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Reg. No. : 2000/000752/07

MAIN CAMPUS 292 SMITH STREET

DURBAN 4000

FACULTY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

DIPOMA IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (3 Year) 2ND YEARS

ASSIGNMENT BOOKLET

Registered with the Department of Education as a Private Higher Education Institution under

the Higher Education Act, 1997. Registration Certification No. 2000/HE07/008

MODULE DUE DATE SIGNATURE

COMPULSORY MODULES

Information Systems 622 22 August 2018

Programming 622 22 August 2018

Data Base Systems 522 25 September 2018

M-Commerce 522 25 September 2018

Internet Programming 622 02 October 2018

Business Management 622

02 October 2018

Networks 622

02 October 2018

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Types of Student Plagiarism

Academic Integrity

Good academic practice is about adopting strategies and behaviour that allow students

to complete their studies independently and honestly, and writing assignments in an

appropriate academic style. The task submitted is also awarded better marks! Bad

academic practice includes dishonesty, cheating and plagiarism and also work that is badly

prepared and rushed.

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there, or taking little bits of sentences, without acknowledging whose ideas have been

adopted.

Concealing sources

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plagiarism. This includes:

Taking somebody else's ideas and putting them into your words without telling us

where you got the ideas.

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source several times in a piece of work, requires a citation each time the source is

used.

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Intention of student

Degree of plagiarism – how much of the assignment has been plagiarized

Previous offences by the student

RICHFIELD GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (PTY) LTD FACULTY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

INFORMATION SYSTEMS 622

2ND SEMESTER ASSIGNMENT Name & Surname: _________________________________ ICAS No: _________________

Qualification: ______________________ Semester: _____ Module Name: __________________________

Date Submitted: ___________

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA MARK

ALLOCATION

EXAMINER

MARKS

MODERATOR

MARKS

MARKS FOR CONTENT

QUESTION ONE

1.1.1 10

1.1.2 10

1.1.3 20

TOTAL MARKS 40

MARKS FOR TECHNICAL ASPECTS

1. TABLE OF CONTENTS 2

2. LAYOUT AND SPELLING 3

3. REFERENCE 5

TOTAL MARKS 10

TOTAL MARKS FOR ASSIGNMENT 50*2 (100)

Examiner’s Comments:

Moderator’s Comments:

Signature of Examiner: Signature of Moderator:

QUESTIONS [50 MARKS]

QUESTIONS ONE [40 MARKS] CASE STUDY

Globally, World Vision supporters/Donors currently sponsor 3.4 million children in almost 100 countries, with over 54,000 children supported in South Africa. World Vision International (NGO) is running many droughts relieve projects around Limpopo Province. It is holding many conferences in many towns and growth points to all stake holders involved in the projects including its own staff members and volunteers. There is a very big need to capture all the information being gathered in those conferences throughout Limpopo Province. A list below shows some of the important aspects

to be compiled.

Every conference has a name and a date that also states the duration after starting.

The stakeholders may attend one or more conferences around the province

For every stakeholder in attendance would supply personal information like name, electronic mail and the conferences they wish to attend?

At each conference venue they are a number of workshop rooms depending on the project type, each room is of fixed capacity. Meeting rooms are labelled with the floor number and meeting room number

Every workshop needs an allocated meeting room; where a workshop lasts for two days, it will use the same room on both days.

Each conference around the province have a specified meeting room, if the conference is going to last for 2 days, automatically it will use the same meeting room for those 2 days.

1.1.1 By using the information above, draw an appropriate ER diagram showing this information, make sure you show suitable relationships that may exists between stakeholders,

conferences, meeting rooms and dates (10) (ii) After critical analysis of the NGO`s conferences, some relevant additions where identified, but not all of these can be included easily on a ER diagram.

Every conference must have a project leader among the conference stakeholders

No stakeholder must register more than one conference on the same day.

All stakeholders must register at least one conference compulsory. (a) Among the additions you have identified, can you list only 3 of them and explain why you

identify them as critical inclusions/additions.

1.1.2 In addition for those 3 additions, integrate them to the new updated ER diagram separately

from part (10) (b) Assume a Database of student’s information are available. It is required to develop a front

end application which will help in

inserting a record,

searching for a record if the registration number is given,

Creating reports containing the name, registration number of the students who have got more than 60%.

1.1.3 Explain clearly how this application will be developed using Open Database Connectivity,

ODBC (20)

TOTAL: 100 MARKS


PROGRAMMING 622 (C++)

2ND SEMESTER ASSIGNMENT Name & Surname: _________________________________ ICAS No: _________________ Qualification: ______________________ Semester: _____ Module Name: __________________________ Date Submitted: ___________

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA MARK ALLOCATION

EXAMINER MARKS

MODERATOR MARKS

MARKS FOR CONTENT

QUESTION ONE 50

QUESTION TWO 50

QUESTION THREE

QUESTION FOUR

TOTAL MARKS 100


1. TABLE OF CONTENTS Accurate numbering according to the numbering in text and page numbers.

2. LAYOUT AND SPELLING Font – Calibri 12 Line Spacing – 1.0 Margin should be justified.

3. REFERENCE According to the Harvard Method

TOTAL MARKS

TOTAL MARKS FOR ASSIGNMENT 100 Examiner’s Comments:




QUESTION 1 50 MARKS

1.1 Write a C++ program that implements a linked list as an abstract data type. The program must:

Be type flexible, that is, could be a list of integers, string, or any type.

allow the user to add members into the list

delete members from the list

make sure the list is still sorted after all the deletion and addition

Show all the function implementation. NB: the addition and deletion of list members should be of the range of 5 – 10 members for each.

QUESTION 2 50 MARKS

2.1. Differentiate a stack from queue. Where would you apply each of those? Show by means of example for both.

TOTAL: 100 MARKS


DATABASE SYSTEMS 522 2ND SEMESTER ASSIGNMENT

Name & Surname: _________________________________ ICAS No: _________________

Qualification: ______________________ Semester: _____ Module Name: ______________________



EXAMINER MARKS

MODERATOR MARKS

MARKS FOR CONTENT

QUESTION ONE 40

QUESTION TWO 40

QUESTION THREE 10

TOTAL MARKS 90




3. REFERENCE 5

TOTAL MARKS 10

TOTAL MARKS FOR ASSIGNMENT 100





QUESTION 1 40 MARKS

1.1 We have the following database schema:

Computer (vendor, model, machinetype) Model (num, speed, ram, hd, price) Vendor (name, address, phone) Where vendor indicates the manufacturer of a computer, and machine type takes values such as “desktop”, “laptop” and “server”. Underline indicates the primary key. Following inclusion dependencies hold: vendor ⊆ name, and model ⊆ num. Express following queries in relational algebra:

A. Find all the vendors who make laptop(s). (20) B. Find the phone numbers of all the vendors who make desktops with speed = 2 (20)

QUESTION 2 40 MARKS

2.1 For the relations s and r in your study manual of our chapter 2 (i.e., joining two relations), suppose we type a collection of relational algebra queries, and get the following results.

A B C D E

A 2 a 10 B

b 2 a 10 b

Please explain how this happened? If you think this result could happen in practice, please write the

corresponding relational algebra queries; otherwise, please explain why. (40)

QUESTION 3 10 MARKS

3.1 How many levels of abstraction a typical DB system should hold? What’s the purpose of each of

these abstraction levels? (10)

TOTAL: 100 MARKS


M-COMMERCE 522

2ND SEMESTER ASSIGNMENT Name & Surname: _________________________________ ICAS No: _________________

Qualification: ______________________ Semester: _____ Module Name: __________________________



EXAMINER MARKS

MODERATOR MARKS

MARKS FOR CONTENT

QUESTION ONE:

1.1 20

1.2 20

1.3 20

1.4 30

TOTAL MARKS 90




3. REFERENCE 5

TOTAL MARKS 10

TOTAL MARKS FOR ASSIGNMENT 100





QUESTIONS ONE [25 MARKS] CASE STUDY

THE MOBILE PAYMENT MARKETPLACE Nearly every day, it seems, a new mobile payment system is announced. The mobile payment marketplace is experiencing an explosion of innovative ideas, plans, and announcements, which one commentator has likened to a goat rodeo, a chaotic situation in which powerful players with different agendas compete with one another for public acceptance, and above all, huge potential revenues. It’s a battle among the titans of online payment and retailing: PayPal, credit card companies like Visa and Master- Card, Google, Apple, start-up tech companies like Square that offer mobile credit card swiping backed by millions in venture capital, and even large retailers like Walmart, Best Buy, and Target, all of which are developing their own mobile payment systems that they control. Although consumers still prefer to pay with credit cards and cash on the go, digital mobile payment systems may finally be poised to deliver on their long-awaited promise. Apple entered the fray in 2014 with its announcement of Apple Pay for iPhone 6 smartphones, joining Google and others that already had developed a mobile payment system using Near Field Communication (NFC), a short-range radio communications protocol that operates within a range of a few inches, and allows consumers to bump, swipe, or just come close to a merchant’s NFC reader to pay for goods and services. What’s different about Apple’s announcement of an NFC-based payment system is that it’s Apple—the firm that revolutionized five different industries and introduced the first smartphones, forever changing how people shop and communicate with one another. Apple’s iTunes store already has the credit card information of 800 million users, arguably the largest such collection on earth. In 2015, Apple introduced its Apple Watch, which also includes Apple Pay.

CASE STUDY QUESTIONS

1.1 What is the value proposition that Apple Pay offers consumers? How about merchants? (20) 1.2 What are some of the limitations of Apple Pay that might prevent its widespread adoption? (20) 1.3 What advantages do the Square and PayPal mobile card-swiping solutions have in the mobile payment market? What are their weaknesses? (20) 1.4 What strategies would you recommend that Apple pursue to assure widespread consumer adoption of Apple Pay? (30)

TOTAL: 100 MARKS

Follow up the case study E-commerce 2016 12th edition Kenneth C.Lauden PG 305


INTERNET PROGRAMMING 622

2ND SEMESTER ASSIGNMENT Name & Surname: _________________________________ ICAS No: _________________ Qualification: ______________________ Semester: _____ Module Name: ____________________ Date Submitted: ___________


EXAMINER MARKS

MODERATOR MARKS

MARKS FOR CONTENT

QUESTION ONE 50

QUESTION TWO 50

QUESTION FOUR

TOTAL MARKS 90





TOTAL MARKS





QUESTION ONE [50 MARKS]

1.1 Use PHP, HTML together with CSS to create the official Richfield’s Graduate Institute of

Technology Facebook page as shown on the screen shot below. (50)

QUESTION TWO [50 MARKS]

2.1 Based on question 1(Facebook page login page) use MySQL and PHP to create a database

called Users. Use the following fields. (10)

ID First Name Surname DOB

String String String Date

Why do I need to

provide my date

of birth?

By clicking Create Account, you agree to

our Terms and confirm that you have read

our Data Policy, including our Cookie Use

Policy. You may receive SMS message

notifications from Facebook and can opt out

at any time.

https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms

https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy

https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/

https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/

2.2 Write the code to populate the table with data(Enter at least 10 users). Refer to the above

example. (25)

ID FirstName Surname DOB

1 Palesa Zapheza 19/02/1991

2.3. Writes a php program that allows the input of two names and store them into the file called

"newfile.txt" using the fwrite() function. (15)

TOTAL: 100 MARKS


BUSINESS MANAGEMENT 622



EXAMINER MARKS

MODERATOR MARKS

MARKS FOR CONTENT

QUESTION ONE 35

QUESTION TWO 55

QUESTION FOUR

TOTAL MARKS 90



2


3


5

TOTAL MARKS 10





QUESTION ONE [35 MARKS] NEVER TOO OLD TO START A BUSINESS – MAGGIE’S ORIGINAL MAGEU At the ripe old age of 82 years, Maggie Mogase is no ordinary gogo. She is the entrepreneurial co-founder of Maggie’s Original Mageu, a business which manufactures and distributes the traditional, maize-based fermented drink. After starting on a small scale in 2006, Maggie accessed assistance from Seda and funding from the Technology Transfer Fund, which has enabled her to grow the concern and supply supermarkets across Garankuwa and neighboring areas. Mageu is the generic name for the non-dairy, non-alcoholic energy-giving beverage used by many of the maize-consuming populations in Africa. “My recipe was first formulated by my loving grandmother, the late Mrs Sapula Pooe, during the great famine of 1933,” says Maggie. “This was a difficult time in our history where crops failed, scores of livestock perished and lots of people died of starvation. Faced with the challenge of feeding fourteen grandchildren, my grandmother decided to make a tasty nourishing meal for us. This is how our Original Mageu was born and like my grandmother, I have passed the recipe down to my grandchildren who are now my business partners.” Maggie was referred to Seda and was encouraged to apply for funding from the Technology Transfer Fund in 2006. The Technology Transfer Fund assists small businesses to improve their competitiveness through technology transfer and pays for technical training. After being assessed by a Seda Technology Fund project officer, Maggie's Original Mageu received funding to acquire bottling, labelling, cooling and flavoring equipment, which enabled the business to scale up production whilst improving capacity, quality and efficiency. Seda is currently assisting the business with a quality management assessment, and will continue to provide advice and support as the business grows. Maggie’s story proves that you’re never too old to start a business! Aspiring entrepreneurs like Maggie can access information, resources and services through Seda branches. (Source: www.seda.org.za)

Reference: DOC]Grade 8 Entrepreneurship - Thutong www.thutong.doe.gov.za/ResourceDownload.aspx?id=41301 Structured questions, case study, entrepreneurship in the formal sector, Formative ... Read the case study below and answer the questions that follow. Never too.

1.1. A macro analysis will allow the budding entrepreneur to understand the uncontrollable forces that govern the profitably of the industry. Describe the skills that are required for

Entrepreneurship in Mageu. (10)

1.2 Critically evaluate all the factors involved in influencing the entrepreneurial performance in

Mageu Business (10)

1.3 Needs are unlimited but in order to satisfy those needs we have to have resources, which are generally considered to be limited. Any nation or community faces the situation of attempting to satisfy the needs of society with limited resources. Briefly explain the factors of production in Mageu

business. (10)

http://www.thutong.doe.gov.za/ResourceDownload.aspx?id=41301

1.4 Do you think Maggie Mogase was an entrepreneur or a small business owner after she started

the business? Explain your answer (5)

QUESTION TWO [55 MARKS]

Motorola was the pioneer of mobile phones, and was the top cellular phone company in the world until the late 1990s, when it was overtaken by Nokia. This case discusses some of problems that Motorola faced in 2006-2007, after it failed to follow-up the success of its iconic phone model, the Razor, and was quickly overtaken by competitors who launched innovative products to capture market share. Motorola slashed the prices of most of its phone models in late 2006 to recapture some of the lost market share, drastically affecting its margins in return. In early 2007, Motorola announced that it would make an effort to revive its financial performance and not go behind market share alone.

It also embarked on a business reorganization to better align its operations with its customers and markets. However, it was widely believed that what the company needed was a path breaking new product to pull it out of difficulties. But as of mid-2007, Motorola had no products that looked likely to replicate the Razor’s success. In addition to this, CEO Ed Zander was losing much of the credibility he had earned in 2004-2005, during his early years at the company, and speculation was rife that Motorola's board might consider replacing him in the near future. http://www.icmrindia.org/casestudies/catalogue/Business%20Strategy/BSTR267.htm

2.1 Motorola had no product to replicate in mid-2007. Explain the meaning of centralisation of authority. Give detailed explanation of the advantages and disadvantages of centralisation of

authority in Motorola. (15)

2.2 Briefly discuss any principles of organizing in Motorola. (15)

2.3 Power’ can be defined as the ability to influence the behaviour of others in an organisation. Discuss the various kinds of power that can be distinguished in an organisation. Which one of these various kinds of power would be the most important one to have for a leader in Motorola?

Substantiate your answer. (10)

2.4 An important aspect of organizing is the grouping of related activities into units or departments, called departmentalization. Distinguish between the various types of departmentalization that an

organisation can implement in Motorola. (15)

TOTAL: 100 MARKS


NETWORKS 622



EXAMINER MARKS

MODERATOR MARKS

MARKS FOR CONTENT

QUESTION ONE

A 25

B 25

C 20

D 20

QUESTION FOUR

TOTAL MARKS 90



2


3


5

TOTAL MARKS 10





QUESTION ONE [90 MARKS]

Imagine you are a consultant being asked to provide advice on the design of a new network. A company is moving onto a new industrial estate and will be taking over the use of three buildings (A, B and C). The buildings are only 40 metres apart and the company is aware that a network of underground cable ducts exists linking the three buildings. All the buildings only have one floor and each measure about 50 metres by 20 metres. The company will be operating several web servers which are intended to be accessible from external locations by customers. Building A contains the company's main computer room which holds the web servers and also contains several database and fileservers used by the company's staff. The building also contains the offices of some development staff who have very high performance desktop computers. Their computers interactively exchange large amounts of data with some of the servers.

Building B contains the office of the clerical staff. They have relatively low performance desktop computers and their desks are in fixed locations. The workers only exchange a small amount of data with the servers. Building C contains the staff cafe and a lounge area. There are also areas used to welcome customers. Much of the building is open plan and the furniture is regularly moved around.

A. What type of networking should be installed in building A and what equipment or other

facilities would you need? (25)

B. What type of networking should be installed in building B and what equipment or other

facilities would you need? (25)

C. What type of networking should be installed in building C and what equipment or other

facilities would you need? How will you try to provide internet access for visiting customers

without compromising the safety of the company's own computers? (20)

D. What type of networking and equipment should be used to link together the three buildings

and how will overall Internet access be provided for the company? (20)

TOTAL: 100 MARKS

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