1. What is an Entity Relationship Diagram? An entity relationship diagram is a graphical representation of an organisation’s data storage requirements. Entity relationship diagrams are abstractions of the real world which simplify the problem to be solved while retaining its essential features. Entity relationship diagrams are used to: identify the data that must be captured‚ stored and retrieved in order to support the business activities performed by an organisation; and identify the data required
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Food Web Diagram Snake (D) Hawk (D) Coyote (D) Insects (C) Scorpion (C) Lizard (C) Quail (C) Mouse (C) Cactus (P) Grass (P) When you are explaining an ecosystem you have producers‚ consumers‚ and decomposers. Producers are the plants and the tress in the ecosystem that provide the energy to the ecosystem. As for the desert the producers are cactus and grass. The consumers of the ecosystem are in three different kinds‚ they are herbivores‚ carnivores‚ and omnivores. Herbivores are the consumers
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6 Pg 305 2. What is a data flow diagram? Why do systems analysts use data flow diagrams? Answers: A picture of the movement of data between external entities and the processes and data stores within a system. Systems analysts use DFDs to help in the analysis phase by accomplishing the following three things: 1. Requirements Determination 2. Requirements Structuring 3. Alternative Generation and Selection 3. Explain the rules for drawing good data flow diagrams. Answers: Process: A. No process
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Topology Diagram Topology Name Logical Characteristics Physical Characteristics Star Data passes through the hub to reach other devices on the network. Several devices having its own cable that connects to a central hub‚ or sometimes a switch‚ or even a Multi-station Access Unit (MAU). Data passes through the hub to reach other devices on the network. Ring Information is passed from one computer to another in either clock-wise direction or counter clock-wise direction and
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Component Diagram Notations The component diagram’s main purpose is to show the structural relationships between the components of a system. In addition‚ component diagrams are useful communication tools for various groups. In creating a component diagram‚ there are different notations that can be used to show the different relationship of each component within the system. The component diagram notation set now makes it one of the easiest UML diagrams to draw: * COMPONENT A component can
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Netflix‚ Inc.‚ (NASDAQ: NFLX) is an American provider of on-demand internet streaming media in the United States‚ Canada[5]‚ and Latin America and flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States. The company was established in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Gatos‚ California. It started its subscription-based digital distributionservice in 1999[6] and by 2009 it was offering a collection of 100‚000 titles on DVD and had surpassed 10 million subscribers. On February 25‚ 2007‚ Netflix announced the billionth
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USE-CASE DIAGRAM EXERCISE 1. Draw a use case diagram for an ATM machine with the following functionality. A customer’s interaction with the system involves logging in‚ making withdrawal requests‚ deposit requests‚ and balance inquiry requests. If the customer logs in‚ there is a possibility (although rare) that the system will confiscate the card (for example‚ if the login is incorrect or if the bank determines that the customer’s balance is significantly under zero). Card confiscation involves
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Netflix‚ Inc. is a subscription-based movie and television show rental service that offers media to it’s subscribers through on-demand internet streaming and DVD-by-mail service. Since its start in 1997‚ Netflix has taken the movie rental world by storm‚ becoming the world’s largest online movie rental service. As of January 2013 Netflix had a total of 29.4 million streaming customers worldwide (Cohan). Netflix can attribute much of its success to its decisions to follow trends in consumer behavior
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Free-body diagrams are diagrams used to show the relative magnitude and direction of all forces acting upon an object in a given situation. A free-body diagram is a special example of the vector diagrams that were discussed in an earlier unit. These diagrams will be used throughout our study of physics. The size of the arrow in a free-body diagram reflects the magnitude of the force. The direction of the arrow shows the direction that the force is acting. Each force arrow in the diagram is labeled
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Functional Decomposition Diagram An analyst first must understand an organization’s business functions before he or she can begin developing information systems. The functional decomposition diagram (FDD) is a business planning tool that depicts the hierarchy of business functions‚ processes‚ and subprocesses within an organization that are later described in detail using process models (chapter 6). The exercise of breaking down‚ or decomposing‚ the business functions into processes makes complex
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