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21) ________ are alternative measures of outcomes that can help clarify what the impact of a change will be for a firm. A) Proxy variables B) Pseudocodes C) Patches D) Prototypes E) Protocols 22) Which of the following is the main advantage of customizable software over off-the-shelf software? A) cost effectiveness B) ease of procurement C) problem specificity D) lower risks E) user-friendliness 23) The first phase of the systems development life cycle is ________. A) systems design B) systems implementation C) systems analysis D) systems planning and selection E) systems operation 24) During the first phase of the systems development life cycle, organizations ________. A) transform the system design into a working information system B) identify, plan, and select a development project from all possible projects that could be performed C) gain a thorough understanding of an organization’s current way of doing things in the area for which the new information system will be constructed D) elaborate on the details of the chosen approach and design the system E) decommission the current way of doing things and install the new system in the organization 25) The final phase of the systems development life cycle is ________. A) systems design B) systems implementation C) systems analysis D) systems maintenance E) systems operation 26) Requirements collection takes place during the ________ phase of the systems development life cycle. A) systems design B) systems implementation C) systems analysis D) systems maintenance E) systems operation 27) ________ is the process of gathering and organizing information from users, managers, customers, business processes, and documents to understand how a proposed information system should function. A) Data modeling B) Requirements collection C) Beta testing D) End-user development E) External acquisition 28) ________ is a group meeting-based process for requirements collection. A) Joint application design B) Computer-aided design C) Human-computer interface D) Reverse engineering E) Total ownership 29) ________ represent(s) the movement of data through an organization or within an information system. A) Data entities B) Data flux C) Data attributes D) Data flows E) Data modeling 30) ________ represents the way in which data are transformed. A) Data parallelism B) Processing logic C) Data streaming D) Process control E) Transaction processing