Exam 14: Maintaining Information Systems

Who categorizes and prioritizes the maintenance request in relation to both the strategic and information systems plans of the organization?

Which maintainability factor specifies the number of unknown errors existing in the system after it is installed?

What is maintainability? Identify several factors that influence the maintainability of a system.

"Personnel may have limited job mobility and lack access to adequate human and technical resources" is a disadvantage of combined maintenance organizational structures.

A new system is developed when there is a change in the hardware or software platform or when fundamental assumptions and properties of the data,logic,or process models change.

Discuss the concept of configuration management.Who is the system librarian?

Which SDLC phase is analogous to the maintenance process of obtaining a maintenance request?

________ may be necessary in order for visitors to find your site based on the new or changed content.

How can one distinguish between development and maintenance?

Describe the two tools that help with maintenance of older systems.

Which maintenance involves making enhancements to improve processing performance or interface usability or to add desired,but not necessarily required,system features?

What are the four major activities that occur within maintenance?

Before any code can be checked back in to the librarian,the code must pass the quality control procedures,testing,and documentation standards established by the ________.

When using an integrated development environment,________ maintain(s)design documents such as data flow diagrams and screen designs,not source code.

"Maintenance group knows or has access to all assumptions and decisions behind the system's original design" is an advantage of which maintenance organizational structure?

What are the advantages of the different maintenance organizational structures?

In corrective maintenance,changes are made to a system to evolve its functionality to changing business needs or technologies.

With source control tools,each system module file is "frozen" (unchangeable)to a specific version level or is designated as "floating" (changeable),meaning a programmer may check out,lock,and modify a specific system module.

Which tools have a primary benefit to create high-level design documents of a program by reading and analyzing its source code?