MIS 372–Chapter 4 – Flashcards

The specific area of the user's business need that is within the scope of the new system is called the _______.​

One technique to find the "things" that need to be included in the new system begins by starting with a user and the use cases and then try to identify the necessary informational "things." This technique is called the _______.​

One technique for finding "things" that need to be in the new system is done by the analyst starts making lists of "things." He may do this from information and even without talking to the users extensively. This technique is called the _______.​

When making a list of nouns to determine what are the important "things" for the new system, there are three question that should be asked about each noun. Which of the following is one of those questions?​

A piece of information about a particular object is called a(n) _______.​

An example of an attribute of an object might be _______.​

An attribute whose value uniquely identifies an object is called a(n) _______.​

A(n) _______ is a naturally occurring association among specific things.

The number of associations that occur among specific things in an entity relationship diagram is called ____.

A synonym for cardinality (used with UML class diagrams) is ____.

____ is used to describe the relationship between two things of the same type, such as one person being married to another person.​

A synonym for cardinality (used with UML class diagrams) is _______.​

An attribute that contains a collection of related attributes is called a(n) _______.

A measure of the number of links between one object and another object in a relationship is called the _______.​

In the traditional approach to system development, the system stores information about ____.​

The crows feet notation on an ERD is a type of _______ constraint.​

A relationship that has a cardinality constraint of one or more is a(n) _______ relationship.​

The domain model class diagram is used to _______ .​

A relationship between a "sports team" and the players, coaches, and sponsor would be described as what kind of relationship?​

As association class is frequently required for what kind of relationship?​

In UML the constraint denoted by "0..*" indicates what?

Which of the following is NOT true about a UML class.​

_____ is based on the idea that people classify things in terms of similarities and differences.​

A concept that allows subclasses to share the characteristics of their superclasses is called ____.​

A class that represents a many-to-many association between two other classes is called a(n) ____ class.​

If we modeled a "sale" and the "sale items" with a whole-part relationship, it would best be described as a _______ relationship.​

In a generalization/specialization relationship, it would not make sense for a class at the bottom of the hierarchy to be a(n) ______ class.

Inheritance describes a condition between classes where _______ .​

For real-world objects the state of an object is the same as its _______.​

In a transition label in a state machine the syntax is A(B)[C]/D. The D stands for what?

The guard-condition on a transition indicates what?​

The action-expression occurs when?

In a state machine diagram, a state is represented by a(n) _______.

Which of the following is NOT an element in a transition label?​

Which of the following is NOT a step in the development of a state machine diagram?​

A state machine diagram is used to document the states and transitions of a(n) _______.

The symbol that is used to initiate concurrent paths in a state machine diagram is what?

Descriptive properties of things in the problem domain are often documented as what?​

When analyzing the list of nouns to determine whether to exclude a particular noun as an important "thing," which of the following questions should be asked about the noun? (choose two)