Using Cash withdrawal from an ATM machine is a process. For this process Identify:

1. 2 agents or sources/sinks for the ATM process,
2. 4 processes in the ATM.

Note the ATM will use Data Stores in the bank to support some of the processes.

Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) Software. Explain what COTS is, and why it may be a good option.

Identify a situation in which you might use COTS in a project. What effect will using COTS have on the number of developers? on the amount of programming needed?

What must a project manager do when she recognizes as the project progresses that the estimates of the duration of some tasks on the critical path were too low? What actions can she initiate to bring the project back on schedule?

Which of the four phases of the project management process (project initiation, project planning, project execution and project closedown) do you feel is the most challenging? Why?

Explain the critical path for a project a definition and how it is developed.

How would you assess the technical feasibility of a project? That is, how would you determine whether, at the existing level of knowledge of the technology, the project has a good chance of success?

A successfully implemented project has features. Identify 2 features that relate to its use; and one feature that relates to its business impact.

In the Agile manifesto the authors identify four pairs of activities. For each pair the manifesto states what they value more. Identify any two out of the four of the pairs of more valued activities and the less valued activities. Show both the valued and the less valued activities.

When using an Agile approach, state two factors that are critical for success as specified in the lectures.

You are responsible launching a new website for a local non-profit organization. Make a list of three of the sources of expected costs and three of the expected benefits for the project. No values, just sources of expenses and benefits, a total 6 items. Remember this is a non-profit organization.

DevOps and Agile are both adaptive approaches to systems development. They both start out with a smaller subset of the total proposed system. Then by interaction with a user groups, using feedback from the user group, iteratively add features and functionality. What is the expected outcome from the Agile process? What is the expected outcome from the DevOps process?

When using DevOps to develop a new system, identify two factors necessary to ensure success.

Prototyping is a tool used in the iterative method for requirements determination for systems development. Describe how prototyping is used iteratively during requirements determination.

Identify two advantages of prototyping over the SDLC traditional methods for systems development.

What are two disadvantages of prototyping when compared with traditional methods for systems development?

Joint Application Design (JAD) is a method for developing systems requirements and expediting the systems development and design. Explain JAD briefly, identifying purpose, participants, time constraints and desired outcome.

Why do we use a Data Flow Diagram (DFD)? What does the DFD diagram a model?

Explain the role and show the symbols used for agents (also called sources or sinks), data stores, processes and data flows in a DFD.

Define entity type, entity instance, attribute, and foreign key.

When we determine the data requirements for an information system there are 4 important questions to ask. What are the questions?

Identify three features of a good user interface.

When data is captured at a user interface, we should try to identify and correct possible data errors at the time of data entry, not later in the application. Identify three methods for reducing the potential for error in the process of data capture.

Systems implementations have a relatively high failure rate, around 50%. Identify three potential causes for systems implementation failures at the managerial or planning level.

There is a drive to capture data automatically, a major enabler of the Internet of Things. What is the most important and widely used device that enables this?