Question: When you are updating the data elements in the data flows (when creating a physical DFD) you might need to:

Answer Options:

Return to users to interview them about the physical data flows
Update the original cost/benefit analysis to reflect the physical storage
Do a technology analysis
Do formal benchmarking of the data flows
Add physical data elements to the metadata descriptions in the CASE repository

Answer: Add physical data elements to the metadata descriptions in the CASE repository

 

Question: Pseudocode is:

Answer Options:

The same as structured English
A technique similar to structured English
A subset of the Java programming language
A coding environment sponsored by Oracle
The term for designing language prototyping screens with Visual Basic or HTML

Answer: A technique similar to structured English

 

Question: The three types of basic processes on a process model:

Answer Options:

Sequence, selection and iteration processes
Navigation, status and work processes
Afferent, central and efferent processes
Batch, online and real time processes
Singular, bilateral and library processes

Answer: Afferent, central and efferent processes

 

Question: As a structure chart is constructed, it is generally best to build modules with:

Answer Options:

High cohesion
Highly coupled
High fan-out
Have the word “and” in the module title
A high level of coincidental cohesion

Answer: High cohesion

 

Question: Pseudocode is:

Answer Options:

A language popularized by Feinstein and Longenecker in the 1990’s
A detailed outline of the lines of code that need to be written
A pretend syntax inherent in all CASE tools
The translation of code into ASCII
A dialect of Visual Basic only used in program design

Answer: A detailed outline of the lines of code that need to be written

 

Question: This type of file is used to update a master file:

Answer Options:

Roster files
Training files
Master files
Transaction files
Integrated files

Answer: Transaction files

 

Question: This type of file records “before” and “after” images of data as the data gets altered.

Answer Options:

Intelligent files
Audit files
Master files
Raw files
Prime files

Answer: Audit files

 

Question: Legacy databases might include ________ and ________.

Answer Options:

Master files and transaction files
Audit files and lock-up files
Hierarchical databases and network databases
NoSQL databases
ERDs and data dictionaries

Answer: Hierarchical databases and network databases

 

Question: Integrity is

Answer Options:

Preserving authorized restrictions on access and disclosure, including means for protecting personal privacy and proprietary information Choices
Ensuring timely and reliable access to and use of information
Protecting information and information systems from unauthorized use
Guarding against improper information modification or destruction, and includes ensuring information non-repudiation and authenticity

Answer: Guarding against improper information modification or destruction, and includes ensuring information non-repudiation and authenticity

 

Question: Availability is

Answer Options:

Ensuring timely and reliable access to and use of information
Protecting information and information systems from unauthorized use

Answer: Ensuring timely and reliable access to and use of information

 

Question: Of the measures you can take to improve your personal security, the least important is

Answer Options:

Using end-point (virus) protection
Spending lots of money
Automating software updates
Using appropriate passwords

Answer: Spending lots of money

 

Question: The Sarbanes-Oxley act was enacted in 2002 to prevent

Answer Options:

Stealing commercial information by exploiting weaknesses in wireless networks
Intruding into a number of high profile computer installations
Fabrication of financial records at publicly traded companies
Causing one of the most significant internet outages ever

Answer: Fabrication of financial records at publicly traded companies Correct Answer: True

 

Question: The submission link of a course requirement will go offline after the due date, preventing students to make a late submission.

Answer Options:

True
False

Answer: True

 

Question: The professor may not respond to email inquiries after 7pm. So, students should get help early.

Answer Options:

True
False

Answer: True

 

Question: The professor will post the grades of assignments within 5 business days (except unexpected circumstances).

Answer Options:

True
False

Answer: True

 

Question: Students who have Windows computers can download and install Microsoft Office (for free) from USF.

Answer Options:

True
False

Answer: True

 

Question: A data model is usually graphical.

Answer Options:

True
False

Answer: True

 

Question: Business rules must be rendered in writing.

Answer Options:

True
False

Answer: True