Practical and written assessment

1). Suggest and explain five risk factors that would be considered when developing a disaster recovery plan.

2). Use the case narrative below (Electro plus Ltd) to complete problem. Make sure you read and understand the activities and the case thoroughly before you commence work on the problem.

Electro plus Ltd.'s record payments process:

Electro plus Ltd is a multi-store retail business that sells products such as DVDs, CDs, mp3 players, game consoles and TVs. In addition to these retail sales, Electro plus Ltd also sells music, games and DVD via its website. The narrative of the recording payments process for Electro plus Ltd follows.

In addition to prepaid online sales and retail cash sales, Electro plus Ltd offers a credit facility to selected larger customers. These customer receive invoices when they purchase goods, and are sent a statement at the end of each month. Payments made by these customers are received by the cashier. Every morning the accounts receivable officer receives a report of customer receipts from the cashier.

The customer receipts report contains the customer number and name, the amount received from each customer and the total of the customer receipts. The accounts receivable officer logs on the computer and opens a new cash receipts batch. The accounts receivable officer enter the first customer number from the customer receipts report.

The computer displays details of the open (unpaid) invoices for that customer. The accounts receivable officer selects the invoices that have been paid by clicking on a check box. The computer calculates a total for the customer based on the invoiced checked. Once the accounts receivable officer has checked that they have selected the correct invoices and that the customer total matches the total received by the cashier from that customer, they authorize the receipt allocation.

The computer records the cash receipt total and changes the status of the selected invoiced from ‘open' to ‘closed' (paid). The accounts receivable officer does this for every customer receipt on the report. Once all the customer receipts have entered, the accounts receivable officer updates the computer to record the cash receipts batch as complete. The computer automatically prints out a report that contains details of the cash receipts batch. The accounts receivable officer attaches the cash receipts batch report to the customer receipts report and files them away.

a). Prepare a level 0 logical data flow diagram (DFD) for the recording payments process at Electro plus Ltd.

Note: For question 1, please ensure that you use the correct referencing style (Harvard referencing).

There is a word limit of 400 words for question 1. And no limit for Question 2 since it is a diagram based question in which you have to prepare Level 0 logical data flow diagram (DFD). Make the diagram clear.

Message : Just a small part of assignment. Word limit is also very less.