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Systems Analysis And Design Examination Question Paper
Systems Analysis And Design Examination
Course:Bachelor Of Science In Information Technology
Institution: Kca University question papers
Exam Year:2010
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS: 2009/2010
FIRST YEAR EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF
SCIENCE IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
BIT 1205: SYSTEMS ANALYSIS AND DESIGN EXAMINATION
DATE: APRIL 2010 TIME: 2 HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer question ONE and any other TWO questions
Question One
a. Differentiate between systems analysis and design. (4 Marks)
b. Describe who a system analyst is, stating his/her four competencies. (6 Marks)
c. State and explain four categories of Information Systems (8 Marks)
d. Using diagrams illustrate four task inter-dependencies. (6 Marks)
e. The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is a framework to assess the maturity level of an
organization’s information system development and management processes and products. Using a
diagram describe the five levels of process maturity. (6 Marks)
Questions Two
a. State and explain the motivations for developing Information System. (6 Marks)
b. A software development methodology is a very formal and precise system development process
that defines a set of activities, methods, best practices, deliverables, and automated tools that
system developers and project managers are to use to develop and maintain information systems
and software. However there are other alternative routes to a methodology. Name such three routes
and describe them. (6 Marks)
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c. The development of an information system has seven activities. Describe the analysis activities of
the development process. (8 Marks)
Question Three
a. Differentiate between functional and non-functional requirements. (4 Marks)
b. Describe at least three requirements elicitation techniques (6 Marks)
c. Barclays Bank Members’ Club sells products to its members. The club wants to develop an
inventory system to track the goods sold to the members. Members usually order for the product.
Using the knowledge you have acquired in data modeling answer the following questions
i. List the number of entities in this narrative (2 Marks)
ii. Draw the Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) to capture the narrative (8 Marks)
Question Four
a) Define the term prototype (2 Marks)
b) State and explain six key benefits of prototyping? (6 Marks)
c) Study the Data Flow Diagram below and answer the questions that follow.
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i. Point out the mistakes there in and the possible causes. (6 Marks)
ii. Correct the mistakes (6Marks)
Question Five
a) What is an application architecture? (2 Marks)
b) Differentiate between a distributed and centralized system. (4 Marks)
c) Describe four types of servers common in client- server architectures. (4 Marks)
d) Explain the meaning of the following terms (2 Marks)
i. Database architecture
ii. A database management system (DBMS)
e) Explain what you understand by the term normalization, describing the various levels of
normalization. (8 Marks)
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