Assignment Cover Sheet

Qualification Module Number and Title

Higher Diploma in Computing & Software CSE4004
Engineering System Analysis & Designing
Student Name & No. Assessor

Hand out date Submission Date

Assessment type Duration/Length of Weighting of Assessment

Assessment Type 100%

WRIT1-Coursework:
Assignment 2 ( Individual )2250 words 75 %
equivalent

Learner declaration

I, ………………………………………….<name of the student and registration number>, certify that the work
submitted for this assignment is my own and research sources are fully acknowledged.

Marks Awarded
First assessor
IV marks
Agreed grade
Signature of the assessor Date

FEEDBACK FORM
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 INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE OF BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY
Module:
Student:
Assessor:
Assignment: Time Management System

Strong features of your work:

Areas for improvement:

Marks Awarded:

Coursework

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Learning outcomes covered

1. Demonstrate system designing methodologies, tools and the techniques

2. Evaluate different systems development life cycle models
3. Analyze the system by using appropriate fact finding techniques.
4. Design the system by using appropriate system design techniques.

Scenario and Tasks

Introduction

System Analysis & designing is a very important subject domain related to

Information systems. Information systems’ durability, Validity, efficiency & accuracy depends
on how well the system investigation & designing activities are accomplished during the system
development life cycle. Learning & making use of the best tools such as Entity Relationship
Diagram, Data Flow Diagram, Flowchart and Unified Modelling Language Diagrams for
aforementioned activities are very much essential for a system analyst.

Clear understand ability of Software Development Life Cycle model stages & unique
duties assigned to those enables software development team to maintain product quality, track
progress, project budget and the nature of the product, according to higher satisfactory level.
Selecting the best Software development process model for an information system project is
crucial since success or failure of the product can be decided by the process model & its
systematic approach.

When the subject domain is concerned it is always imperative to attention to be paid in applying
creativity and innovation for system designing in a manner that modern world man kind’s
requirements are supported by considering not only how their lives are further improved with
sophistication but also focusing on how does ethical and professional issues are mitigated as
much as possible.

Scenario

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The students are expected to use the information gathered and requirement identified from the
Time Management System which they have completed for the PRES1 to complete the below
tasks.

Assignment 2
Individual – (Document Submission)
Tasks
1. Identify the advantage of using a standard software development lifecycle a model for
developing the software solution what is proposed for the organization/ institution.
(LO2- 40 Marks)

2. Design the data model of the software solution that will be implemented in the
organization / institution by considering all required data / information requirements and
explain briefly what is the best technique is to carry out data model designing of the
system. (LO4- 25 Marks)

3. Design the functional model of the system software solution that will be implemented in
the organization / institution having concerned all the features /facilities, data collection,
transitions, transfers and dissemination requirements and explain briefly what is the best
technique is to carry out functional model designing of the system. (LO4-35 Marks)

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Assignment 2 (LO2 and LO4 – 100 Marks)
Task 1 (LO2 – 40 Marks)

Marks Marks
Criteria obtained
by the
Out of student
40 for the
answer
provided
poor

 System Development life cycle explained

such as Communication, planning,
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Designing, Development & Testing,
Implementation but no mapping has been
done with system implemented.

Satisfactory
 At least Five stages of the System
Development life cycle explained such as
Communication, planning, Designing,
Development & Testing, Implementation.
10-19
 Every stage has been mapped with proposing
system development & designing activities.
 Standard documentation by including
Harvard referencing

Good
 At least Five stages of the System
Development life cycle explained such as
Communication, planning, Designing,
Development & Testing, Implementation.
 Every stage has been mapped with proposing
system development & designing activities.
20-29
 The description based on Prescriptive,
Incremental, Evolutionary, Agile &
Specialized Process Models
 Standard documentation by including
Harvard referencing

Excellent

 At least Five stages of the System

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 Development life cycle explained such as
Communication, planning, Designing,
Development & Testing, Implementation.

 Every stage has been mapped with proposing

system development & designing activities.
 The description based on
Prescriptive,Incremental,Evolutionary,Agile
& Specialized Process Models
 Justifications have been done based on the
qualities of the proposing system.
 Standard documentation by including 30-40
Harvard referencing

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 Task 2 (LO4 – 25 Marks)

Marks Marks obtained

Criteria by the student
Out of 25 for the answer
provided
Poor
 Use ER diagrams to design data model of the
0-6
proposing system but some errors exists.

Satisfactory
 Use ER diagrams to design data model of the
proposing system.

 Find entities, Attributes, relationships, Primary

keys, , different cardinalities, and other entities. 7-12

 Attributes, Entities, Relationships &

Cardinalities properly selected & illustrated.

Good

 Use ER diagrams to design data model of the

proposing system.

 Find entities, Attributes, relationships, Primary

13-18
keys, proper relationships with cardinality ratios.

 Attributes, Entities, Relationships &

Cardinalities properly selected & illustrated.

 Write a data dictionary for the ER diagram.

Excellent 19-25

 Use ER diagrams to design data model of the

proposing system.

 Find entities, Attributes, relationships, Primary

keys, proper relationships with cardinality ratios.

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  Attributes, Entities, Relationships &
Cardinalities properly selected & illustrated.

 Write a data dictionary for the ER diagram.

 Has been used standard format for the Data

dictionary.

Task 3 (LO4 – 35 Marks)

Marks Marks obtained

Criteria by the student
Out of 35 for the answer
provided
Poor

 Draw context level Data Flow Diagram to

illustrate functional model of the proposing 0-8
system with some errors.

Satisfactory 9-17
 Draw context level Data Flow Diagram to
illustrate functional model of the proposing
system.
 External Entitles, Main Information System &
Information Initial flow between External
Entities & Main Information System have been
identified & illustrated.

 Proper Process & data flow labeling used

 Standard documentation by including Harvard

referencing

 Drawing USE CASE diagram by identifying

relevant actors and functions

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Good
 Draw context level Data Flow Diagram to
illustrate functional model of the proposing
system.

 External Entitles, Main Information System &

Information Initial flow between External
Entities & Main Information System have been
identified & illustrated.

 Draw Level 0 Data Flow Diagram to illustrate

functional model of the proposing system.
showing at least five different transaction
processors

 External Entities, Major Processes, Data

Storages & initial Data Flows & Intermediate
Data Flows in between them have been
Identified & illustrated.

 Draw a Level 1 Data Flow Diagram to illustrate 18-26

functional model of the proposing system
considering detailed analysis.
 External Entities, Sub Processes, Data Storages
& initial Data Flows & Intermediate Data Flows
in between them have been Identified &
illustrated.

 Proper Process & data flow labeling used

 Drawing USE CASE diagram by identifying

relevant actors and functions and identifying
dependencies properly (Extend/ Include)

 Drawing an average level Class diagram by

identifying several classes related to the given
scenario.

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Excellent

 Draw context level Data Flow Diagram to illustrate

functional model of the proposing system.

 External Entitles, Main Information System &

Information Initial flow between External Entities &
Main Information System have been identified &
illustrated.
 In order to further explain internal logic of the
major processes’ of the information system,
Structured English, Decision Trees & Decision
Tables properly used for DFD level 0 processes.
 Process specifications have been included using
standard process specification format
27-35
 Object type, Data Type, Data Inflow & Data Out
Flow have been described.
 Write a data dictionary for the DFD level 0 using
standard format.
 Top down designing technique & the bottom up
designing technique should be properly explained
considering the functional design.
 Drawing USE CASE diagram by identifying
relevant actors and functions and identifying
dependencies properly (Extend/ Include)
 Drawing Class diagram by identifying all the classes
and the different types of suitable relationships
among the classes

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 Document Format:

 Submission format: Document

 Paper Size: A4
 Words: 2250 words
 Printing Margins: LHS; RHS: 1 Inch
 Binding Margin: ½ Inch
 Header and Footer: 1 Inch
 Basic Font Size: 12
 Line Spacing: 1.5
 Font Style: Times New Roman
 Reference Style: Harvard Referencing

Final Grading criteria :

Marks Final Grade
>=70 Distinction
69-55 Merit
54-40 Pass
<40 Fail

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