51) Chuck and Jill Scruggs travel in their motor home six months of the year and buy unique artifacts.
Within hours after the Scruggs make a purchase, they have photographed it, written a description of it,
and posted it for sale on eBay with a reservation price. Anything that does not sell within a week is
shipped back to Austin, Texas, for display in The House of Curiosities, a retail business that the Scruggs
operate during the balance of the year. Which symbol should be used to represent the transfer of data to
eBay in a context diagram of this process?
A)
B)
C)
D)
52) Chuck and Jill Scruggs travel in their motor home six months of the year and buy unique artifacts.
Within hours after the Scruggs make a purchase, they have photographed it, written a description of it,
and posted it for sale on eBay with a reservation price. Anything that does not sell is shipped back to
Austin, Texas, for display in The House of Curiosities, a retail business that the Scruggs operate during
the balance of the year. Which symbol should be used to represent the remote server that is used to store
data while the Scruggs are traveling?
A)
B)
C)
D)
53) Chas Mulligan has been hired by Yardley Security as an assistant to the internal auditor. He has
been asked to thoroughly document the existing accounting information system in preparation for
making recommendations for improvements to internal controls. He decides to begin with a description
of the information stored in paper records, their sources, and their destinations. The documentation tool
that he should employ for this purpose is a
A) data flow diagram.
B) document flowchart.
C) system flowchart.
D) program flowchart.
54) Chas Mulligan has been hired by Yardley Security as an assistant to the internal auditor. He has
been asked to document the existing accounting information system, and focus on the activities and flow
of data between activities. He decides to begin with a summary description of the sources and uses of
data in the organization and how they are processed by the system. The documentation tool that he
should employ for this purpose is a
A) data flow diagram.
B) document flowchart.
C) system flowchart.
D) program flowchart.
55) Chas Mulligan has been hired by Yardley Security as an assistant to the internal auditor. He has
been asked to thoroughly document the existing accounting information system in preparation for
making recommendations for improvements. He decides to begin by meeting with the information
technology staff in order to develop an understanding of the computer programs used by the system. The
documentation tool that he should employ for this purpose is a
A) data flow diagram.
B) document flowchart.
C) system flowchart.
D) program flowchart.
56) Chas Mulligan has been hired by Yardley Security as an assistant to the internal auditor. He has
been asked to thoroughly document the existing accounting information system in preparation for
making recommendations for improvements. He decides to begin by meeting with the information
technology staff in order to develop an understanding of the overall operation of the AIS, including data
entry, storage, and output. The documentation tool that he should employ for this purpose is a
A) data flow diagram.
B) document flowchart.
C) system flowchart.
D) program flowchart.
57) When a sale is made, data is captured by a cash register and stored on a floppy disk for later
uploading to the accounting system. Which one of the following diagrams represents this activity?
A)
B)
C)
D)
58) A materials requisition order document is prepared from the inventory file and the materials file,
both of which are stored on disk. Which one of the following diagrams represents this activity?
A)
B)
C)
D)
59) A customer’s check is returned for insufficient funds and the accounts receivable file, stored on
magnetic disk, is updated. Which one of the following diagrams represents this activity?
A)
B)
C)
D)
60) A business simulation game that is used by colleges and universities all over the world has students
submit decisions over the Internet. Decisions are stored online, processed on the server, and then the
results are stored online. They are then downloaded by students in preparation for the next round. Which
one of the following diagrams represents this activity?
A)
B)
C)
D)
61) A report is generated from data stored on magnetic disk. Which one of the following diagrams
represents this activity?
A)
B)
C)
D)
62) An employee receives a paycheck prepared in the payroll process. Which one of the following
diagrams represents this activity?
A)
B)
C)
D)
63) A student manually prepares a homework assignment and then turns it in to her teacher. Which one
of the following diagrams represents this activity?
A)
B)
C)
D)
64) A well-planned and drawn level 0 data flow diagram for the expenditure cycle would show which of
the following processes?
A) 0.1 Order Goods; 1.1 Receive and Store Goods; 2.1 Pay for Goods
B) 0.1 Order Goods; 0.2 Receive and Store Goods; 0.3 Pay for Goods
C) 1.0 Order Goods; 2.0 Receive and Store Goods; 3.0 Pay for Goods
D) 1.0 Order Goods; 1.1 Receive and Store Goods; 1.2 Pay for Goods
65) A well-planned and drawn context data flow diagram will include how many processes?
A) One
B) Between 5 and 7
C) Between 2 and 7, but no more than 7
D) As many as are needed to accurately depict the process being documented
66) Which of the following is not true about program flowcharts?
A) Program flowcharts are a high-level overview of all business processes.
B) Program flowcharts document the processing logic of computer programs.
C) A program flowchart will exist for every computer process symbol on a system flowchart.
D) Program flowcharts increase computer programmer productivity.
67) Data flow diagrams depict
A) processes, but not who is performing the processes.
B) processes, but not the data that flows between processes.
C) who is performing processes, but not how they perform the process.
D) who is performing processes, but not the data that flows between processes.
68) Which is the correct label for the blank transformation process circle in the data flow diagram
below?
A) 1.2 Check Credit
B) 1.2 Enter Order in Sales Journal
C) 1.2 Does Customer Have Credit?
D) 1.2 Salesperson Approves
69) In the data flow diagram below, inventory is a
A) data store.
B) data source.
C) data flow.
D) data source and destination.
70) Discuss the ways in which information professionals interact with documentation tools and the
various levels of understanding necessary.
71) Explain two reasons why it is important to have a working knowledge of DFDs and flowcharting.
72) What does the Sarbanes-Oxley Act require that is relevant to documentation tools?
73) Describe a situation in which data flow should be shown with two data flow lines instead of one.
74) Describe the different levels of DFDs.
75) Describe a system flowchart. Describe a program flowchart. How are the two interrelated?
76) How is a DFD different from a flowchart?
77) Explain the relevance of the Sarbanes Oxley Act to the documentation tools presented in this
chapter.
78) Discuss the idea of a data flow.
79) What is the value of using a context diagram when working with DFDs?
80) Identify five important guidelines for drawing a DFD. Select one from your list and describe why it
could be the most important one to consider when preparing a DFD. Support your choice with an
example.
81) Identify five important guidelines for drawing a flowchart. Select one from your list and describe
why it could be the most important one to consider when preparing a flowchart. Support your choice
with an example.
82) Following is a context diagram for a current Payroll Processing System. a) Identify the data sources
and destinations, data flows, and transformation process marked by question marks. b) What would you
need to do to explode this diagram?
83) Identify the mistake(s) in each flowchart segment.