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Sherry’s Meats, a regional meat wholesaler and retailer, needs to collect up-to-date information on how much of each meat product it has in each store. It will then use that information to schedule
R. George’s, a fashionable clothing store that also has a catalog business, would like to keep track of the customers coming into the store so as to expand its mailing list.a. Design and draw a
My Belle Cosmetics is a large business that has sales well ahead of any other regional cosmetics firm. As an organization, it is very sensitive to color, because it introduces new color lines in its
The Home Finders Realty Corporation specializes in locating homes for prospective buyers. Home information is stored in a database and is to be shown on an inquiry display screen. Design a GUI
Design a Web entry page for the Home Finders Realty Corporation display screen created in Problem 8.
The five-year-old TowerWood hotel chain needs help designing its Web site. The company maintains properties in all the large U.S. tourist communities such as Orlando, Florida (near Disney World);
Sludge’s Auto is an auto parts recycling center, including classic and antique cars. Rhode Wheeler, the owner, would like to get his bearings on a Web site for customers to browse for parts. Design
Design the Add Customer Web page for Sludge’s auto. Include a profile that would allow Sludge’s to send the customer an email if a certain part becomes available.
Design the Purchase Web page for Sludge’s Auto. Assume that the customer has been added and has been logged on. Display some information about the customer. Split credit card information (type of
Design a Web page using Ajax for registering an electronic product, either hardware or software. The form should have the purchaser’s name and address, telephone number, email address, and a
Pooling information from the output design and reviewing their progress, Chip and Anna proceed to the next stage, the design of input. “Web pages must be designed to capture input information
Describe how you would go about analyzing the data storage needs of the Marc Schnieder Janitorial Supply Company. Would you trash the old system or just polish it up a bit? Discuss the implications
Think about how you would organize a data warehouse for Marathon Vitamin Shops. What other databases would you like to merge into the data warehouse? What sort of patterns should Bill Berry be
In two paragraphs, describe some techniques Ryan could use to help identify internal and external duplicates in his company’s marketing database. Describe how you would build a marketing database
1. Assume your team members have used the Training Unit Client Characteristics Report to design a database table to store the relevant information contained on this report, with the following
Gregg Baker orders tickets for two concerts over the Web. His orders are processed, exact seat locations are assigned, and the tickets are mailed separately. One of the sets of tickets gets lost in
What are the advantages of organizing data storage using a database approach?
What are the effectiveness measures of database design?
Define the term metadata. What is the purpose of metadata?
List types of commonly used conventional files. Which of these are temporary files?
List the three entity constraints. In a sentence, describe the meaning of each entity constraint.
Describe the four anomalies that may occur when creating database tables.
List the eight steps for retrieving, presorting, and presenting data.
What does join do? What is projection? What is selection?
Explain the differences between traditional databases and data warehouses.
Given the following file of renters:a. Show an example of projection.b. Show an example of selection.c. Show two different examples of sorting rows.d. Show an example of calculatingtotals.
The following is an example of a grade report for two students at the University of Southern New Jersey:Draw a data model diagram with associations for the userview.
Convert the user view in Problem 2 to a 3NF relation. Show each step along the way.
What problem might arise when using a primary key of course number for the data in Problem 2?
Draw an entity-relationship diagram for the following situation: Many students play many different sports. One person, called the head coach, assumes the role of coaching all these sports. Each of
The entity-relationship diagram you drew in Problem 5 represents the data entities that are needed to implement a system for tracking students and the sports that they play. List the tables that are
Draw an entity-relationship diagram for the following situation: A commercial bakery makes many different products. These products include breads, desserts, specialty cakes, and many other baked
List the tables and keys that are needed to implement the commercial bakery system.
Draw an E-R diagram for the ordering system in Figure
Draw a data flow diagram for placing an order. Base your data flow diagram on the E-R diagram.
Create an entity-relationship diagram for a genealogy software package called “PeopleTree” to keep track of ancestors. Assume that each person will be on a Person table and that one person may
Define the primary key used for the Person and Place tables.
GaiaOrganix is an organic food wholesale co-op linking producers and consumers. GaiaOrganix negotiates purchases by grocery and other stores from farmers who raise a variety of crops, such as fruits,
ArticleIndex.com is a company that produces indexes of magazine and periodical articles for a given discipline. AWeb user should be able to enter an article topic or authors and receive a detailed
Identify the primary and foreign keys for the entity-relationship diagram created in Problem 14.
After numerous interviews, prototypes, data flow diagrams, data dictionary entries, and UML diagrams have been completed, Anna and Chip both start work on the entity-relationship model. “I’ll be
Now construct graphs that analyze the same data. Using some of the examples found in this book, suggest the type of graphs and show the data so that different users with different styles can make
“I can get Mickey to download any data I need from the Web or our server to my PC,” DeWitt Miwaye, an upper-level manager for Yumtime Foods (a Midwest food wholesaler), tells you. “Getting data
“I’ve seen ’em all,” Carrie Moore tells you. “I was here when they got their first computer system. I guess I’ve sort of made a career of this,” she says cheerfully, pointing to the
What type of user interface will you design for the sales clerks? Before you come to your solution, do a careful analysis in three paragraphs that compares and contrasts various user
For each of the following, review what you know about the mission and business activities of Marathon Vitamin Shops. Then make a recommendation regarding each option the analysts and clients have
You have been called back to take another look at Mermans Costume Rentals. Here is part of the database created for Annie Oaklea of Mermans (with whom you last worked in
1. Write a short proposal describing what type of user interface would be appropriate for the users of the project reporting system who are in the training group. Include reasons for your decision.2.
With your group members, create a pull-down menu for an employment agency that matches professional candidates to position openings.Include a list of keystrokes that would directly invoke the menu
The drag-and-drop feature is used in GUIs and allows the user to move sentences around in a word processing package. As a group, suggest how drag and drop can be used to its fullest potential in the
Look at the following mashup Web sites and describe how each of them adds value by providing a service.a. Aboutairportparking.com, www.aboutairportparking.comb. Baebo, baebo.francisshanahan.comc.
The following two mashups have political agendas. Suggest three other mashups that attempt to change something by appealing to the public. Health Care That Works, www.healthcarethatworks.org/maps/nyc
Try these mashups just for fun.a. The Geography of Seinfeld, www.stolasgeospatial.com/seinfeld.htmb. HBO: The Sopranos c. PlotShot, www.plotshot.comd. Flickr Sudoku, flickrsudoku.come. Liveplasma,
Define HCI.
Explain how fit among the HCI elements of the human, the computer, and the tasks to be performed leads to performance and well-being.
List five of the eleven usability heuristics for judging the usability of computer systems and ecommerce Web sites provided by Nielsen and others.
List three physical considerations that HCI design addresses.
List three ways that analysts can improve task or interface design to help, respectively, a person who is visually impaired, hearing impaired, or mobility impaired.
What are the five objectives for designing user interfaces?
Define natural-language interfaces. What is their major drawback?
Explain what is meant by question-and-answer interfaces. To what kind of users are they best suited?
What is a nested menu? What are its advantages?
Define onscreen input/output forms. What is their chief advantage?
Explain what command-language interfaces are. To what types of users are they best suited?
Define graphical user interfaces. What is the key difficulty they present for programmers?
What are the three guidelines for designing good screen dialog?
What are the roles of icons, graphics, and color in providing feedback?
List eight ways for achieving the goal of minimal operator action when designing a user interface.
List five standards that can aid in evaluating user interfaces.
What are the seven situations that require feedback for users?
List three ways to notify a Web user that the input is not in the correct form.
Why is it unacceptable to notify the user that input is not correct solely through the use of audible beeping or buzzing?
Describe two types of Web site designs for eliciting feedback from customers.
List four practical ways that an analyst can improve the ease of user navigation and the stickiness of an ecommerce Web site.
What are hypertext links? Where should they be used?
Describe what a mashup is.
List in shorthand notation the six basic query types.
Manu Narayan owns several first-class hotels worldwide, including properties in Manhattan, Mumbai, and even some in suburbia. He wants to make sure that the human–computer interface is appropriate
Stefan Lano needs displays that will show the musical instrument inventory in his chain of music stores that caters to musicians playing in world-class symphony orchestras in Basel, Switzerland;
Design a Web-based form-fill interface to accomplish the same task as in Problem 2.a. What difficulties did you encounter? Discuss them in a paragraph.b. Of the two designs you did, which would you
A U.K.-based travel agent, Euan Morton, LLC, would like your systems team to design a commandlanguage interface he can use to book seats for airlines to which his firm has solid business ties, such
Nick, a celebrity chef/restaurant owner from Williamsburg, New York, wants to be able to receive clear feedback on the systems used to manage his many “show place” restaurants. Design a display
Design a screen for a payroll software package that displays information telling Nick from Problem 6 how to get more detailed feedback.
Design a Web-based display that shows an acceptable way to tell Nick that input to his system was accepted.
Design a feedback form for Nick’s restaurant customers using an ecommerce Web site.
Write six different queries for the file in Problem 1 in Chapter 13.
Write six different queries for the 3NF relation in Problem 5 in Chapter 13.
Design a search that will find potential competitors of a company such as World’s Trend on the Web. Assume you are the customer.
“Let’s take our prototypes and some new displays, reports, and forms to create the final user interface,” Anna says to Chip.“It’s about time, isn’t it?” replies Chip. He was all too
How important is it that the warehouse bins and invoices are coded inconsistently? Respond in a paragraph. What are some of the problems created when a code appears to be mnemonic but employees are
What general guidelines of coding has management overlooked in its decision to use a summer code for cities? Make a list of them. What is the effect on full-time data entry personnel of changing
For your design of a data entry system for Elsinore, take into consideration all the objectives for data entry discussed throughout this chapter. Draw any displays necessary to illustrate your
How would you characterize the problems being encountered with the current garage billing system? Use a paragraph to formulate a response. What are some tests for validity of data that could be
1. Using a CASE tool, a software package such as Microsoft Access, or a paper layout form, design a data entry procedure for the proposed project reporting system for the Training group. Assume we
Along with your group members, read Consulting Opportunity 15.3, “To Enter or Not to Enter: That Is the Question,” presented earlier in this chapter. Design an appropriate data entry system for
What are the four primary objectives of data entry?
List the five general purposes for coding data.
Define the term simple sequence code.
Explain what is accomplished with a classification code.
Define the term block sequence code.
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