This text refers to item.

Slashing IT maintenance
budgets: sign of the times

No matter what the pundits say about an economic turnaround, times are still tough. And after technology projects are delayed or stopped, layoffs are made and next year’s budget is slashed, there’s one more realm where IT is feeling the pinch: maintenance cuts.

To help save money, IT groups are being asked to cut back — in some cases, dramatically — on their maintenance contracts with vendors. So instead of paying a premium for vendors to, say, fix any problems in key software and hardware within four hours, a 24-hour turnaround might have to suffice instead. Sometimes things stay broken until IT staffers can figure out the fixes themselves. And in the meantime, ITers involved say they just hope that their business users will not notice any ill effects.

Jim Milde, executive vice president of global services for Boston-based IT services company Keane Inc., estimated that of his largest customers — in pharmaceuticals, insurance, finance, government and transportation — around 10% are cutting maintenance costs in various ways.

This trend is being seen in pockets all over the industry, IT staffers and industry analysts agree. But given the sensitivity of the issue, and often the politics involved, most ITers would speak about it only on the condition that they are not identified.

Internet: <www.computerworld.com> (adapted).

Judge the following items according to the text.

The verb “to suffice”, in “a 24-hour turnaround might have to suffice instead”, is closest in meaning to to be sufficient or enough.

This text refers to item.

Slashing IT maintenance
budgets: sign of the times

No matter what the pundits say about an economic turnaround, times are still tough. And after technology projects are delayed or stopped, layoffs are made and next year’s budget is slashed, there’s one more realm where IT is feeling the pinch: maintenance cuts.

To help save money, IT groups are being asked to cut back — in some cases, dramatically — on their maintenance contracts with vendors. So instead of paying a premium for vendors to, say, fix any problems in key software and hardware within four hours, a 24-hour turnaround might have to suffice instead. Sometimes things stay broken until IT staffers can figure out the fixes themselves. And in the meantime, ITers involved say they just hope that their business users will not notice any ill effects.

Jim Milde, executive vice president of global services for Boston-based IT services company Keane Inc., estimated that of his largest customers — in pharmaceuticals, insurance, finance, government and transportation — around 10% are cutting maintenance costs in various ways.

This trend is being seen in pockets all over the industry, IT staffers and industry analysts agree. But given the sensitivity of the issue, and often the politics involved, most ITers would speak about it only on the condition that they are not identified.

Internet: <www.computerworld.com> (adapted).

Judge the following items according to the text.

Around 10% of all the companies in the USA are cutting maintenance costs in several ways.

This text refers to item.

Slashing IT maintenance
budgets: sign of the times

No matter what the pundits say about an economic turnaround, times are still tough. And after technology projects are delayed or stopped, layoffs are made and next year’s budget is slashed, there’s one more realm where IT is feeling the pinch: maintenance cuts.

To help save money, IT groups are being asked to cut back — in some cases, dramatically — on their maintenance contracts with vendors. So instead of paying a premium for vendors to, say, fix any problems in key software and hardware within four hours, a 24-hour turnaround might have to suffice instead. Sometimes things stay broken until IT staffers can figure out the fixes themselves. And in the meantime, ITers involved say they just hope that their business users will not notice any ill effects.

Jim Milde, executive vice president of global services for Boston-based IT services company Keane Inc., estimated that of his largest customers — in pharmaceuticals, insurance, finance, government and transportation — around 10% are cutting maintenance costs in various ways.

This trend is being seen in pockets all over the industry, IT staffers and industry analysts agree. But given the sensitivity of the issue, and often the politics involved, most ITers would speak about it only on the condition that they are not identified.

Internet: <www.computerworld.com> (adapted).

Judge the following items according to the text.

IT staffers and industry analysts have clashed over the new trends in the industry.

This text refers to item.

Slashing IT maintenance
budgets: sign of the times

No matter what the pundits say about an economic turnaround, times are still tough. And after technology projects are delayed or stopped, layoffs are made and next year’s budget is slashed, there’s one more realm where IT is feeling the pinch: maintenance cuts.

To help save money, IT groups are being asked to cut back — in some cases, dramatically — on their maintenance contracts with vendors. So instead of paying a premium for vendors to, say, fix any problems in key software and hardware within four hours, a 24-hour turnaround might have to suffice instead. Sometimes things stay broken until IT staffers can figure out the fixes themselves. And in the meantime, ITers involved say they just hope that their business users will not notice any ill effects.

Jim Milde, executive vice president of global services for Boston-based IT services company Keane Inc., estimated that of his largest customers — in pharmaceuticals, insurance, finance, government and transportation — around 10% are cutting maintenance costs in various ways.

This trend is being seen in pockets all over the industry, IT staffers and industry analysts agree. But given the sensitivity of the issue, and often the politics involved, most ITers would speak about it only on the condition that they are not identified.

Internet: <www.computerworld.com> (adapted).

Based on the text, it is correct to affirm that

accordingly to what the experts say about an economic turnaround, times are still tough.

This text refers to item.

Slashing IT maintenance
budgets: sign of the times

No matter what the pundits say about an economic turnaround, times are still tough. And after technology projects are delayed or stopped, layoffs are made and next year’s budget is slashed, there’s one more realm where IT is feeling the pinch: maintenance cuts.

To help save money, IT groups are being asked to cut back — in some cases, dramatically — on their maintenance contracts with vendors. So instead of paying a premium for vendors to, say, fix any problems in key software and hardware within four hours, a 24-hour turnaround might have to suffice instead. Sometimes things stay broken until IT staffers can figure out the fixes themselves. And in the meantime, ITers involved say they just hope that their business users will not notice any ill effects.

Jim Milde, executive vice president of global services for Boston-based IT services company Keane Inc., estimated that of his largest customers — in pharmaceuticals, insurance, finance, government and transportation — around 10% are cutting maintenance costs in various ways.

This trend is being seen in pockets all over the industry, IT staffers and industry analysts agree. But given the sensitivity of the issue, and often the politics involved, most ITers would speak about it only on the condition that they are not identified.

Internet: <www.computerworld.com> (adapted).

Based on the text, it is correct to affirm that

IT groups are being asked to cut maintenance costs so as to help save money.

Penso que a política tem sempre uma dimensão estética, o que é verdade também para o exercício das formas de poder. A estética e a política são formas de organizar o sensível: de dar a entender, de dar a ver, de construir a visibilidade e a inteligibilidade dos acontecimentos. Para mim, é um dado permanente. É diferente da ideia de que o exercício do poder se teria estetizado em um momento específico.

Há um momento em que é preciso distinguir duas coisas: de um lado, a adoção de certas formas espetaculares de mise-en-scène do poder e da comunidade. De outro, a ideia mesma de comunidade. É preciso saber se pensamos a comunidade política simplesmente como um grupo de indivíduos governados por um poder, ou se a pensamos como um organismo animado.

Na imaginação da comunidade, há sempre esse jogo, essa oscilação entre a representação jurídica e uma representação estética. Mas não creio que se possa definir um momento preciso de estetização da comunidade.

Jacques Rancière. Partilha do sensível. In: Revista Cult, n.º 139, ano 12, set./2009, p. 18 (com adaptações).

Julgue o item, a respeito da organização das ideias no texto acima.

A inserção de vírgula logo depois de “mise-en-scène” preservaria a correção gramatical do texto e tornaria mais explícitas as relações de dependência semântica entre as ideias.

A respeito da LRF e dos TCs, julgue o item a seguir.

Cabe ao TCE determinar a suspensão das obras com indícios de irregularidades.

A respeito da LRF e dos TCs, julgue o item a seguir.

Os TCEs são competentes para examinar as contas não só das prefeituras e das câmaras municipais, mas também do Poder Judiciário e dos ministérios públicos municipais.

Acerca do TCE/RN, julgue o item subsequente.

Importante prerrogativa do TCE/RN, em sua função fiscalizadora, é a de requisitar diretamente às instituições financeiras os extratos das contas-correntes e de aplicações efetuadas pelas unidades gestoras das administrações estadual e municipais.

Acerca do TCE/RN, julgue o item subsequente.

Se o TCE/RN concluir que não dispõe de servidores habilitados para a realização de auditorias e perícias em assuntos de alta especialização, terá respaldo legal para requisitar servidores de outros órgãos ou de entidades da administração estadual ou contratar empresa privada.