MANG 3778 Ch. 8 Exam Questions With
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Studies have shown that programmers often get stuck on a coding problem and waste a lot of
time while working on the stalled line of code. In addition, errors often creep into code leading
to problems later on. The use of a second programmer, looking over the primary coder's work,
and suggesting improvements, i.e. the use of "a second set of eyes", helps clean up the code
and ease the rough patches in program development. Pair programming is used in
___________________. - answer✔Extreme Programming (XP)
Daily meetings of developer teams to review work done the previous day and set the agenda
for the day are a part of ____________. - answer✔Scrum
Users get to see and evaluate the performance of the code in agile development
________________. - answer✔after the completion of each phase of the project
A business manager develops an IT system using MS-Excel and uses it to analyze staff
performance for bonuses and promotion. This is an example of ______________. -
answer✔self-sourcing
When updating an e-business site, a company first rolls out a new landing page, waits to see
how well it functions, and tests the site's latency and customer response, before rolling out new
pages for the shopping cart and payment . This is the _____________ approach to system
implementation. - answer✔phased
When updating an e-business site, a company rolls out a completely re-designed new site with
a new landing page,shopping cart, payment, and support pages to the customer from one city.
The business tests the new site on these customers for one month and evaluates site
performance. If this is successful, the site is rolled out nationwide. This is the _____________
approach to system implementation. - answer✔pilot
The _______________ is the bridge between business IT system users and the programmers
who write the code for the IT system. - answer✔none of the other choices
A large IT project with one year timeline is managed using the SDLC. The project requirements
change after six months. - answer✔Mid-course corrections are expensive with the SDLC.
The first step in the SDLC is ________________. - answer✔none of the other choices
All the code for an IT project managed using the SDLC has been written. The next phase of the
SDLC is ______________. - answer✔Integration and Testing
The three sub-steps of the ___________ phase of the SDLC are acceptance (with sign-offs by
administrators), installation of the code, and deployment of the new IT system. -
answer✔system implementation
Some of the problems with self-sourcing IT include _______. - answer✔the time spent by the
end-user in IT development is often a hidden cost and not accounted.
____________ costs have decreased significantly (IT price/performance ratio changes), and are
a very small part of IT system cost nowadays. - answer✔Hardware
A health care facility uses EPIC for its enterprise system. The software is loaded on business
owned computers in the data center. The most likely payment scenario is the following. -
answer✔The business agrees to pay an annual license fee based on the number of system
users.
Economic feasibility considers whether the IT system is financially beneficial. One approach is
the payback period, __________________ - answer✔which is the ratio of the total cost of the
IT system to the annual financial benefits from using the IT system.
A fashion apparel business (in 2016) plans to build a 3-D Virtual Reality website for use with
new 3-D devices. This is a highly innovative technology with risks for failure. The project faces
problems with _______________. - answer✔none of the other choices
A major bank is required to comply with new Federal Reserve reporting guidelines for a
financial stress test within three months. The IT department estimates it will take six months to
develop the necessary software in-house. The project faces problems with _______________. -
answer✔operational feasibility
A hospital has an IT system to transmit test results from the lab to clinicians. The system which
currently uses a formatted text file is being updated to use XML data transfer. Any failure of
data transfer can be risky and catastrophic. The best approach in this case is ______________
implementation. - answer✔parallel
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