Examination Paper
MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
SECTION A
PART 1
ANSWERS
1- B, Information.
2- B, Relevance.
3- D, Development of employees to their full potential.
4- B, Inventory control.
5- A, Executive Information System.
6- B, Who are members of the same company or organization.
7- D, Telegram.
8- A, Online Transactional Processing.
9- D, Common operation.
10- B, Activity Control.
PART 2
ANSWERS
1.
Key features of the Strategic Information System (SIS) are:- * Decision support systems that enable to develop a strategic approach to align Information System (IS) or Information Technologies (IT) with an organization’s business strategies. * Primarily enterprise resource planning solutions that integrate the business processes to meet the enterprise objectives for the optimization of the enterprise resource. * Database systems with the “date mining” capabilities to make the best use of available corporate information for marketing, production, promotion and innovation. The SIS system also facilitates identification of the data collection strategies to help optimize database marketing opportunities. * The real-time information system that intend to maintain a rapid-response and the quality indicators.
2.
Various business models of the internet: a) Business-to-Consumer b) Business-to-Business c) Consumer-to-Business d) Consumer-to-Consumer e) Peer-to-Peer
3.
‘Network Bandwidth’. – Network Bandwidth represents the overall capacity of the connection. The greater the capacity, the more likely a better performance will result. Bandwidth is the amount of data that passes through a network connection over time and it is measured in bps.
4.
Difference between OLTP and OLPP: