SYMBIOSIS CENTRE FOR DISTANCE LEARNING (SCDL)

Subject: Management Information Systems

Sample Questions:

Section I: Subjective Questions

1. Which factors are considered critical for the success/failure of the Decision Support System?

2. List the categories of data warehousing tools.

3. "MIS enables improved business administration." Do you agree with this statement? Justify your
answer.
4. Mention the types of DSS along with examples
5. State the characteristics of a system.
6. Which factors are considered critical for the success/failure of the Decision Support System?
7. What are the various activities involved in systems design?
8. "Information plays a vital role in decision-making." Give your view on this statement.

Section II: Objective Questions

Multiple Choice Single Response

1. Which model of DSS focuses on studying the behavior amongst the variables
1] Behavioral Model
2] Management Science Model
3] Operations Research Model
4] Operational Mathematical Model

2. The degree of excellence of a product or service indicates its

1] Level
2] Quality
3] Quantity
4] Value

3. How does the analytical IT capability have an impact on the organization?

1] Brings vast amounts of detailed information into a process
2] Brings complex analytical method to bear on a process
3] Enables changes in the sequence of tasks in a process, often allowing multiple tasks to be
worked on simultaneously
4] Allows the detailed tracking of task status, inputs and outputs

4. MIS is crucial for

1] Planning
2] Controlling
3] Decision making
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4] Policy making

5. What is taken to ensure the data integrity while controlling the processing that keeps the data
current
1] Maximum Protection
2] Adequate Cure
3] Adequate Precaution
4] Maximum Care

6. Which concept is of pivotal importance in the MIS

1] Decisions
2] Information
3] Systems
4] Data

7. Information inputs for OAS are

1] Low volume data, analytic models
2] Design specifications, knowledge base
3] Documents, schedules
4] Summary transaction data, high volume data; simple models

8. After validation, the data is accepted but processing itself may be performed either immediately
or at a subsequent time. This is a feature of
1] On line system
2] On line real time system
3] Distributed system
4] Batch system

9. Which technique is basically an extension of probability theory to decision-making?

1] Decision Rules
2] Payoff Matrix
3] Decision Table
4] Decision Tree

10. The Herbert Simon Model, which provides the core of the decision-making process, does not go
beyond the
1] Intelligence Phase
2] Decision Phase
3] Choice Phase
4] Design Phase

Multiple Choice Multiple Response

11. MIS draws heavily upon various disciplines like

1] Organizational theory
2] Management account
3] Trade Unions
4] Behavioural sciences
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12. Group Decision-making has certain advantages like

1] Least consideration of the problems and related issues.
2] Better group understanding of the problem and rationale for the decision.
3] Greater Group Commitment to the decision.
4] Improved communication to the implementers ensuring better implementation.

13. Customer's satisfaction is based on

1] Expectations
2] Perception
3] Manner in which service is offered
4] Time factor

14. Conceptual Design phase includes

1] Routine and Ad-hoc queries.
2] Documenting flow of activities and processing.
3] Functions expected to be performed.
4] Follow up

15. Hospital back office application comprises of

1] Patient database
2] Core applications
3] Critical control application
4] Class database

16. Transaction processing has relevance for the reasons, such as

1] Information
2] Action
3] Investigational
4] Managerial

17. Various types of networks are

1] VAN
2] WAN
3] LAN
4] TAN

18. According to Inmon, a data warehouse is

1] Subject oriented
2] Integrated
3] Time varying
4] Volatile

Fill in the Blanks

19. ________ is information output of TPS.

1] Projections
2] Special reports
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3] Detailed reports
4] Documents

20. ________ is a fundamental organizational function.

1] Information
2] Transaction
3] Data
4] Processing

21. The new system involved spending ________ resources-both human and financial.
1] More
2] Less
3] Limited
4] Unlimited

22. ________ is rigid and is not amendable to change.

1] Open System
2] Closed System
3] Probabilistic System
4] Deterministic System

23. Auxiliary memory means ________

1] Volatile
2] Supplementary
3] Complimentary
4] Extended

24. Information minimizes the element of ________ and uncertainty in decision making.
1] Confusion
2] Misunderstanding
3] Risk
4] Surprise

25. Data warehouse is a central ________ of integrated data from multiple remote OLTP systems.
1] Database
2] Data holder
3] Repository
4] Table
26. The service function essentially is ________ interaction .
1] Machine
2] System
3] Human
4] Organizational

27. ________ is one of the more commonly used and essential quantitative technique of decision-
making.
1] Decision Tree
2] Decision Tables
3] Payoff Matrix
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4] Game Theory

28. _______ type of DML requires the user to specify what data are needed and how to get those
data.
1] Pre-Procedural DML
2] Post-Procedural DML
3] Procedural DML
4] Non-Procedural DML

State True or False

29. Fourth generation computer provided a forward thrust to CAD/CAM.

30. The intelligence phase involves inventing, developing and analyzing possible alternatives /
courses of action to the problem.
31. Deterministic system is self-contained and isolated as it has a well-defined boundary.
32. Banking MIS cannot provide report for non-moving account.
33. Decision based on logic are those where logical explanation is not possible, though the decision
makers themselves will believe, and like others to believe, that their decision is right one.
34. Control Information is concerned with small, specific part of organization.
35. The goal of Recovery Management is to allow concurrency while maintaining the consistency
of the share data.
36. If a problem is not specified and has not been solved previously by an expert or a number of
experts, that problem is not considered suitable for the Expert Systems implementation.
37. Each user-system has its own master files and transaction files, which are processed separately.
38. Optimal utilization of resources, in turn, involves exercising choices and hence the basic job of
the management could be considered to be 'Decision Making' in discharging various functions
assigned to it.

Match the Following

39. 1] Definition to data, entity and attributes

1] MIS begins with
respectively
2] MIS is designed for 2] Information generation in the organization
3] Systematization of the business operations
3] MIS calls for
for an effective system design.
4] Administration of the business of bringing a
4] MIS improves
discipline in its operations
5] Top level of management
6] Immediate data processing

40. 1] Transaction Processing 1] Order processing

2] Scheduling to activities and performance
2] Operational Control
reports
3] Formulation of budgets and resource
3] Management Control
allocation
4] Strategic Planning 4] Formulation of objectives
5] Personnel recruitment policies
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41.
1] Batch processing
2] On line processing
3] On line real time processing
4] Distributed data processing
42. 1] Function of stores and purchase
management system
2] User department
3] Stores department
4] Purchase department
6] Retirement policies
1] Efficient in terms of data preparation and
processing of transactions, especially when
they are processed against a sequential file
2] Transaction is taken for processing directly
and is validated immediately before being
taken up for further processing
3] Stored data needs to be updated
simultaneously as the transaction takes place
4] Processors are linked with each other by
networks
5] Allows several users to simultaneously
share the processing capability of the computer
system
6] The analog signal and digital signal
1] Periodic updation and house keeping
2] Inspect the material
3] Generate inspection memo for the user
department
4] Prepare comparison chart
5] Decide employee shifts
6] Decide salary