Deck 9: Technology for Developing Effective Systems

Question 1

CASE tools are a powerful development tool but do not support system maintenance.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Timeboxing uses prototyping to guarantee system delivery within 180 days.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

As software application activities grow rapidly to meet more complex organizational requirements and tight delivery deadlines, quality has become a nontrivial issue.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

In object-oriented development, objects contain both data and methods that act upon the data.

Question 5

Middleware is hardware that connects applications together and allows them to communicate.

Question 6

Structured development is characterized by a well defined sign-off process.

Question 7

Fourth-generation languages can be used to develop client-server or Web applications.

Question 8

Structured systems development was limited because it did not support database management systems.

Question 9

Java has become the standard for developing server-side applications.

Question 10

The combination of data and procedures within an object is referred to as encrystalization.

Question 11

Application life cycle management can dramatically improve the application development process.

Question 12

Middleware is the only solution thus far that has solved the system integration problem.

Question 13

Reusable code and the use of macro libraries is a feature of fourth-generation languages.

Question 14

Structured methodologies result in more reliable systems.

Question 15

Large-volume information systems were first built to automate accounting transactions and then progressed to include manufacturing, administration, and sales transactions.

Question 16

Third-generation programming languages include a comprehensive programming environment.

Question 17

Procedure-based activities are large-volume transactions where each transaction has a relatively high cost or value.

Question 18

Web services are modules of code that can be combined to create business processes at the moment when they are needed.

Question 19

While applications are getting more complex in an open platform environment, security remains relatively straightforward.

Question 20

Prototyping is an expensive process that often takes months or years to complete.

Question 21

Middleware is:

A) hardware used to connect applications together.
B) software used to connect applications together.
C) objects designed to improve database performance.
D) All of the above

Question 22

Which of the following is a goal of structured development methodologies?

A) establish documentation standards
B) higher reliability
C) more efficient use of system resources
D) All of the above

Question 23

The heart of a fourth-generation language is:

A) a library of macros.
B) a database management system.
C) structured programming.
D) its graphical user interface.

Question 24

Code packaging that combines data and methods that act upon the data is:

A) CASE development.
B) object-oriented development.
C) timebox development.
D) None of the above

Question 25

The primary reason contributing to the failure of ERP systems is:

A) cost.
B) the need to change organizational culture and structure.
C) project size and complexity.
D) technical requirements.

Question 26

Enterprise Application Integration products are:

A) Java Beans.
B) object relational databases.
C) middleware.
D) None of the above

Question 27

A(n) ________ is a software system that is created quickly.

A) information repository
B) prototype
C) library of macros
D) data dictionary
E) None of the above

Question 28

Which of the following is not a feature of fourth-generation languages?

A) a library of macros
B) a procedural language
C) a data dictionary
D) None of the above

Question 29

________ involves modules of code that have a URL and provide a capability when requested.

A) Web applets
B) Java Beans
C) Web services
D) Application services

Question 30

Procedure-based activities are large-volume transactions where:

A) each transaction has a relatively high cost or value.
B) each transaction consists mainly of handling data.
C) each transaction is well defined.
D) All of the above

Question 31

________ programming languages include a comprehensive programming environment.

A) 1st generation
B) 2nd generation
C) 3rd generation
D) 4th generation

Question 32

________ is an iterative process designed to develop systems quickly.

A) Prototyping
B) 3GL development
C) Quicktime development
D) None of the above

Question 33

Which of the following appears to provide the preferred framework for Internet-based systems?

A) middleware
B) application servers
C) iPod servers
D) None of the above

Question 34

Which of the following is not incorporated into a CASE tool?

A) graphical tools
B) forecasting tools
C) an information repository
D) code-generating tools

Question 35

Which of the following is not a phase of the Waterfall development methodology?

A) Coding and Debugging
B) Cost Benefit Analysis
C) Operations and Maintenance
D) All of the above are phases of the Waterfall development methodology.

Question 36

________ can dramatically improve the application development process.

A) Application life cycle management
B) Structured systems development
C) Prototyping
D) All of the above

Question 37

________ defines the standard for developing Internet-based enterprise applications.

A) Java Beans
B) Java 2 Enterprise Edition
C) Java Middleware Edition
D) Java Server Control Edition

Question 38

Which of the following has evolved into the server-side application standard?

A) Java
B) COBOL
C) object-oriented development
D) CASE tools

Question 39

Which of the following was originally designed to provide applets that run on Web clients?

A) HTML
B) Java
C) middleware
D) CASE tools

Question 40

________ programming languages consisted mostly of step-by-step instructions
And data that tell how the computer's central processing unit to execute.

A) 1st generation
B) 2nd generation
C) 3rd generation
D) 4th generation

Question 41

Describe CASE tools.

Question 42

Why have ERP systems experienced significant failure rates?

Question 43

What are the advantages of structured development?

Question 44

Describe some of the problems and challenges associated with system integration.

Question 45

Describe two ways that Web services are built.

Question 46

How has the Database Management Systems approach contributed to the development of integrated systems?

Question 47

Briefly describe software prototyping.

Question 48

How has Java contributed to the development of Internet-based systems?

Question 49

What is Computer-Aided Software Engineering?

Question 50

What is middleware?