specified up front. He recommends a team-based approach to development. He is very likely to be a proponent of the _______ approach to software development.

Even if unit testing is successful, developers cannot assume they can combine individual components into a working system without any problems.

Phil has been working on a new version of his company's best-selling sales management software and now he'd like to ask several co-workers and a handful of the existing version's top users to perform an acceptance test. Phil is preparing for _________.

Monitoring is the process of analyzing systems to make sure they are operating as intended.

Operational feasibility takes into account the need to meet certain system performance requirements that are considered important to system users and stakeholders.

What is system maintenance? List the reasons for systems maintenance.

In a user interface design, most systems provide a(n) _____ that requires identification numbers, passwords, and other safeguards to improve security and prevent unauthorized use.

The eventual success of any system solely depends on how users work with it.

_____ is the process of analyzing systems to make sure they are operating as intended.

Security and control considerations are a negligible part of the entire system development process.

A slipstream upgrade is a minor upgrade-typically a code adjustment or minor bug fix.

Perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use do not have any influence in determining whether someone will use an information system.

You are part of a testing team at a software business. Your job is to see how many concurrent users the system can host and how many database transactions the system can handle without a noticeable drop in performance. You are doing _____ testing.

User acceptance testing (UAT) is a critical activity that must be completed successfully before newly developed software can be rolled out to the market.

A(n) _____ is a comparison of vendor options conducted in a computing environment and with a workload that matches its intended operating conditions.

Tara and Zach are leading a systems development project and they want the investigation phase to go smoothly and quickly. They decide to use _____ because it will also help with the analysis and design phases.

A scrum team usually consists of _________.

A(n) _____ is a computer environment that includes rooms, electrical service, telecommunications links, data storage devices, and the like.

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

One advantage of the waterfall system development process is that formal reviews at the end of each phase allows maximum _____ control.