System Analysis Multiple Choice Quiz

System Control and Organizational Systems

• Feedback is most closely associated with system control.
• The elements that make up an organizational system are called entities.

Context Level Data Flow Diagram

• The context level data flow diagram depicts the boundaries of a system.
• The symbol used to represent a process on a context level data flow diagram is a rectangle with rounded corners.
• The triangle symbol is not used on the context level data flow diagram.

External Entities

• An external entity can be a person, another department, or another computer system.
• External entities are outside an organization's boundaries.

Entity Relationship Diagram

• A crow's foot line is used to depict a relationship in an entity relationship diagram.
• A crow's foot notation indicates many of the other entity.

Entity Relationships

• A 1:1 relationship exists when each employee has a unique phone extension.
• A many-to-many relationship is replaced with an associative entity to form two one-to-many relationships.

Entity Types

• An attributive entity describes attributes, such as repeating groups.
• An associative entity joins two other entities.

Management Levels

• Operations level of management makes decisions using predetermined rules that have predictable outcomes.
• Strategic level of management is most dependent on external information.

Organizational Views

• The cultural view of organizations concentrates on myths, metaphors, humor, and ceremonies.

Organizational Systems

• Anything external to an organization's boundaries is considered to be the environment.
• The free flow of information within a system is called openness.
• A virtual organization uses computer networks and communications technology to bring people together to work on projects.

Enterprise Resource Planning

• An enterprise resource planning system is an integrated organizational information system.
• An enterprise resource planning system is purchased rather than developed.