School of Technologies

Assessment
Brief
Module Code Module Title
CSE4004 System Analysis & Designing

Academic Year Semester

2024 01

Module Leader email

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Content
Assessment Details....................................................2
Submission Details.....................................................3
Assessment Criteria...................................................3
Further Information.....................................................5
Who can answer questions about my assessment?............5
Referencing..............................................................................5
Submission problems.............................................................5
Unfair academic practice........................................................5
How is my work graded?........................................................6

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Assessment Details
Assessment title Abr. Weighting
System Analysis & Designing for organization WRIT1 100%

Pass marks are 40% for undergraduate work and 50% for postgraduate work unless stated otherwise.

Task/assessment brief:
Scenario and Tasks

System Analysis & designing is a very important subject domain related to Information systems.
Information systems’ durability, Validity, efficiency & accuracy depends on how well the system
investigation & designing activities are accomplished during the system development life cycle. Learning
& making use of the best tools such as Entity Relationship Diagram, Data Flow Diagram, Flowchart and
Unified Modelling Language Diagrams for aforementioned activities are very much essential for a system
analyst.Clear understand ability of Software Development Life Cycle model stages & unique duties
assigned to those enables software development team to maintain product quality, track progress, project
budget and the nature of the product, according to higher satisfactory level.Selecting the best Software
development process model for an information system project is crucial since success or failure of the
product can be decided by the process model & its systematic approach.When the subject domain is
concerned it is always imperative to attention to be paid in applying creativity and innovation for system
designing in a manner that modern world man kind’s requirements are supported by considering not only
how their lives are further improved with sophistication but also focusing on how does ethical and
professional issues are mitigated as much as possible.

Assignment Individual – (Document Submission)

As a System Analyst tasked with creating comprehensive documentation for an Automated System within
a selected organization, you are responsible for initiating user requirement gathering and system
environment analysis. You have the flexibility to choose an organization or continue with a hypothetical
one (Assumptive Organization). To facilitate the commencement of system investigation activities, it is
imperative to obtain proper approval from authorized officials of the companies being visited. To secure
approval, you are required to submit an official request letter from ICBT Campus to the respective
companies. The letter should articulate the purpose of the visit and seek authorization for conducting
interviews and site observations as part of the initial stages of the project.

1. You are required to select a company which is related to the given scenario then provide clear
introduction about the organization and then conduct an organizational analysis and use
appropriate fact gathering techniques for gather system requirement of a client (LO3 - 25 Marks)

2. Identify the advantage of using a standard software development lifecycle a model for developing
the software solution what is proposed for the organization/ institution. (LO2- 15 Marks)

3. Design the data model of the software solution that will be implemented in the organization /
institution by considering all required data / information requirements and explain briefly what is
the best technique is to carry out data model designing of the system. (LO4- 25 Marks)
(Should Used Chen's Notation)

4. Design the functional model of the system software solution that will be implemented in the
organization / institution having concerned all the features /facilities, data collection, transitions,
transfers and dissemination requirements and explain briefly what is the best technique is to carry
out functional model designing of the system. (Use case ,class ,Sequence,DFD Diagram context ,
level 0 ,level 1 (LO1 & LO4 35 Marks)

Version 1:

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Tasks
LO1: Demonstrate system designing methodologies, tools and the techniques

LO2: Evaluate different systems development life cycle models

LO3: Analyze the system by using appropriate fact-finding techniques.

LO4: Design the system by using appropriate system design techniques.

Word count (or equivalent): 3000

This a reflection of the effort required for the assessment. Word counts will normally include any text,
tables, calculations, figures, subtitles and citations. Reference lists and contents of appendices are
excluded from the word count. Contents of appendices are not usually considered when determining your
final assessment grade.

Academic or technical terms explained:

 Should use Chen's notations for entity–relationship diagrams.

 Context Diagram: Provides a high-level view of the system.Shows the system as a single process
and its interactions with external entities.

 Level 0 Diagram: Provides more detailed view of the system by breaking down the single process
from the Context Diagram into sub-processes.

 Level 1 Diagram: provides more detailed breakdown of the system compared to the Level 0 DFD.
It decomposes one of the processes from the Level 0 diagram into smaller sub-processes,
showing more granular data flows and interactions.

 Class diagram: is a type of static structure diagram in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) that
describes the structure of a system by showing its classes, attributes, methods, and the
relationships among objects. It is a fundamental part of object-oriented modeling and is used
extensively in software engineering for designing and documenting software systems.

 Sequence Diagram: sequence diagram is a type of interaction diagram in the Unified Modeling
Language (UML) that shows how objects interact in a particular sequence of events. It
emphasizes the time order of messages sent between objects. Sequence diagrams are useful for
visualizing the flow of logic within a system in a step-by-step manner.

Submission Details
Submission This will be provided This will normally be 20
Estimated Feedback
Deadline: on the Moodle working days after initial
submission point. Return Date submission.

Submission By 2.00pm on the

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Time: deadline day.

Moodle/Turnitin: Any assessments submitted after the deadline will not be marked and will be
recorded as a non-attempt unless you have had an extension request agreed
or have approved mitigating circumstances. See the School Moodle pages for
more information on extensions and mitigating circumstances.

File Format: The assessment must be submitted as a pdf document (save the document as
a pdf in your software) and submit through the Turnitin submission point in
Moodle.

Your assessment should be titled with your:

student ID number, module code and assessment ID,

e.g. st12345678 BHL5007 WRIT1

Feedback Feedback for the assessment will be provided electronically via Moodle. Feedback will
be provided with comments on your strengths and the areas which you can improve.
View the guidance on how to access your feedback.

All marks are provisional and are subject to quality assurance processes and
confirmation at the programme Examination Board.

Assessment Criteria
Learning outcomes assessed
 Demonstrate system designing methodologies, tools and the techniques
 Evaluate different systems development life cycle models
 Analyze the system by using appropriate fact-finding techniques.
 Design the system by using appropriate system design techniques.

Other skills/attributes developed

This includes elements of the Cardiff Met EDGE (Ethical, Digital, Global and Entrepreneurial skills) and
other attributes developed in students through the completion of the module and assessment. These will
also be highlighted in the module guidance, which should be read by all students completing the module.
Assessments are not just a way of auditing student knowledge. They are a process which provides
additional learning and development through the preparation for and completion of the assessment.

 Technical Skills
 Communication and Interpersonal Skills
 Creative and Critical Thinking

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Marking/Assessment Criteria

Task Poor Satisfactory Good Excellent

01 (0 - 5 ) (6 - 12 ) (13 - 20 ) (21-25 )
Introduction
Very brief Provide clear Provide clear Provide clear
About the introduction introduction about introduction about introduction about
Organization about the the organization the organization the organization
selected and mention vision, and mention and mention
organization mission, objectives vision, mission, vision, mission,
and goals of the objectives and objectives and
selected goals of the goals of the
organization. selected selected
organization. organization.
• Management •Management
hierarchy of the hierarchy of the • Management
organization is organization is hierarchy of the
included included organization is
included
• Description About • Clear
the current system description about • Clear
and its drawbacks. the current description about
system and its the current
• Use of appropriate drawbacks system and its
fact-finding drawbacks.
techniques to . • Use of
identify appropriate fact- • Use of
requirements of the finding appropriate fact-
proposed solution techniques to finding
identify techniques to
requirements of identify
the proposed requirements of
solution the proposed
solution
• Description with
regarding the • Clear
proposed Description with
solution. regarding the
proposed solution
by explaining how
does the
proposed solution
supports to
overcome current
drawbacks.

• Use of
standard level
(Open
Ended/Close
Ended)
Questionnaire or
Interview Guide.

• Samples of the
Questionnaire &
Interviews
attached.

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 (0-3) (04-07 ) (08-11) (12-15)
02.
System At least Five stages At least Five At least Five
explaination of Development life of the System stages of the stages of the
System cycle explained Development life System System
such as cycle explained Development life Development life
Development Communication, such as cycle explained cycle explained
life cycle planning, Communication, such as such as
Designing, planning, Communication, Communication,
Development & Designing, planning, planning,
Testing, Development & Designing, Designing,
Implementation Testing, Development & Development &
but no mapping Implementation. Testing, Testing,
has been done Implementation. Implementation
with system • Every stage has
implemented. been mapped with • Every stage . • Every stage
proposing system has been mapped has been
development & with proposing mapped with
designing activities. system proposing system
development & development &
• Standard designing designing
documentation by activities. activities.
including Harvard
referencing • The description • The description
based on based on
Prescriptive, Prescriptive,
Incremental, Incremental,
Evolutionary, Evolutionary,
Agile & Agile &
Specialized Specialized
Process Models Process Models •
Justifications
• Standard have been done
documentation by based on the
including Harvard qualities of the
referencing proposing
system.
• Standard
documentation by
including Harvard
referencing

(0-6) (7-12) (13-18 ) (19-25)

Use ER Use ER diagrams to • Use ER Use ER

03)ER diagrams to design data model diagrams to diagrams to
diagrams design data of the proposing design data design data
model of the system. • Find model of the model of the
proposing system entities, Attributes, proposing proposing
but some errors relationships, system. system.
exist. Primary keys, • Find entities, • Find entities,
different Attributes, Attributes,
cardinalities, and relationships, relationships,
other entities. Primary keys, Primary keys,
• Attributes, proper proper
Entities, relationships with relationships with
Relationships & cardinality ratios. cardinality ratios.
Cardinalities • Attributes, • Attributes,
properly selected & Entities, Entities,

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 illustrated. Relationships & Relationships &
Cardinalities Cardinalities
properly selected properly selected
& illustrated. • & illustrated.
Write a data
dictionary for the
ER diagram. • Write a data
dictionary for the
ER diagram.
• Has been used
standard format
for the Data
dictionary.
04) UML (0-8) (9-17) (18-26) (27-35 )
Diagrams
Draw context Draw context level Draw context Draw context
level Data Flow Data Flow Diagram level Data Flow level Data Flow
Diagram to to illustrate Diagram to Diagram to
illustrate functional model of illustrate illustrate
functional model the proposing functional model functional model
of the proposing system. of the proposing of the proposing
system with some • External Entitles, system. system.
errors. Main Information • External • External
System & Entitles, Main Entitles, Main
Information Initial Information Information
flow between System & System &
External Entities & Information Initial Information Initial
Main Information flow between flow between
System have been External Entities External Entities
identified & & Main & Main
illustrated. Information Information
• Proper Process & System have System have
data flow labeling been identified & been identified &
used illustrated. illustrated.
• Standard • Draw Level 0 • In order to
documentation by Data Flow further explain
including Harvard Diagram to internal logic of
referencing illustrate the major
• Drawing USE functional model processes of the
CASE diagram by of the proposing information
identifying relevant system. showing system,
actors and functions at least five Structured
different English, Decision
transaction Trees & Decision
processors Tables properly
• External used for DFD
Entities, Major level 0
Processes, Data processes.
Storages & initial • Process
Data Flows & specifications
Intermediate Data have been
Flows in between included using
them have been standard process
Identified & specification
illustrated. format

• Object type,
• Draw a Level 1 Data Type, Data
Data Flow Inflow & Data Out
Diagram to Flow have been
illustrate Described
functional model . • Write a data
of the proposing dictionary for the
system DFD level 0 using
considering standard format.
• Top down
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 detailed analysis. designing
• External technique & the
Entities, Sub bottom up
Processes, Data designing
Storages & initial technique should
Data Flows & be properly
Intermediate Data explained
Flows in between considering the
them have been functional design.
Identified & • Drawing USE
illustrated. CASE diagram,
• Proper Process Sequence
& data flow Diagram by
labeling used identifying
• Drawing USE relevant actors
CASE and functions and
diagram ,Sequen identifying
ce Diagram by dependencies
identifying properly (Extend/
relevant actors Include)
and functions and • Drawing Class
identifying diagram by
dependencies identifying all the
properly (Extend/ classes and the
Include) different types of
• Drawing an suitable
average level relationships
Class diagram by among the
identifying several classes
classes related to
the given
scenario.

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