Exam+2

**Exam 2**
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 <>

Exam format:
80 minute exam, during normal class session. Closed book, closed notes, closed-everything. All materials covered in the readings, in class discussions, in exercises prior to class or in class, and in the homeworks may appear on the exam. The exam will focus on material covered in class after exam 1 but there is a possibility that some of the questions will require that you also have mastered the material from the beginning of the course. As with the previous exam, the goal of the exam is to evaluate how well you have learned the key information in the middle third of the course, so it is generally an effective strategy to focus your study effort on the topics and issues that we spent significant time discussing during class.

The structure and format of this exam will be similar to the structure of the first exam.

Approximately 50% of the exam questions will directly test basic knowledge and recall of concepts covered in class to date. Example questions of this type might include:

Q1: List the seven stages common to all Systems Development Lifecycles A1: Planning, Analysis, Design, Development, Testing, Implementation, and Maintenance

Q2: True or False: A data warehouse is a large facility that houses database servers. The data warehouse has to have very strong air conditioning to keep the servers cool. A2: False. That is a data center. A data warehouse is a type of database that stores large quantities of an organization's cleaned, high-quality historic data.

Approximately 30% of the exam will be short answer questions. An example question of this type might be:

Q3: List three tangible, and two intangible, resources that a company needs to use to successfully design, build, and deploy an information system. A3: Possible answers include: (tangible) money, people's time, data center facilities, etc. (intangible) management attention, opportunities to pursue other IS projects, employee's willingness to change their work routines and processes, etc.

Approximately 20% of the exam will require you to analyze a situation, make a recommendation on how to proceed, and support your recommendation with evidence and your analysis (this will likely be a small case study).

Please note that these percentages are highly approximate, but they should provide some indication of what to study and how to study for the exam.