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CREATE A SYSTEM FLOWCHART. TRANSCRIBE THE WRITTEN FACTS INTO VISUAL FORMAT. (15 points)

1. A clerk in the sales department receives a hard-copy customer order by mail and manually prepares
four hard copies of a sales order.

2. The clerk sends Copy 1 of the sales order to the credit department for approval. The other three
copies and the original customer order are filed temporarily, pending credit approval.

3. The credit department clerk validates the customer’s order against hard-copy credit records kept in
the credit department. The clerk signs Copy 1 to signify approval and returns it to the sales clerk.
_______________ is the blueprint for what ultimately will become the physical database.
_______________ shows the degree of relationship, it is the numeric mapping between entity instances.
degree of the relationship
_______________ is a documentation technique used to represent the relationship between entities.
_______________ are physical resources ex. automobiles, cash, or inventory
_______________ ex. ordering inventory, receiving cash, shipping goods
_______________ ex. salesperson, customer, or vendor
_______________ is the graphical representation of the physical relationships among key elements of a
system.
_______________ uses symbols to represent the entities, processes, data flows, and data stores that
pertain to a system.
_______________ are used to reveal the internal structure of the records that constitute a file or
database table.
A _____________is a group of similar transactions (such as sales orders) that are accumulated over time
and then processed together.

Types of flowcharts we discussed:

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Cardinality
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Recreate the program flowchart of the EDIT PROGRAM that will save records to the EDITED FILE and
ERROR FILE. Label all symbols. (15 points)