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systems analysis and design 12th
Systems Analysis And Design With UML 2.0 4th Edition Alan Dennis, Barbara Haley Wixom, David Tegarden - Solutions
How do an essential use case and a real use case differ?
What is the relationship between essential use cases and use scenarios?
What is the relationship between real use cases and use scenarios?
What do you think are three common mistakes that novice analysts make in navigation design?
What do you think are three common mistakes that novice analysts make in input design?
What do you think are three common mistakes that novice analysts make in output design?
What are the six challenges you face when developing mobile applications?
What are the six suggestions to address the mobile computing challenges?
With regard to social media, what is the difference between “push” and “pull” approaches to interacting with customers?
Why is it important to keep your social media sites synced?
How can you keep your customers engaged with your social media sites?
What are some of the multilingual issues that you may face when developing for a global audience?
How important is the proper use of color when developing websites for a global audience? Give some examples of potential pitfalls that you could run into.
Name the three cultural dimensions that are relevant to user interface design identified by Hall. Why are they relevant?
Name the four cultural dimensions that are relevant to user interface design identified by Hofstede. Why are they relevant?
What are some of the nonfunctional requirements that can influence the design of the human–computer interaction layer?
Create a storyboard for a Web site that sells some retail products (e.g., books, music, clothes).
Draw a WND for a Web site that sells some retail products (e.g., books, music, clothes).
Create a Windows layout diagram for the home page of a Web site that sells some retail products (e.g., books, music, clothes).
Draw a WND for Your Turn 10-7 using the opposite grammar order from your original design (if you didn’t do it, draw two WNDs, one in each grammar order).Which is better? Why?
Based on your solution to exercise M:1. Create Windows layout diagrams for the interface design.2. Develop an HTML prototype.3. Develop a real use case.
Create a user interface design for a mobile solution for the:1. A Real Estate Inc. problem.2. A Video Store problem.3. Gym membership problem.4. Picnics R Us problem.5. Of-the-Month-Club problem.
How would your answers change to exercises I through S if you were developing for a global marketplace?
Every spring, Monster.com, one of the largest job sites in the United States with an average of more than 3 million visitors per month, experiences a large increase in traffic.Aaron Braham, vice president of operations, attributes the spike to college students who increase their job-search
Lithonia Lighting, located just outside of Atlanta, is the world’s largest manufacturer of light fixtures, with more than $1 billion in annual sales. One afternoon, the power transformer at its corporate headquarters exploded, leaving the entire office complex, including the corporate data
Seattle officials might finally be ready to start crunching numbers and nailing down specifics of a long-mulled, but slow moving, proposal to build a citywide broadband network. But they might yet need to build a case before the city council to justify such a network. The idea has been studied by
What are the four basic functions of any information system?
What are the three primary hardware components of any physical architecture?
Name two examples of a server.
Compare and contrast server-based architectures, client-based architectures, and client–server-based architectures.
What is the biggest problem with server-based computing?
What is the biggest problem with client-based computing?
Describe the major benefits and limitations of thin client–server architectures.
Describe the major benefits and limitations of thick client–server architectures.
Describe the differences among two-tiered, threetiered, and n-tiered architectures.
Define scalable. Why is this term important to system developers?
What six criteria are helpful to use when comparing the appropriateness of computing alternatives?
Why should the project team consider the existing physical architecture in the organization when designing the physical architecture layer of the new system?
Name the three different types of clouds. How do they differ from one another?
What is meant by a service-oriented architecture?
Define virtualization. How does it relate to the cloud?
What are the differences among IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS?
What are the obstacles for provisioning the physical architecture layer with cloud technologies?
What, if any, are the issues related to security in the cloud?
What are SOX and HIPAA and how could they affect a firm’s decision to adopt cloud technology?
How do tablets, such as the iPadTM, enable the paperless office?
What additional hardware- and software-associated costs might need to be included on the hardware and software specification?
Who is ultimately in charge of acquiring hardware and software for a project?
What is a benchmark and why is it important?
Why is Parkinson’s Law relevant to the design of the physical architecture layer?
What do you think are three common mistakes that novice analysts make in architecture design and hardware and software specification?
Describe the major nonfunctional requirements and how they influence physical architecture layer design.
What does the network model communicate to the project team?
What are the differences between the top-level network model and the low-level network model?
Using the Web, locate examples of a mainframe component, a minicomputer component, and a microcomputer component. Compare the components in terms of price, speed, available memory, and disk storage. Did you find large differences in prices when the performances of the components are considered?
Using the Web, find information on the effects that e-waste and backyard recycling has on developing countries. Based on you find, what Green IT policies would you suggest a firm put in place to minimize the negative effects of e-waste.
Using the Web, find examples of company’s pursuing a Green IT strategy. Describe what they are doing.
Energy Star is a joint program between the US Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency. What are the requirements for various IT devices to be certified as being Energy Star compliant?
Using the Web, find examples of firms using the cloud as a basis for the physical architecture layer. Describe exactly what they are doing.
Create a low-level network diagram for the building that houses the computer labs at your university.Choose an application (e.g., course registration, student admissions) and include only the components that are relevant to that application.
An energy company with headquarters in Dallas, Texas, is thinking about developing a system to track the efficiency of its oil refineries in North America.Each week, the ten refineries—as far as Valdez, Alaska, and as close as San Antonio, Texas—will upload performance data via satellite to the
Suppose that your mother is a real estate agent, and she has decided to automate her daily tasks using a laptop computer. Consider her potential hardware and software needs, and create a hardware and software specification that describes them. The specification should be developed to help your
The system development project team at Birdie Masters golf schools has been working on defining the physical architecture design for the system. The major focus of the project is a networked school location operations system, allowing each school location to easily record and retrieve all school
Jerry is a relatively new member of a project team that is developing a retail store management system for a chain of sporting goods stores. Company headquarters is in Las Vegas, and the chain has twenty-seven locations throughout Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. Several cities have multiple stores.The
Quantitative analysis provides the data for making decisions.Some major league baseball teams have used Sabermetrics(and similar data analysis measures) to quantify the value of a player to his salary. For example, is a .250 hitter with a strong base-stealing background getting paid$5 million per
As a great analyst, you’ve planned, analyzed, and designed a good solution. Now you need to implement.As part of implementation do you think that training is just a wasted expense?Stress is common in a help-desk call center. Users of computing services call to get access to locked accounts or get
Shamrock Foods is a major food distributor centered in Tralee, Ireland. Originally a dairy cooperative, they branched into various food components [dried milk, cheese solids, and flavorings (or flavourings, as they would spell it)]. They have had substantial growth, most coming by way of
How can different national or organizational cultures affect the management of an information systems development project?
What is the primary role of systems analysts during the programming stage?
In The Mythical Man-Month, Frederick Brooks argues that adding more programmers to a late project makes it later. Why?
When offshoring development, how could differences in Hall’s context dimension of culture affect the contribution of a team member to the successful development of an information system? What about Hall’s time or speed of messages dimensions?
What are Hofstede’s five dimensions of cultural differences?How could differences in them influence the effectiveness of an information systems development team?
What are the common language or languages used today in information systems development?
What is the purpose of testing?
Describe how object orientation affects testing.
Compare and contrast the terms test, test plan, and test case.
What is a stub and why is it used in testing?
What are the different types of class tests?
Describe the yo-yo problem. Why does it make integration testing difficult?
What is the primary goal of system testing?
How are the test cases developed for system tests?
What is the primary goal of acceptance testing?
How are the test cases developed for acceptance tests?
Compare and contrast alpha testing and beta testing.
Compare and contrast user documentation and system documentation.
Why is online documentation becoming more important?
What are the primary disadvantages of online documentation?
Compare and contrast reference documents, procedures manuals, and tutorials.
What are five types of documentation navigation controls?
Different views of plagiarism and collaborative learning were described as examples of differences among different cultures today. Using the Web, identify other differences that could affect the success of an information systems development team.
Besides Hall and Hofstede, both David Victor and Fons Trompenaars have identified a set of cultural dimensions that could be useful in information systems development.Using the Web, identify their dimensions.
Examine and prepare a report on the online help system for the calculator program in Windows (or a similar one on the Mac or Unix). (You will probably be surprised at the amount of help for such a simple program.)
Pete is a project manager on a new systems development project. This project is Pete’s first experience as a project manager, and he has led his team successfully to the programming phase of the project. The project has not always gone smoothly, and Pete has made a few mistakes, but he is
The South Dakota Department of Worker’s Compensation was sinking under a load of paper files. As a state agency that oversees that employees are treated fairly when they are injured on the job, the agency had a plethora of paper files and filing cabinets. If a person (or company) called to see
Throughout the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, the U.S. Army automated its installations (army bases, in civilian terms).Automation was usually a local effort at each of the more than 100 bases. Although some bases had developed software together (or borrowed software developed at other bases), each base
One of the first commercial software packages I developed was a DSS to help schedule orders in a paper mill.The system was designed to help the person who scheduled orders decide when to schedule particular orders to reduce waste in the mill. This was a very challenging problem—so challenging, in
For the Professional and Scientific Staff Management problema. Prepare a plan to motivate adoption of the system.b. Prepare a training plan that includes both what you would train and how the training would be delivered.c. Prepare a change management plan.d. Develop a migration plan.
A real-estate group in the federal government cosponsored a data warehouse with the information technology(IT) department. In the formal proposal written by IT, costs were estimated at $800,000, the project’s duration was estimated to be eight months, and the responsibility for funding was
Consumer electronics is a very competitive business.What might be the success story of the year one year is a forgotten item two years later. Rapid product commoditization makes the consumer electronics marketplace very competitive. Getting the right products to market at the right time with the
Suppose you are an analyst for the Roanoke Software Consulting Company (RSCC), a large consulting firm with offices around the world. The company wants to build a new knowledge management system that can identify and track the expertise of individual consultants anywhere in the world based on their
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