Why should the tasks of systems development and maintenance be segregated from operations?
The segregation of systems development (both new systems development and maintenance) and operations activities is of the greatest importance. Systems development and maintenance professionals acquire (by in-house development and purchase) and maintain systems for users. Operations staff should run these systems and have no involvement in their design and implementation. Consolidating these functions invites fraud. With detailed knowledge of an application's logic and control parameters along with access to the computer operations, an individual could make unauthorized changes to application logic during execution. Such changes may be temporary (on the fly.) and will disappear with little or no trace when the application terminates.
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A. never truly create sales. B. rely on customer recommendations. C. are useful for selling tangible goods in highly competitive industries. D. often do not attempt to close a sale. E. do not use a sales strategy.
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Why does an illusory contract lack consideration?
A) because the consideration promised is unlawful and therefore void B) because the person promises to perform an act or do something he or she is already under an obligation to do C) because one or both parties can choose not to perform their contractual obligations D) because the compensation paid is for work done in the past
For a maximization problem, assume that a constraint is binding. If the original amount of a resource is 4 lbs. and the range of feasibility (sensitivity range) for this constraint is from 3 lbs. to 6 lbs.,
increasing the amount of this resource by 1 lb. will result in the: A) same product mix, different total profit. B) different product mix, same total profit as before. C) same product mix, same total profit. D) different product mix, different total profit.