CIS 130: Test On Data Flow Diagram! Trivia Quiz
This section consists of 10 questions. You have 15 minutes to complete this section. This section is worth 40% of your total test grade.
- 1.Which is NOT true of use cases?
- A.
They are formal ways of representing how a business system interacts with its environment
- B.
They illustrates the activities that are performed by the users of the system
- C.
They can be thought of as an external or functional view of a business process
- D.
They illustrate what starts (or triggers) an event, all the people that are involved, and how the system provides value
- 2.The primary actor in a use case is generally:
- A.
An external user of the system
- B.
The Project Sponsor
- C.
The Champion
- D.
The Project manager
- E.
The Systems Analyst
- 3.A 'temporal' trigger might be which of the following:
- A.
A patient calls to make an appointment with a doctor
- B.
The accounting department needs information for a report
- C.
The human resources department needs a tax withholding form to be filled out by a new employee
- D.
The date changes to the first day of the month
- E.
A new shipping of goods arrives and needs to be added to the inventory
- 4.Which of the following is probably NOT a step for writing a use case?
- A.
Identify the use case
- B.
Identify the analyst
- C.
Identify the major steps within each use case
- D.
Identify elements within steps
- E.
Confirm the use case
- 5.Which of the following is probably NOT a part of most use cases?
- A.
Primary Actor
- B.
Secondary Actor
- C.
Major inputs descriptions
- D.
Major steps performed
- E.
Identification of the trigger
- 6.Use cases generally have three parts:
- A.
Basic information, details, and event-driven modeling
- B.
Inputs and outputs, and events
- C.
Details, event-driven modeling, basic information
- D.
Technical feasibility, economic feasibility and organizational feasibility
- E.
Basic information, inuts and outputs, and details
- 7.When developing the Major Inputs and Major Outputs for a use case, the analyst and users should consider:
- A.
Only the common inputs and outputs
- B.
Developing separate use cases for every possible input and every possible output
- C.
All possible inputs and outputs (even with rare occurrences)
- D.
What triggers these inputs and outputs
- E.
Using activity elimination to see if these inputs and outputs are really needed
- 8.Which is NOT true of use cases?
- A.
They contain all the information needed to build one part of a process model
- B.
Each use case has a name, a number, importantce level, brief description, primary actor, trigger, major inputs and outputs, and a list of major steps
- C.
Use cases can be identified by reviewing the functional requirements
- D.
Use cases should be confirmed by users
- E.
Use cases normally contain ten to twelve major steps
- 9.Data flow diagramming is:
- A.
The only process modeling currently used
- B.
A detailed description of data
- C.
Almost the same as a flow chart
- D.
Focused on the processes or activities that are performed
- E.
A visual version of a use case
- 10.A process is:
- A.
An activity or a function that is performed for some specific business reason
- B.
A single piece of data
- C.
A collection of data
- D.
A trigger to a use case
- E.
A person, organization or system outside of the system
- 11.A new patient calls up an optometrist office to make an appointment. On a DFD diagram, the new patient would be represented by:
- A.
A data flow
- B.
A process
- C.
An external entity
- D.
A trigger
- E.
A data store
- 12.Which Data Flow Diagram shows the entire system with its environment with only one process?
- A.
Context Diagram
- B.
Level 0 diagrams
- C.
Level 1 diagrams
- D.
Level 2 diagrams
- E.
All DFDs show this
- 13.Ruth is an analyst. On her DFD diagram she has just placed a process. She will
- A.
Give it a number and a verb phrase name, like 'search inventory'
- B.
Give it a noun description phrase, like 'Inventory-process-1'
- C.
Give it only a number - and depending on whether it is a major process (a whole number) or a subsidiary process (a whole number with a decimal point and value - like 1.3)
- D.
Give it a sentence name, like 'Customer arrives at checkout counter'
- E.
Use whatever process she feels comfortable with - as long as she is consistent
- 14.The act of taking a level 1 diagram and creating level 2 diagrams is called:
- A.
Breakdown
- B.
Division
- C.
Decomposing
- D.
Splittin
- E.
Halving
- 15.On your level 0 diagram you have a process #2 and when you create a level 1 diagram for process #2, you might have processes like:
- A.
2.1, 2.2, 2.3
- B.
2-1, 2-2, 2-3
- C.
2A, 2B, 2C
- D.
2-A, 2-B, 2-C
- E.
2-initial, 2-main, 2-end
- 16.A payroll data flow diagram has a data-store called Accumulated Salary Data. At one stage in the DFD, a process "Calculate YTD-Taxes" gets data from that data store, updates it in the process, and writes it back out. The diagram should show:
- A.
A single line with arrows on both ends labeled YTD Payroll Details
- B.
A dashed line with arrows on both ends labeled YTD Payroll Details
- C.
A line out of the data store labeled: Current YTD Payroll Details; and a line into the data store labeled: Updated YTD Payroll Details
- D.
Two separate data flow lines but each with the same name YTD Payroll Details
- E.
Two dashed lines but with the same name of YTD Payroll Details
- 17.On the context diagram, Tim has a process called "Start the Process". It has one output data flow 'Initial Data' and no input data flows. This is:
- A.
Totally acceptable for a context diagram
- B.
Incorrect for a context diagram, but acceptable on the Level 0 diagram
- C.
Incorrect for both a context and Level 0 diagrams, but acceptable for a Level 1 diagram
- D.
Incorrect for context, level 0, level 1, but acceptable for a leve 2 diagram
- E.
Incorrect in all situations
- 18.What diagram will show all the major processes numbered 1, 2, 3, (etc) external entities and major data stores?
- A.
Context diagram
- B.
Level 0 diagram
- C.
Level 1 diagram
- D.
Level 2 diagram
- E.
Decision Tree
- 19.The context diagram shows:
- A.
Detailed processing logic
- B.
All major processes
- C.
All the data stores in the system
- D.
The "big picture" of the system with external entities and only one process
- E.
The system in context with all other systems in that department (for example, accounts payable, accounts receivable, etc.)
- 20.Which of the following is NOT correct?
- A.
Every set of DFD's must have one context diagram
- B.
Every process is wholly and completely described by the processes on its children DFD's
- C.
Every process must be broken down farther on Level 1 and Level 2 diagrams
- D.
Every data store has at least one input data flow someplace in the entire DFD system
- E.
Every process has a unique name that is a action oriented verb phrase
- 21.Two of the most common methods for modeling system logic are:
- A.
Entity-relationship diagrams and data-flow diagrams
- B.
Data-flow diagrams and structure charts
- C.
Structured English and decision tables
- D.
Structure charts and entity-relationship daigrams
- 22.A modified form of Engish that is used to specify the contents of process boxex in a DFD best describes:
- A.
Structured English
- B.
Analytical shorthand
- C.
Decision tables
- D.
Symbolic notation
- 23.The part of the decision table that lists the conditions relevant to the decision is called:
- A.
Rules
- B.
Action stubs
- C.
Value stubs
- D.
Condition stubs
- 24.That part of a decision table that specifies which actions are to be followed fo a given set of conditions is called:
- A.
Condition stubs
- B.
Rules
- C.
Action stubs
- D.
Direction stubs
- 25.In a decision table, a condition whose value does not affect which actions are taken for two or more rules is a(n) ____________.
- A.
Exempt condition
- B.
Indifferent condition
- C.
Relaxed condition
- D.
Complex condition
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