Exam 9: Process Specifications and Structured Decisions

________,indicated by braces on a data structure,must have a corresponding DO WHILE,DO UNTIL,or PERFORM UNTIL structured English statement.

________ are created for primitive processes on a data flow diagram.

In order to build decision tables,what does the analyst not need to do?

While process specifications produce a precise description of what is accomplished,they are not detailed enough to validate the system design.

Use decision trees when not every condition is relevant to every action.

In a decision table,contradictions occur when:

Structured English can be more complex if blocks of (instructions)are ________ within each other to show hierarchy.

Business rules are the set of procedures,conditions or formulas that allow a corporation to run its business.

When selection is indicated for elements in the data dictionary:

When structured decisions are not complex,an appropriate technique for analyzing the decision process is the use of semistructured English.

Which of the following is not a business rule?

Use structured English when complex combinations of conditions,actions,and rules are found.

Process specifications are always produced for input and output operations,such as a read or write operation.

When drawing the tree,systems analysts do not have to identify:

Running a section of code over and over again until some condition is met is an example of a:

Unlike the decision tree used in management science,what doesn't the analyst's tree contain?

Process specifications show the decision-making logic and formulas necessary to transform process input data into output.

The use of diagrams makes the decision tree more readable when one thinks of a circle as signifying IF when the square means THEN.

When creating process specifications,what needs to be done for manual tasks?

Process descriptions may exist on a form or within a ________ repository.