Week 1

Question 1

Components of IT?

Answer 1

Hardware, software, data, network, procedures and people.

Question 2

What is a GUI?

Answer 2

Graphical user interface

Question 3

What is a Database?

Answer 3

Structured set of data, combined with tables.

Question 4

Architecture is about?

Answer 4

Models (blueprints) for communication or understanding a phenomenon

Question 5

Architecture means?

Answer 5

Models for IT to understand hardware, software, data, network, procedures and people in the business.

Question 6

What is a flowchart?

Answer 6

Method of communication which is language independent.

Question 7

What is a primary key?

Answer 7

Unique identifier for a table.

Question 8

What is a foreign key?

Answer 8

A primary key from another table.

Question 9

When do you use an Logical Data model?

Relational model

Answer 9

When you want to communicate, program independent (relational model).

Question 10

When do you use an Conceptual Data model

Entity Relationship model

Answer 10

When design is important (easier to understand for customer).

Visualize what is going on in a database.

Question 11

What are differences between Logical and Conceptual model?

Answer 11

Logical model has no many to many (N-N)
Logical model muast always have a primary key.

Conceptual model for current state.
Logical model for future state.

Question 12

What is UML

Answer 12

Unified Modeling Language which includes several diagram types.

Used for seeing what is going on in software applications.

Question 13

System diagram vs Business Diagram?

Answer 13

Two different perspectives

Business:
What they do
How it does that

System:
What they do
How it does that

Question 14

CRUD

Answer 14

CRUD matrix is used for analyzing the current state of an organization.

Created for processes and entitites.

Create, read, update, delete

(Can also help improving processes)

Question 15

What is Zachman Framework?

Answer 15

Sort of Periodic table for business. Organizing all the models created.

(No suggestions)

Question 16

Which colums does Zachman Framework exist of?

Answer 16

What,
How,
Where,
Who,
When,
Why.

Question 17

Rows does the Zachman Framework exist of?

Answer 17

The stakeholders.

Question 18

What are the core components of Enterprise Architecture?

Answer 18

As is
To be
Migration plan
Principles
Decision log

Question 19

CRUD can?

Answer 19

Connect Use-case/activity diagrams with relational model.