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SBM4201 System Analysis and Design
Semester 1, 2018
Portfolio Assessment
Portfolio No.: XXXXXXXXXX
Group/individual: Individual Assignment
Weighting: XXXXXXXXXX%
Question one: Allhomes Company Case Study
The IT department at the Allhomes company has received the approval to add new position
of systems analyst. Your role is to support the set up the hiring timetable and tasks. After
discussion with a number of employee in the department, you identified the tasks and the
order in which they have to be performed as follows:
First, review the applications (2 days). Then start three tasks: notify the IT team (1 days) and
set up an interview schedule (5 days). When the team has been notified and the conference
oom reserves, prepare a set of interview questions (2 days). When the questions are ready,
and the interview schedule has been developed, conduct the interviews (5days). After the
interviews are done, meet with the hiring committee to select a candidate (1 day).
Tasks:
1. Prepare a work
eakdown structure explaining task, durations, and predecessor
task.
2. Calculate the start and finish date for each task and determine the critical path.
Question two: iTech Company Case Study
The HR department at the iTech company offers a job position to Kim Jones. She will start
the new job after three weeks. As an IT department member, you were asked to set up an
orientation for her, including meeting with human resources, users, and the IT team. Tour at
the company needs also to be organized. You suggested the following schedule:
First, Kim have to meet with the human resources to learn about the company benefits and
policies (3 hours). After finishing the meeting, she has to handle three tasks at once: she
could tour the company offices (4 hours), meet with the users (3 hours), and work on the
necessary paperwork (2 hours). Then, after meeting the IT manager and with all the
paperwork completed, she would meet with the entire IT team for a
ief introduction (1
hours).
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Tasks:
1. Prepare a work
eakdown structure explaining task, durations, and predecessor
task.
2. Calculate the start and finish date for each task and determine the critical path.
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SBM4201 System Analysis and Design
Semester 1, 2018
Portfolio Assessment
Portfolio No.: XXXXXXXXXX
Group/individual: Individual Assignment
Question one: Course Registration Case Study
An educational institute has a course registration system. The student access the institute
website to check the course schedule and register a course. Once the student pays the
course fees, the system provides the fee statement. At the student service department, the
egistrar prepared the course schedule and updates courses information as required. The
cashier can access the payment system to check the student’s payments and courses
egistration process. Instructors and tutors can view the number of students registered in
any course.
1. List possible entities in the registration system, including their attributes.
2. Identify possible use cases and actors.
3. Draw the use case diagram that explain the students process of student registration.
You may need to make some assumptions with the required justifications
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SBM4201 System Analysis and Design
Semester 1, 2018
Portfolio Assessment
Portfolio No.: XXXXXXXXXX
Group/individual: Individual Assignment
Weighting: XXXXXXXXXX%
Question one: Case Study
High Education College (HEC) is an educational institute provides different courses in information
technology. The institute wants to develop and deploy new Online Learning System (OLS). The OLS
equired to install and configure email, web, database and management servers to provide the
equired services such as emails for staff and students, web page and database management
system. In addition, the networking infrastructure must be established to provide communication
and networking facilities with the required security and system availability. Different types of
network devices and support servers including networking switches and routers must be installed
and configured with all the required cabling services. Security devices and backup services are
equired to improve the system performance.
The institute wants to develop two online learning systems, Undergraduate Learning System (ULS)
and Postgraduate Learning System (PLS). The software developers at the IT department assigned the
task of developing both learning systems from scratch within 1 year and 4 months.
Task:
The Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) identifies all the activities required to build, launch, and
maintain an information system. Discuss the six core processes of the SDLC required to develop the
OLS project for the HEC. You have to provide detailed information regarding each core processing
activity. Your answer should consider Work Break Down (WBS), sequence of activities and the
dependencies of those activities. In addition, you have to used modeling, use cases and other
equired techniques and tools with justification.
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SBM4201 System Analysis and Design
Semester 1, 2018
Portfolio Assessment
Portfolio No.: XXXXXXXXXX
Group/individual: Individual Assignment
Protfolio-4: Poster
The purpose of a poster is to provide a visual summary of student’s ideas that outlines key
message or argument as well as the key points or proposal. A poster uses very few words
with appropriate visuals and graphics.
Task Specifications
In Protfolio-4, the student have to prepare a poster to present his/her message in the topic of
Data Modelling. The poster should have clear structure and layout to support that message.
The poster has to consider the followings main topics such as:
- The benefit of data modelling in system analysis
- Types of data modelling in systems analysis
- Conceptual, Logical and Physical models
- The ways of transition from one data model to another.
- Methods of data analysis.
- Case study examples illustrating data modelling.
Prepare a poster to demonstrate your research, analysis or ideas in range of visual techniques
such as illustrations, schematic diagrams, a
ows or flow charts and cues such as bullet
points, colour and design.
Poster Development
ï‚· Use any application software you are familiar with in the development of your poster,
such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Power Point, Microsoft Publisher, Adobe
Photoshop, or any other software.
ï‚· Set your poster page size to A4 and develop your poster.
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SBM4201 System Analysis and Design
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Portfolio Assessment
Portfolio No.: XXXXXXXXXX
Group/individual: Individual Assignment
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Question one: ABC Company Case Study
You work as system analyst at ABC company, your role focus on testing web-based system
that involved different set of tools and technique. Your manger wants you to offer
consulting services specifically in testing the performance, integrity, efficiency, and security
of Internet-based systems.
Your manager wants you to identify various website testing tools that cu
ently are
available, then use these tools as a