Ipt Essay

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IPT NOTES

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Project Management
The system development life cycle (SDLC)

Change in purpose
Change in purpose
Change type of system
Change type of system
Problem with system
Problem with system
Change use of system
Change use of system
Testing, evaluating and maintaining
Testing, evaluating and maintaining
Implementing
Implementing
Planning
Planning
Designing
Designing
Understanding the problem
Understanding the problem

Design Tools
The purpose of design tools (Data modelling tools) is to create a model that is used to assist and document the design of the new system.
These are all VERY difficult and need to be cemented in before my exam!
I will need to learn some other basic terms as well.
Context Diagram
Data Flow Diagram
SDLC
Decision Tree
Decision Table
Data Dictionaries

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Information Systems and Databases
Introduction to Information Systems
Information Systems – Information Systems are created to provide information to a person or organization, they consist of characteristics such as organization of data and analyzing the information.
Functions of information systems
Processing Transactions – A transaction processing system (TPS) collects, stores, modified and retrieves the daily transactions of an organization. Examples of these systems are credit card payments, EFTPOS and ATMs.
There are TWO types of transaction processing
-Batch processing
-Real time processing
Batch processing – Collects the transaction data and processes it later.
Real time processing – Each transaction is processed immediately
Providing users with information about an organization
  This system provides information about the performance of an organization to the managers. This involves the production of reports on sales, inventory, payroll, orders and budgets. This measure of...