Management Information Systems

Q1. Information systems that monitor the elementary activities and transactions of the organizations are:

• a. Management-level system

• b. Operational-level system

• c. Knowledge-level system

• d. Strategic level system

Sales Projections and responses to queries are information output characteristics associated with a(n):

• a. DSS

• b. MIS

• c. OAS

• d. TPS

Which of the following individuals typically have less formal, advanced educational degrees and tend to process rather than create information?

• a. Knowledge workers

• b. Chief Executives

• c. System analysts

• d. Data operators

Management information systems usually:

• a. Serve managers interested in weekly, monthly, and yearly results, not day-to-day activities.

• b. Help managers make decisions that are unique, rapidly changing, and not easily specified in advance.

• c. Provide managers with a generalized computing and telecommunications capacity that can be applied to a changing array of problems.

• d. Perform and record the daily routine transactions necessary to the conduct of business.

Batch processing is preferred over on-line transaction processing when i) processing efficiency is important ii) the volume of data to be processed is large iii) only periodic processing is needed

• a. i ,ii

• b. i, iii

• c. ii ,iii

• d. i , ii ,iii

A human data operator can be bypassed for basic data entry when using a(n) .

• a. Office automation system

• b. Management information system

• c. Transaction processing system

• d. Decision support system

The quality of your ____________is a large part of the quality of your information system.

• a. computer

• b. decision

• c. time

• d. challenges

Customer numbers and their names would be an example of the __________________ component of an order management information system.

• a. software

• b. hardware

• c. data

• d. procedure

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERPs) support:

• a. Manufacturing processes.

• b. Financial and accounting processes.

• c. Human resource processes.

• d. All of the above.

Information systems can facilitate supply chain management by:

• a. Tracking the status of orders.

• b. Rapidly communicating orders.

• c. Providing product specifications.

• d. all of the above