Chapter 8 - User Interface Design Flashcards
A record of the source of each data item and when it entered a system. In addition to recording the original source, an _________ must show how and when data is accessed or changed, and by whom. All these actions must be logged in an _____________ file and monitored carefully.
audit trails
Part of a form that contains any required signatures.
authorization zone
A system that allows a customer to request a fax using email, the company website, or a telephone. The response is transmitted in a matter of seconds back to the user’s fax machine
automated fax
A group of data, usually inputted into an information system at the same time.
batch
A total used to verify batch input. ___________ might check data items such as record counts and numeric field totals. For example, before entering a batch of orders, a user might calculate the total number of orders and the sum of all the order quantities. When the batch of orders is entered, the order system also calculates the same two totals. If the system totals do not match the input totals, then a data entry error has occurred.
Batch controls
A process where data entry is performed on a specified time schedule, such as daily, weekly, monthly, or longer. For example, ____________ occurs when a payroll department collects time cards at the end of the week and enters the data as a batch.
batch input
An online journal. The term is a contraction of “web log.”
blogs
A ____________ allows the user to select a date that the system will display and store as a field value.
calendar control
A report created using a single mono-spaced character set.
character-based reports
Used to select one or more choices from a group. A check mark, or an X, represents selected options.
check boxes
A type of data validation check that is performed on two or more fields to ensure that they are consistent or reasonable when considered together. Even though all the fields involved in a ______________________ might pass their individual validation checks, the combination of the field values might be inconsistent or unreasonable.
combination check
Onscreen button that initiates an action such as printing a form or requesting Help.
command button
A feature that is sensitive to the current conditions when it is invoked. For example, ______________ help offers assistance for a task in progress.
context-sensitive
A ______________ usually causes specific actions to occur, such as printing subtotals for a group of records.
control break
A detail report that focuses on control breaks.
control break report
In a control break report, the records are arranged or sorted in the same order as the _____________.
control field order
Protection of data from loss or damage and recovers data when it is lost or damaged.
data security
A type of data validation check that is used to ensure that a data item fits the required data type. For example, a numeric field must have only numbers or numeric symbols, and an alphabetic field can contain only the characters A through Z or the characters a through z.
data type check
A mechanism to improve input quality by testing the data and rejecting any entry that fails to meet specified conditions.
data validation rule
A value that a system displays automatically.
default value
Creating a prototype of user requirements, after which the prototype is discarded and implementation continues.
design prototyping / throwaway prototyping
A ____________ produces one or more lines of output for each record processed.
detail report
Allows a user to enter information about a task that a system will perform.
dialog box
A network terminal that supports a full-featured user interface but limits the printing or copying of data, except to certain network resources that can be monitored and controlled more easily.
diskless workstation
An electronic record of a patient’s health information generated as the patient encounters various health-care providers and shared among multiple facilities and agencies.
electronic health records (EHRs)
A document displaying only those records that meet a specific condition or conditions. _____________ are useful when the user wants information only on records that might require action but does not need to know the details.
exception report
A type of data validation check that is used for mandatory data items. For example, if an employee record requires a Social Security number, an existence check would not allow the user to save the record until he or she enters a suitable value in the SSN field.
existence check
A very effective method of online data entry where a blank form that duplicates or resembles the source document is completed on the screen. The user enters the data and then moves to the next field.
form filling
The physical appearance and placement of data on a form. ____________ makes the form easy to complete and provides enough space, both vertically and horizontally, for users to enter the data.
form layout
