You were just hired as an IT Specialist for Smalltown School District. Your first assignment is to review a problem area in student records processing. It seems that the program currently used to compute student grade point averages and class rankings runs terribly slow and as a result end of year reports are habitually late. Here is what you are to do:

• Come up with a list of items that should be checked in order to determine if a modification to code is in order.
  • The IT department head is asking you to do this without the opportunity to actually see the current application/programs in use.
• What questions would you ask about the current code?
• What areas of code would you look at?
• What would you need to know about the student data?