UNITY UNIVERSITY, ADAMA CAMPUS

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

NAME:______________________________ Max. Point: 30

ID No:_____________________________
DEPARTMENT:________________________
Max. Time Allotted: 1:30 hrs.
Part One: - Write “True” if the statement is correct and “False” if the statement
is incorrect (1 point each)
1. Finding out more about the problem, formulating alterative solutions, choosing
the best alternative, devising a plan for its implementation is one of the analytical skills
that every system analyst must require.
2. System Designers are the technical specialists who construct, test, and deliver the
system into operation
3. Design and Maintenance involves a thorough study of an organization’s current
procedures and the information systems used to perform organizational tasks
4. Requirements determination involves using models or graphical representations of
users’ requirements or the current system
5. Analysis involves converting the description of the recommended alternative
system into logical and then physical design specifications
6. Implementation is the physical specification is turned into a working system; the
system is tested and then put to use
7. Prototyping- refers to designing and building a miniaturized (scaled-down) but
functional version of the proposed system
8. Economic Feasibility is the study used to understand the organization’s ability to
construct the proposed system
9. Project Selection and identification focuses on defining clear, discrete tasks and
the work needed to complete each task
10. The SOW is an internal document used by the development team but not shared
with customers
Part Two: - Choose the correct answer from the given alternatives and write the
letter of your choice on the answer sheet provided at the end of the
last page of your question paper (1 point each)

1. The information gathering technique that enables the A) Document Analysis

analyst to collect facts and opinions from a wide B) Questionnaire
range of geographically dispersed people quickly and C) Interview
with the least expense is the_______________ D) JAD Session
E) Observation
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2. Understanding why an information system should be A. Analysis

built and determining how the project team will build B. System Request
is part of the phase of the SDLC C. Gathering
D. Initiation
E. None of the above

3. Which of the following is not a fact-finding A) Interview                

technique? B) Questionnaire
C) Record Reviews
D) Third Party Enquiry
E) Direct Observation

4. Cost-Benefit Analysis of the project is performed A) Analysis phase

at________ B) Design phase                         
C) Feasibility Study
D) Implementation phase                            
E) Maintenance phase
5. Which feasibility determines the availability of team A) Economic Feasibility
and support staff? B) Cultural Feasibility
C) Technological Feasibility
D) Schedule feasibility
E) Resource Feasibility
6. Which of the following is considered as an intangible A) Staff and personnel cost
benefit in the economic feasibility study of system B) Operational Efficiency
analysis and design? C) Decreasing Operating Cost
D) Training and Equipment
Cost
E) All of the above

7. Which of the following approaches are used to analyze A) Prototyping

and design a system specifically in Structured System B) Joint Application Dev.t
Analysis and Design paradigm? C) Data Flow Diagram
 D) RAD
E) All of the above

8. The following are the criteria commonly used to A) Resource Availability

evaluate a project in classifying and ranking IS B) Project size / duration
development projects except one? C) Value chain analysis
D) Performance of the
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stakeholders
E) None of the above
9. Which of the following SDLC refers to the study of a A) Requirement Analysis
business problem for the purpose of recommending B) System Design
improvements and specifying the business C) Implementation
D) Maintenance/User Support
requirements for the solution?
E) Project Planning
10. Which of the following requirement describe what A) Platform Requirement
the system should do? B) Functional Requirement
C) Non-functional Requirement
D) Process Requirement
E) None of the above
11. The following are technical or quality issues to be A) Portability and Usability
addressed in non-functional-requirements of B) Efficiency and Acceptability
requirement determination except one? C) Inputs accept and Outputs
deliver
D) Performance Characteristics
E) Hardware considerations
12. Which of the following requirement gathering A) RAD
method that brings together the key users, managers, B) Prototyping
and systems analysts involved in the analysis of a C) JAD
D) Interviewing
current system to collect systems requirements
E) Questionnaire
simultaneously?
13. Which of the following stockholders is not A) Users and Managers
participating in setting JAD sessions? B) Information System Staffs
C) System Analyst
D) Donors and Owners of the
System
E) Scribe and Sponsors

14. Which of the following is the result of identifying and A) Problems in existing system
selection of a project in system analysis and design? B) New features required in an
13. existing system
C) New idea for which
Information System is
 required
D) Requirement to improve
efficiency in the organization
E) All of the above
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15. Which of the following is the extent to which A) Coupling
subsystems are dependent on each other that all B) Decomposition
system analysts and developers must consider? C) Cohesion
D) Modularity
E) All of the above

16. Which of the following model is used to represent the A) Data Flow Diagram
processes, or actions that capture, manipulate, store B) Conceptual Model
and distribute data between a system and its C) Logical Model
environment and among the components within a D) Physical Model
system? E) ERD Model
17. Which of the following information system enables A) Transaction Processing System
information for the middle management for making B) Management Information System
short term decisions and plans for the organization? C) Decision Support System
D) Expert System
E) None of the above
18. Which of the following stakeholders are the one who A) System Owners
participate by defining the business requirements and B) System Analyst
performance expectations for the system to be built? C) System Users
D) System Designer
E) None of the above
19. Which of the following part of system analysis perform A) Requirement Determination
information gathered during the requirements gathering B) Modeling the requirements
process needs to be organized into a form that is a C) Structuring System Requirements
meaningful representation of the existing system and of D) Modeling Conceptual Data
the requirements for the new system? E) All except A
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20. Which of the following CBIS is designed to serve top A. Expert System
level managers and used to make decisions about B. Management Information
unstructured or complex problems and use System
mathematical models? C. Decision Support System
D. Office Automation System
E. All of the above
Part Three: Match items in column “A” with its corresponding items in column “B” (1
point each)
Column “A” Column “B”
1. Object Oriented System Analysis and A. Statement of Work (SOW)
Design B. System Design
2. Structured System Analysis and Design C. Prototyping
3. Architectural design of the system D. Baseline Project Plan(BPP)
4. Internal document used by the E. Stakeholders
development team F. JAD and RAD
5. Short document prepared for the G. Implementation
customers H. Use Case Diagram
6. Cost and Benefit Analysis I. Data Flow Diagram and ERD
7. System Development Approaches J. System Analysis
8. Requirement Determination K. Economic Feasibility
9. Model of the Proposed System
10. System Owners, Users and IT
Consultants

Part Four: - Read the following four business questions or problems carefully and give
short and precise answer for the problems, or questions accordingly.
Use the blank page attached at the end of the question paper for your
answer (25 Pts).
1. Kidu Assefa and Yonatan Shimels are employed by Unity University, Adama Campus as
IS manager and System developers in the department of Computer Science. They have
been assigned and promised to develop better and cheaper systems and more rapid
deployment by having systems developers and end users work together jointly in real-
time to develop Student Payment System to monitor the day to day cash collection of the
university and to generate reliable, accurate and on-time reports. Select the modern
methodology that is suitable for this project and reason out for those methodologies you
suggest (JAD, RAD, Prototyping) (3 Pts).
2. Suppose you are the manager in one of the construction company in Ethiopia and the
company need to implant a new information system to manage and control the inventory
management of the company. The system is expected to manage and control each
material out from the store for construction and those remained in the store and generate
a report about the status. In order to perform an analysis of the current information
system a number of people are consulted. List down those group of people to consult and
helpful to analyze the current system (5 Pts).
3. Implementing new Information System for any kind of organization or company can
significantly affect the productivity and morale of employees specifically when the
company needs to change the existing system by a new technology that every employees
of the organization are not familiar. Suppose you are the manager of this company and
what steps might a company take to make this process as smooth and stress-free as
possible?( 5 Pts).
4. Read the following business domain carefully and answer the required questions
accordingly (7 points)
A company database needs to store information about employees (identified by ssn, with
salary and phone as attributes); departments (identified by dno, with dname and budget as
attributes); and children of employees (with name and age as attributes). Employees work
in departments; each department is managed by an employee; a child must be identified
uniquely by name when the parent (who is an employee; assume that only one parent
works for the company) is known. We are not interested in information about a child
once the parent leaves the company.
a) Identify those entities with its corresponding attributes
b) Draw Entity Relation Diagram (ERD)
5. Draw a Context Data Flow Diagram (DFD) for Human Resource Management of Unity
University, Adama campus (3 Pts).
6. Build an ER Diagram for the following for the following business information (7 points)
A student record management system will have the following two basic data object
categories with their own features or properties: Students will have an Id, Name, Dept,
Age, GPA and Course will have an Id, Name, Credit Hours. Whenever a student enroll in
a course in a specific Academic Year and Semester, the Student will have a grade for the
course