Case study 1

The pharmacy at Mercy Hospital fills medical prescriptions for all hospital patients and distributes these
medications to the nurse stations responsible for the patients’ care. Prescription are written by doctors
and sent to the pharmacy. A pharmacy technician reviews each prescription and sends it to the
appropriate pharmacy station. Prescriptions for drugs that must be formulated (made-on site) are sent
to the lab station, prescriptions for off-the-shelf drugs are sent to the shelving station, and
prescriptions for narcotics are sent to the secure station. At each station, a pharmacist reviews the
order, checks the patients the patients’ file to determine the appropriateness of the prescription, and
fills the order if the dosage is at a safe level and it will not negatively interact with the other
medications or allergies indicated in the patient’s file. If the pharmacist does not fill the order, the
prescribing doctor is contacted to discuss the situation. In this case, the order may ultimately be filled,
or the doctor may write another prescription depending on the outcome of the discussion. Once filled, a
prescription label is generated listing the patient’s name, the drug type and dosage, an expiration date,
and any special instructions. The label is placed on the drug container, and the order is sent to the
appropriate nurse station. The patient’s admission number, the drug type and amount dispensed, and
the cost of the prescription are then sent to the billing department.

A suggested answer is provided below.

Context Diagram

Prescription 0
Drug Label Info
Doctor Unfilled Order Info Hospital
Store
Pharmacy
Manager
System
Patient Number
Unfilled Order Info and Drug Type,
Response Amount & Cost

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 Hospital Pharmacy - Level-0 Diagram

Prescription Review &

Doctor Send
Prescription
to Station
Unfilled Order Info

Pharmacy
Prescription Patient File
Unfilled Order Info Tech Review D
Response

2 Patient Info
Review
Prescription
Order by
Station

Order Info Order Fill Info

3
Fill
Order

Drug Label Info Patient Number

and Drug Type, Billing
Amount & Cost Dept
4
Generate
Label
Drug Label Info

Nurses
Station

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 Case study 2

Play.com is an online store that provides preorder service for customers to order product that has not yet
been released, for example a movie title or even a video games title. When customers place orders on the
company’s website, the order will be pending until the item has officially released. When the product is in
stock, the system issue a status message to the customer and generates a shipping order to the warehouse.
When the order is shipped, the customer is billed. The sales report will be sent to the accounting for audit
purposes.

A customer who wishes to use the Play.com preorder services must first fill in their personal details in the
provided section of the web. After the registration process is completed, the customer is free to browse
available items in the Play.com website. A customer may place an order for a number of items from various
categories. The selected items will be placed in the shopping cart and customer is required to enter the credit
card or debit card details upon checkout. Item that has been sent to customer will be mark as delivered in the
order status.

2. Draw a context diagram based on the case study above.

(5 marks)

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 3. Explode your context diagram into diagram 0.
(10 marks)

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 Case Study 3

Read carefully the following situation and answer all questions.

ScoreA Tuition System, (STS) is a tuition centre that handles 600 students to prepare for secondary school
exams. Number of students is expected to increase by next year. Therefore, top management of STS has
decided to use a system called ScoreA Tuition System, (STS) in order to organize all students' information that
has registered to the centre.

In order for the staffs to use the system, they need to access their username and password to ensure they
are valid users. They are able to access the system whenever authentication has been verified. Otherwise,
message to indicate invalid user will be displayed on the screen. If there is a new student wishes to enroll at
the centre, staff will ask for their identification number and make the student registration. Next, the staff will
key in related information such as student's address, contact number and type of subject request by the
student. Then the system will calculate total fee for the enrollment. Students can enroll more than one
subject and they can withdraw enrollment whenever they like. Once enrollment has been confirmed by the
system, STS will produce a bill. Then, students can collect their bill from staffs.

Staffs can immediately get updated information regarding student enrollment. They can view report such as
number of students enrolling for each subject, tuition fee and outstanding fee. STS can be used by all
teachers in that centre. This is to ease the teachers to keep track of their schedule. In this case, teachers
can check their schedule once the enrollment for each class has been confirmed by the system based on
teacher's id. All information running through the system will be stored in STS database.

a) Draw a context diagram for ScoreA Tuition System (CTS). (3.5m)

user id, pwd

teacher’s id
login verification
0
student details
TEACHER
STAFF requested subject ScoreA Tuition
System schedule
bill

report

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 b) Based on your context diagram, explode into diagram 0 for the ScoreA Tuition System (STS). (11.5m)

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