Exam 8: Systems Acquisition and Development

At County Hospital, doctors and nurses must be able to access patient's records immediately and at all times in order to perform surgeries, provide medication, and cure patients' illnesses. Accessing records is a _____ process.

Hector and his team have received several requests for information from software development vendors, so now they are deciding how to go about analyzing the proposals and contacting several customers of each of the vendors. In other words, they are developing a plan for their _____.

A _____ is a description of the logical and physical structure of data and the relationships among the data for each user.

_____ determines whether the expected benefits associated with a project outweigh the expected costs sufficiently to make the project financially attractive.

Briefly explain the difference between system testing and user acceptance testing (UAT).

In the context of data flow diagrams (DFDs), a(n) _____ reveals a storage location for data.

_____ requires unbiased and careful questioning of whether system elements are related in the most effective ways, considering new or different relationships among system elements, and possibly introducing new elements into the system.

A new _____ is a major program change, typically encompassing many new features.

For a small system, site preparation can be as simple as rearranging the furniture in an office to make room for a computer.

In the context of data-flow diagrams (DFDs), a(n) _____ shows either the source or destination of the data.

_____ is an iterative system development process that develops a system in "sprint" increments lasting from two weeks to two months.

The disaster recovery plan focuses on technology recovery and identifies the people or the teams that are responsible to take action in the event of a disaster, what exactly these people will do when a disaster strikes, and the information system resources required to support critical business processes.

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

Waterfall and agile are the two types of software development processes available to organizations.

_____ involves measuring system performance by tracking the number of errors encountered, the amount of memory required, the amount of processing or CPU time needed, and other performance indicators.

Briefly describe the various types of project feasibility that must be evaluated.

_____ includes written details that computer operators follow to execute a program and that analysts and programmers use to solve problems or modify the program.

The process of switching from an old information system to a replacement system is called _____.

_____ proposes that every organizational system is made up of people, tasks, structure, and technology with an interaction among the four components so that any change in one of these elements will necessitate a change in the other three elements.

Determining the _____ involves an analysis of existing and future laws to determine the likelihood of legal action against a systems development project and possible consequences of such action.