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ICT2621

SECOND SEMESTER: ASSIGNMENT 02

Due date: 19 August 2014

Study material: Prescribed book chapters 5, 8, 9, 11 and 12


Exclude pages: 518-520 (OOAD)

Assignment type: MCQ

Submission procedure: Via myUnisa in pdf format

Year-mark weight: 20%

Unique assignment number: 266615

Compulsory: It contributes towards the year mark.

 Submit your assignment via myUnisa by the due date. Do not be


concerned if myUnisa is down on the last submission date. We are
notified when this happens, and will take this type of delay into
consideration.
 Provide detailed solutions to all the questions. The solutions for the
questions will be made available on the modules site on myUnisa.
 The mark that you achieve will contribute 60% towards your semester
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SECOND SEMESTER ASSIGNMENT 02 Total: 20
marks

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

1. Which JAD participant documents results of JAD sessions and works with
systems analysts to build system models and develop CASE tools
documentation?

1. Project Leader

2. Recorder

3. Group Leader

4. Top Management

2. Which team based team-based fact finding technique speeds up information


systems development and produces a functioning information system?

1. Agile Methods

2. Joint Application Development (JAD)

3. Rapid Application Development (RAD)

4. Waterfall Methods

3. Which Team based technique is more flexible and efficient in dealing with
change by stressing team interaction and reflect a set of community-based values?

1. JAD

2. Agile Method

3. RAD

4. Waterfall Method
4. Which diagram is used to show how the system stores, processes and
transforms data?

1. Sequence Diagram

2. Use case diagram

3. Functional Decomposition diagram

4. Data Flow Diagram

5. A system’s ability to handle increased business volume and transactions in the


future is referred to as ?

1. Total Cost of ownership

2. Future Growth

3. Diversification

4. Scalability

6. Which of the following about system requirements is false

1. It is a characteristic or feature that must be included in an information


system to satisfy business requirements and be acceptable to users,

2. Serves as a benchmark to measure the overall acceptability of the


finished system

3. A process is one of a system requirement category

4. Models form part of system requirements

7. When recording facts during documentation, which one of the following


principles is not correct?

1. Record your findings in such a way that that they can be understood by
you only

2. Record information as soon as you obtain it


3. Use the simplest recording method possible

4. Organise your documentation so related material is located easily

8. Which of the following is incorrect?

1. Research is normally not important when doing fact finding because it


takes a lot of time to conduct.

2. A process of collecting examples of actual facts is called sampling.

3. Questionnaires can be used to obtain information about a wide arrange


of topics such as workloads, reports received, volumes of transactions
handled, job duties, difficulties, opinions of how the job could be performed
better or more efficiently.

4. Brainstorming encourages new ideas, allows team participation, and


enables participants to build on other’s inputs and thoughts.

9. Some firms offer which provide powerful web-based support for


transaction such as order processing, billing, and customer relationship management

1. Cloud computing

2. Middleware

3. Intranet based services

4. Internet based services

10. Which one of the following terms refers to the transfer of information systems
development, operation, or maintenance to an outside firm that provides these
services, for a fee, on a temporary or long term basis

1. Buying off the shelf

2. Cloud Computing

3. Internet based services

4. Outsourcing
11. Which kind of outsourcing model has a variable fee based on the number of
users or workstations that have access to the application?

1. Fixed fee model

2. Transaction model

3. Subscription model

4. Business model

12. A practice whereby a company shift IT development, support, and operations to


another country is called?

1. Outsourcing

2. Offshore outsourcing

3. Business process outsourcing

4. Managed hosting

13. What do we call a process where the company’s IT department decides to make,
build, and develop in-house software?

1. Purchase

2. Build or buy

3. Outsource

4. Make or build

14. Which one of the following is not one of the ways to customise a software
package?

1. Negotiate with the software vendor for a discounted fee with a longer
term contract.

2. Purchase a basic package that vendors will customise to suit your needs

3. Negotiate directly with the software vendor to make enhancements to


meet your needs by paying for the changes
4. Purchase the package and make your own modifications, if it is possible
under the terms of the software licence.

15. When designing a system, certain design considerations have to be taken into
account, they include

1. Users, shareholders and competitors

2. Users, data, and system architecture

3. Data, Models and Systems

4. Data, Models and architecture

16. Which of the following is not a suggestion to follow when considering the users?

1. Provide flexibility

2. Anticipate future needs

3. Log every instance of data entry and changes

4. Carefully consider any point where users receive output or provide input

17. Which of the following involves a repetitive sequence of analysis, design,


modelling, and testing and produce a rapidly constructed working version of the
proposed information system?

1. Coding

2. Prototyping

3. Benchmarking

4. Outsourcing

18. An approach where system analysts use prototyping to verify user requirements
after which there is discarded and implementation continues is called ?

1. Functional prototype

2. Design Prototyping
3. Visual prototype

4. User experience prototype

19. When design goals differ, a system analyst should consider which of the
following?

1. Alternatives and Trade-offs

2. Complexities and complications

3. Models and architecture

4. Solutions and alternatives

20. Which architectural style aims to achieve loose coupling among interacting
software objects that provide service?

1. Web service

2. Open source

3. Service oriented Architecture

4. Coding

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