C724 FINAL PAPER 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS MARKED A+
An international company is facing the challenge of its software development team
working on a specific application spread across the globe in 16 countries in 12 different
time zones. Flying them to the same location once a week or even once a month for
coordination purposes would be prohibitively expensive. Moreover, the issues that arise
tend to be urgent and in need of almost immediate resolution in communication with
team members in other countries.
Which communication style is necessary to resolve the issues in the given scenario?
Multichronous
Synchronous
Dyschronous
Asynchronous - ✔✔Synchronous
✔✔What business strategy relies heavily on efficient and secure software
implementations?
Vendor selection
High-quality products
Web sales
IS staff training - ✔✔Web sales
✔✔What business function benefits from both wireless networks and cellular
technologies?
Product sales support
Consideration of product retirement
Corporate hiring standards
Evaluating technology trends - ✔✔Product sales support
✔✔In 1965, computers had .092 MIPS, and today's computer have about 238,000
MIPS.
,What business practices have taken advantage of this massive increase in computer
speed?
Choose 2 answers
Internal auditing schedule
Network management systems
Executive management hiring
Database management systems - ✔✔Network management systems
Database management systems
✔✔marketing manager uses a desktop publishing software to create advertising
brochures that will be mailed to potential customers.
To which major software category does the desktop publishing software in this scenario
belong?
System software
Utility software
Simulation software
Application software - ✔✔Application software
✔✔A company needs to allow multiple computers to have access to a shared printer.
Which type of computer is required to manage the print requests to a shared printer?
A server computer
A supercomputer
A client computer
A laptop computer - ✔✔A server computer
✔✔An art history professor would like to show an original oil painting from the
eighteenth century on the classroom projector. The class is held in a large auditorium
with more than 250 students attending.
, Which hardware component is required to digitize the painting?
Sensor
Teleprompter
Document camera
Multicore processor - ✔✔Document camera
✔✔Which approach to systems development has a limited emphasis on the planning
process and uses prototypes in lieu of predetermined specifications?
Traditional software development life cycle
Joint application design
Computer-assisted software engineering
Rapid application development - ✔✔Rapid application development
✔✔Which development methodology brings developers together with clients or end
users in order to regularly collaborate on a solution?
Object-oriented development
End-user development
Joint application development
Rapid application development - ✔✔Joint application development
✔✔A company has many separate departments that focus on different business
aspects and uses data warehouse subsets to hold data specific to each individual
department. The company started a new department and created a new subset.
What is this new subset called?
Data tuple
Secondary data
Primary data
Data mart - ✔✔Data mart
✔✔An auto parts manufacturer is creating a new relational database to more accurately
identify their customers and vendors. The manufacturer's database design team
ANSWERS MARKED A+
An international company is facing the challenge of its software development team
working on a specific application spread across the globe in 16 countries in 12 different
time zones. Flying them to the same location once a week or even once a month for
coordination purposes would be prohibitively expensive. Moreover, the issues that arise
tend to be urgent and in need of almost immediate resolution in communication with
team members in other countries.
Which communication style is necessary to resolve the issues in the given scenario?
Multichronous
Synchronous
Dyschronous
Asynchronous - ✔✔Synchronous
✔✔What business strategy relies heavily on efficient and secure software
implementations?
Vendor selection
High-quality products
Web sales
IS staff training - ✔✔Web sales
✔✔What business function benefits from both wireless networks and cellular
technologies?
Product sales support
Consideration of product retirement
Corporate hiring standards
Evaluating technology trends - ✔✔Product sales support
✔✔In 1965, computers had .092 MIPS, and today's computer have about 238,000
MIPS.
,What business practices have taken advantage of this massive increase in computer
speed?
Choose 2 answers
Internal auditing schedule
Network management systems
Executive management hiring
Database management systems - ✔✔Network management systems
Database management systems
✔✔marketing manager uses a desktop publishing software to create advertising
brochures that will be mailed to potential customers.
To which major software category does the desktop publishing software in this scenario
belong?
System software
Utility software
Simulation software
Application software - ✔✔Application software
✔✔A company needs to allow multiple computers to have access to a shared printer.
Which type of computer is required to manage the print requests to a shared printer?
A server computer
A supercomputer
A client computer
A laptop computer - ✔✔A server computer
✔✔An art history professor would like to show an original oil painting from the
eighteenth century on the classroom projector. The class is held in a large auditorium
with more than 250 students attending.
, Which hardware component is required to digitize the painting?
Sensor
Teleprompter
Document camera
Multicore processor - ✔✔Document camera
✔✔Which approach to systems development has a limited emphasis on the planning
process and uses prototypes in lieu of predetermined specifications?
Traditional software development life cycle
Joint application design
Computer-assisted software engineering
Rapid application development - ✔✔Rapid application development
✔✔Which development methodology brings developers together with clients or end
users in order to regularly collaborate on a solution?
Object-oriented development
End-user development
Joint application development
Rapid application development - ✔✔Joint application development
✔✔A company has many separate departments that focus on different business
aspects and uses data warehouse subsets to hold data specific to each individual
department. The company started a new department and created a new subset.
What is this new subset called?
Data tuple
Secondary data
Primary data
Data mart - ✔✔Data mart
✔✔An auto parts manufacturer is creating a new relational database to more accurately
identify their customers and vendors. The manufacturer's database design team
