MIS 160 STUDY GUIDE - Spring 2024

Exam material includes the Chapters listed below, our class PowerPoint presentations, and our class discussions.

Exam 1

·         Chapter 1: The Systems Development Environment

·         Chapter 2: The Origins of Software

·         Chapter 3: Managing the Information Systems Project (do not study the appendix in chapter 3)

·         Chapter 4: Identifying and Selecting Systems Development Projects

·         Chapter 5: Initiating and Planning Systems Development Projects

Exam 2

·         Chapter 6: Determining System Requirements.

o    Study the entire chapter. This chapter describes most of the activities that you performed in the analysis phase of your project. This chapter is very important.

·         Chapter 7 Appendix A and C

o    Do not study Chapter 7 but only the appendices of Chapter 7 (Use Cases & BPMN Diagrams)

·         Chapter 8: Structuring System Data Requirements

o    Study only pages 248 through 261

o    Study the Appendix (Class Diagrams)