Essentials of Systems Analysis and Design, 6e (Valacich)
Chapter 8 Designing the Human Interface
1) The contents of a form or report correspond to the data elements contained in an associated
data flow located on a data-flow diagram.
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2) The data on all forms and reports must consist of data elements in data stores and on the E-R
data model for the application or else be computed from these data elements.
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3) Invoices and mailing labels are examples of forms.
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4) On the Internet, form interaction is the standard method of gathering and displaying
information.
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5) When preparing an initial prototype of a form or report, the structuring and refinement of the
requirements involves much input from the end users.
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6) Often, the initial prototypes of forms and reports are mock screens that are not working
modules or systems.
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7) The major deliverables from the human interface design stage are logic models.
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8) Structure charts, flow charts, and dialogue diagrams are the major deliverables for the human
interface design stage.
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9) The purpose of the testing and usability assessment section of a form design specification is to
explain to those who will actually develop the final form why this form exists and how it will be
used.
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10) Designing usable forms and reports requires your active interaction with users.
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11) Notifying the user of the last page of a multipage sequence is a guideline for designing forms
and reports.
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12) Gaining an understanding of the skills of the intended system users and the tasks they will be
performing is invaluable when constructing a form or report.
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13) Highlighting should be used as often as possible to draw the user away from or to certain
information.
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14) Color, intensity, and size differences are methods of highlighting.
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15) Highlighting techniques can be used singularly or in combination, depending upon the level
of emphasis desired by the designer.
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16) Form designers should use highlighting as often as possible to distinguish the different
categories of data.
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17) Highlighting methods should be consistently selected and used based upon the level of
importance of the emphasized information.
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18) Generally speaking, highlighting methods appear the same on all output devices.
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19) In business-related systems, textual output is becoming less important as the text-based
applications that use these systems are slowly disappearing.
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20) Where possible, text should appear in all uppercase on forms.
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21) The guidelines for displaying text include case, spacing, and justification guidelines.
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22) When designing textual output, the text’s case should be displayed in mixed upper– and
lowercase.
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23) When designing textual output, you should use single spacing wherever possible.
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24) When designing textual output, you should hyphenate words between lines.
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25) When designing textual output, both the left and right margins should appear justified.
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26) When displaying textual information, use abbreviations and acronyms as often as possible.
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27) The context and meaning of tables and lists are derived from the format of the information.
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28) When displaying tables and lists, you should right-justify numeric data and align columns by
decimal points or other delimiters.
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29) When displaying tables and lists, you should break long sequences of alphanumeric data into
small groups of three to four characters each.
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30) Tables are very beneficial for analyzing data changes over time.
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31) One of the primary advantages of impact printers is their ability to exactly replicate a screen
report on paper.
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32) Interface and dialogue design focuses on how information is provided to and captured from
users.
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33) The JAD approach is used for designing interfaces and dialogues.
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34) Display sequence refers to the way a user can move from one display to another.
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35) Referencing interface layout guidelines, the standard screen navigation that users use to
move between fields should be from left-to-right and top-to-bottom.
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36) Referencing interface layout guidelines, data fields should be grouped into logical categories
with labels describing the contents of the category.
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37) Referencing interface layout guidelines, users should not be able to access areas of the screen
not used for data entry or commands.
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38) When designing the navigation procedures within a system, the primary concerns are
dialogue flow and the instructional features.
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39) Referencing interface layout guidelines, data should not be permanently saved by the system
until the user makes an explicit request to do so.
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40) Good interface design provides a consistent way for moving the cursor to different places on
the form, editing characters and fields, moving among form displays, and obtaining help.
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41) Functional capabilities for providing smooth and easy navigation within a form include
cursor-control, editing, exit, and help capabilities.
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42) When structuring data entry fields, always have the user enter the current date.
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43) When structuring data entry fields, the system should automatically justify data entries.
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44) When an appending data error has occurred, characters have been lost from the field.
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45) When a transcripting data error occurs, additional characters have been added to a field.
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46) The values validation test makes sure that values come from a standard set of values.
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47) The size validation test tests for too few or too many characters.
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48) When data are processed online, it is less likely that data-validity errors will be caught.
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49) An audit trail is a record of the sequence of data entries and the date of those entries.
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50) Building dialogue prototypes and assessing usability are often optional activities.
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51) Human interface design is performed during:
A) systems planning and selection.
B) systems analysis.
C) systems design.
D) systems implementation and operation.
E) requirements structuring.
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52) Which of the following is a method for representing human-computer dialogues?
A) Logic modeling
B) Sequence modeling
C) Process modeling
D) Dialogue diagramming
E) Transition diagramming
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53) System inputs and outputs are produced at the end of the:
A) systems analysis phase of the SDLC.
B) systems design phase of the SDLC.
C) systems planning and selection phase of the SDLC.
D) systems implementation and operation phase of the SDLC.
E) logic modeling stage.
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54) Which of the following is the standard method of gathering and displaying information on
the Internet?
A) Dialogue interaction
B) Form interaction
C) Report interaction
D) Menu selection
E) VRML interaction
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55) A business document that contains some predefined data and may include some areas where
additional data are to be filled in best describes a:
A) written procedure.
B) turn-around document.
C) form.
D) report.
E) coupon.
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