In-Class Revision Sample Questions

What is a collection of facts organized and processed in such a way that they have value beyond the individual facts themselves?

What is the term for doing the objective correctly?

What is the term for information from the system that is used to make changes to input or processing activities?

What is a single set of hardware, software, databases, telecommunications, people, and procedures?

What is an organized collection of facts and information, typically consisting of two or more related data files?

Describe the role of a Business Analyst.

What does a Game Developer contribute to?

Who creates and maintains database standards and policies?

Who identifies possible security threats and determines the best security measures?

Who is responsible for creating and maintaining the components of a website unseen by the user?

What is the term for converting data into useful outputs?

What is the term for awareness and understanding of a set of information?

What is the term for a single set of hardware, software, databases, telecommunications, people, and procedures?

What is information from the system that is used to make changes to input or processing activities?

What are raw facts called?

What is the term for fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve improvements in cost, quality, speed and service?

What is using resources optimally where resources could be memory, CPU, time and databases?

What is a computer network that is covers an area larger than LAN but smaller than WAN?

What is information delivered when it is needed called?

What does a computer system use to collect, manipulate, store, and process data into information?

Doing the objective correctly is known as?

What is an example of a WAN network?

What are some approaches to evaluate the effectiveness of a computer system?

What houses the CPU and memory of a computer?

What is temporary and volatile memory known as?

What is a single processor that executes program instructions in a step-by-step manner?

What is the execution of two or more instructions simultaneously?

What is a copy of programs, data, and information created in one secondary storage medium duplicated to another?

What is the central part of the OS with complete control over everything in the system?

What are software programs essential to effective management of the computer system such as backup files and antivirus protection?

What permits more than one application to run at the same time?

What is the ability to handle an increasing number of concurrent users smoothly?

What controls how memory is accessed and maximizes the available memory and storage?

What are monitors, printers, speakers, and plotters known as?

What are Point-of-sale (POS) and Automatic teller machine (ATM) devices known as?

What type of memory is RAM?

What is the simultaneous execution of two or more instructions?

What is the process where records can be retrieved in any order?

What coordinates the activities of hardware and programs?

What uses icons and menus to send commands to the computer system?

What is the SDLC phase where the problem should be defined and causes as well?

What involves testing the functioning of the system as a whole?

What is the process of running old and new systems simultaneously until users and project coordinators are satisfied that the new system is functional?

What is the term when a tester has no knowledge of the code and focuses on the system's functionality?

What involves translating system specifications from the design stage into software program code?

Which methodology focuses on streamlining the SDLC by eliminating much of the modeling and documentation overhead?

Which methodology eliminates staffing and personnel problems?

What is a mock-up or model that includes output and input specifications and formats, often referred to as a user interface?

What is a software development methodology that focuses on building applications in a very short time through iterative prototyping development by automating revisions and changes?

What is a mock-up or model that includes output and input specifications and formats?

What is the term for a structured and standardized process for all activities of any system development effort?

What describes system specifications that will deliver functions identified during systems analysis?

What methodology focuses on streamlining the SDLC by eliminating much of the modeling and documentation overhead and time spent on these tasks, such as scrum?

Which methodology eliminates staffing and personnel fluctuation problems?

What involves a general design for the entire system is performed, and then the project is divided into a series of distinct subprojects?

What might be the only viable conversion solution in situations where activating the new system is an emergency or when the two systems cannot coexist under any conditions?

What is the phase during which a feasibility study is done?

What is the phase that includes post-implementation audit documents?

What is the process of changing from an old system to a new system?

What is the methodology that focuses on building applications in a very short time through iterative prototyping development?

What is the methodology in which the team proceeds sequentially from one phase to the next?

During which phase is gathering data about the existing system and defining the problem done?

What does system design include?

What happens concurrently in an agile development approach?

What are tools to automate SW development and reduce repetitive work?

Which conversion method involves the highest cost, as end users must perform all daily functions with both systems?

What is a smaller version of a system with a minimal number of features called?

What are legitimate-looking emails that lead users to fake web sites to get recipient to reveal personal data?

What are the computers taken over in DDoS attacks?

What is a form of hacking with clear criminal activity to steal data and corrupt systems?

What is low-cost commercial advertising for questionable products?

Where do worms reside and how do they replicate?

How do viruses spread?

What are Trojan programs and how to they infect systems?

What is the term for a specialist in charge of the databases of an organization?

What is a list of all the tables in the database, along with all the fields with primary and foreign keys identified?

What is a field that is defined to be unique for each entity?

What is the main software package that supports a database management approach?

What is a database that collects business information from many sources in the enterprise, covering all aspects of the company's processes, products, and customers?

What is a group of programs used as an interface between a database and application programs or a database and the user?

What are tools used to analyze data to reveal hidden patterns and trends in historical business activity?

What specifies the structure of database content, used to create tables and define characteristics of fields?

What is used to insert, update, delete, and retrieve data from a database?

How does a relational database organize data?

What problems can occur if files are maintained separately by different departments?

What is the purpose of data mining?

What is a relational database?