Exam 2: The Origins of Software

__________ is the software reuse approach where developers are not required to practice reuse,but are encouraged to do so.

Which of the following is not an approach that an organization can take to software reuse?

A disadvantage of cloud computing is the increased need for internal information technology staff.

One of the top three reasons for choosing to go with cloud computing is:

Which of the following describes the internal staffing requirements when software components are acquired from packaged software producers?

Which of the following software evaluation criteria measures the difficulty of loading the software and making it operational?

A turnkey system integrates individual,traditional business functions into a series of modules so that a single transaction occurs seamlessly within a single information system rather than several separate systems.

The software reuse approach where developers are not required to practice reuse,but are encouraged to do so best describes:

Properly designed turnkey systems will perfectly match the way an organization does business.

When a supported task is generic,a company should consider acquiring its software from a __________.

Indicate when software should be acquired from each of the following types of software producers. -When the supported task is generic.

__________ are off-the-shelf software systems that cannot be modified to meet the specific,individual needs of a particular organization.

What is software reuse? Briefly describe four approaches to software reuse.

Purchasing software is part of one design strategy for acquiring the system identified during analysis.

Match each of the following terms with its corresponding description. -The organization encourages and supports reuse with limited resources,infrastructure,and policies to make reuse easier.

Indicate when software should be acquired from each of the following types of software producers. -For system software and utilities.

Match each of the following terms with its corresponding definition. -Off-the-shelf software systems that cannot be modified to meet the specific,individual needs of a particular organization.

Baan is a software testing and abstracting service that periodically evaluates software and collects user opinions.

The reuse of object libraries can result in:

Match each of the following terms with its corresponding definition. -The provision of computing resources over the Internet so that customers do not need to invest in the infrastructure to run and maintain an application.