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1___________________________________W E B S T E RU N I V E R S I T YCenter for Graduate and Professional Studies____________________________________FINAL EXAM:Chapters 7-12Student Name:_________________________________________________Student Instructions:Read the following questions carefully, and answer what the question is asking for: "What", "When","Why", "How Many" and provide examples where required.Use bullet format, short paragraphs (2-3sentences), diagrams, figures, etc., with explanations to express your knowledge of the topic, concept, orprocess.Your answer should be no longer than one page for any of the questions.Each question answered correctly is worth between 10 and 25 points.This exam is worth 30 percent ofyour overall grade.Partial credit may be awarded for partial answers, so don't leave any questions blank.1. (10) Your company has asked you to evaluate the risks of building 6000 firmware (SW/HW) unitsrather than purchasing them from a vendor at $66.50 per unit.Your company has the skills and capacityto build 6000 units. The SW/HW engineers estimate the build costs at: 1) one-time setup cost of $50,000;and 2)production cost of $60/unit.The test/quality assurance personnel inform you that a percentage ofthe units may be defective as shown below:% defective0%1%2%3%4%% probability40%30%20%6%4%of occurrenceThe engineers estimate the costs to remove, repair, replace, and re-test defective units at $145/defectiveunit.However, 100% of units purchased from vendors are guaranteed to be defect-free.a. What approach/tool would you use to evaluate the options?b. Which option would you recommend and what is the basis for the recommendation?2. (10) Sunrise Distributors recently completed a major data conversion project.Many of its computer-based files had become unreliable, difficult to maintain, and too inflexible to be used to fulfill many end-user reporting and inquiry requests.A RDBMS seemed to be the obvious solution.Two systemsanalysts were primarily responsible for the conversion project.The systems analysts had decided tosimply implement each of the computer-based files as a separate table in their relational database.Oncethe conversion was completed, the same problems that existed with the file-based system reappeared inthe database system. Reports contained inaccurate data, report and inquiry requests could not easily beobtained, and data maintenance was still difficult.What database design goals did the system analystsviolate?What should they have done to address the problems of the file-based system?3.(10) Smith & Sons, Inc. is a large investment company located in Tampa, Florida, that buys stocks,bonds, commodities, and various other assets for their clients. They also manage their clients' investmentportfolios for a variety of investment objectives. Finding new people with money to invest is crucial totheir success, so keeping track of their clients and potential clients is very important. Morgan Adamson isthe senior analyst in charge of the new sales prospect and contact management system at Richards &Sons, Inc. The new system has just been installed and the project team is working with the system users

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