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    MURANG’A UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

    SCHOOL OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

    DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

    UNIVERSITY ORDINARY EXAMINATION

    2017/2018 ACADEMIC YEAR


    THIRD YEAR SECOND SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF
    BACHELOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY,
    BACHELOR OF SOFTWARE ENGINEERING AND
    BACHELOR OF BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEM

    SCS 301 – RESEARCH METHODS IN COMPUTING

    DURATION: 2 HOURS

    DATE: 24TH APRIL 2018

    TIME: 2.00-4.00PM

    Instructions to Candidates:

    1. Answer Question 1 and Any Other Two questions.


    2. Mobile phones are not allowed in the examination room.
    3. You are not allowed to write on this examination question paper.

    SECTION A – ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION


    CASE
    As a student of information communication software engineering or information systems you will be
    required to undertake a six months research project with creativity and originality that is relevant to
    the development of society. In this project you are expected to portray relevant knowledge and
    systems implementation .Besides you are expected to have demonstrate knowledge, skills and hand
    on experience with software engineering principles, techniques, methodologies, tools and
    environments used for analysis and design of computerized systems.

    Give enough thought to one of the following systems in terms of the attributes above: stock control
    systems, billing systems, loan management systems, online reservation systems and online
    registration systems. Confining yourself to one of these systems in any organization of your choice,
    you will be required to demonstrate intellectual abilities in proposal writing, collecting research data
    and project management. Further, you will confine yourself to the constructive research methods as
    opposed to either nomothetic or idiographic research methods. The former basically involves
    conceptual and technical development of a software systems which is in-line with your area of
    interest.
    With this background in mind, now attempt the questions that follow.

    QUESTION ONE
    a) i. State your topic area, project title and the target organization (4 marks)
    ii. Formulate one main objective and three specific objectives for your project (5 marks)
    iii. Formulate the problem statement for your project (5 marks)
    iv. Explain three significances of your research project (6 marks)
    b) Describe the data collection techniques you would use for your project (4 marks)
    c) Describe the development methodology and tools for your project (4 marks)
    d) Explain two problems which you may encounter during the research project (2 marks

    SECTION TWO – ANSWER ANY TWO QUESTIONS IN THIS SECTION

    QUESTION TWO
    For each of the following about your chosen project mention
    a) Five analysis activities and their corresponding deliverables (5 marks)
    b) Seven design activities and their corresponding deliverables (7 marks)
    c) Four implementation activities and their corresponding deliverables (8 marks)

    QUESTION THREE
    a) Outline five purposes of a literature review (5 marks)
    b) Explain two kinds of skills you gain by writing a literature review (4 marks)
    c) Mention and explain six search for literature tries to answer (6 marks)
    d) Outline five questions which a literature (5 marks)

    QUESTION FOUR
    a) Mention six suitable sources of information for background reading (3 marks)
    b) Outline appropriate situations for each of the fact-finding techniques shown below
    i. Background Reading (1 Mark)
    ii. Interviewing (1 Mark)
    iii. Questionnaire (2 Marks)
    iv. Document sampling (3 marks)
    c) Give four advantages of using observation to collect research data (4 marks)
    d) Give two disadvantages of using questionnaire to collect research data (2 marks)
    e) Explain the purpose of the following modern methods of determining requirements
    i. joint application design(JAD) (2 Marks)
    ii. Prototyping

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