MIS310 Final Study Guide – Focus on highlighted questions
1)Your company plans to upgrade its business support system. You are participating in the decision to build or buy a system. Briefly discuss the factors you would consider in making this decision.
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2)You are leading an effort to investigate a vertical system for purchase. Describe your approach (processes) for selecting the right system. Is a vertical system right for your company?
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3)If the decision is to build a business support system, describe two feasibility studies you would conduct. Describe the studies. What factors would be considered in each study?
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4)List the essential components of a charter and describe reasons why a charter is so necessary.
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5)List five factors that may affect TCO.
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6)Define the term CASE Tool, describe how you might use a CASE tool and name the one you used for your project.
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7)Define a business rule:
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8)Discuss and define the term balancing as it refers to data flow diagrams.
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9)How does RAD differ from standard systems development?
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10)What is the primary reason for developing a Context Model?
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11) Explain why risk assessment/acceptance is so important in systems development methodology? List several factors that may be affected by risk?
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12)Give a general definition of a business “process”?
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13)Define a software “process”.
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14)Name three useful tools for fully describing a process so that a programmer will have the necessary information to build that component of an IT system. You had to attempt one of each for your project.
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15)Describe the fundamental difference between quality control and quality assurance.
16)During which phase of the SDLC does training normally occur?
17)In class we defined several types or categories of testing, describe four of them.
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18)Define a primary key.
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19)What three properties must the primary and foreign key share?
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20)There are three types of possible relationships in a database, place the correct letter corresponding to how frequently they appear in a fully developed relational database.
a)Never 1 : M
b)Sometimes 1 : 1
c)Many times M : M
21)The design of a database is based on what?
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22)Define an ERD and why they are necessary in system design?
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23)What is an event? Give the definition we used in class.
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24)Describe three qualities you would want analysts on your staff to possess.
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25)How would you define scalability?
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26)You are planning security for the system you have designed; name a tool you would use to start your planning.
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27)We discussed three levels or types of prototyping, define two of them:
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28)What is the ISO?
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29)Name two things the ISO provides:
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30)What is the Gane and Sarson convention?
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31)Define an entity in the context of a DFD?
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32)Which of the following are NOT legal in a DFD? Place an X in the invalid situations.
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33)What is a black hole?
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34)What is a gray hole?
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35)What is a spontaneous generation?
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36)How would you use SWOT analysis?
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37)What does it mean to flatten an O level DFD drawing?
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38)Discuss why key stakeholders should be expected to sign a project charter. You should explore compelling reasons naming at least 3 individuals by identifying their responsibilities to the project and why it is important for them to be signers:
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39)Name the three key parties or individuals who must approve procedures for acceptance testing and explain why they should participate in the process:
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40)Describe activities that would occur during each phase of the SDLC (name the phase, describe the activity)
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41)Define a partial dependency: Answer:
42)Identify the type of dependency in the table below and its determinant:
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INV_NUM / LINE_NUM / PROD_CODE / PROD_TITLE / CUS_NUM / LINE_UNITS43) Name the correct normal form for the Pay table shown below:
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44)Describe the three steps necessary to normalize a database:
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45)Describe five factors you must consider in designing an ergonomically well balanced GUI.
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