CAVENDISH UNIVERSITY UGANDA

BIT125/DBA212 INFORMATION SYSTEMS MANAGEMENT

END OF SEMESTRE EXAMINATION

Date: 15th December, 2023

Time : 3 hours 9:00am-12:00Noon
Instructions
 Please read and understand the instructions.
 Attempt any THREE(3) questions,
 Number your work appropriately.
 Include only your correct id number.
 Cheating or academic misconduct will not be tolerated and will lead to cancellation of
the paper

Question one:
a. Examine the qualities of information. @5marks
b. What are some of the toughest management challenges in developing IT solutions to
solve business problems and meet new business opportunities? @8marks
c. Illustrate the functions and stakeholders of information systems. @7marks
Question two:
a. What are business processes? How are they related to information systems?
10marks
b. How do systems serve the different management groups in a business?
10marks
Question three:
a. Why is selecting a systems development approach an important business decision?
@15marks
b. Who should participate in the selection process? @5marks

Question four:
a. Explain why it is difficult to determine information requirements correctly @8marks
b. Describe the three stages of testing an information system. @12marks
Question five:
a. What are the core activities in the systems development process? @8marks
b. Distinguish between systems analysis and systems design. Describe the activities for
each.
@12marks
Question six:
An international company with many offices worldwide is about to move to a new release of
a business-critical system which will be installed on servers located at each office. The new
release has taken many months to develop and will provide an improved understanding of
how the business is performing; this new information should help the company, which is
currently operating at a loss. The company’s management is considering the following two
methods of changeover:
Direct changeover and Phased changeover
Write a report to the management which compares the two changeover methods being
considered
Question seven:
a. What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of out-sourcing software versus
custom development of application packages?
@12marks
b. Do you think the acts of hackers should be punished the same as those by crackers?
Why or why not?
@8marks

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