Software Engineering Answers

Identify and briefly describe the following:

1 Ten application software

2 Ten input devices

3 Ten types of websites

1. Describe an operating system and discuss three main objectives/functions.

2. Describe the four main elements of a computer system.

3. Distinguish between two main categories of processor registers; and give examples to illustrate your answer.

4. Discuss the three input-output communication techniques that are used in computer systems.

5. Explain the steps involved in executing an instruction in a computer system.

1. Distinguish between Management Information System and Executive Information System.

2. Describe the four types of skills that a system analyst should have in order to succeed in his/her work.

3. Clearly distinguish between System owners and System users.

4. Discuss the three elements/components of a project; and give examples to illustrate your answer.

5. Discuss four factors that will make an organization to either upgrade its existing information system or acquire a new one for use.

the time taken by student to solve a computer assignment produce a normal distribution with a mean of 33.0 minutes and standard deviation of 5.0 minutes. if a random sample is selected, find the probability that the student will solve computer assignment in 19.1 to 28.2 minutes

Central Hospital has recently acquired and installed five laptops and ultra-modern biometric devices (computer embedded systems). As an IT consultant, you have been invited to do the following to the hospital staff;

a.    Identify and explain the machines’ input devices and output devices.

b.   Explain how these machines work together to receive inputs, process these inputs, generate output, and store the output onto output devices.

a.    The digital computer represent data in binary form/1’s and 0’s. In your own words, explain how this form of data representations takes place on the motherboard.

b.   Computer Science is no more about computers than medicine is about stethoscopes. Do you agree with this statement or not; defend your answer with practical examples.                                                     

c.    One of the functions of the operating system is the scheduling of the CPU and the usage of peripherals. Explain with practical examples how the operating system performs this function. Also, how does the end user benefit from this function of the operating system?

Basic autocad shortcut keyboards

Basic autocad shortcut keyboards

History and people involved to the evolution of the autocad software

Suppose a bank intends to develop a system to allow its customers to access their account information via the internet. The system will also allow customers to transfer funds between their accounts.                                                                                                                                    (3 Marks)

·        Identify quality attributes for the above system

·        What possible conflict that may occur between your identified quality attributes