Teaching and Learning Activity

Module: Systems Development 1 (HSYD100-1)

Week number (Date): 1 (01 August 2019)
Unit covered: Module 1/Unit 1 & 2

Instructions:
To enrich your learning experience at Boston even further, and to ensure that you are exposed to a
variety of resources in this module, announcements will be posted every week containing additional
materials or activities for you to work through.

It is important to note that these activities are neither compulsory nor weighted, but that it will be to your
advantage to participate. The purpose of the activities is to help you better understand the content of
your weekly unit/s of study, and it will assist in creating insight and deeper meaning.

Activity 1 is based on Unit 1 & 2 of the prescribed courseware for this module.

The suggested solutions for this Activity will be posted end of day next Thursday.

1 List Computer hardware that you know.

2 Which one of the following is a computer language that is designed for business and
facilitates for grouping, tracing, and organization of data?

A COBOL
B MySQL
C Java
D C#

3 What is the purpose of testing during software development?

4 Software development is very costly to any organization big or small. One reason
some companies prefer to use the Spiral model of software development is its use of
risk management which can be used by any project manager to make cost reduction
decisions. Describe each of the steps in the Spiral model.

5 What does HTML stand for in IT?

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 6 What is the Data Manipulation Language that is mostly used for relational databases?

A. SQL (Structured Query Language)

B. JavaScript
C. PHP
D. Programming

7 Which programming elements are used to perform additions, subtraction,

subtraction, and multiplications?

A. Constants
B. Data type
C. Conditional Operators
D. Arithmetic Operators

8 When a programmer writes a code in which an expression is included, certain

requirements need to be met before the other program is accessed. Which
programming element is used?

A. Data types
B. Alphanumerical operators
C. Conditional operators
D. Arrays

9 Which of the following is an example of Software piracy?

A. Jack pays and downloads software from the Microsoft website.

B. Mary downloads software for her studies through a link her university sent to her on
which she needs to enter her student number and password.
C. Bill gets a "copy" of Microsoft 2016 from his friends who work at a big IT company
D. Jill downloads a trial version of Java that is valid for 3 months.

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