MIS 3320 Baylor Sullivan Final Exam Review 2023
Questions and Answers Complete
The term usability encompasses TWO related concepts. What are they?
Ease of use and ease of learn
When implementing the 'minimize user effort' factor, most interface designers
follow the ______________
Three-click rule
Typically, the first step in the user interface design process is
Understand the user
Map the following principles for user interface design with the correct example
for each principle.
Layout
Content awareness
Aesthetics
Consistency
Layout - a top area is used for commands and navigation
Content Awareness - use breadcrumbs to list pages in a hierarchical order
Aesthetics - never use all capital letters, except possibly for titles
Consistency - use the same icon and/or command to perform a search
Assume you are developing an interface design prototype for your system. If your
goal is to convey the basic content and behavior of the screen or the screen's
functionality, and not how it looks, which interface design prototype method will
you use?
Wireframe
A design prototyping method that allows an analyst to envision the use of the
screens (both the screen's functionality (including how the screen will look like)
and the flow form one screen to another) to accomplish an overall task is called
_____________
Wireflow diagram
One of the basic principles of the navigation design is
Simplify recovery from mistakes
One method you can use to organize your interface is ____________
Site map
An interface evaluation technique that allows users to actually work with the
prototype in one-on-one sessions with members of the project team and convey
their opinions (what they like/dislike) about the interface is called ___________
Interactive evaluation
Which of the following is NOT a general test stage?
Module testing
(system testing, unit testing, integration testing are)
An n-tiered architecture is distinguished by:
The number of specialized server computers
, Valery is testing a new payroll system at her company. Her goal is to test whether
the original business requirements are met by the new system. This test is also to
ensure that changes made as the result of integration testing did not create new
errors. What type of testing does she do?
Requirement testing
A type of unit testing that looks inside the program to test its major element is
called _______
White-box testing
The two fundamental documentation types are:
System documentation and user documentation
Which one of the following options is an example of access control requirement?
Customer service reps can modify customer files but not delete them
What is a server-based architecture?
When the server is performing all four application functions and the clients only capture
keystrokes
The primary hardware components of a system consist of:
Client computers, servers, and network
What is the objective of architecture design?
To determine what parts of the application software will be assigned to what hardware
What is a common process analysts use to validate data models?
Normalization
When normalizing data models, if you take attributes that have multiple values for
a single instance of an entity and create separate entities for those attributes, you
are checking
1st normal form
According to the video lectures on ERD normalization from DFD Level-0, how do
you identify the entities from a Data flow diagram?
From datastores and external entities of an DFD
According to the video lectures on normalization, there are THREE potential
anomalies that can be associated with the 1st Normal Form. What are these
anomalies?
Insert, deletion, and update anomalies
Under the ORDERED ITEM entity, the Item_Name attribute only depends on
Item_Number, but not Order_Number. In an ERD, this kind of dependency is
called
Partial dependency
The department_size and department_location attributes do not depend on the
identifier (i.e., Employee_ID), but depend on the department_name attribute.
Therefore, you create a new entity called Department and create a new
relationship between the Department and Employee entity to meet ________
The third form of normalization
What is a transitive dependency?
A condition where attributes of an entity depend on the non-identifier attributes
You only need to perform 2NF if you have an entity with multiple identifiers or
primary keys in your diagram. T/F
True
Questions and Answers Complete
The term usability encompasses TWO related concepts. What are they?
Ease of use and ease of learn
When implementing the 'minimize user effort' factor, most interface designers
follow the ______________
Three-click rule
Typically, the first step in the user interface design process is
Understand the user
Map the following principles for user interface design with the correct example
for each principle.
Layout
Content awareness
Aesthetics
Consistency
Layout - a top area is used for commands and navigation
Content Awareness - use breadcrumbs to list pages in a hierarchical order
Aesthetics - never use all capital letters, except possibly for titles
Consistency - use the same icon and/or command to perform a search
Assume you are developing an interface design prototype for your system. If your
goal is to convey the basic content and behavior of the screen or the screen's
functionality, and not how it looks, which interface design prototype method will
you use?
Wireframe
A design prototyping method that allows an analyst to envision the use of the
screens (both the screen's functionality (including how the screen will look like)
and the flow form one screen to another) to accomplish an overall task is called
_____________
Wireflow diagram
One of the basic principles of the navigation design is
Simplify recovery from mistakes
One method you can use to organize your interface is ____________
Site map
An interface evaluation technique that allows users to actually work with the
prototype in one-on-one sessions with members of the project team and convey
their opinions (what they like/dislike) about the interface is called ___________
Interactive evaluation
Which of the following is NOT a general test stage?
Module testing
(system testing, unit testing, integration testing are)
An n-tiered architecture is distinguished by:
The number of specialized server computers
, Valery is testing a new payroll system at her company. Her goal is to test whether
the original business requirements are met by the new system. This test is also to
ensure that changes made as the result of integration testing did not create new
errors. What type of testing does she do?
Requirement testing
A type of unit testing that looks inside the program to test its major element is
called _______
White-box testing
The two fundamental documentation types are:
System documentation and user documentation
Which one of the following options is an example of access control requirement?
Customer service reps can modify customer files but not delete them
What is a server-based architecture?
When the server is performing all four application functions and the clients only capture
keystrokes
The primary hardware components of a system consist of:
Client computers, servers, and network
What is the objective of architecture design?
To determine what parts of the application software will be assigned to what hardware
What is a common process analysts use to validate data models?
Normalization
When normalizing data models, if you take attributes that have multiple values for
a single instance of an entity and create separate entities for those attributes, you
are checking
1st normal form
According to the video lectures on ERD normalization from DFD Level-0, how do
you identify the entities from a Data flow diagram?
From datastores and external entities of an DFD
According to the video lectures on normalization, there are THREE potential
anomalies that can be associated with the 1st Normal Form. What are these
anomalies?
Insert, deletion, and update anomalies
Under the ORDERED ITEM entity, the Item_Name attribute only depends on
Item_Number, but not Order_Number. In an ERD, this kind of dependency is
called
Partial dependency
The department_size and department_location attributes do not depend on the
identifier (i.e., Employee_ID), but depend on the department_name attribute.
Therefore, you create a new entity called Department and create a new
relationship between the Department and Employee entity to meet ________
The third form of normalization
What is a transitive dependency?
A condition where attributes of an entity depend on the non-identifier attributes
You only need to perform 2NF if you have an entity with multiple identifiers or
primary keys in your diagram. T/F
True
