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Before you start developing a system you need a plan of action, together with design ideas for each of the areas of the system. Spending a good amount of time designing a system in advance will allow you and the rest of the development team the ability to solve problems in advance of the development, saving a considerable amount of time and money. It may also highlight issues that need to addressed before the project can move ahead.<\/p>\n
What things need designing?<\/strong><\/p>\n User documentation is required to assist the user in using the system. The documentation can be paper or electronic based and can include:<\/p>\n Technical documentation is designed to help maintain and upgrade the system.<\/p>\n Technical documentation may include:<\/p>\n Engineers or system administrators will refer to this documentation when they are looking at the system.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n<\/div> In your exam you will likely be asked to design a screen input form.<\/p>\n In order to succeed you need to ensure that you include:<\/p>\n It should also:<\/p>\n Data Validation<\/strong><\/p>\n There are three types of data that may be entered in to a system:<\/p>\n Valid\u00c2\u00a0Data<\/strong><\/p>\n Extreme Data<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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Screens, Forms & Input<\/h2>\n
Screen Design<\/h3>\n
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