MIS 380 Test 2

Basic procedures for constructing a decision table do not include:

Identifying selection criteria

This is an example of a report

Invoice

When designing forms and reports, the system characteristic addresses:

Issues related to experience, skills, motivation, education, and personality

When designing forms and reports, the user characteristic addresses:

Issues related to experience, skills, motivation, education, and personality

A technique for showing a user where they are in a website by placing a series of tabs on a webpage that shows a user where they are where they have been best describes

Lightweight images

Which of the following is not a key step in logical database modeling and design?

Model how data flow through an information system, the relationships among the data flows, and how data come to be stored at specific locations.

What is not a key step in logical database modeling and design?

Model how data flow through an information system, the relationships amount the data flows, and how data come to be store at specific locations.

The section of a design specification that explains to those who will actually develop the final form why this form exists and how it will be used is called:

Narrative Overview

A human-computer interaction mehtod where inputs to and outputs from a computer-based application are in a conventional spoken language such as English refers to:

Natural language interaction

The primary deliverable from logical database design is:

Normalized relations

The assessment of usability involves all of the following 'p's except:

Platform

The lowest level of decomposition for a data flow diagram is called the:

Primitive diagram

Calculating an employee's salary is represented on a data flow diagram as a:

Process

In a decision table, assume that the first condition has two values; the second condition has two values; the third condition has three values how many rules will there be:

12

Assume we have three conditions. Condition one has two values; condition two has three values; condition three has three values. how many rules are needed

18

Level 0 Diagram

A DFD that represents a system's major processes , data flows, and data stores at a high level of detail.

For a binary many to many relationship existing between entity types A and B:

A separate relation C is created; the primary key of relation C is a composite key consisting of the primary key for each of the two entities in the relationship

A binary one-to- many relationship in an ER diagram is best represented by:

Adding the primary key attribute of the entity on the one side of the relationship as a foreign key in the relation that is on the many side of the relationship

A person, place, object, event, or concept in the user environment about which the organization wishes to maintain data refers to:

An entity

A single occurrence of an entity type defines:

An entity instance

Functional Decomposition

An iterative process of breaking the description of a system down into finer and finder detail, which creates a set of charts in which ones process on a given chart is explained in greater detail on another chart

The number of instances of entity B that can (or must) be associated with each instance of entity A refers to:

Cardinality

Testing to assure that data is of proper type is the purpose of:

Class or composition validation test

The diagram that shows the scope of the system, indicating what elements are inside and which are outside of the system, is called a:

Context Diagram

Data flow diagrams that specify what people and technologies are used in which processes to move and transform data, accepting inputs and producing outputs are refereed to as:

Current physical data flow diagrams

What is not a logic model?

Data Flow Diagrams

A file folder containing orders is represented on a data flow diagram as a:

Data Source

The three main constructs of the entity-relationship modeling notation include each of the following except:

Data flows

The three main constructs of an entity-relationship modeling notation does not include:

Data flows.

A decision table does not include:

Decision stubs

In which RAD phase will users and analysts work closely and quickly to create prototypes that capture system requirements and that become the basis for the physical design of the system being developed?

Design

The selection of devices that the users will use for interaction is made during:

Design

A formal method for designing and representing human-computer dialogues using box an line diagrams is refereed to as:

Dialogue Diagramming

A formal method for designing and representing human-computer dialogues using box and line diagrams is referred to as:

Dialogue diagramming

When the prototype serves as the basis for the production system itself, this is referred to as:

Evolutionary prototyping

A business document that contains some predefined data and may include some areas where additional data are to be filled in best describes a:

Form

A business document that contains some predefined data and may include some areas where additional data are to be filled in, best describes a:

Form

In diagramming a system, the act of going from a single system to several component processes for that system refers to:

Functional Decomposition

A set of two or more multi valued attributes that are logically relate defines:

Repeating group

Modeling a system's logic is part of:

Requirements structuring

A supplier of auto parts to our company is represented on a data flow diagram as a:

Source

A matrix representation of the logic of a decision, which specifies the possible conditions for the decision and the resulting actions, defines a:

Structure chart

The modeling technique that relies on action verbs and noun phrases, and contains no adjectives or adverbs is called:

Structured English

Balancing

The conservation of inputs and outputs to a DFD process when that process is decomposed to a lower level.

The selection of devices that the users will use for interaction is made during:

The design phase

If rules 2, 4, and 6 are indifferent conditions, then:

The number of rules is reduced by condensing Rules 2, 4, and 6 into one rule

Process, logic and data model descriptions of a system must be consistent and complete because:

They each describe different but complementary views of the same information system.

An overall evaluation of how a system performs for supporting a particular user for a particular task refers to:

Usuability

An entity whose primary key depends on the primary key of another entity is called a:

Weak Entity

The deliverable of process modeling state:

What you learned during the requirements determination

For a binary many-to-many relationship existing between entity types A and B:

a separate relation C is created; the primary key of relation C is a composite key consisting of the primary key for each of the two entities in the relationship

A binary one-to-many relationship in an E-R diagram is best represented by:

adding the primary key attribute (or attributes) of the entity on the one side of the relationship as a foreign key in the relation that is on the many side of the relationship

A named property or characteristic of an entity that is of interest to the organization defines an:

attribute

Which of the following is not a logic model?

data flow diagrams

The three main constructs of an entity- relationship modeling notation does not include:

data flows

Assume the structure of a relation is EMPLOYEE (Emp_ID, Name, Dept, Salary). the number of attributes for this relation would be:

four

When designing forms and reports, the user characteristic addresses:

issues related to experience, skills, motivation, education, and personality

A human-computer interaction method where inputs to and outputs from a computer-based application are in a conventional spoken language such as English refers to:

natural language interaction