Management Information System

 

Assignment A

 

Question 1: Define MIS? What are the objectives and characteristics of MIS?

 

Question 2: Write a detailed note on the planning and development of Management Information Systems.

 

Question 3:  Explain strategic MIS categories in detail.  Give illustrations for each category.

 

Question 4: Explain the different components of MIS.

 

Question 5:  Explain with relevant example the concept of business process. Also mention their elements.

 

Question 6: What do you understand by Management information systems?

 

Question 7: Explain in detail the necessity and importance of Systems Design in MIS.

 

Question 8: Explain various Organizational limits to Relational Decision Making in MIS.

 

SECTION B

 

CASE STUDY

 

Multibase Company Limited is a diversified business group with interests in fabric and yarn manufacturing, paper and pulp, and cement. Its eight manufacturing units are located across the country - 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 head quarters 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.

 

Question 1: What systems would you propose that would serve the company's needs?

 

Question 2: 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.

 

Question 3: Justify the requirement of a Chief Information Officer (CIO) in the context of the given case.

 

(Objective Questions)

 

Assignment C

 

Question No.  1 Marks - 10

A ______ is the actual system that a manager works with during the decision process.

 

Options

1. Specific DSS

2. DSS generators

3. DSS tools

4. 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

1. Decision making

2. Boundary system

3. Coordination

4. Modeling

 

Question No.  18 Marks - 10

Telecommunications means multiple computer interconnected into networks is called ______.

 

Options

1. Distributed database

2. Distributed processing

3. Central processing

4. None of these

 

Question No.  19 Marks - 10

Decision making is a _______ activity

 

Options

1. Intuitive

2. Cognitive

3. Systematic

4. Analytic

 

Question No.  20 Marks - 10

______ is the process of identifying a problem, developing alternative solutions and choosing and implementing.

 

Options

1. Decision making

2. Business

3. Value

4. Re-engineering

 

Question No.  21 Marks - 10

The business re-engineering requires a major change in the _________.

 

Options

1. Machine

2. Mindset

3. Material

4. Infrastructure

 

Question No.  22 Marks - 10

A ______ is a measure, an intangible measure, which is difficult to count in clear terms.

 

Options

1. Model

2. Business

3. Value

4. 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

1. Value

2. Decision making

3. Business

4. Re-engineering

 

Question No.  24 Marks - 10

Newspaper, magazine, radio, television are example of _________.

 

Options

1. Storing information

2. Retrieving information

3. Communication information

4. Acquiring information

 

Question No.  25 Marks - 10

MRS stands for _______.

 

Options

1. Management reporting system

2. Management resource system

3. Management retrieve system

4. None of these

 

Question No.  26 Marks - 10

EIS should offer the capability to _____________into the data

 

Options

1. Drill down

2. Drill up

3. Drill diagonal

4. 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

1. Focus

2. Cost leadership

3. Linkage

4. 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

1. Advocacy

2. Authorization

3. Signature

4. Policy formulation

 

Question No.  29 Marks - 10

The architecture of the MIS plan provides:

 

Options

1. A way to handle the system or subsystem by way of simplification, coupling and decoupling of subsystems.

2. For preparing the schedule of the system in the overall information requirement

3. An online information on the stocks markets and the accounts balance

4. 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

1. Business process

2. The fundamental rethinking

3. Organization restructuring

4. 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

1. Business process

2. Radical redesign

3. The fundamental rethinking

4. 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

1. a & b true

2. a & b False

3. a – true, b – false

4. b – true, a – false

 

Question No.  33 Marks - 10

______ processing with electronic scanners involves transforming and entering the data into an electronic form.

 

Options

1. Manual, electronic

2. Electronic, manual

3. Transforming

4. 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

1. Management, society

2. Communicating, organizations

3. Individuals, organizations

4. None of these

 

Question No.  35 Marks - 10

MIS is both an area of _______ and a _______ of scholarly inquiry.

 

Options

1. Design, diagnosis

2. Practice, discipline

3. Evaluation, implementation

4. None of these

 

Question No.  36 Marks - 10

The first electronic computer, ________ was completed in 1946 at the university of _______.

Options

1. ENIAC, Pennsylvania

2. UNIVAC, Pennsylvania

3. ENIAC, Charles Babbage

4. 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

1. Both are true

2. Both are false

3. A – true, b-false

4. 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

1. Middle, project

2. Project, middle

3. Top, middle

4. Top, project

 

Question No.  39 Marks - 10

______ refers to taking actions that direct and motivate employees to accomplish personal and organizational goals.

 

Options

1. Organizing and leading

2. Planning and controlling

3. Leading

4. None of these

 

Question No.  40 Marks - 10

Operations can encompass ________.

 

Options

1. Only manufacturing

2. Manufacturing and the provision of services

3. Services only

4. Non profit organizations