Case 2-1 Professor Mackenzie Is Answering Questions from Students in Her Class

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Multiple Choice

Case 2-1
Professor Mackenzie is answering questions from students in her class as she explains the program development life cycle in her introductory Visual Basic course.
-Some of her students have been confusing the order of the various steps and phases and she wants to correct any misunderstandings about it.Which of the following can the professor give as the correct order for the steps in the program development life cycle?

• A) Gather and analyze the program requirements, design the program processing objects, design the user interface, code the program, document the program/system, test the program, and maintain the program/system
• B) Design the user interface, design the program processing objects, gather and analyze the program requirements, code the program, test the program, document the program/system, and maintain the program/system
• C) Gather and analyze the program requirements, design the user interface, design the program processing objects, code the program, test the program, document the program/system, and maintain the program/system
• D) Gather and analyze the program requirements, code the program, design the user interface, design the program processing objects, test the program, document the program/system, and maintain the program/system

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Definitions:

Probability

A measure of the likelihood or chance that a particular event will occur, expressed as a number between 0 and 1.

Sample Mean

The average of all observations or data points in a sample, used as an estimate of the population mean.

Population Mean

The average of all observations or values in a total population, representing the central value around which the figures in the population distribute.

Sample Statistic s

Calculated value (such as mean or standard deviation) from a sample of data, used to infer characteristics of the entire population.