Questions
Questions related to the assessment should be directed to the teaching team during the workshops or drop-in sessions and also via MS Teams.
The teaching team will not be available to answer questions outside business hours, nor in the hours immediately before the assessment is due.
Assessment Tasks
Task 1 [25 marks]
ITProjectsRus maintains information about their project team staff members and the projects for customers. Perform CSDP step 1 ~ 6 and submit your final ORM diagram (not required to submit the results of the interim steps only the final diagram) for the following business concern.
ITProjectsRus business concern
A business called ITProjectsRus employs suitably qualified IT and IS staff and organizes them into project teams to develop and implement technology for a customer. The project team staff fulfil the project roles of project manager (PM), software developer (SD), system analyst (SA), database developer (DD), user interface developer (UID), and tester (T). Other project roles are possible, and a staff member can have a different role in different projects. For example, you are the system analyst in one project, and in another project, you are a project manager. ITProjectsRus maintains information about their project team staff members and the projects performed for customers. The following table shows the list of project team staff members details including their employment start and finish dates.
Staff ID Staff name Staff phone Employment
Start date End date
S201 Charles 014663451 15/04/1991
S202 Isla 014663452 01/02/2011 31/12/2014
01/02/2018
S203 Jack 014663453 15/04/2002
S204 David 014663454 02/07/2016 31/12/2017
01/04/2018 05/09/2018
S205 Hermione 014663455 01/03/2004
S206 Jim 014663456 15/04/2018 14/12/2018
S207 Mary 014663457 12/08/2017
S208 Kelly 01/12/2020
S209 Amanda 014663459 15/11/2018
S210 Thomas 014663460 01/03/2021
A customer project is reported in a form of project description which describes some important information about the project (e.g., the project name, period, scope, members, etc.) as shown in the following. A project team staff member has only one role in the project. As shown in the examples, the full names of the roles are not used in a project description.
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Project Description (Example 1)
Project ID P515
Project Name Mobile Application to purchase stadium events
Project Sponsor TicketsRUs
Start Date 01/02/2020 Budget $100 000.00
Project Description Mobile application so that customers can book and pay for tickets to stadium events like football and music concerts.
Project Period (year) 2
Scope Identify system functionality from sample groups. Mobile App will function on all mobile devices Display list of events, seating options and prices Purchase an ETicket (securely coded). Payment options to be included ... The scope goes on to explain further requirements included in the project.
Project Members Role Name
PM SA SD DD UID T Charles (S201) Jack(S203) Hermoine (S205) Mary (S207) Kelly (S208) Amanda (S209)
Total Number 6
Project Description (Example 2)
Project ID P417
Project Name Mobile application to monitor vending machines.
Project Sponsor VendingMachinesRus
Start Date 15/05/2018 Budget $ 75 000.00
Project Description Mobile App will function on all mobile devices Mobile App will connect via mobile phone to selected vending machine. Vending machine status will be displayed Vending machine able to view stock levels, change dispenser, and cash drawer value Vending machine activity log is viewable. Able to generate an order to supplier.
Project Period (year) 1
Scope Develop and implement a mobile application to ... The scope goes on to explain further requirements included in the project.
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Project Members Role Name
PM SA SD T Charles (S201) Isla (S202) Jack (S203) Mary (S207)
Total Number 4
Criteria Sheet - Task 1 [25 marks]
Criteria High Distinction [25 - 21 marks] Distinction / Credit [20 -16 marks] Credit / Pass [15 -11 marks] Pass 1 Borderline [5 -10 marks] Fail [4-0 marks]
Syntactic Correctness [7 marks] The model is complete and fully syntactically correct The model is complete and mostly syntactically correct The model is mostly complete and/or reasonably syntactically correct The model is partially complete and/or mainly syntactically incorrect The model is mostly incomplete and/or syntactically incorrect
Semantic Correctness [15 marks] The model fully and correctly reflects every aspect of the facts described in the scenario The model fully and correctly reflects most aspects of the facts described in the scenario The model correctly reflects many aspects of the facts described in the scenario, or reflects most aspects but is somewhat incorrect or inefficient in structure The model reflects a few aspects of the facts described in the scenario and/or has an incorrect or inefficient structure The model incorrectly reflects the facts described in the scenario
Pragmatic Correctness [3 marks] The model has a clear structure designed for maximal understandability by stakeholders (layout, labels, annotations, etc) The model has a mostly clear structure and/or is designed for high understandability by stakeholders (layout, labels, annotations, etc) The model has a mainly clear structure and/or is designed for reasonable understandability by stakeholders (layout, labels, annotations, etc) The model has a somewhat messy structure and/or does not reflect that it has been designed with consideration for stakeholder understandability The model has an unclear structure and/or most would find it difficult to understand
Task 2 Individual
Following is an ORM model for employee. Map the schema to a relational database schema. Any possible constraints need to be included (e.g., primary key, foreign key).
Please write the relations clearly showing the Primary key bolded and underlined (e.g. Customerld).
Foreign key shown in italics (e.g. OrderNumber} and separately defined beneath the relation (e.g. ShoppingCart OrderNumber FK to Order OrderNumber)
Criteria Sheet - Task 2
Marks will be awarded for the following:
• Full marks will be awarded if all relations are correctly mapped with the schema including correct primary, foreign keys and other attributes.
• Any incorrect/missing relations will be deducted:
- penalty for missing relation (entity)
5 marks
- penalty for missing primary key, foreign key, and other attributes
4 marks if a primary key or 1-2 marks if part of a primary key is missing
3 marks for missing foreign key
2 marks for missing non key attributes
1 mark for minor errors