MIS 307, Management Information System

UNIT 1 Assignment Date of Submission-25 August,2017

Q1. Short Notes: 5 Marks

a) MIS in Tourism Industry
b) MIS Growth and Development
c) Integration of Organisation System and Information systems.
d) Difference between MIS and a computer system
e) Programmed Vs. Non-programmed decisions.
f) Business Systems Vs. MIS
g) One example each of Transaction Processing System, Embedded System and Expert System
h) Critical Success Factors of MIS
Q2. Long Answers- 15 Marks

a) Define the term MIS. Discuss the importance and relevance and importance of MIS to business
organization with the help of examples.
b) What do you mean by MIS architecture? Discuss different subsystems of management information system.
c) Define the role of MIS in Business organization. (8 Marks)
d) Why an organization needs MIS and how decision characteristics are linked to different levels of
Management? (8 marks)
e) Define the term "MIS" functioning? How does it assist managers in their day-to-day functioning?

f) What are the different types of information systems that generally exist in an organization? Are these
systems related? If yes use an example of FMCG organization to support your answer?
g) Why an organization needs MIS and how decision characteristics are linked to different levels of
Management? (8 marks)

h) Explain the term decision-making giving an example. Explain the various phases in decision-making
according to Simon's model.
i) What are the different types of DSS And development process of DSS?
j) Define Decision Support System? Explain the characteristics of a DSS. How the
DSS differs from GDSS?

k) Explain the characteristics of an MIS and DSS. (7 marks)

l) What do you know about 'Expert Systems' . Explain in detail. (8 Marks)

m) Short note on Expert systems

n) Explain about Transaction Processing System. (7 Marks)

o) Short note on Transaction Processing System

p) What do you mean by an executive information system? What are the components of an EIS?
q) Short note on EIS.

r) Differentiate with examples operational DSS, MIS, ESS and GDSS.