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ECWD Review Questions

ECWD Review Questions. Dr. John Sum Institute of Electronic Commerce National Chung Hsing University. Review Questions. Select a website from Travelocity.COM, Global-Trade.COM, iSteelAsia.COM and Forbes.COM, and describe the underlying information technologies being used in it.

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ECWD Review Questions

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  1. ECWD Review Questions Dr. John Sum Institute of Electronic Commerce National Chung Hsing University

  2. Review Questions • Select a website from Travelocity.COM, Global-Trade.COM, iSteelAsia.COM and Forbes.COM, and describe the underlying information technologies being used in it. • What is the definition of an information systems? • What are the differences between a website and an information system? • Describe how “network technologies” can facilitate the business activities of a company. ECWD Review Questions

  3. Review Questions • Describe in your own words • (1) why a development team should ‘acquire’ knowledge in the latest information technologies. • (2) should a development team have a throughout understanding in all these latest technologies? • With an aid of diagrams, explain the differences between the conventional and contemporary IS design approaches. • Describe what Asian business environment has been changing since 1980’s, and its affect on the requirements of an IS. ECWD Review Questions

  4. Review Questions • Describe in details the roles and responsibilities of the participants in a system development project? • Describe the (1) purposes, (2) similarities and (3) differences amongst creative analysis, critical analysis, feasibility analysis, requirement analysis, system analysis. • Describe what is the waterfall model and its limitations in system development. ECWD Review Questions

  5. Review Questions • If you are the leader of a development team, which of the following graduates you will consider to be hired in your team and explain why: • (i) computer science, • (ii) e-commerce and • (iii) information management (or MIS). • Besides, what level of education (UG, Master or PhD) they should have. ECWD Review Questions

  6. Review Questions • With an aid of diagrams, describe in detail any 3 development approaches, and state their differences. • State any five reasons to initiate a system development. • Using a business case as an example and with an aid of diagrams, describe the relationships amongst business processes, information systems and information technologies. ECWD Review Questions

  7. Review Questions • In system analysis, data are collected for further analyzed. (1) Describe in detail the techniques for which the data can be collected. (2) In what situations, these techniques can be applied. (Add examples to explain if necessary). • Data flow diagram is an analysis model describing the how data is processed. • Describe, with an example, what are the four components in a DFD. • Describe in detail, step by step, how data flow diagrams are obtained. ECWD Review Questions

  8. Review Questions • DFD, application flowchart, grid charts and screen layouts are four analysis models obtained after system analysis. Describe what are the purposes of such models. • Describe what are the tentative contents that should be included in the System Investigation Report and the System Analysis Report. • A Road Map can be treated as a guideline for a system development. Describe in detail what are the six issues that a system developer could follow in order to achieve a traceable analysis model. ECWD Review Questions

  9. Review Questions • Suppose that there is no relevant system to support the daily administration for our Institute and you are told to lead a team building a new website to support this. • (a) Describe in detail how the requirement of the website can be analyzed. [10 marks] • (b) Describe in detail the content you will put in the system analysis report. [5 marks] • (c) Describe what kinds of expertise you will recruit in the team to build the website. Explain why. [5 marks] ECWD Review Questions

  10. Review Questions • Could the idea of component-based development be merged with rapid application development approach and why? [20 marks] ECWD Review Questions

  11. Review Questions • Imagine you are the director of the Public Relation Unit in NCHU, and need to conduct a marketing project to promote John Sum. A website will be designed in particular for this campaign. Describe, in you own words, • (a) what sort of content (e.g. John Sum is the most handsome professor in the institute) would be put on the website, • (b) how those contents should be presented (in dynamic way or in static format) on the website, and • (c) other related issues. • (You have to use diagrams illustrating the graphical layout of those pages, the architecture of the website. You also need to use a tree diagram to show the site map. Most importance, you should describe the reasons why you have to design the website in such a way.) [50 Marks] ECWD Review Questions

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