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> **DRAFT** — under teacher review.
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# Essential Terms — C02
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Hamilton College · Year 12 · 2026
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A glossary of every term you need to recognise and use correctly across C02. Click a term to expand its definition. Use this as a vocabulary self-check before your C2-1 (Poster Peer-Assessment) and C2-2 (Hand-Drawn Diagrams) validations — if you can't define a term in your own words, you can't defend it under questioning.
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## Topics covered
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- **Data collection** — interviews, surveys, observations, reports; qualitative vs quantitative data
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- **Analytical tools** — context diagrams, data flow diagrams, use case diagrams
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## Data Collection
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>| ### Close-ended questions
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>| Questions that can be answered with a finite set of responses
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>| ### Data
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>| Raw, unprocessed facts and figures
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>| ### Interview
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>| A face-to-face meeting between people for consultative purposes
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>| ### Observation
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>| A method of data collection that involves physically observing how a system operates and how it is used
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>| ### Open-ended questions
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>| Questions where the number of potential answers is infinite
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>| ### Qualitative data
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>| Data that consists of descriptive details, usually gathered via surveys or interviews
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>| ### Quantitative data
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>| Data that can be easily processed in a statistical manner, usually composed of definite numbers
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>| ### Report
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>| A written document providing a summary or finding in relation to the context or system being analysed
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>| ### Survey
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>| A set of questions that ask for a response to be selected from a list of alternatives
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## Analytical Tools
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>| ### Actor
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>| An entity that can interact with the software solution as shown in a use case diagram
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>| ### Association
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>| A relationship between two elements in a use case diagram
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>| ### Context diagram
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>| A visualisation of a system in its entirety that indicates the data that is passed into and out of the system
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>| ### Data flow
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>| The movement of a piece or collection of data within an information system, as shown in context diagrams and data flow diagrams (DFDs)
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>| ### Data flow diagram (DFD)
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>| A graphical visualisation of the flow of information within a system, including data provided by external entities
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>| ### Data store
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>| A representation of a collection of data that is stored in some way within a system
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>| ### Entity
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>| The users or external systems that interact with the system being created
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>| ### Extend
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>| A relationship between use cases where one use case has optional or additional functionality, which is represented in a use case diagram as a second use case
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>| ### Generalisation
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>| A parent-child relationship between two elements in a use case diagram
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>| ### Include
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>| A relationship between use cases where one use case is tied to, or relies upon, the functionality contained within another use case
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>| ### Process (context diagram)
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>| An abstract representation of the whole system being created
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>| ### Process (data flow diagram)
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>| An abstract representation of a function within a system
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>| ### Relationship
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>| The connections between elements within a use case diagram
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>| ### System boundary
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>| A rectangle around relevant use cases that indicates the use cases that are within the scope of the solution
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>| ### Unified Modeling Language (UML)
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>| A general-purpose visual modelling language
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>| ### Use case
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>| A representation of the transactions or functions a user (actor) can complete in a system, as shown in a use case diagram
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>| ### Use case diagram (UCD)
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>| A method of describing how a user interacts with a system, using Unified Modeling Language (UML)
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## See also
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- [Context Diagram](Context%20Diagram.md) — the highest-level view of your system
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- [Context Diagram vs Data Flow Diagram](Context%20Diagram%20vs%20Data%20Flow%20Diagram.md) — what changes between Level 0 and Level 1
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- [What Is an Entity](What%20Is%20an%20Entity.md) — entities aren't only people
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- [Excalidraw Diagram Starters](Excalidraw%20Diagram%20Starters.md) — pre-framed canvases for rehearsing all three diagrams