Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management 2008 B.E MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS - Question Paper

The Institution of Engineers (India) ques. Paper

MANAGEMENT info SYSTEMS

Time: 3Hr. Max Marks: 100

NOTE: There are nine ques. in all.

· ques. one is compulsory and carries 20 marks. ans to Q. 1. must be written in the space given for it in the ans book supplied and nowhere else.

· Out of the remaining 8 ques. ans any 5 ques.. every ques. carries 16 marks.

· Any needed data not explicitly given, may be suitably presumed and said.

Q.1 select the accurate or best option in the following: (2x10)

a. A command that lets you change 1 of more fields in a record is

(A) Insert (B) replace

(C) Look-up (D) None of the above

b. A Database Management system

(A) allows simultaneous access to multiple files.

(B) can do more than a record management system.

(C) is a collection of programs for managing data in a single file.

(D) Both (A) and (B) above.

c. Data security threats include

(A) privacy invasion. (B) hardware failure.

(C) fraudulent manipulation of data. (D) All the above.

d. A decision table is

(A) a way to get an right picture of the system.

(B) a way of representing the info flow.

(C) a way of representing multiple conditions.

(D) all of the above.


e. The starting point for development of an MIS is

(A) identification of business processes that are the essence of business.

(B) a distributed database management.

(C) the system has large number of PC’s and a LAN.

(D) purchase of mini computers.


f. Which of the subsequent tools is not used in modeling the new system

(A) decision tables (B) data dictionary

(C) data flow diagrams (D) all of the above

g. Data integrity refers to the

(A) simplicity of data (B) privacy of data

(C) validity of data (D) security of data

h. Quantitative techniques used to solve business issues are called

(A) operations management. (B) operations science.

(C) operations research. (D) management operations.

i. Benefits from a computerized MIS include

(A) higher returns on short term investments.

(B) less frequent and smaller short term loans.

(C) lower rates of interest.

(D) all of the above.

j. The major responsibilities of the database administrator are all of the subsequent other than

(A) analyzing application system. (B) advising programmers.

(C) designing database. (D) developing data dictionaries.


ans any 5 ques. out of 8 ques.

every ques. carries 16 marks

Q.2 a. explain the 3 primary levels of decisions in business list the examples of functional areas in business where in such decision are needed to be taken. (8 )

b. What is the purpose of re-engineering? (4)

c. List the basic advantages of specialization and division of labor in manufacturing. (4)

Q.3 a. Differentiate DBMS and RDBMS and discuss advantages of DBMS. (8 )

b. How do you perform calculations with SQL and QBE? (8 )

Q.4 a. What is meant by work group integration? discuss key components of groupware. (6)

b. elaborate the limitations of GDSS? (6)

c. explain the limitations of data warehouse. (4)

Q.5 a. List the major steps involved in building or using a model to solve a issue. (8 )

b. discuss the limitations of expert systems. (8 )

Q.6 a. elaborate switching costs? discuss how can they provide a company a competitive advantage. (8 )

b. elaborate enternal agents? (8 )

Q.7 a. What is the need of system development life cycle? (8 )

b. Write strengths and weakness of SDLC? (8 )

Q.8 a. Write about Event-Driven systems? (8 )

b. discuss potential advantages of outsourcing computer facilities? (8 )

Q.9 a. describe centralization and decentralization? discuss elaborate the advantages of centralizing computer software. (8 )

b. Write about computer security controls? (4)

c. explain the different objects that are used to create data flow diagrams. (4)

Earning:   Approval pending.