Management Information System
Assignment- A
Q1. Define MIS? What are the objectives and characteristics of MIS?
Q2. Write a detailed note on the planning and development of Management Information Systems.
Q3. Explain the different components of MIS.
Q4. Explain the different components of MIS.
Q5. Explain with relevant example the concept of business process. Also mention their elements.
Q6. What do you understand by Management information systems.
Q7. Explain in detail the necessity and importance of Systems Design in MIS.
Q8. Explain various Organizational limits to Relational Decision Making in MIS.
Assignment- B
Case Study:
Overhauling the Information Systems Environment
Multibase Company Limited is a diversified business group with interests in fabric and yarn manufacturing, paper and pulp, and cement. Its manufacturing units are located across the country and number eight- one for fabric, two for yarn, two for paper and pulp, and three for cement. While the head of each unit has considerable operational autonomy, strategic decisions considering these units, such as capacity expansion, procurement of new technology involving substantial investment, etc., are made at the headquarters, located in Delhi. The
headquarters monitor the performance of every unit though weekly and monthly reports are which are prepared by CBIS installed at each unit.
Often considerable amount of time of the senior executives based at the headquarters is taken away in analyzing these reports and drawing inferences for planning and control. The result is that the senior executives have little time for strategic thinking which they feel is a must in the present competitive environment. The CEO of the company has thus proposed to develop suitable computer based systems which might be helpful in understanding the current status of various manufacturing units in terms of their overall performance, the type of environmental constraints that operate in the three business that exist for enhancing capacity in these business areas.
Questions:
a. What systems would you propose that would serve the company’s needs?
b. Considering that the company already has CBIS installed, will you contemplate complete overhaul of the systems or add functionalities of the existing systems? Justify your line of action.
c. Justify the requirement of a Chief Information Officer (CIO) in the context of the given case.
Assignment- C
Question No. 1 Marks - 10
A ______ is the actual system that a manager works with during the decision process.
Options
- Specific DSS
- DSS generators
- DSS tools
- None
Question No. 2 Marks - 10
The components of DSS –
Options
Data management sub systems
Model management sub system
Dialog management sub system
All of these
Question No. 3 Marks - 10
________ systems help to a analyze historical and current data either on demand or periodically.
Options
Data access system
Data analysis system
Fore cast-oriented data analysis system
System based on accounting models
Question No. 4 Marks - 10
_________ is an organized portfolio of formal systems for obtaining processing and delivering information in support of the business operations and management of an organization.
Options
MIS
DSS
MRS
None of these
Question No. 5 Marks - 10
________ are formal social units devoted to the attainment of specific goals.
Options
Management
Organization
Decision support system
None of these
Question No. 6 Marks - 10
________ expressly designed for the support of individual and collective decision making.
Options
MIS
DSS
TPS`
OIS
Question No. 7 Marks - 10
The cost of information can be _______.
Options
Costly
Valuable
Processing
None of these
Question No. 8 Marks - 10
________ technology include computers hardware, software, database management systems and data communication system.
Options
Information
Computer
Marketing
All of these
Question No. 9 Marks - 10
_______ systems are interactive information systems that assist a decision maker in approaching ill-structured problems by offering analytical models and access to database.
Options
Decision making
Systematic
Cognitive
Decision support systems
Question No. 10 Marks - 10
A ________ decision maker approaches a problem by structuring it and applying a well-defined method to lead to a solution
Options
Intuitive
Systematic
Cognitive
All of these
Question No. 11 Marks - 10
Management, science, also known as _________, is a field of applied mathematics.
Options
Operations research
Management accounting
Exchange commission
System theory
Question No. 12 Marks - 10
Mass production of computers started in ________, when UNIVAC 1 was delivered.
Options
1951
1953
1946
1954
Question No. 13 Marks - 10
________ can occur at the individual, group, organizational or extra-organizational level.
Options
Planning
Controlling
Organizing
Scheduling
Question No. 14 Marks - 10
. ________ ensuring that performance meets established standards that worker’s activities occurs as planned and that the organization process.a
Options
Controlling
Planning
Leading
Organizing
Question No. 15 Marks - 10
________ is the process of recording, classifying and summarizing the financial activities of an organization.
Options
Planning
Managerial
Accounting
Diagnosis
Question No. 16 Marks - 10
Human and computers are _______ in their ability to filter and save information.
Options
Similar
Different
Complementary
None of these
Question No. 17 Marks - 10
EDI is an example of _________.
Options
- Decision making
- Boundary system
- Coordination
- Modeling
Question No. 18 Marks - 10
Telecommunications means multiple computer interconnected into networks is called ______.
Options
- Distributed database
- Distributed processing
- Central processing
- None of these
Question No. 19 Marks - 10
Decision making is a _______ activity
Options
- Intuitive
- Cognitive
- Systematic
- Analytic
Question No. 20 Marks - 10
______ is the process of identifying a problem, developing alternative solutions and choosing and implementing.
Options
- Decision making
- Business
- Value
- Re-engineering
Question No. 21 Marks - 10
The business re-engineering requires a major change in the _________.
Options
- Machine
- Mindset
- Material
- Infrastructure
Question No. 22 Marks - 10
A ______ is a measure, an intangible measure, which is difficult to count in clear terms.
Options
- Model
- Business
- Value
- Organization
Question No. 23 Marks - 10
A ________ process in any area of the business organization performs basic steps such as, receive input, measure, analyze, document, perform, process, record / store, access, produce and communicate.
Options
- Value
- Decision making
- Business
- Re-engineering
Question No. 24 Marks - 10
Newspaper, magazine, radio, television are example of _________.
Options
- Storing information
- Retrieving information
- Communication information
- Acquiring information
Question No. 25 Marks - 10
MRS stands for _______.
Options
- Management reporting system
- Management resource system
- Management retrieve system
- None of these
Question No. 26 Marks - 10
EIS should offer the capability to _____________into the data
Options
- Drill down
- Drill up
- Drill diagonal
- All of these
Question No. 27 Marks - 10
A _______ strategy seeks to achieve competitive advantages by allowing the business unit to make more profit than its competitors.
Options
- Focus
- Cost leadership
- Linkage
- Information leadership
Question No. 28 Marks - 10
_______ is a feature provided for ensuring that the transaction is completed with regards to the business rules set by the management.
Options
- Advocacy
- Authorization
- Signature
- Policy formulation
Question No. 29 Marks - 10
The architecture of the MIS plan provides:
Options
- A way to handle the system or subsystem by way of simplification, coupling and decoupling of subsystems.
- For preparing the schedule of the system in the overall information requirement
- An online information on the stocks markets and the accounts balance
- None of these
Question No. 30 Marks - 10
Michael hammer defines re-engineer as _______ and radical redesign of business process to achieve the performance such as cost, quality, service and speed.
Options
- Business process
- The fundamental rethinking
- Organization restructuring
- None of these
Question No. 31 Marks - 10
The ________ calls for trimming and chopping of these designs so that the cost is reduced, service is improved and the customer gets higher value at a higher speed.
Options
- Business process
- Radical redesign
- The fundamental rethinking
- None of these
Question No. 32 Marks - 10
True or False –
a. Formal sources provide information is a less structured way.
b. Informal sources provide information in a relatively organized and predictable fashion.
Options
- a & b true
- a & b False
- a – true, b – false
- b – true, a – false
Question No. 33 Marks - 10
______ processing with electronic scanners involves transforming and entering the data into an electronic form.
Options
- Manual, electronic
- Electronic, manual
- Transforming
- None of these
Question No. 34 Marks - 10
. ______, _______ and society need to use a variety of systems to organize the collection, storage, processing, retrieval and communication of information.
Options
- Management, society
- Communicating, organizations
- Individuals, organizations
- None of these
Question No. 35 Marks - 10
MIS is both an area of _______ and a _______ of scholarly inquiry.
Options
- Design, diagnosis
- Practice, discipline
- Evaluation, implementation
- None of these
Question No. 36 Marks - 10
The first electronic computer, ________ was completed in 1946 at the university of _______.
Options
- ENIAC, Pennsylvania
- UNIVAC, Pennsylvania
- ENIAC, Charles Babbage
- None of these
Question No. 37 Marks - 10
True or False –
a. At the highest level, managers are concerned with supervising the conduct of day-to-day activities.
b. At the lowest level, managers are concerned with setting long term goals and directions for the organization.
Options
- Both are true
- Both are false
- A – true, b-false
- A – false, b – true
Question No. 38 Marks - 10
______ managers who acts as project managers might be responsible for one or more unique protects and _______ managers supervise teams of workers who must accomplish a specific goal.
Options
- Middle, project
- Project, middle
- Top, middle
- Top, project
Question No. 39 Marks - 10
______ refers to taking actions that direct and motivate employees to accomplish personal and organizational goals.
Options
- Organizing and leading
- Planning and controlling
- Leading
- None of these
Question No. 40 Marks - 10
Operations can encompass ________.
Options
- Only manufacturing
- Manufacturing and the provision of services
- Services only
- Non profit organizations