S-A-D CH 1

Software designed to support the payroll function would best be classified as:

• application software

• system software

• design software

• analysis software

Large, complex systems that consist of a series of independent system modules best describes:

• transaction processing systems

• customer relationship management systems

• supply chain management systems

• enterprisewide systems

Decision support systems:

• automate the handling of data about business activities

• are designed to help organizational decision makers make decisions

• attempt to codify and manipulate knowledge rather than information

• take relatively raw data that have been previously captured and convert them into a meaningful aggregated form that managers need to conduct their responsibilities

The second phase of the SDLC in which system requirements are studied and structured best defines:

• planning

• analysis

• design

• implementation

The phase of the SDLC in which an information system is systematically repaired and improved is referred to as:

• analysis

• implementation

• maintenance

• physical repair

An iterative process of systems development in which requirements are converted to a working system that is continually revised through close collaboration between an analyst and users best defines:

• Joint Application Design

• Participatory Design

• prototyping

• systems development life cycle

The three key principles shared by the Agile Methodologies include:

• a focus on predictive methodologies

• a focus on roles

• a focus on self-adaptive processes

• all of the above

Which of the following is a structure that encapsulates attributes and methods that operate on those attributes?

• module

• object

• container

• case

A logical grouping of objects that have the same attributes and behaviors best defines:

• attribute

• module

• object class

• object

The property that occurs when entity types or object classes are arranged in a hierarchy and each entity type or object class assumes the attributes and methods of its ancestors best defines:

• inheritance

• polymorphism

• aggregation

• generalization