Final Exam Study Guide

 

Major Concepts

 

Information Systems Architecture

 Stakeholders

 Data

 Process

 Interface

 

Project Management

 Defining

 Planning

 Controlling

 Acceptable System

 Minimum Cost

 Acceptable Timeframe

 

Systems Development Methodology

 Preliminary Investigation

 Problem Analysis

 Requirements Analysis

 Decision Analysis

 

Process Modeling

  Different model-driven approaches

  Different diagrams for different audiences

  Decomposition of problem makes analysis and design possible

 

Application Architectures

 Centralized

 distributed

 2-tier

 n-tier

 Application layers

   presentation

   presentation logic

   application logic

   data manipulation

   data

 Client-server vs File-server vs thin-client

 

Types of information systems

 Decision Support System

 Expert System

 Transaction Processing System

 Management Information System

 

Cost Benefit Analysis

 Time value of money

 discount rate

 payback analysis

 NPV

 ROI

 

User Interface design

 Human engineering guidelines

 Menu driver vs instruction driven vs Q&A

 User base considerations (novice vs expert)

 

Object Oriented Development

 Objects

 Methods/Behaviors

 Attributes/properties

 Inheritence

 Polymorphism

 encapsulation

 

Terms

Application Architecture

Automatic Data Capture

Biometrics

Brainstorming

Business Functions

Business Policy

Business Procedure

Business Process Redesign

Capability Maturity Model

Critical path

Data validation (input design)

Data Warehouse

Database Schema

Datastore

Detail/summary reports

Distributed RDBMS

EDI

Enterprise Resource Planning System

Entity Relationship Diagram

Event

Exception reports

Fact-finding techniques

Front office/Back office systems

Information Technology

Information Worker

Joint Requirements Planning

KDE (Keyless data entry)

Logical Models

MICR

Milestones

OOD

OMR

OCR

Optimistic duration/ Pessimistic duration/ Expected duration

Physical Models

Physical process

Problems/Opportunities/Directives

Process Management

Procurement Phase

Prototyping

Rapid Application Development

RFP/RFI/RFQ

Slack time

Smartcards

Source document

Stakeholders

Work Breakdown Structure

 

Tools

Candidate systems matrix

Context DFD

Data Flow Diagram

Decision Table

Decomposition Diagram

Event Diagram

Expectations Management Matrix

Gantt Chart

Ishikawa Diagram

Pert Chart

Physical DFD

Cost/benefit analysis

System Diagram

Use Case