MGMT 340 Final Exam Study Guide
Exam Questions
1. You will have 3 hours and 30 minutes to complete the exam.
2. Please also note that during the exam time, copy and paste and printing are disabled.
3. The exam is made up of 30 questions worth 250 points total.
o 20 multiple choice questions worth 5 points each (40%)
o 10 essay questions worth 15 points each (60%)
4. The exam covers COs 1–9.
5. The exam covers Chapters 1 through 10, Appendix A, and Appendix B.
6. Remember to save your answers often.
7. Remember to submit your exam when you are finished.
8. Keep an eye on the remaining time, and save your work often because when the time limit is reached, you will automatically be exited from the exam
9. Some of the key study areas are as follows: (while these are key areas remember that the exam is comprehensive for all the assigned course content and this study guide may not be all inclusive.
• TCO 1
o Role of a Systems Analyst
o Rapid Application Development (RAD)
o Characteristics and skills of a Systems Analyst
o The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
o Information Systems
• TCO 2
o Cost Benefit Analysis Techniques
o Project Feasibility
o Risks in Information Systems Projects
o Project Phase Activities
o Role of a Systems Analyst
o Understanding a project’s tangible and intangible benefits and costs
o Critical Path
• TCO 3
o Traditional techniques for collecting information during analysis
o Modern techniques for collecting information during analysis
o Prototyping
o Traditional business functions in a series of modules
o Scaled down systems
o Requirements determination
o Joint Application Design (JAD)
o Gantt and PERT charts
• TCO 4
o Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs)
o Data Modeling terms and concepts
o Decomposition
o Maintaining an information system
o Logical and physical database design and models
o Two-dimensional tables
o Goals of table design
o File organizations
• TCO 5
o Entities
o Relationships
o Logical and physical database design and models
o Two-dimensional tables
o Goals of table design
o File organizations
• TCO 6
o Request for Proposals (RFPs)
o Availability
o Sources of system software
o Selecting alternative systems
o Common criteria for selecting off-the-shelf software
• TCO 7
o Guidelines for designing forms and reports
o Guidelines for displaying text
o Deliverable from conceptual data-modeling
o The human interface
• TCO 8
o Object oriented modeling
o Use case diagrams
o What is Unified Modeling Language (UML)
o Sources of system software
o Selecting alternative systems
o Common criteria for selecting off-the-shelf software
• TCO 9
o Deliverable from coding, testing and installation processes
o Activities of maintenance
o Computer training methods
o Types of maintenance
o Types of user documentation
10. Areas that were discussed in the threads will be prime targets.
11, Review the Key Points Review and Key Terms Checkpoints at the end of each chapter and the review questions/answers in doc sharing.
12. Assignments will also be prime targets for revisiting.
Finally, if you have any questions for me, please post them to our Q&A, or email me. Good luck on the exam!
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