What is system maintenance? List the reasons for systems maintenance.

What will be an ideal response?

Systems maintenance is a stage of systems development that involves changing and enhancing a system to make it more useful in achieving user and organizational goals. Some of the reasons for program maintenance are the following:1. Poor system performance such as slow response time for frequent transactions2. Changes in business processes3. Changes in the needs of system stakeholders, users, and managers4. Bugs or errors in the program5. Technical and hardware problems6. Corporate mergers and acquisitions7. Changes in government regulations8. Changes in the operating system or hardware on which the application runs

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A) represents a Field which can contain an individual piece of data for a record. B) is the sequence in which pages print. C) represents a record. D) is an individual piece of data, such as a last name.

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A Windows computer's IP address is displayed with the command-prompt IPConfig command. Which of the following commands is used with OS X and Linux to display this information?

a. OSIPCFG. b. ifconfig c. ipconfig d. TermIP

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