Chapter 9 Flashcards
- A model is a representation of reality
Answer: True Page: 316 LOD: Easy
- Logical models show what a system is or does. They are implementation independent.
Answer: True Page: 316 LOD: Easy
- Logical models show how a system is implemented.
Answer: False Page: 316 LOD: Medium
Rationale: Logical models are implementation independent.
- Process modeling is a technique for organizing and documenting the structure and flow of data through a system’s processes and /or the logic, policies and procedures to be implemented by a system’s processes.
Answer: True Page: 317 LOD: Easy
- A data flow diagram (DFD) is a tool that depicts the flow of data through a system and the work or processing performed by that system.
Answer: True Page: 217 LOD: Easy
- An entity relationship diagram (ERD) is a tool that depicts the flow of data through a system and the work or processing performed by that system.
Answer: False Page: 317 LOD: Medium
Rationale: A data flow diagram (DFD) is a tool that depicts the flow of data through a system and the work or processing performed by that system. The DFD is a representation of the process model. An entity relationship diagram (ERD) is a representation of the data model.
- A data flow diagram is a process model.
Answer: True Page: 317 LOD: Easy
- Another name for the data flow diagram is an entity relationship diagram.
Answer: False Page: 317 LOD: Medium
Rationale: Another name for the data flow diagram is process model.
- In a data flow diagram, rounded rectangles are used to represent processes.
Answer: True Page: 321 LOD: Easy
- In a data flow diagram, squares are used to represent external agents - the boundary of the system.
Answer: True Page: 319 LOD: Easy
- In a data flow diagram, rounded rectangles are used to represent external agents - the boundary of the system.
Answer: False Page: 319 LOD: Medium
Rationale: In DFDs, rounded rectangles are processes and squares are external agents.
- Data describe work to be performed on, or in response to, incoming process flows or conditions.
Answer: False Page: 322 LOD: Medium
Rationale: A process is work performed on, or in response to, incoming data flows or conditions.
- In data flow diagrams, open-ended boxes represent data stores.
Answer: True Page: 320 LOD: Easy
- In data flow diagrams, open-ended boxes represent external agents.
Answer: False Page: 320 LOD: Medium
Rationale: Open-ended boxes are used for data stores and squares are used for external agents.
- In data flow diagrams, arrows represent data flows.
Answer: True Page: 325 LOD: Easy
- A system is a process.
Answer: True Page: 321 LOD: Easy
- If data modeling is done before process modeling, the agents on the DFD can be pulled from the entity relationship diagram.
Answer: False Page: 320 LOD: Medium
Rationale: Data stores can be pulled from the entities on the entity relationship diagram.
- The use of logical models reduces the risk of missing business requirements.
Answer: True Page: 316 LOD: Medium
- Data Flow Diagrams are a kind of flowchart.
Answer: False Page: 317 LOD: Medium
Rationale: Flowcharts show the sequence of processes in an algorithm, while DFDs show the flow of data through the system.
- During decomposition, each level of abstraction reveals more or less detail as desired, about the overall system or a subset of that system
Answer: True Page: 322 LOD: Easy
- In systems analysis, decomposition allows you to partition a system into logical subsystems of processes for improved communication, analysis and design.
Answer: True Page: 322 LOD: Easy
- A decomposition diagram is also called a hierarchy chart.
Answer: True Page: 323 LOD: Easy
- A data flow diagram shows the top down functional decomposition and structure of a system.
Answer: False Page: 323 LOD: Medium
Rationale: A decomposition diagram shows the top down functional decomposition and structure of a system.
- A decomposition diagram is a tool that depicts the flow of data through a system and the work or processing performed by that system.
Answer: False Page: 317, 323 LOD: Medium
Rationale: A data flow diagram is a tool that depicts the flow of data through a system and the work or processing performed by that system. A decomposition diagram shows the top down functional decomposition and structure of a system.