Exam 5: Business Software

_________primarily involves modifying programs to meet new business needs,but also debugging of errors that were not detected when testing the developed code.

Discuss the advantages of object-oriented programming (OOP) over procedural languages.

_________use a modular approach,which offers ease of maintenance and efficiency in applications development.

In traditional programming,data and the operations to manipulate the data are kept separate from each other.

Project management tools enable the creation and manipulation of local or shared databases.

Which of the following is true of objective-oriented programming languages?

To accelerate their work,programmers can use one of several_________ ,such as Microsoft Visual Basic,Embarcadero Delphi,Micro Focus COBOL,ASNA Visual RPG,and Visual C++.

When an application is developed especially for an organization,specific program goals and custom requirements are considered during the development process.

The _________mediates applications and the computer,and controls peripheral devices.

_________made programming somewhat easier because they aggregated common commands into "words," although many of those "words" are not English­like.

Describe the term software.

_________is based on UNIX and can be obtained free of charge.

Applications that can be integrated with other software to create new useful applications are called_________ .

Hardware diagnostics,file comparison,and file sorting are _________performed by an operating system.

Linking among documents involves _________technologies,and embedding information such as sound and video clips in documents uses multimedia technologies.

A compiler checks one statement at a time.

Word,Excel,PowerPoint,and Outlook are productivity tools in the Microsoft Office_________ .

_________applications are programs that enable workers to collaborate in real time over the web.

General-purpose applications are available as_________ ;that is,they come ready to install from an external storage medium such as a CD or a file downloaded from a vendor's website.

A(n)_________ is the software that enables the OS to control a device.