CS1601 Mock Exam PDF

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This document is a mock exam for CS1601, covering information systems and system analysis and design. It contains multiple-choice questions and open-ended questions.

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CS1601 MOCK Examination The exam consists of Part 1 and Part 2. Part 1: Multiple-Choice Questions. It consists of 30 multiple-choice questions on Block 1, Block 2 and Block 3 (Section 1) and 5 multiple-choice questions on the Case Study (Section 2). Read each question carefully and select the corr...

CS1601 MOCK Examination The exam consists of Part 1 and Part 2. Part 1: Multiple-Choice Questions. It consists of 30 multiple-choice questions on Block 1, Block 2 and Block 3 (Section 1) and 5 multiple-choice questions on the Case Study (Section 2). Read each question carefully and select the correct answer. Part 2: Open-Answer Questions. It consists of two open-answer questions on the Case Study. Answer both questions in the space provided. Complete and submit both Parts of the Exam. __________________________________________________________________ EXAM PART 1: MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS There are two sections in this Part: Section 1 contains 30 questions on the content of Block 1, Block 2 and Block 3. Section 2 contains 5 questions on the Case Study. Answer ALL questions SECTION 1 Block 1: Information Systems Answer all questions. Your target to pass this examination is to achieve 4 out of 10 correct answers in this Block. 1. Open systems exchange information and materials with their environment. T 2. Transaction processing systems are used by middle managers to process daily transactions. F 3. Structured decisions can only be aided by a system, but they cannot be fully automated. F 4. Which are the three management levels? Executive, middle, supervisory. Expert, senior, supervisory. Executive, tactical, operational. Expert, middle, operational. 5. Which of the following is NOT true of a Decision Support System? They help answer 'What if?' questions. They may use data from Transaction Processing Systems. They may use models or simulations. They produce standard reports and statistics based on transactional data. 6. Which of the following is a characteristic of information used for strategic planning? Information is highly detailed. Information is frequent. Information is mainly external. Information is immediate. 7. In which stage of the decision-making process, information on the range of alternatives available, and their implications, must be supplied? Implementation Choice Intelligence Design 8. Which of the following is a good example of the information available from a management information system used by Mini Market, a food retailer business? A report listing Mini Market's delivery vans with high running costs. A report listing the products bought by Mrs Lucy Smith last Tuesday. A breakdown of the tax calculations and deductions in John Doe's pay packet. A report from a simulation study of opening a new Mini Market super store in Lancaster. 9. Which of the following describes the function of a transaction processing system? It produces weekly, monthly, and yearly overviews of day-to-day activities. It helps with business decisions that are unique and not easily specified in advance. It supports daily routine transactions necessary to the conduct of business. It provides advice in highly specialised subject areas. 10. Which type of system can generate routine reports using operational data? An expert system A management information system A decision support system A transaction processing system Block 2: System Analysis and Design Answer all questions. Your target to pass this examination is to achieve 4 out of 10 correct answers in this Block. 1. An interaction with the human staff of an organisation is called a business use case. T 2. Only actors who interact with the system during a use case can be classified as its stakeholders. F 3. The foreign key of an entity is an attribute the value of which uniquely identifies one instance of the entity. F 4. Which of the following correctly implements the relationship in this diagram? Add the primary key for Entity A as primary key for Entity B. Add the primary key of Entity A as foreign key in Entity B. Add the primary key of Entity B as foreign key in Entity A. Add the primary keys of one Entity as foreign key to the other Entity. 5. Which of the following statements wrongly interprets the diagram? There must be two Entity Ds related to each Entity C. Each Entity D may not have any Entity C related to it. There cannot be more than 1 Entity C related to Entity D. Each Entity D must have 2 Entity Cs related to it. 6. Consider the Entity ‘Movie’. Which of the following attributes is more likely to be multivalued? Movie_ID Title ReleaseYear Genre 7. Examine the activity diagram below. Which of the following conditions will lead to Activity 15 being executed but not Activity 18? ray = 0 and pc = 1 ray = -1 and pc = 1 ray = 0 and pc = -1 ray = -1 and pc = -1 8. The system shown in the state chart below is in state StateK with the variable c equal to 0. What state will the system be in after the event sequence Event2, Event1, Event1? Event1 Event1 StateK Event2 [c>100] StateL Event1 Event2 Event2 [c

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