FINAL TERM

Subject: Management Information System

Name_______________________________

Time 2 hrs
Total Marks: 50
Roll #__________

1- A system that interacts with other systems in its environment is commonly referred to as a
a. Cybernetic system
b. Dynamic system.
c. Subsystem
d.
Open system

2- Management Information system usually :

a. Serve managers interested in weekly, monthly, and yearly results, not day-to-day activities.
b. Help managers make decisions that are unique, rapidly changing, and not easily specified in advance
c. Provide managers with a generalized computing and telecommunication capacity that can be applied to
changing array of problems.
d. Perform and record the daily routine transactions necessary to the conduct of business.

3- Which function in an organization manages information resources?

a.
b.
c.
d.

Data administration
Database administration
Knowledge Management
Information Management

4. When information and processing is spread throughout the organization via a network, we say
the systems are _____.
a. dependent
b. reliant
c. distributed
d. self-supporting
5-Software that permits an organization to centralize data, manage the data efficiently, and
provide access to the stored data by application programs is a (n):
a.
b.
c.
d.

ERP (enterprise resource planning).

DBMS (data base management system).
DSS (decision support system).
DTP (desktop publishing).

6- Which of the following statements about radio frequency identification (RFID) is not true?
a. Companies may be required to upgrade hardware and software to accommodate the massive
amounts data that are being produced by RFID systems.
b. RFID systems use tiny tags with embedded microchips containing data about an item and its
location.
c. RFID systems transmit radio signals over long distances.
d. RFID systems provide a powerful technology for tracking the movement of goods throughout the
supply chain.

7- What tells the browser software exactly where to look for the information being requested?
a.
b.
c.
d.

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol).

URL (Uniform Resource Locator).
HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language).
Domain name.

8- Because e-commerce is ubiquitous, it reduces:

a.
b.
c.
d.

Transaction costs.
Market space.
Price discrimination.
Dynamic pricing.

9- "Richness" refers to:

a. How many people a business can connect with and how many products it can offer to those
people.
b. The ability of an Internet client to provide payment.
c. The extent of interconnectedness between retailers and suppliers.
d. The complexity and content of a message.
10- The questions "Is the solution working?" and "Can we make it work better?" are asked in the:
a.
b.
c.
d.

Choice stage.
Implementation stage.
Intelligence stage.
Design stage.

Short Questions

Marks (10)

1. What are the business firm hierarchies?

(2)

2. What are data marts? give some examples

(2)

3. What are the main telecommunication transmission media and types of networks?

(2)

4. What are the different types of decisions, and how does the decision-making process work

(2)

5. Five moral dimensions of the information age

(2)

Long question
Q#1. Why E-commerce is different? Discuss different aspects.

Marks (20)
10

Q#2.
a. Describe characteristics of MIS and explain how MIS differ from TPS and from DSS
b. What is E-commerce? What are the types of E-commerce?

05
05

MCQ KEY
1
D

2
B

3
B

4
C

5
B

6
C

7
B

8
A

9
D

10
B