The Open Exam Preparation:
Possible Mid-Term Exam
Questions for Review and Study for M271/F271
- Propose questions and answers that draw on either the
Lecture Notes or Required Readings for the topics of Enterprise System
Life Cycles, Requirements, Specifications, and Architecture.
- Post your questions on the Catalyst Discussion Forum for your
class ("first come, first serve")
- Avoid trivial questions.
- Avoid questions whose answers simply require memorization and
recall of verbatim facts or details from the Lecture Notes or Required
Readings.
- Try to develop questions that require some degree of
understanding or comprehension of the lecture materials or required
readings.
- Choose questions that represent a topic that you learned
something new or found interesting.
- When posting questions for consideration in the Discussion Forum,
identify your submission as "Possible Exam Questions".
- ONLY questions posted on the Discussion Forum for your class will
be considered for inclusion in the Exam. Do NOT email me your
questions.
- Please submit your FIVE exam questions before
deadline announced in class..
- Don't wait until the deadline to submit your questions, since you
never know how reliable Catalyst or your network connection may be J .
- Avoid essay questions. However, as your teacher, I reserve
the right to include zero or more short essay questions in your exam.
- Questions may be of the form of:
- TRUE/FALSE assertions
1. Enterprise systems are situated within the business processes and
workflow of people working within a dynamic setting ______ (answer:
True)
2. Use Cases characterize:
a. a verb or action that denotes a relation ______ (ans. True)
b. low-level implementation details in a Rich Picture _______ (ans.
False)
c. functional and non-functional requirements of an enterprise
system ______ (ans. False).
3. Identify four possible roles that people can play with an enterprise
system:
a. ________________, b. _____________, c. ______________, d.
_______________.
(ans. ANY four from the following: domain analyst, subject matter
expert, executive/internal customer, internal end-user, external
end-user, supplier/vendor, other (e.g., government regulator, consumer
rights advocate))
- matching items between column A and column B:
4. Identify the items (by letter) in the LEFT column that best
correspond to items in RIGHT column.
a. generic
classification
_________ process (ans. b)
b. has inputs and
outputs
_________ inheritance (ans. d)
c.
part-whole
_________ composition (ans. c)
d:
is-a
_________ general-to-specific (ans. a)
5. Identify whether each item or activity is primarily associated with
(R)equirements, (A)nalysis, or (D)esign
a. ______ how the system is to be implemented (ans. D)
b. ______ concerns for why the system should be developed (ans. R)
c. ______ what the system does (ans. A)
d. ______ Use Cases (ans. R)
- visual identification of elements (e.g., identifying
elements portrayed in a Rich Picture).
6. In this Rich Picture, identify the Roles people play within the
context of Fishy Web Inc.
_________________________________________________
(ans. Director, Market Research, Administration, Web Analyst, HTML
Coder)