ASSIGNMENT

DRIVE SPRING 2014

PROGRAM Bachelor of Business Administration- BBA
SEMESTER 2
SUBJECT CODE &
NAME
BBA205 MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM
BK ID B1522
CREDIT & MARKS 4 Credits, 60 marks


Q.
No
Questions Marks Total
Marks
1 Define Planning process. Explain the three stages of a Planning process. Explain the
guidelines for a successful Planning process.
Definition of a Planning process
Stages of a Planning process
Explaining the guidelines for a successful planning process

2
3
5
10
2 What do you mean by ERP? Describe the situations before and after the existence of ERP.
Explain the challenges involved in ERP
Definition of ERP
Explaining the situations before and after ERP
Explaining the challenges in ERP

2
3
5
10
3 Define Decision Support System (DSS).Explain the components of a DSS. State the
differences between DSS and Expert System(ES)
Definition of DSS
Explaining the components of a DSS
Differences between DSS and ES

2
3
5
10
4 Explain the functions of DBMS. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of
DBMS
Explain the functions of DBMS
State the advantages of DMBS
State the disadvantages of DBMS




4
3
3

10



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A project is composed of 9 activities the three estimates of time in weeks for the
activities are given below in the following table.
Activity Immediate
predecessors
Optimistic time Most like time
duration
Pessimistic
time
A -- 5 8 10
B -- 18 20 22
C -- 26 33 40
D A 16 18 20
E A 15 20 25
F B 6 9 12
G C 7 10 12
H D 7 8 9
I F, E 3 4 5
a. Draw a PERT Network
b. Determine the expected time and variance for each activity
c. Determine earliest and latest occurrence time of each event
d. Determine the critical path for the network
a. For correctly drawing the network diagram
b. For determining the expected time and variance for each
activity
c. For determining the earliest and latest occurrence time of each
event
d. For identifying the correct critical path
2
3

3
2



10
6 Write short notes on the following :
a)Neural Networks(NN)
b)Business Process Re-engineering(BPR)

Concept, advantages and disadvantages of Neural Networks
Concept and importance of BPR

5
5
10



Note Answer all questions. Kindly note that answers for 10 marks questions should be
approximately of 400 words. Each question is followed by evaluation scheme.