Bsc (Hons.

) Business Information Systems

Cohort: BIS/09/FT

Examinations for 2011 - 2012 / Semester 2

MODULE: Enterprise Software Development

MODULE CODE: SDT 3112

Duration: 3 Hours

Instructions to Candidates:

1. Answer ALL questions.

2. Questions may be answered in any order but your answers must show
the question number clearly.
3. Always start a new question on a fresh page.
4. Total marks 100.

This question paper contains 4 questions with 4 pages.

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 ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS

QUESTION 1: (25 MARKS)

a) Define the following:

a. Presentation Server
b. Application Server
c. Database Server
d. Software application Architecture
(4 marks)
b) Compare SAP approach to a traditional Information system.
(4 marks)
c) What are advantages and disadvantages of SAP? (8 marks)
d) Describe 9 different SAP application modules.
(9 marks)

QUESTION 2: (25 MARKS)

(a) Give 4 main SAP Netweaver components you would use to develop a
business application and state why.
(10 marks)
(b) What do you understand by Dispatcher? Provide illustration to your
explanation.
(5 marks)
(c) Explain how a dispatcher manages requests at the application layer.
(6 marks)
(d) What do you understand by the term automation and process of
enterprise application?
(4marks)

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QUESTION 3: (15 MARKS)

(a) What is a composite application? ( 3 marks)

(b) Give an example where a composite application can be used.
(3 marks)
(c) Describe the Key Capabilities of SAP Enterprise Portal? (9 marks)

QUESTION 4: (35 MARKS)

Abstract: Markets globalisation makes industrial companies to change radically,

becoming more flexible, customer oriented and agile in manufacturing.
Consequently, the enterprise software applications are becoming more and more
complex, exploiting distributed object technology in multi-tier architectures.

INTRODUCTION

Whereas at one time the decisive factor of production was the land,
and later capital..today the decisive factor is increasingly man himself, that is
his knowledge.
Pope John Paul II - 1991 Centesimus Annus

Due to increasing inter-organizational production and control, a new

management dimension occurs that focuses on both manufacturing activities and
the supply chain. Its demands are the cost control, needs to analyze
costs/revenues on a product or customer basis, flexibility to respond to changing
business requirements, more informed management decision making and
changes in the way of doing business.

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Describe and illustrate the design specification for an enterprise application that
integrates the ERP concept in three-tier architecture, containing modularized,
distributed subsystems in configurable and maintainable software.

Starting from the customer order, to planned order dispatch, the ERP main
components and the information flow within the system is presented.

(35 marks)

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