Student Activity

Student Activities

1. Brainstorm with another student and Identify the main transactions/steps in a Motel Reservations System





2. You will watch two videos. 

The first was about real time data being presented to the wearer of a device. It was presented to get you thinking about Real Time TPS.

Wearable Technology - Sixth Sense - TED Talk


The second video related to the drawing up of Context Diagrams. In the TPS unit Context Diagrams and especially Data Flow Diagrams are used a lot.

Context Diagram


The two activities below relate to Real Time Transaction Processing Systems.

Activity 1

  • Your task is to look at the Library Loan TPS sheet and draw up an IS diagram and Context Diagram that helps depict/describe the system. (There is a sample IS diagram in the stem if you have forgotten how it should look).

Activity 2

  • Your task is to look at the Reservation TPS sheet and draw up an IS diagram and Context Diagram that helps depict/describe the system. I

In class we will extend the diagrams by adding a DataFlow Diagram to each

Library Loan TPS


Reservation TPS




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