Information Systems
Data Management
- The nature of information; its acquisition, presentation, storage and management.
- Characteristics of data; data capture and collection.
- Data processing and data modelling.
- Simple statistical measures; mean, mode, median, standard deviation.
- Tabular representation of data; Histograms, interpolation.
- Requirements analysis and prototyping.
- Fact finding methods.
- Security, integrity and control.
- File management; organisation and access methods.
- Database design issues; entity modelling, normalisation, logical/physical mapping.
- Database architectures and types of database management systems.
- Functions of database management systems and database administration.
- Introduction to multimedia and hypermedia.
Systems Analysis and Design
- The systems development life-cycle and its implications for software design, coding, testing, implementation and support.
- Prototyping and systems development tools.
- Structuring systems analysis and design techniques.
- Hard and soft system methodologies.
- Rapid application development and prototyping techniques.
- Object-oriented modelling .
- Human computer interface (HCI) design aspects.
Organisations
- The flow of information in an organisation.
- Basic idea of management functions and structure of business and other organisations.
- Personnel and social considerations in the consideration of new systems.
- Management of computer systems, staffing, maintenance, project management and scheduling.
- Quality assurance aspects and methods.