Documenting Business Processes and Information Systems Course
Details
A business process can be visualized with a flowchart as a sequence of activities with interleaving decision points or with a data flow diagram as a sequence of the system’s components. This free online course in Documenting Business Processes and Information Systems enables the learner to develop skills in reading and producing business logic and data work flow diagrams. The student will learn about the sources, destinations and storage of data, and also how data flows among the components of a flowchart or diagram. The course will be of interest to business professionals who would like to gain a basic knowledge and understanding of documenting business processes, data work flow diagrams and entity-relationship data models.
CERTIFICATIONTo qualify for your official ALISON Diploma, Certificate or PDF you must study and complete all modules and score 80% or more in each of the course assessments. A link to your Diploma certificate will then appear under the My Certificates heading of your My Account page.
LEARNING OUTCOMESAt the end of this course the learner will be able to: - Read data flow diagrams; - Describe the terms “balanced” and “top-down partitioning”; - Read a systems flowchart; - Read entity-relationship diagrams.
Outline
Module 1: Reading Data Flow Diagrams
Module 2: Reading System Flowcharts
Module 3: Reading Entity-Relationship Diagrams
Module 4: Documenting Business Processes and Information Systems - Assessment
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